1. Self-reported recovery time of daily activity after bone marrow harvesting from healthy donors

   • Mina Nishimori
   • Akiko Tateoka
   • Kazuo Hanaoka

   Original articles Pages: 1 - 5

2. The effect of midazolam–thiopental coinduction on recovery in minor surgery

   • Nur Baykara
   • Tulay Sahin
   • Kamil Toker

   Pages: 6 - 10

3. Age-corrected intraoperative tachycardia correlates with postoperative electrocardiographic alterations

   • Nobuo Kurokochi

   Pages: 11 - 16

4. Celite-activated viscometer Sonoclot can measure the suppressive effect of tranexamic acid on hyperfibrinolysis in cardiac surgery

   • Yasuhiro Kamada
   • Michiaki Yamakage
   • Akiyoshi Namiki

   Pages: 17 - 21

5. Sevoflurane reduces dysrhythmias during reperfusion in the working rat heart

   • Takeshi Oguchi
   • Satoshi Kashimoto
   • Teruo Kumazawa

   Pages: 22 - 28

6. Hyperbaric hyperoxia suppresses growth of Staphylococcus aureus, including methicillin-resistant strains

   • Isao Tsuneyoshi
   • Walter A. Boyle III
   • Toushiro Fujimoto

   Pages: 29 - 32

7. Effects of ulinastatin (urinary trypsin inhibitor) on ATP, intracellular pH, and intracellular sodium transients during ischemia and reperfusion in the rat kidney in vivo

   • Satoshi Taie
   • Satoshi Yokono
   • Kenji Ogli

   Pages: 33 - 38

8. A possible role for glutamate receptor-mediated excitotoxicity in chronic pain

   • Andrei B. Petrenko
   • Koki Shimoji

   Review Pages: 39 - 48

9. Transient renal tubular dysfunction in a patient with severe asthmatic attack treated with sevoflurane

   • Masami Ishikawa
   • Mineo Miyazaki
   • Yoshio Ohta

   Clinical reports Pages: 49 - 52

10. Anesthetic management of a patient with Klippel-Feil syndrome

    • Sukanya Mitra
    • K. K. Gombar
    • Arjun Das

    Pages: 53 - 56

11. One-lung ventilation with the Univent tube in a pediatric patient undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

    • Masahiro Kanazawa
    • Haruo Fukuyama
    • Mamoru Takiguchi

    Pages: 57 - 59

12. Laryngeal mask airway is useful for fiberoptic bronchoscopic evaluation of subglottic stenosis in children: a report of eleven cases

    • Yukie Fukushima
    • Tomoko Yorozu
    • Toshiyuki Shigematsu

    Pages: 60 - 62

13. Combined propofol and thoracic epidural anesthesia for pulmonary resection in a morbidly obese patient with sleep apnea syndrome

    • Takashi Yoshioka
    • Akira Kochi
    • Tetsuo Kochi

    Pages: 63 - 65

14. Anesthetic management of the patient with systemic lupus erythematosus and severe granulocytopenia

    • Hiroshi Nagasaka
    • Ryu Koono
    • Isao Matsumoto

    Letter to the editor Pages: 66 - 67