BACKGROUND/AIMS Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) was originally developed in 1995 using an insulation-tipped diathermic knife (Olympus, Tokyo, Japan) to achieve en-bloc resection of early gastric cancer (EGC). It has been suggested that advances in endoscopic devices and medical equipment, such as the high-frequency generator (1999) and hemostatic forceps (2000), and procedural improvemen...

AIM To report on a more accurate diagnostic possibility offered by endoscopic ultrasound-guided cutting of holes and deep biopsy (EUS-CHDB) for pathologic diagnosis of gastric infiltrative tumors and gastrointestinal submucosal tumors. METHODS Ten consecutive patients who were suspected of having gastric invasive tumors or gastrointestinal submucosal tumors underwent EUS-CHDB with a novel ver...

PURPOSE To evaluate the therapeutic efficacy and toxicity of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) plus high-frequency diathermic therapy (HFDT) followed by intravenous chemotherapy vs intravenous chemotherapy alone for adjuvant treatment of postoperative gastrointestinal neoplasms. METHODS Fifty-two gastrointestinal carcinoma patients who were radically operated were enrolled and...

SATINOFF, EVELYN. Behavioral thermoregulation in response to local cooling of the rat brain. Am. J. Physiol. 206(6) : I 389-1394. 1 g64.-Local cooling of the anterior hypothalamic-preoptic area in rats, at environmental temperatures of 5 and 24 C, caused their rectal temperatures to increase as much as 3. I C, as well as vigorous shivering. When the animals were allowed to press a bar to turn o...

Electrospun non-woven poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) microfiber meshes are described as biodegradable, mechanically robust, and reusable polymeric oil sorbents capable of selectively retrieving oil from simulated oil spills in both fresh and seawater scenarios. Hydrophobic PCL meshes have >99.5% (oil over water) oil selectivity and oil absorption capacities of ~10 grams of oil per gram of sorbent m...