The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock
2020 (J-SSCG 2020), a Japanese-specific set of clinical practice guidelines for sepsis and …

The first report of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was published in 1967, and
even now acute lung injury (ALI) and ARDS are severe forms of diffuse lung disease that …

Research in animals and humans has shown that mastication maintains cognitive function
in the hippocampus, a brain area important for learning and memory. Reduced mastication, …

… Kubo for his continual encouragements and helpful comments and discussions. They are
also indebted Professor H. Kamimura for useful advices on improvement of the manuscript. …

Background We aimed to examine whether stereotactic radiosurgery without whole-brain
radiotherapy (WBRT) as the initial treatment for patients with five to ten brain metastases is non-…

Background The incidence of and mortality from lung cancer have increased steadily. Most
lung cancers are not localised when first detected, but early detection is mandatory to …

A novel neuropeptide with 38 residues (PACAP38) was isolated from ovine hypothalamic
tissues using the pituitary adenylate cyclase activation in rat pituitary cell cultures as a …

The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of annual screening for lung cancer by
low-dose computed tomography (CT) and the characteristics of identified lung cancers. …

Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia-1 (DISC1), originally identified at the breakpoint of a
chromosomal translocation that is linked to a rare familial schizophrenia, has been genetically …

In the present study we investigated in vivo length changes in the fascicles and tendon of
the human gastrocnemius medialis (GM) muscle during walking. The experimental protocol …