Vol. 249 No. 3 NOVEMBER 2019

Regular Contribution
High Serum Cortisol Levels as a Potential Indicator for Changes in Well-Regulated Daily Life among Junior High School Students Ken Inoue, Sadayuki Hashioka, Haruo Takeshita, Masanori Kamura and Yasuyuki Fujita [PDF]	Vol. 249, No. 3 pp.143-146, 2019
Low Bone Mineral Density of the Forearm and Femur among Postmenopausal Women with Metaphyseal Comminuted Fracture of the Distal Radius Toshihiro Kanda, Naoto Endo and Naoki Kondo [PDF]	Vol. 249, No. 3 pp.147-154, 2019
Safety of Conservative Approach for Persistent Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Preterm Infants: Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at 5 Years of Age Maiko Kaga, Masatoshi Sanjo, Tomoki Sato, Yuichiro Miura and Toshikazu Ono [PDF]	Vol. 249, No. 3 pp.155-161, 2019
Dysphagia Hinders Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure from being Discharged to Home Junichi Yokota, Yoshiko Ogawa, Yoshimi Takahashi, Nobuhiro Yamaguchi, Noriko Onoue, Tsuyoshi Shinozaki and Masahiro Kohzuki [PDF]	Vol. 249, No. 3 pp.163-171, 2019
Genetic Polymorphisms in APC, DVL2, and AXIN1 Are Associated with Susceptibility, Advanced TNM Stage or Tumor Location in Colorectal Cancer Mónica Alejandra Rosales-Reynoso, Anil�EMargarita Saucedo-Sariñana, Karla Berenice Contreras-Dú}z, Rosa Marú} Márquez-González, Patricio Barros-Núñez, Tomás Daniel Pineda-Razo, Marú} Eugenia Marin-Contreras, Óscar Durán-Anguiano, Martha Patricia Gallegos-Arreola, Silvia Esperanza Flores-Martú [PDF]	Vol. 249, No. 3 pp.173-183, 2019
Angiographic Characterization of the External Carotid Artery: Special Attention to Variations in Branching Patterns Daisuke Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Daisuke Ishima, Hiroki Kuroda, Ichiyo Shibahara, Jun Niki, Kazuhiro Miyasaka, Takashi Watanabe, Ryushi Kondo and Toshihiro Kumabe [PDF]	Vol. 249, No. 3 pp.185-192, 2019
Morning Mastication Enhances Postprandial Glucose Metabolism in Healthy Young Subjects Arisa Sato, Yoshinori Ohtsuka and Yujiro Yamanaka [PDF]	Vol. 249, No. 3 pp.193-201, 2019
GPI-80 as a Useful Index for Myeloid Cell Heterogeneity and a Potential Prognostic Biomarker for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Tomoyuki Kato, Yuji Takeda, Hiromi Ito, Yuta Kurota, Atsushi Yamagishi, Toshihiko Sakurai, Sei Naito, Akemi Araki, Hidetoshi Nara, Hironobu Asao and Norihiko Tsuchiya [PDF]	Vol. 249, No. 3 pp.203-212, 2019
Expression Profiling of Exosomal miRNAs Derived from the Aqueous Humor of Myopia Patients Chian-Feng Chen, Kate Hua, Lin-Chung Woung, Chin-Hui Lin, Chueh-Tan Chen, Chung-Hua Hsu, Shiow-Wen Liou and Ching-Yao Tsai [PDF]	Vol. 249, No. 3 pp.213-221, 2019
Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Severe Obesity after Intracranial Germinoma Treatment: A Case Report Masahiro Nezu, Masataka Kudo, Yoshikiyo Ono, Yuta Tezuka, Ryo Morimoto, Shojiro Sawada, Hirofumi Imoto, Takeshi Naitoh, Hideki Katagiri, Sadayoshi Ito and Fumitoshi Satoh [PDF]	Vol. 249, No. 3 pp.223-229, 2019
The Presence of Thyroid Peroxidase Antibody Is Associated with Lower Placental Weight in Maternal Thyroid Dysfunction Junko Ushijima, Seishi Furukawa and Hiroshi Sameshima [PDF]	Vol. 249, No. 3 pp.231-236, 2019