Purpose of Review To describe the important role played by innate and innate-like immunity
in the pathophysiology of hypertension and vascular injury. Recent Findings Innate immune …

Current knowledge suggests that hypertension is in part mediated by immune mechanisms.
Both interleukin (IL)-23 and IL-17 are up-regulated in several experimental hypertensive …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to retrospectively evaluate the utility of prostate
MRI for detecting locally recurrent prostate cancer after high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy. …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess differences in enhancement effects of
liver parenchyma between normal and cirrhotic livers on contrast-enhanced MR imaging (CE…

Objective An optimal microcatheter is necessary for successful coiling of an intracranial
aneurysm. The optimal shape may be predetermined before the endovascular surgery via the …

In order to screen for the best species for mitigating nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) by plants at
urban levels, we investigated assimilation of nitrogen dioxide by 70 taxa of woody plants that …

Background With the recent advances in computational science, machine-learning methods
have been increasingly used in medical research. Because such projects usually require …

The classical renin–angiotensin system (RAS), known as the angiotensin (Ang)-converting
enzyme (ACE)/Ang II/Ang II type 1 (AT1) receptor axis, induces various organ damages …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate age-related changes in normal adult pancreas as identified by
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MATERIALS AND METHODS: We examined 115 …

Assimilation of nitrogen dioxide in response to fumigation with 15 N‐labelled nitrogen dioxide
was studied in 217 plant taxa. The taxa included 50 wild herbaceous plants collected from …