The Keio Journal of Medicine

Past Issue
Contents of Past Issue
Vol 55 No 2
June 2006

REVIEWS


Perspectives in Medical Education
1. Reflections on the state of medical education in Japan
......R Harsha Rao


Chromosomal abnormalities subdivide neuroepithelial tumors into clinically relevant groups
......Yuichi Hirose and Kazunari Yoshida


Serum insulin-like growth factor I in brain function
......Eva Carro and Ignacio Torres-Aleman



OPINION


Water channel proteins: from their discovery in Cluj-Napoca,
Romania in 1985, to the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry and
their implications in molecular medicine
......Gheorghe Benga



ABSTRACTS
Meetings of The Keio Medical Society


Lymphoseek, a receptor-targeted sentinel node mapping agent: a review and future investigations
......Wallace AM, MeLndez J, Ellner SJ, Hoh CK, Orahood RC and Vera DR


How to prepare for progress over the next twenty-five years. A proposal
......Hiroshi Tazaki


Intestine-specific transcription factors regulate proliferation and cell-cell adhesion by modulation of b-catenin function
......Toshihiko Ezaki, Rong-Jun Guo, Eun-Ran Suh and John P. Lynch


Allogeneic stem cell transplantation for Chronic Myelogenous
Leukemia (CML) in the imatinib era
......Richard T. Maziarz


Immunological and non-immunological risk factors in renal transplantation
......Susan V Fuggle and Isabel Quiroga


Imaging of brain microcirculation in ischemia and transplanted adult stem cells
......Jacques Seylaz


Molecular pharmacology of T-type Ca2+ channels
......Edward Perez-Reyes