Vol. 242 No. 4 AUGUST 2017

Regular Contribution
Six-Month Lower Limb Aerobic Exercise Improves Physical Function in Young-Old, Old-Old, and Oldest-Old Adults Chaeyoon Cho, Changwan Han, Misun Sung, Chaewon Lee, Minji Kim, Yoshiko Ogawa and Masahiro Kohzuki [PDF]	Vol. 242, No. 4 pp.251-257, 2017
Feeding Support Team for Frail, Disabled, or Elderly People during the Early Phase of a Disaster Keisuke Maeda, Hiroshi Shamoto and Satoshi Furuya [PDF]	Vol. 242, No. 4 pp.259-261, 2017
Serum Eosinophil Cationic Protein Is a Useful Marker for Assessing the Efficacy of Inhaled Corticosteroid Therapy in Children with Bronchial Asthma Cai-Li Guo, Xiao-Min Sun, Xiao-Wen Wang and Qing Guo [PDF]	Vol. 242, No. 4 pp.263-271, 2017
The 5A Allele of the MMP3-Gene Promoter Polymorphism Is a Risk Factor for Poor Outcome of Hemodialysis Patients Jelena Tosic Dragovic, Jovan Popovic, Petar Djuric, Ana Bulatovic, Aleksandar Jankovic, Ivana Buzadzic and Nada Dimkovic [PDF]	Vol. 242, No. 4 pp.273-279, 2017
Higher Serum Levels of Osteoglycin Are Associated with All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Events in Patients with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease Seon Ha Baek, Ran-hui Cha, Shin Wook Kang, Cheol Whee Park, Dae Ryong Cha, Sung Gyun Kim, Sun Ae Yoon, Sejoong Kim, Sang-Youb Han, Jung Hwan Park, Jae Hyun Chang, Chun Soo Lim, Yon Su Kim, and Ki Young Na [PDF]	Vol. 242, No. 4 pp.281-290, 2017
Dysregulated Expression of MITF in Subsets of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cholangiocarcinoma Nattakarn Nooron, Koji Ohba, Kazuhisa Takeda, Shigeki Shibahara, and Anchalee Chiabchalard [PDF]	Vol. 242, No. 4 pp.291-302, 2017
Higher Tissue Levels of Thymidylate Synthase Determined by ELISA Are Associated with Poor Prognosis of Patients with Lung Cancer Takayuki Shiina, Gaku Saito, Takao Sakaizawa, Hiroyuki Agatsuma, Yoshiaki Tominaga, Akira Hyogotani, Kazutoshi Hamanaka, Masayuki Toishi, Keiichiro Takasuna, Ryoichi Kondo, Kazuo Yoshida and Ken-ichi Ito [PDF]	Vol. 242, No. 4 pp.303-316, 2017
Secondhand Smoking Is Associated with Poor Mental Health in Korean Adolescents Inho Bang, Young-jin Jeong, Young-yoon Park, Na-yeon Moon, Junyong Lee and Tae-hee Jeon [PDF]	Vol. 242, No. 4 pp.317-326, 2017
The Incidence of Atypical Femoral Fractures in Patients with Rheumatic Disease: Yamagata Prefectural Committee of Atypical Femoral Fractures (YamaCAFe) Study Yuya Takakubo, Daichi Ohta, Masaji Ishi, Juji Ito, Hiroharu Oki, Yasushi Naganuma, Tomohiro Uno, Akiko Sasaki, Takeru Akabane, Katsuyuki Dairaku, Shinichi Goto, Yasuo Goto, Yumiko Kanauchi, Shinji Kobayashi, Taku Nakajima, Keiji Masuda, Michiharu Matsuda, Nariyuki Mura, Kenji Takenouchi, Hiroyuki Tsuchida, Yasushi Onuma, Junichirou Shibuya, Mitsuyoshi Seino, Osamu Yamaguchi, Ken Hiragami, Yasuhiro Urayama, Takashi Furukawa, Shouta Okuda, Ken Ogura, Takeshi Nakamura, Kan Sasaki, Tsuneo Konta and Michiaki Takagi [PDF]	Vol. 242, No. 4 pp.327-334, 2017
Retraction: Transcription Factor SOX9 Promotes Osteosarcoma Cell Growth by Repressing Claudin-8 Expression Jin Qi, Yaoqi Yang, Ping Hao and Jianqiang Xu [PDF]	Vol. 242, No. 4 pp.335, 2017