The Keio Journal of Medicine

Past Issue
Contents of Past Issue
Vol57 No4
December 2008

REVIEWS


Biology of Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: Implications for a Future Therapeutic Approach
......Paul J. Martin


A New Role for the Renin-angiotensin System in the Development of the Ureteric Bud and Renal Collecting System
......Ihor V. Yosypiv


ORIGINAL ARTICLES


The Effect of Saffron (Crocus Sativus) Extract for Healing of Second-degree Burn Wounds in Rats
......Ghasemali Khorasani, Seyed Jalal Hosseinimehr, Peyman Zamani, Maryam Ghasemi and Amirhossein Ahmadi




Deep Venous Thrombosis in Stroke Patients during Rehabilitation Phase
......Yukihiro Hara




Correlations of Anatomical Parameters in Dynamic Pelvic CT and Conventional Defecography for Patients with Rectal Prolapse
......Norihiro Okamoto




Rat Dorsal Paired Island Skin Flaps: A Precise Model for Flap Survival Evaluation
......Hirotoshi Ohara, Kazuo Kishi and Tatsuo Nakajima



ABSTRACTS
Meetings of The Keio Medical Society


Endothelial Dysfunction in Cardiovascular Risk: A Nanotechnology Approach
......R. Preston Mason

Adolescent Depression and Suicide
......Donald E. Greydanus

The Roles of β1-integrins during Focal Cerebral Ischemia
......Gregory J. del Zoppo

Macrophage Iron Signaling and Myofi broblast Cell Fate Regulation
......Hide Tsukamoto

Mechanisms Controlling Type I Interferon Responses by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells
......Wei Cao and Yong-Jun Liu


Progress towards the Development of an Inner Ear Drug Delivery System
......Michael McKenna, Jeffrey Borenstein, William Sewell, Sharon Kujawa, Jason Fiering, Mark Mescher, Zhijang Chen, Erin Leary-Swan, Brian Murphy, Marcello Peppi and Sara Tao


Keio Medical Science Prize Symposium



Molecular Mechanism of Pathogenesis by Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type I
......Masao Matsuoka


Pathogenic Roles of Hepatitis C Virus Replication
......Kunitada Shimotohno


Development of Antiviral Therapeutics of HIV Infection: From AZT to Darunavir
......Hiroaki Mitsuya


Trend in Oncology: Targeting the Kinome
......Motowo Nakajima and Doriano Fabbro


Molecular Mechanism of Anti-Cancer Therapies
......Hideyuki Saya


Alterations of the EGFR and Related Genes as a Biomarker of
EGFR-TKI Treatment in Lung Cancer
......Tetsuya Mitsudomi


Imatinib (Gleevec®)as a Paradigm of Targeted Cancer Therapies
......Brian Druker