Running title: pre-existing anti-VZV and VZV reactivation after HSCT Masahiro Onozawa, Satoshi Hashino, Mutsumi Takahata, Fumie Fujisawa, Takahito Kawamura, Masao Nakagawa, Kaoru Kahata, Takeshi Kondo, Shuichi Ota, Junji Tanaka, Masahiro Imamura and Masahiro Asaka Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan Department ...

THE naevus of Ota is characterized by benign mesodermal melanosis of the skin of the face with pigmentation of the eye and its adnexa. It is probably more familiar to the dermatologists. Pusey (1916) was the first to describe the association of scleral and facial pigmentation in a young Chinese student. Later, in Japan, Ota and Tanino (1939) reported, under the name of naevus fusco-caeruleus ma...

background spitz nevus is an infrequent acquired melanocytic nevus. there is still a challenge for dermatopathologists in distinguishing spitz nevus from malignant melanoma particularly in adults since there is no immunohistochemistry or molecular markers which differentiate spitz nevus from melanoma. objectives the aim of this study is to make clear what clinico-histopathological features of s...

blue nevi are uncommon, asymptomatic lesions of the uterine cervix. these lesions are not often detected clinically or on colposcopy. careful histopathological examination is required. the nevus cells are said to originate from the immature melanoblasts of the neural crest. these lesions need to be differentiated from malignant melanoma and melanosis of the cervix. we present here a case report...

The signal to noise ratio and resolution of an analog to digital converter is governed by the linearity constraints of the basic building block, which is the Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA). The OTA design is based on MOS transistors that are inherently non linear and lead to performance deterioration. To overcome the non-linearities imposed by the OTA a resistive source degenerati...

background ochratoxins belong to a group of mycotoxins produced as the secondary metabolites by filamentous fungi, such as aspergillus and penicillium. these toxins may be teratogenic, mutagenic, hepatotoxic, nephrotoxic, and may have immunosuppressive effects and pose a serious health problems to exposed humans and animals. objectives the present study aimed to determine the level of ochratoxi...

A new species in the Group II complex of the gekkonid lizard genus Lepidodactylus Fitzinger is described based on recently collected material from Namoluk Atoll, Mortlock Islands, Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia. Lepidodactylus oligoporus Buden, n. sp., is distinguished from other members of Group II by differences in the numbers of midbody scale rows (130–134), fourth-toe scansors ...

Takehiko DAITO, Transportation System Studies Laboratory Co., Ltd. Dai-1 Suehiro Bldg. 1-20, Nishinakajima 7-chome, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, 532-0011 JAPAN Phone: +81-6-6101-7001, FAX: +81-6-6101-7002, E-mail: [email protected] Jun TANABE, Institute of Urban Transport Planning Co., Ltd. 1-1-11, Tsurigane-cho, Chuo-ku, Osaka, 540-0035 JAPAN Phone: +81-6-6945-0144, FAX: +81-6946-1069, E-mail: jun1022@...