Vol. 244 No. 2 FEBRUARY 2018

Regular Contribution
Prospective Association of Handgrip Strength with Risk of New-Onset Cognitive Dysfunction in Korean Adults: A 6-Year National Cohort Study Sanghoon Jeong and Junghoon Kim [PDF]	Vol. 244, No. 2 pp.83-91, 2018
Time-Dependent Changes in Increased Levels of Plasma Irisin and Muscle PGC-1α and FNDC5 after Exercise in Mice Minhui Pang, Jianwei Yang, Jiaming Rao, Haiqing Wang, Jiayi Zhang, Shengyong Wang, Xiongfei Chen and Xiaomei Dong [PDF]	Vol. 244, No. 2 pp.93-103, 2018
A Missense Mutation in GJA8 Encoding Connexin 50 in a Chinese Pedigree with Autosomal Dominant Congenital Cataract Lusi Zhang, Youling Liang, Yedi Zhou, Huilan Zeng, Songbai Jia and Jingming Shi [PDF]	Vol. 244, No. 2 pp.105-111, 2018
Differences in Gut Microbiota Profiles between Autoimmune Pancreatitis and Chronic Pancreatitis Shin Hamada, Atsushi Masamune, Tatsuhide Nabeshima and Tooru Shimosegawa [PDF]	Vol. 244, No. 2 pp.113-117, 2018
Low Proportion of Dietary Plant Protein among Athletes with Premenstrual Syndrome-Related Performance Impairment Keiko Yamada and Takashi Takeda [PDF]	Vol. 244, No. 2 pp.119-122, 2018
Lower Plasma Levels of IL-35 in Patients with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Tengda Li, Yuanlan Huang, Peng Liu, Yun Liu, Jie Guo, Weiwei Zhang, Mingli Gu, Cheng Qian and Anmei Deng [PDF]	Vol. 244, No. 2 pp.123-131, 2018
Potential Role of ASC, a Proapoptotic Protein, for Determining the Cisplatin Susceptibility of Lung Cancer Cells Takao Sakaizawa, Tomio Matsumura, Chifumi Fujii, Shigeaki Hida, Masayuki Toishi, Takayuki Shiina, Kazuo Yoshida, Kazutoshi Hamanaka, Ken-ichi Ito and Shun’ichiro Taniguchi [PDF]	Vol. 244, No. 2 pp.133-144, 2018
Neonatal Leukemoid Reaction with Fetal Inflammatory Response Syndrome Is Associated with Elevated Serum Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor and Interleukin-6 Toshihiko Nakamura, Daisuke Hatanaka, Michiko Kusakari, Kohei Kashima, Yuji Takizawa, Hidehiro Takahashi, Toshiro Yoshioka, Naoto Takahashi and Takashi Kamohara [PDF]	Vol. 244, No. 2 pp.145-149, 2018
Copayment Exemption Policy and Healthcare Utilization after the Great East Japan Earthquake Yusuke Matsuyama, Toru Tsuboya, Shun-ichiro Bessho, Jun Aida and Ken Osaka [PDF]	Vol. 244, No. 2 pp.163-173, 2018
Medical Hypothesis
Saltatory Conduction as an Electrostatic Compressional Wave in the Axoplasm Tetsuya Akaishi [PDF]	Vol. 244, No. 2 pp.151-161, 2018
Retraction
Retraction: Nucleophagy in Human Disease: Beyond the Physiological Role. [Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2018, 244 (1), 75-81. doi: 10.1620/tjem.244.75. Review.] Ming Zhou, Hongwen Ji, Nian Fu, Linxi Chen and Yong Xia [PDF]	Vol. 244, No. 2 pp.175, 2018