We studied prospectively the reliability of clinical methods, end-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO
2 ) detection, and the esophageal detector device (EDD) for verifying tracheal intubation in …

The metabolic oxidative degradation of cellular lipids severely restricts replication of hepatitis
C virus (HCV), a leading cause of chronic liver disease, but little is known about the factors …

Glioblastoma, a malignant brain tumor with poor disease outcomes, is managed in modern
medicine by multimodality therapy. Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is an encouraging …

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) of a nonmotile cell into the ooplasm for assisted
fertilization is a highly specialized procedure for producing the next generation. The production of …

To better understand how to achieve high uptake rates of human papillomavirus (HPV)
vaccination in Japan, we investigated acceptance of and attitudes towards HPV vaccination in …

Background Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a highly aggressive disease, and the lethality of this
disease stems from early metastatic dissemination where surgical removal cannot provide a …

Deficiency of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) is known to induce hepatic steatosis.
However, it is not clearly understood which type of PUFA is responsible for the worsening of …

Semaphorin-5A (SEMA5A) has differential cell surface expression between normal and cancer
cells and represents an attractive target for therapeutic intervention in pancreatic cancer (…

Fatty acid desaturase 2 (FADS2) is responsible for the first desaturation reaction in the
synthesis of highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFAs), such as arachidonic acid (20:4n-6) and …

Liver fibrosis is assessed mainly by conventional staining or second harmonic generation (SHG)
microscopy, which can only provide collagen content in fibrotic area. We propose to use …