College of Pharmacy and WCU Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, South Korea, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan, Department of Food and Nutrition, Sungsin Women’s University, Seoul 136-742, South Korea, Graduate School of Bioscience a...

OBJECTIVE Our aim was to evaluate the efficacy of polyglactin 910 mesh in preventing recurrent cystoceles and rectoceles. STUDY DESIGN In a prospective, randomized, controlled trial, patients undergoing vaginal reconstructive surgery with cystoceles to the hymenal ring and beyond were randomly selected to undergo anterior and posterior colporrhaphy with or without polyglactin 910 mesh reinfor...

BACKGROUND Regardless of numerous advances in surgical techniques, selection of the best technique to sew up wounds and the best suture material are still controversial. Several postoperative complications, including wound infection, stitched wound, chronic incision pain, wound dehiscence and hernia stitches result from many factors such as used suture material. OBJECTIVES The aim of the pres...

We read with interest the paper by Ikeda et al. [1] regarding the treatment of catamenial pneumothoraces. We agree with the authors that the pathology of true catamenial pneumothorax is not clear. However, in most cases, diaphragmatic fenestrations play a role. On the left, the fenestrations are frequently plugged by the omentum. On the right, however, the liver prevents such plugging, which ac...

Comment on: A novel dysferlin-mutant pseudoexon bypassed with antisense oligonucleotides Virginie Kergourlay, Ga€ elle Blandin, V eronique Blanck, Nicolas L evy, Marc Bartoli & Martin Krahn* Aix Marseille Universit e, GMGF, 13385 Marseille, France Inserm, UMR_S 910, 13385 Marseille, France AP-HM, D epartement de G en etique M edicale et de Biologie Cellulaire, Hôpital d’Enfants de la Timone, 13...

Novel biocompatible cyanines show not only a very large two-photon cross-section of up to 5130 GM at 910 nm in aqueous medium for high-contrast and -brightness two-photon fluorescence live cell imaging but also highly selective subcellular localization properties including localization of mitochondria and lysosomes.