Inflammation promotes regeneration of injured tissues through poorly understood mechanisms,
some of which involve interleukin (IL)-6 family members, the expression of which is …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Although the Milan criteria (MC) have been used to select liver
transplantation candidates among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), many patients …

PURPOSE: To determine the efficacy of helical computed tomography (CT) in the detection
of lymphadenopathy in patients with gastric cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Helical CT …

Protein arginine methylation is a novel post‐translational modification regulating a diversity
of cellular processes, including histone functions, but the roles of protein arginine …

Objective Early detection and early treatment are of vital importance to the successful treatment
of various cancers. The development of a novel screening method that is as economical …

Objective: To clarify the prognostic value of the preoperative blood neutrophil-to-lymphocyte
ratio (NLR) in patients undergoing hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). …

Background Predictive biomarkers for the recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
have great benefit in the selection of treatment options, including liver transplantation (LT), for …

The aims of this study were to investigate sarcopenia as a novel predictor of mortality and
sepsis after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) and to evaluate the effects of early enteral …

For the identification of susceptibility loci for primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) was performed in 963 Japanese individuals (487 PBC cases and …

Introduction Mesenchymal status is related to “inherent resistance” to gefitinib or erlotinib in
non-small cell lung cancer without epidermal growth factor receptor(EGFR) mutations. In …