Recent progress in advanced endoscopic imaging and electronic chromoendoscopy allows the real-time endoscopic estimation of the histologic type of polyps, mainly for the differentiation of adenomas from hyperplastic polyps. Accordingly, a "resect-and-discard" strategy applied to diminutive colorectal polyps is now one of the emerging issues among gastroenterologists. The strategy has a practica...

Selection for amino acid affinity by elution of RNAs from tryptophan-Sepharose using free L-tryptophan evokes one sequence predominantly (K(D) = 12 microM), a symmetrical internal loop of 3 nt per side. Though we have also isolated larger sequences with affinity for tryptophan, successively squeezed selection in randomized tracts of 70, 60, 40, 20 and 17 nt show that this internal loop is the s...

DFT calculations were applied to evaluate the electronic and magnetic properties of zigzag BC2Nnanotubes based on the 13C, 15N, and 11B NMR parameters and natural charge analysis. Weconsidered three types of zigzag nanotubes, ZZ-1, ZZ-2, and ZZ-3 (n, 0) with n = 8, 12, and 14. Theobtained results indicated the divisions of the electrostatic environments around C nuclei into a fewlayers, consist...