The incidence of gallbladder carcinoma is 1.2 cases per 100,000/ year and increases with age, particularly after the sixth decade of life. Ethnic background and geographical location are important factors in the incidence of this cancer. It is more common in Central and South America, Japan and North India. Risk factors include cholelithiasis, calcified gallbladder wall, adenomatous gallbladder...

1 Food Analysis and Research Laboratory, Centre for Advanced Research in Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh 2Food Safety and Intervention Technologies, USDA-ERRC-ARS, Wyndmoor, PA 19038-8598, USA 3Food Chain Safety and Quality Management Laboratory, Division of Marine Life Science, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hokkaido Hakodate, 041-86...

Mishra S1,2, Sahoo SK1*, Arae H1, Watanabe Y1 and Mietelski JW3 1Project for Environmental Dynamics and Radiation Effects, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan 2Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Section, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Trombay – 400 085, India 3Department of Nuclear Physical Chemistry, The Henryk Niewodniczansk...

DUH: dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria IPL: intense pulsed light INTRODUCTION Characterized by hyperpigmented and hypopigmented macules forming a reticulate pattern, dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria (DUH) was first described by Toyamo in Japan. Subsequent cases have been reported from other areas including Europe, China, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, India, and Nigeria. A variable autosomal...

Anna Gvozdjáková, Toru Takahashi, R. B. Singh, Fabien De Meester, Douglas W. Wilson, and Fred L. Crane Pharmacobiochemical Laboratory of 3 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Department of Nutrition, Graduate School of Human Environment Science, Fukuoka Women’s University, Japan Halberg Hospital and Research Institute, Moradabad...

1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Gumahati 781039, India 2Department of Chemistry and Center for Cell & Genome Science, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA 3Department of Chemical Biology and Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, Nihon University, Koriyama, Fukushima 963-8642, Japan 4Department of Chemistry, Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratori...

Salmonella enterica serover Senftenberg (Salmonella senftenberg: l,3,19:g,[s],t:-) was first isolated by Kauffmann in 1928 from the stool of an 8 years old male child with acute gastroenteritis, at Senftenberg Hospital, Berlin, Germany(l). Since then, this organism has been reported in more than 30 countries with most isolations from the Netherlands, England, Germany, USA, Australia, India, Isr...

Today, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan all have high-speed lines in operation. Many other countries, including Brazil, India, Morocco, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States, either have high-speed rail systems under construction or under development. Within the next few years, the world’s high-speed rail network co...

Eight senior government representatives outlined the views and policies of their countries in the field of radioactive waste management at a "scientific afternoon" during the 27th Regular Session of the General Conference of the IAEA in Vienna in October. The countries represented were Argentina, France, the Federal Republic of Germany. India, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA; sta...

Monograph Working Group Members J Samet (USA)–Chair; P H N Saldiva (Brazil); M Brauer, G Chen, P White (Canada); W Huang (China); L E Knudsen, P Møller, O Raaschou-Nielsen (Denmark); U Heinrich (Germany); K Balakrishnan (unable to attend; India); F Forastiere (Italy); T Yorifuji (Japan); D H Phillips, P Vineis (UK); J Chow, D M DeMarini (unable to attend), R Henderson, F Laden, D L Morgan (unab...