The Keio Journal of Medicine

Past Issue
Contents of Past Issue
Vol 58 No 1
March 2009

REVIEW


Renal Cell Carcinoma: Biological Features and Rationale for Molecular-targeted Therapy
......Mototsugu Oya


Surveillance in Barrett's Esophagus: A Failed Premise
......John M. Inadomi


Asymptomatically Elevated Blood Pressure in the Emergency Department:
A Finding Deserving of Attention by Emergency Physicians?
......Matthew R. Lewin


Local Intraoral Autologous Bone Harvesting for Dental Implant Treatment: Alternative Sources and Criteria of Choice
......Federico Brugnami, Alfonso Caiazz and Cataldo Leone


New Perspective in Osteoarthritis: The OPG and RANKL System as a Potential Therapeutic Target?
......Steeve Kwan Tat, Jean-Pierre Pelletier, Carmen Ruiz Velasco, Marc Padrines
and Johanne Martel-Pelletier


ORIGINAL ARTICLE


Radiosurgical Treatment Planning for Intracranial AVM Based on Images Generated by Principal Component Analysis - A Simulation Study
......Osamu Kawaguchi, Yoshiyuki Nyui, Etsuo Kunieda, Satoshi Onozuka, Nobuhiro Tsukamoto, Junichi Fukada, Toshio Ohashi, Subaru Hashimoto,
Koichi Ogawa and Atsushi Kubo


CASE REPORT


Radiographic Abnormalities of the Inferior Pole of the Patella in Juvenile Athletes
......Jun Iwamoto, Tsuyoshi Takeda, Yoshihiro Sato and Hideo Matsumoto


Retinopathy: An Overlooked Adverse Effect of Interferon-beta Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
......Masayuki Ohira, Daisuke Ito, Toshihiko Shimizu, Mamoru Shibata,
Hisao Ohde and Norihiro Suzuki



ABSTRACTS
Meetings of The Keio Medical Society


Dendritic Cells Are Specialized Antigen Presenting Cells to Control Antigen Specific Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells
......Sayuri Yamazaki


Gene Therapy and Cell Replacement Therapy
......Sho Kanzaki


How Do Specializations of Vestibular Hair Cells and Primary Afferent Neurons Shape Vestibular Signals?
......SRuth Anne Eatock


Initiating Treatment in Parkinson's Disease: the Challenges
......Anthony E. Lang


The Fate of Gastric Epithelial Cells during Infection with Helicobacter pylori: From Birth to Death and Back
......Peter B. Ernst, Keiran A. Ryan, Alice H. Berger, Daeho Park,
James E. Casanova, Kodi Ravichandran, Phil D. Smith, Lesley Smythies,
Diane Bimczok and Soumita Das


What Are the Limits of Endoscopic Sinus Surgery?: The Expanded Endonasal Approach to the Skull Base
......Carl H. Snyderman, Ricardo L. Carrau, Daniel Prevedello, Paul Gardner
and Amin B. Kassam


Keio Medical Science Prize Commemorative Symposium



Decreased Neurogenesis as a Risk Factor for Mental Diseases
......Noriko Osumi and Team CREST


Epigenetic Regulation of Neural Cell Differentiation Plasticity in the Adult Mammalian Brain
......Kinichi Nakashima


Regeneration of the Damaged CNS Using Pluripotent Stem Cells
......Hideyuki Okano, Yohei Okada, Gentaro Kumagai and Masaya Nakamura


Function and Regulation of Adult Mammalian Neurogenesis
......Fred H. Gage


Cytokine-mediated Modulation of Inducible Regulatory T Cells
......Akihiko Yoshimura


The Role of Regulatory T Cells in Tumor Immunity and Immunotherapy
......Yutaka Kawakami, Chie Kudo-Saito, Tomonori Yaguchi, Naoshi Kawamura and Hidetoshi Sumimoto


Roles of Thymic Epithelial Cells for the Establishment of Immunological Self-tolerance
......Mitsuru Matsumoto


Regulatory T Cells for the Control of Immunological Diseases
......Shimon Sakaguchi