The Keio Journal of Medicine
Online ISSN : 1880-1293
Print ISSN : 0022-9717
ISSN-L : 0022-9717
54 巻, 1 号
選択された号の論文の5件中1~5を表示しています
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  • Wojciech Kielan, Bogdan Lazarkiewicz, Zygmunt Grzebieniak, Adam Skalsk ...
    2005 年 54 巻 1 号 p. 1-7
    発行日: 2005年
    公開日: 2005/09/28
    ジャーナル フリー
    This paper presents the life and achievements of Professor Jan Mikulicz-Radecki and his contribution to European and world surgery. He was born in 1850. Four periods can be distinguished in his surgical career: (1) Vienna period, 1875-82, when he worked by the side of the great Theodor Billroth: he introduced a number of new diagnostic and operative techniques, aseptic and antiseptic procedures, published research papers. He made the first endoscope for examining the esophagus and stomach. (2) Cracow period, 1882-87, when he was head of the Department of Surgery: he inaugurated his work with a lecture in Polish, which started: Gentlemen, I have been accused that I do not know the Polish language — which is my mother tongue to me as well as to any of you. He published papers on the use of iodophorm for healing wounds, was the first surgeon who sutured a perforated gastric ulcer (1885) and invented pyloroplasty (1887), nowadays called Heinecke-Mikulicz pyloroplasty. (3) Königsberg period, 1887-90: he improved the technique of gastric resection, worked on surgery for peptic ulcer and advocated aseptic and antiseptic procedures. (4) Wroclaw (Breslau) period, 1890-1905: Mikulicz was appointed head of a newly founded Surgical Department. He rebuilt it and designed one of the largest and most modern operating theaters in Europe that time. He introduced silk gloves for operations for the first time in the world. In 1892 he described bilateral swelling of salivary and lacrimal glands, called Mikulicz’s syndrome; in 1902 he published his experience with two-stage colon resection; and in 1904 he described ostitis fibrosa cystica juvenilis. Called “a king in the kingdom of surgeons”, he was one of the fathers of the world’s modern surgery; having a brilliant surgical mind, he was a pioneer of many new operations and an inventor of surgical tools, permanently assimilated in the world’s surgery.
  • Alan Mackay-Sim
    2005 年 54 巻 1 号 p. 8-14
    発行日: 2005年
    公開日: 2005/09/28
    ジャーナル フリー
    The olfactory ensheathing cell is a specialized glial cell that assists in growth of the axons of the olfactory sensory neurons as they are generated and regenerated throughout adult life. There is increasing evidence in animal models that transplantation of olfactory ensheathing cell promotes recovery after transplantation into the injured spinal cord. Olfactory ensheathing cell transplants have promoted regrowth of axons across the injury site and led to recovery of functional behaviours including climbing, walking, reaching, and breathing. Most evidence comes from olfactory ensheathing cells derived from the olfactory bulb. This is an impractical site for human biopsy compared to the easy accessibility of olfactory ensheathing cells from the olfactory mucosa in the nose. Our experiments demonstrated that nasal olfactory ensheathing cells led to functional improvement after complete spinal cord transaction in rat. After devising methods to grow human olfactory ensheathing cells from nasal biopsy we recently initiated a Phase I clinical trial of transplantation into the human paraplegic spinal cord.
  • Hartmut P.H. Neumann, Markus Cybulla, Hirotaka Shibata, Mototsugu Oya, ...
    2005 年 54 巻 1 号 p. 15-21
    発行日: 2005年
    公開日: 2005/09/28
    ジャーナル フリー
    Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma are tumors of the autonomous nervous system mainly occurring in the adrenal medulla, but also in the extraadrenal paraganglias of the abdomen, thorax, neck and skull basis. The etiology comprises germline mutations of now 6 genes. About 10 years known are the RET gene susceptible for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2, the VHL gene for von Hippel-Lindau Disease, and the NF 1 gene for neurofibromatosis Recklinghausen (neurofibromatosis type 1). Since 2000 the genes for succinatedehydrogenase subunits SDHB, SDHC, and SDHD have been identified for paraganglioma syndromes type 4, type 3, and type 1 respectively. Investigations of series of pheochromocytoma patients identified germline mutations in one of the genes SDHB, SDHD, VHL and RET in 24% to 50% of the patients. Multifocal tumors, young age and positive family history, known features associated with inheritence, have not been present in all patients. Therefore, analyses of blood DNA for mutations in these genes are recommended. Positive tests provide the patients and their relatives with essential platforms for clinical care. Experiences in this field of medicine have shown that optimal management of patients with pheochromocytoma-associated syndromes is a high challenge. National registries may be instrumental in order to provide with adequate facilities.
  • Karyn D. Baum, Sara Axtell
    2005 年 54 巻 1 号 p. 22-28
    発行日: 2005年
    公開日: 2005/09/28
    ジャーナル フリー
    Medical education in the United States of America (USA), and worldwide, is increasingly concentrating on the process and outcome of the educational experience. The first efforts to substantially improve medical education in the USA resulted in the Flexner Report in the early 1900s. The release of this report led to significant advancements in the quality of curriculum content. However, in the past few decades there has been increasing realization that delivery of content will not, by itself, assure the development of excellent physicians. As a result, there has been an increasing emphasis on the process, and, most recently, the outcome, of medical education. Process movements have examined the context and methods for teaching and learning. The problem-based learning movement is perhaps the most widely-known example of process trends. The latest trends in USA medical education focus on the outcomes of the learning process. At the forefront of this movement is the American Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), which accredits all USA post-graduate training programs. Recently, the ACGME has defined a set of six core clinical competencies that all graduates must demonstrate. A second emerging trend is inter-professional education. Increasingly, healthcare is provided by inter-professional healthcare team, and students must be competent to function effectively in this setting. Many academic health centers are developing joint curricula to address this need. Medical education has evolved from a primary focus on content to an emphasis on process of teaching and learning, and will increasingly concentrate on educational outcomes.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
  • Ming-Te Lin
    2005 年 54 巻 1 号 p. 29-38
    発行日: 2005年
    公開日: 2005/09/28
    ジャーナル フリー
    In order to establish an immortalized granulosa cell line and to investigate the potential mechanisms of immortalized cell proliferation, simian virus (SV) 40 was used to infect porcine granulosa cells from small follicles (1-2 mm in diameter), and one colony was selected after four weeks of culture. The colony was digested with trypsin and the cells were cultured for more than 300 days (named PGV). The SV40 large T antigen gene and its products were confirmed in immortalized cells by Southern blotting and immunohistochemistry. Progesterone production was not detected in the conditioned culture media with follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and forskolin, possibly due to the lack of P450scc gene transcription as examined by Northern blotting. PGV cells responded significantly to the stimulation of sera (fetal bovine and horse sera) and protein kinase C (PKC) stimulators (PMA and OAG), while PKC inhibitors (staurosporine and calphostin C) blocked both sera and PKC stimulation. Phospholipase C (PLC) and phosphatidic acid phosphatase (PAP) inhibitors (U73122 and propranolol) significantly reduced PGV cell proliferation, while PMA restored PLC and PAP inhibition. These data suggest that diacylglycerol (DAG) is produced in PGV cells by PLD as well as by PLC, and that DAG then activates PKC stimulating the PGV cell cycle through yet unknown mechanisms. Thus, an immortalized granulosa cell line is very useful to study granulosa cells in vitro, as the cells are homogeneous and are a functionally defined population.
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