The Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery has conducted annual surveys of thoracic
surgery throughout Japan since 1986 to determine statistics pertaining to the number of …

Objective: Cardiotrophic growth factors with anti-cell death actions on cardiac myocytes
have gained attention for treatment of patients with myocardial infarction. Hepatocyte growth …

Thymoma and thymic carcinoma are the representative tumors arising from the thymic
epithelium. Thymoma is well known for association with autoimmune diseases including …

Liver cirrhosis is the irreversible end result of fibrous scarring and hepatocellular
regeneration, characterized by diffuse disorganization of the normal hepatic structure of …

The transcriptional factor nuclear factor-κ B (NF κ B) plays a pivotal role in the coordinated
trans-activation of cytokine and adhesion molecule genes that might be involved in …

Background—Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPS-CMs) are
a promising source of cells for regenerating myocardium. However, several issues …

Using a rat model of ischemia/reperfusion injury, we demonstrate here that HGF is
cardioprotective due to its antiapoptotic effect on cardiomyocytes. Following transient …

Heart Failure Society (JHFS). The working committee for this project includes members and
collaborators involved in the previous versions of the heart failure guidelines and members …

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a heart muscle disease characterized by progressive heart
failure, and is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity. Recently, cellular therapy for end …

OBJECTIVES: Autologous skeletal myoblast cell transplantation by means of the injection
method is subject to the loss of intercellular communication, extracellular matrix, and cell …