Vol. 231 No. 3 NOVEMBER 2013

Regular Contributions
Renal Vasodilatory Action of Arginine Vasopressin in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants Maiko Kaga, Tadashi Matsuda, Tatsuya Watanabe, Sachiko Onodera, Shinpei Watanabe, Haruo Usuda and Satoko Ito [PDF]	159
Case
Gitelman’s Syndrome with Vomiting Manifested by Severe Metabolic Alkalosis and Progressive Renal Insufficiency Jong-Ho Lee, Jeonghwan Lee and Jin Suk Han [PDF]	165
Regular Contributions
A Nine-Year Population-Based Cohort Study on the Risk of Multiple Sclerosis in Patients with Optic Neuritis Lin-Chung Woung, Pai-Huei Peng, Chih-Ching Liu, Ching-Yao Tsai, Kai-Chen Wang, Wan-Ju Lee, Tsang-Shan Chen and Chung-Yi Li [PDF]	171
Five Reasons for the Lack of Nursing Students' Motivation to Learn Public Health Yasushi Kudo, Sachiko Hayashi, Emiko Yoshimura, Masashi Tsunoda, Akizumi Tsutsumi, Akitaka Shibuya, and Yoshiharu Aizawa [PDF]	179
Japanese Representation in Leading General Medicine and Basic Science Journals: A Comparison of Two Decades Tsuguya Fukui, Osamu Takahashi and Mahbubur Rahman [PDF]	187
Decreased Expression of 14-3-3σ Is Predictive of Poor Prognosis for Patients with Human Uterine Papillary Serous Carcinoma Fumihiko Suzuki, Satoru Nagase, Kichiya Suzuki, Etsuko Oba, Eri Hiroki, Yukika Matsuda, Jun-ichi Akahira, Hidekazu Nishigori, Takashi Sugiyama, Takeo Otsuki, Kousuke Yoshinaga, Tadao Takano, Hitoshi Niikura, Kiyoshi Ito, Hironobu Sasano and Nobuo Yaegashi, [PDF]	193
Short (GT)n Microsatellite Repeats in the Heme Oxygenase-1 Gene Promoter Are Associated with Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Status in Mexican Pediatric Patients with Sepsis Gabriela Vázquez-Armenta, Natalia González-Leal, Mayra J Vázquez-de la Torre, Francisco Muñoz-Valle, Martha E Ramos-Márquez, Iván Hernández-Cañaveral, Arturo Plascencia-Hernández and Fernando Siller-López [PDF]	201
Non-Invasive Evaluation of Axillary Lymph Node Status in Breast Cancer Patients Using Shear Wave Elastography Kentaro Tamaki, Nobumitsu Tamaki, Yoshihiko Kamada, Kano Uehara, Minoru Miyashita, Monica SM Chan, Takanori Ishida, Noriaki Ohuchi, and Hironobu Sasano [PDF]	211
Reduced Expression of Prostacyclin Synthase and Nitric Oxide Synthase in Subcutaneous Arteries of Type 2 Diabetic Patients Siti Safiah Mokhtar, Paul M. Vanhoutte, Susan W.S. Leung, Mohd Imran Yusof, Wan Azman Wan Sulaiman, Arman Zaharil Mat Saad, Rapeah Suppian and Aida Hanum Ghulam Rasool [PDF]	217
Aging Decreases the Strength of Suprahyoid Muscles Involved in Swallowing Movements Takatoshi Iida Haruka Tohara Satoko Wada Ayako Nakane Ryuichi Sanpei and Koichiro Ueda [PDF]	223
Case
A Patient with POEMS Syndrome: The Pathology of Glomerular Microangiopathy Yasuhiro Nakamura Motonobu Nishimura Takashi Terano Keely M McNamara Hironobu Sasano Akira Kurosu and Kensuke Joh [PDF]	229
Regular Contributions
Decreased Serum Ghrelin Levels in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Manabu Matsumoto, Satoshi Yasuda, Shunichi Miyazaki, Yu Kataoka, Hiroshi Hosoda, Noritoshi Nagaya, Teruo Noguchi, Isao Morii, Hisao Ogawa and Kenji Kangawa [PDF]	235