1. Preface

   • Shinji Iijima
   • Yasuo Kitagawa
   • Sanetaka Shirahata

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 2

2. The changing role of cell culture in the generation of transgenic livestock

   • C. B. A. Whitelaw
   • E. Farini
   • J. Webster

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 8

3. Monoclonal antibodies against naturally occurring bioactive compounds

   • Yukihiro Shoyama
   • Hiroyuki Tanaka
   • Noriko Fukuda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 27

4. De novo adipogenesis for reconstructive surgery

   • Yasuo Kitagawa
   • Nobuko Kawaguchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 35

5. Effects of green, oolong and black teas and related components on the proliferation and invasion of hepatoma cells in culture

   • Guoying Zhang
   • Yutaka Miura
   • Kazumi Yagasaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 44

6. Novel cytotoxicity test based on menadione-catalyzed H2O2 productivity for food safety evaluation

   • Shiro Yamashoji
   • Kenji Isshiki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 51

7. A recombinant bait region mutant of human α2-macroglobulin exhibiting an altered proteinase-inhibiting spectrum

   • Atsushi Ikai
   • Kayoko Ookata
   • Toshiharu Matsumura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 60

8. Formation of porcine hepatocyte spherical multicellular aggregates (spheroids) and analysis of drug metabolic functions

   • Kohji Nakazawa
   • Hiroshi Mizumoto
   • Kazumori Funatsu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 68

9. Formation of cylindrical multicellular aggregate (cylindroid) and expression of liver specific functions of primary rat hepatocytes

   • Hiroshi Mizumoto
   • Masashi Hayakami
   • Kazumori Funatsu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 75

10. Effectiveness of vitamin A acetate for enhancing the production of lung cancer specific monoclonal antibodies

    • Yuichi Inoue
    • Mihoko Fujisawa
    • Sanetaka Shirahata

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 83

11. Enhancement of productivity of recombinant α-amidating enzyme by low temperature culture

    • Kazuaki Furukawa
    • Kazuhiro Ohsuye

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 94

12. Effects of DNA on immunoglobulin production stimulating activity of alcohol dehydrogenase

    • Takeaki Okamoto
    • Hiroshi Furutani
    • Takuya Sugahara

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 102

13. Productivity enhancement of recombinant protein in CHO cells via specific promoter activation by oncogenes

    • Yoshinori Katakura
    • Perry Seto
    • Sanetaka Shirahata

    OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 109

14. Intermittent addition of HGF and TGF-β1 in rat primary hepatocyte culture

    • Ryuji Hamamoto
    • Masamichi Kamihira
    • Shinji Iijima

    OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 121

15. A serum-free culture system for efficient in vitro production of bovine blastocysts with improved viability after freezing and thawing

    • Shoko Yamashita
    • Hiroyuki Abe
    • Hiroyoshi Hoshi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 131

16. In vitro immunization of human peripheral blood lymphocytes: establishment of B cell lines secreting IgM specific for cholera toxin B subunit from lymphocytes stimulated with IL-2 and IL-4

    • Akira Ichikawa
    • Yoshinori Katakura
    • Sanetaka Shirahata

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 141

17. Co-expression of bcl-2 and bag-1, apoptosis suppressing genes, prolonged viable culture period of hybridoma and enhanced antibody production

    • Satoshi Terada
    • Tomoaki Komatsu
    • Eiji Suzuki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 151

18. Rapid separation of solasodine glycosides by an immunoaffinity column using anti-solamargine monoclonal antibody

    • Waraporn Putalun
    • Hiroyuki Tanaka
    • Yukihiro Shoyama

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 158

19. Biochemical analysis of Hyphantria cunea NPV attachment to Spodoptera frugiperda 21 cells

    • Jin O Park
    • Kyung Hwa Chang
    • In Sik Chung

    OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 163

20. The neurite-initiating effect of microbial extracellular glycolipids in PC12 cells

    • Hiroko Isoda
    • Hiroshi Shinmoto
    • Tadaatsu Nakahara

    OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 172

21. Establishment of human T cell clones exhibiting natural killer-like activity

    • Shahabuddin Alam
    • Yoshinori Katakura
    • Sanetaka Shirahata

    OriginalPaper Pages: 173 - 178

22. In vitro neuroprotective action of recombinant rat erythropoietin produced by astrocyte cell lines and comparative studies with erythropoietin produced by Chinese hamster ovary cells

    • Seiji Masuda
    • Emi Kada
    • Ryuzo Sasaki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 184

23. Differential expression of mRNAs encoding laminin chain variants during in vitro development of mouse blastocysts

    • Mojgan Azimi
    • Tomoaki Niimi
    • Yasuo Kitagawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 193

24. Amplification of competitive telomere sequence in living animal cells induces chromatin instability

    • Shinji Mizuarai
    • Ken-ichi Nishijima
    • Shinji Iijima

    OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 203

25. Modulation by extracellular matrices of monooxygenase and CYP1A1 induction in Hep G2 cells in serum-free culture

    • Akihiko Nakama

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 211