BACKGROUND: Since multiple lung cancer treatment strategies differ, it is essential for
clinicians to be able to distinguish between separate primary lesions and metastasis. In the …

Background— Although dysfunction of VE-cadherin–mediated adherence junctions in vascular
endothelial cells (ECs) is thought to be one of the initial steps of atherosclerosis, little is …

Bioengineered lungs consisting of a decellularized lung scaffold that is repopulated with a
patient’s own cells could provide desperately needed donor organs in the future. This …

Current scaffold‐based tissue engineering approaches are subject to several limitations,
such as design inflexibility, poor cytocompatibility, toxicity, and post‐transplant degradation. …

Background & Aim Hydrogen peroxide-inducible clone-5 (Hic-5), also named as transforming
growth factor beta-1-induced transcript 1 protein (Tgfb1i1), was found to be induced by TGF…

Background Anatomic resection with lymph node dissection or sampling is the standard
treatment for early non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and wedge resection is an option for …

Objective: Chronic pain is a common complication after thoracic surgery. The most important
factor appears to be intercostal nerve damage. The purpose of this prospective study was to …

Background: Postoperative 1-year administration of S-1, an oral derivative of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU),
was shown to be feasible in lung cancer. The 5-year survival rates of postoperative …

The bioactive peptide salusin-β is highly expressed in human atheromas; additionally,
infusion of antiserum against salusin-β suppresses the development of atherosclerosis in …

Chronic vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, aneurysms, diabetic angiopathy/retinopathy
as well as fibrotic and proliferative vascular diseases are generally complicated by the …