Vol. 187, No. 3, March 1999

Review
Pathophysiologic significance of host reactions in human cancer tissue: Desmoplasia and tumor immunity. H. Ohtani [PDF]	193
Regular Contributions
Inhibitory effects of transforming growth factor-b1 pretreatment on experimental pulmonary metastasis of MCS-1 Chinese hamster mesenchymal chondrosarcoma cells. N. Fujisawa, N. L. Sato and T. -I. Motoyama [PDF]	203
Better-surviving liver grafts by the injection of anti-CD2 antibody: The important roles of host CD8+ and CD2+ CD28+ T cells in chronic graft rejection and b type platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR-b) expression on apoptotic liver grafts. T. Nakatsuji [PDF]	215
Administration of nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and insulin-like growth factor-II protects phosphate-activated glutaminase in the ischemic and reperfused rat retinas. H. Tomita, S. Ishiguro, T. Abe and M. Tamai [PDF]	227
The effect of spinal instrumentation on lumbar intradiscal pressure. E. Abe, T. Nickel, G. R. Buttermann, J. L. Lewis and E. E. Transfeldt [PDF]	237
Localization of PDK-1 mRNA in the brain of developing and adult rats. S. Yoshida, H. Sakagami, Y. Owada, S. Kokubun and H. Kondo [PDF]	249
Evaluation of a new anti-HCV-assay kit for anti-HCV screening in early childhood. K. Sugiyama, K. Goto, Y. Miyake, F. Mizutani, K. Terabe, R. Li, H. Maniwa, Y. Kawabe and Y. Wada [PDF]	257
Point mutations in the steroid-binding domain of the androgen receptor gene of five Japanese patients with androgen insensitivity syndrome. N. Yaegashi, S. Uehara, M. Senoo, J. Sato, J. Fujiwara, T. Funano, T. Sasaki and A. Yajima [PDF]	263
Case Reports
Long-term azathioprine therapy in two children with steroid-dependent minimal-change nephrotic syndrome. H. Tanaka, N. Onodera and S. Waga [PDF]	273
Infantile pulmonary alveolar proteinosis with interstitial pneumonia: Bilateral simultaneous lung lavage utilizing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and steroid therapy. T. Ito, M. Sato, T. Okubo, I. Ono and J. Akabane [PDF]	279
Prenatal confirmation of the translocation between chromosome 15 and Y-choromosome by fluorescence in situ hybridization Y. Fukada, T. Yasumizu, A. Amemiya, K. Kohno, M. Takizawa and K. Hoshi [PDF]	285

This publication is supported in part by the Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Result from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(Grant Number 18HP2007).