Lobectomy versus proton therapy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer.

Objective: Lobectomy is the standard treatment for patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In recent years, an increasing number of patients with lung cancer have been treated using proton therapy (PT). We conducted a propensity score-matched analysis to compare the treatment outcomes of these 2 modalities.

A case of resected pulmonary capillary hemangioma with a literature review.

Pulmonary hemangiomas are benign, relatively rare tumours. Because computed tomography (CT) findings show a variety of images, it is often difficult to distinguish hemangiomas from lung cancer and other benign tumours. We report a 63-year-old man who was diagnosed with a pulmonary capillary hemangioma (PCH).

Everolimus in combination with octreotide LAR in thymic atypical carcinoid.

Thymic atypical carcinoids are extremely rare tumors and have a poor prognosis owing to their aggressive clinical course. The efficacy of treatments other than complete surgical resection is unclear. We herein report a postoperative recurrent case of thymic atypical carcinoid treated with everolimus and octreotide long-acting repeatable (LAR).

Port site hernia repair using the VersaOne™ Fascial Closure System: a case report.

The use of laparoscopic surgery has become widespread in recent years. One of its complications is port site hernia (PHS). It can be difficult to close the fascia at the time of laparoscopy, especially in obese patients, and there is a risk of herniation through a fascial defect with incomplete closure.

Clock-controlled and FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT)-dependent photoperiodic pathway in Lotus japonicus II: characterization of a microRNA implicated in the control of flowering time.

Plant circadian clock generates rhythms with a period close to 24 h, and it controls a wide variety of physiological and developmental events, including the transition to reproductive growth (or flowering). During the last decade, significant research progress in Arabidopsis thaliana has been made in defining the molecular mechanism by which the circadian clock regulates flowering time in response to changes in photoperiod. In Lotus japonicus, we have found that LjFTa, which encodes a ortholog of the Arabidopsis FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT), plays an important role in the promotion of flowering, but it is not clear how the expression of LjFTa is regulated in L.

Clock-controlled and FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT)-dependent photoperiodic pathway in Lotus japonicus I: verification of the flowering-associated function of an FT homolog.

During the last decade, significant research progress in the study of Arabidopsis thaliana has been made in defining the molecular mechanism by which the plant circadian clock regulates flowering time in response to changes in photoperiod. It is generally accepted that the clock-controlled CONSTANS (CO)-FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT)-mediated external coincidence mechanism underlying the photoperiodic control of flowering time is conserved in higher plants, including A. thaliana and Oryza sativa.