1. Volatile anesthetic antagonism by long-chain free fatty acids

   • Tomohiro Yamakura

   Editorial Pages: 71 - 72

2. Changes in body temperature during profound hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass in adult patients undergoing aortic arch reconstruction

   • Takashi Akata
   • Ken Yamaura
   • Shosuke Takahashi

   Original articles Pages: 73 - 81

3. Effects of withdrawal of phasic lung inflation during normocapnia and hypercapnia on the swallowing reflex in humans

   • Toshihito Sai
   • Shiro Isono
   • Takashi Nishino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 82 - 88

4. Antagonizing potencies of saturated and unsaturated long-chain free fatty acids to isoflurane in goldfish

   • Ryuzo Hanada
   • Tsuneo Tatara
   • Yasuhide Iwao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 93

5. Multi-Unit and Multi-Path system of the neural network can explain the steep dose-response of MAC

   • Yoshiroh Kaminoh
   • Hiroshi Kamaya
   • Issaku Ueda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 94 - 99

6. Single sodium channels from human skeletal muscle in planar lipid bilayers: characterization and response to pentobarbital

   • Hans C. Wartenberg
   • Bernd W. Urban

   OriginalPaper Pages: 100 - 106

7. Toborinone and olprinone, phosphodiesterase III inhibitors, inhibit human platelet aggregation due to the inhibition of both calcium release from intracellular stores and calcium entry

   • Kyoko Kageyama
   • Toshiki Mizobe
   • Hiroshi Aoki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 112

8. Spinal neurotoxicity and tolerance after repeated intrathecal administration of YM 872, an AMPA receptor antagonist, in rats

   • Tomoki Nishiyama
   • Sachiko Kawasaki-Yatsugi
   • Kazuo Hanaoka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 117

9. Monitoring magnesium to guide magnesium therapy for heart surgery

   • Terry L. Shirey

   Review Pages: 118 - 128

10. Severe Legionella pneumophila pneumonia associated with the public bath on a cruise ship in Japan

    • Atsuko Kobayashi
    • Yoshifumi Yamamoto
    • Satoru Hashimoto

    Clinical reports Pages: 129 - 131

11. Brachial plexus injury related to improper positioning during general anesthesia

    • Pornswan Ngamprasertwong
    • Vorapong Phupong
    • Ketchada Uerpairojkit

    OriginalPaper Pages: 132 - 134

12. Successful management of a patient with neuroleptic malignant syndrome associated with marked elevation of serum creatine kinase

    • Daisuke Takizawa
    • Koichi Nishikawa
    • Fumio Kunimoto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 137

13. Pneumothorax associated with epidural anesthesia

    • Kosuke Miura
    • Shiro Tomiyasu
    • Koji Sumikawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 138 - 140

14. Integration of suppression ratio in the bispectral index

    • Toshiya Koitabashi

    Short communication Pages: 141 - 143

15. Modified long Trachlight wand for a double-lumen endobronchial tube

    • Ryuiku Watanabe

    Letters to the editor Pages: 144 - 145

16. Pulmonary embolism after minor surgery in a patient with low-risk thrombocythemia

    • Satoshi Hosoi
    • Takehiko Adachi
    • Nobukata Urabe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 146 - 146