Supplement improves nutrition and stresses caused by examination-associated fasting in patients with liver cirrhosis.

Aim: Cirrhotic patients tend to develop malnutrition by fasting, yet the importance of nutritional care during examination-associated fasting has not been investigated. This study aimed to examine the effects of a nutritional supplement on nutrition and stresses caused by examination-associated fasting in cirrhotic patients.

Methods: Twenty-nine cirrhotic patients were enrolled in this study.

[A study of recurrent pancreatic cancer with metastatic liver tumors after pancreatectomy].

Background: Pancreatectomy is the best treatment for pancreatic cancer. However, there is a high risk of post-operative complications, such as local recurrence, metastatic lymphadenopathy, carcinomatosa peritonitis and liver metastasis. Presently, there is no significant treatment that has yet had a strong impact on recurrent pancreatic cancer.

[Intra-arterial chemotherapy with gemcitabine (GEM) for unresectable pancreatic cancer].

Purpose: Most patients with pancreatic cancer are unresectable because of local invasion and liver metastasis at the time of diagnosis. To date, no treatment has had a significant impact on this disease. To deliver a high concentration of drug to the cancer, intra-arterial chemotherapy with GEM was performed in two patients with unresectable advanced cancer.

The expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen, p53, p21, and apoptosis in primary gastric lymphoma.

Background: We have investigated the correlations among the expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), p53, p21, and the prognosis of primary gastric lymphoma, and we have investigated apoptosis by using transferase-mediated deoxyuridine triphosphate nick-end labeling staining.

Methods: A retrospective study was performed on 33 cases of primary gastric lymphoma that were surgically resected. Histopathologic examination was undertaken according to the Working Formulation classification.

Ontogeny of DA1 receptor-mediated natriuresis in the rat: in vivo and in vitro correlations.

The natriuretic and diuretic effects of dopamine are attenuated in the young. Because dopamine has actions on receptors (e.g.