Background and Purpose— Higher plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) levels have been
associated with carotid atherosclerosis and cerebral infarction in whites. However, data …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Although cerebral circulation time (CCT) is one of the main
parameters in cerebral blood flow measurements, its clinical significance is controversial. …

Suicide after stroke is a grievous occurrence. Since the majority of cases under study had
shown signs of recovery from stroke, persons surrounding these patients were severely …

Background and Purpose— Conventionally, carotid ultrasonography has been performed
with a 7.5-MHz linear probe to evaluate the extracranial internal carotid artery (ICA). However, …

A 65-year-old right-handed man experienced the sudden onset of sensory aphasia and
weakness of the right side of his body. He was hospitalized 2 days later, and a computed …

In the production and management of beef and dairy cattle, controlling diarrhea is one of the
important concerns. Pathogenic agents of the disease, protozoan parasites including …

Background: Although the phenomenon of crossed cerebellar diaschisis (CCD) is a well
established remote functional effect after stroke, the relationship between the degree of CCD …

… This tradition went back to three hundred years earlier, the eighth century, when an amorous
exchange took place between Princess Nukata (consort of Emperor Tenji, r. 668–671) and …

9.) I maintained that the immunity acquired by vaccination is not limited to skin, but it is an
active immuntity of a body as a whole. Therefore it is entirely different from the theories of v. …

… Setting aside the rather literary question of just how such a poem, written by Princess
Nukata (Nukata no Ōkimi, second half of the seventh century), can be dramatized (and it was, …