1. Differentiation and Diversification of Vascular Cells from Embryonic Stem Cells

   • Jun K. Yamashita

   OriginalPaper 01 July 2004 Pages: 1 - 6

2. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Other Signaling Pathways in Developmental and Pathologic Angiogenesis

   • Gavin Thurston
   • Nicholas W. Gale

   OriginalPaper 01 July 2004 Pages: 7 - 20

3. Angiopoietin-Related/Angiopoietin-Like Proteins Regulate Angiogenesis

   • Yuichi Oike
   • Kunio Yasunaga
   • Toshio Suda

   OriginalPaper 01 July 2004 Pages: 21 - 28

4. Molecular Mechanisms of Lymphangiogenesis

   • Meiko Takahashi
   • Takanobu Yoshimoto
   • Hajime Kubo

   OriginalPaper 01 July 2004 Pages: 29 - 34

5. Response to Cyclosporine Therapy in Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndrome: A Clinical Study of 12 Cases and Literature Review

   • Masao Ogata
   • Eiichi Ohtsuka
   • Masaru Nasu

   OriginalPaper 01 July 2004 Pages: 35 - 42

6. Two Entities of Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma Based on Radiologic and Immunophenotypic Findings

   • Yasushi Onishi
   • Yoshihiro Matsuno
   • Kensei Tobinai

   OriginalPaper 01 July 2004 Pages: 43 - 51

7. Clinical Relevance of Survivin as a Biomarker in Neoplasms, Especially in Adult T-Cell Leukemias and Acute Leukemias

   • Kazuyuki Sugahara
   • Akiko Uemura
   • Shimeru Kamihira

   OriginalPaper 01 July 2004 Pages: 52 - 58

8. Exaggerated Cutaneous Response to Mosquito Bites in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

   • Keiko Asakura
   • Masahiro Kizaki
   • Yasuo Ikeda

   Case Report 01 July 2004 Pages: 59 - 61

9. Existence of Leukemic Clones Resistant to Both Imatinib Mesylate and Rituximab before Drug Therapies in a Patient with Philadelphia Chromosome-Positive Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia

   • Takaaki Hato
   • Jun Yamanouchi
   • Shigeru Fujita

   OriginalPaper 01 July 2004 Pages: 62 - 66

10. Sustained Cytogenetic Remission Induced by Imatinib Mesylate in a Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patient Who Had a Relapse into Lymphoid Crisis after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

    • Toshiaki Yujiri
    • Yutaka Sato
    • Yukio Tanizawa

    Case Report 01 July 2004 Pages: 67 - 69

11. t(11;18)-Bearing Pulmonary Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphoma Responding to Cladribine

    • Shigeru Kusumoto
    • Yukio Kobayashi
    • Kensei Tobinai

    Case Report 01 July 2004 Pages: 70 - 74

12. Successful Treatment of Idiopathic Hypereosinophilic Syndrome with Imatinib Mesylate: A Case Report

    • D. Tan
    • W. Hwang
    • P. Tan

    Case Report 01 July 2004 Pages: 75 - 77

13. Unmanipulated HLA-Haploidentical Bone Marrow Transplantation for the Treatment of Fatal, Nonmalignant Diseases in Children and Adolescents

    • Hiromasa Yabe
    • Hiroyasu Inoue
    • Miharu Yabe

    OriginalPaper 01 July 2004 Pages: 78 - 82

14. Glanzmann Thrombasthenia Associated with a 21-Amino Acid Deletion (Leu817-Gln837) in Glycoprotein IIb due to Abnormal Splicing in Exon 25

    • Tetsuro-Takahiro Fujimoto
    • Mihoko Sora
    • Kingo Fujimura

    OriginalPaper 01 July 2004 Pages: 83 - 90

15. The Effects of Desflurane on Human Platelet Aggregation In Vitro

    • Hülya Türkan
    • Cengiz Beyan
    • Kürşat Kaptan

    OriginalPaper 01 July 2004 Pages: 91 - 93

16. Treatment of Resistant Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura with Rituximab and Cyclophosphamide

    • Gideon Y. Stein
    • Aliza Zeidman
    • Moshe Mittelman

    OriginalPaper 01 July 2004 Pages: 94 - 96

17. False-Positive Plasma (1↙3)-β-D-Glucan Test following Immunoglobulin Product Replacement in an Adult Bone Marrow Recipient

    • Masahiro Ogawa
    • Hiroki Hori
    • Yoshihiro Komada

    Letter to the Editor 01 July 2004 Pages: 97 - 98