Abstract As Patricia Birnie cautiously and prophetically put it in the inaugural issue of this journal (INEA 1, January 2001, p. 74), “we do not know whether States tentative regimes they have so far established can withstand pressures globalization trade degradation over-exploitation generated by advances technologies for locating, fertilizing, harvesting, processing modifying natural resource...

/ 12 Fig. 1.Assay ofserum creatine kinase A denotesthe IncreasedCX activity (predominantly MM isoenzyme)of serumfrom a patient with myo-cardlal infarction; B, elevated CX activity (predom-inantlyMM isoenzyme)of serumfrom a patientwith Rey&s syn&ome, following a greatly extended Incubation period(a 10-fold Increase in the concen-trationofs*ifrsy&)l activating agentsdoesnotaffect the dizatlon of ...

PURPOSE We investigated whether acromegaly has been diagnosed earlier at the Niigata Medical and Dental University Hospital. METHODS Patients with acromegaly (n = 81) who underwent their first transsphenoidal surgery from 2006 to 2015 were reviewed. Two groups were compared: those who underwent surgery between 2006 and 2010 (n = 35) and those who underwent surgery between 2011 and 2015 (n = 4...

Key words: diabetic nephropathy; long-term graft patient was treated with a strict diet regimen. In 1991, survival; renal transplantation antidiabetic medication with oral glibenclamide was started. At the same time, proteinuria appeared and remained stable around 0.5 g/day until the end of 1996.