The aim of this study was to examine the procedural success and in-hospital outcomes after
percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for chronic total occlusions in the current era …

The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has emerged to be an important
model organism for the study of oxygenic eukaryotic photosynthesis as well as other …

Objectives: The purpose of this document is to make the output of the International Working
Group for Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography (IWG-IVOCT) Standardization and …

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an optical analog of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)
that can be used to examine the coronary arteries and has 10-fold higher resolution than …

Nanocrystals with advanced magnetic or optical properties have been actively pursued for
potential biological applications, including integrated imaging, diagnosis and therapy …

Background Chemotherapy is the standard of care for incurable advanced gastric cancer.
Whether the addition of gastrectomy to chemotherapy improves survival for patients with …

OBJECTIVES To determine the morphologic features of coronary plaques associated with
acute coronary syndrome, we prospectively followed patients with atherosclerotic disease …

Objectives: The goal of the present study was to compare the accuracy of in vivo tissue
characterization obtained by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) radiofrequency (RF) data …

Objectives: We assessed the predictive value of minimum stent area (MSA) for long-term
patency of sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) implantation compared to bare metal stents (BMS) …

Abstract Background: E (epithelial)-cadherin, the cell adhesion molecule also considered a
potential invasion/metastasis suppressor, is mutationally inactivated in nearly half of all …