1. Artificial liver support: future aspects

   • Katsutoshi Naruse

   REVIEW Pages: 71 - 76

2. Drug targeting with nano-sized carrier systems

   • Masayuki Yokoyama

   REVIEW Pages: 77 - 84

3. Use of a soft reservoir bag in a fully heparin-coated closed-loop cardiopulmonary bypass system for distal aortic perfusion during aortic surgery

   • Norihiko Shiiya
   • Kenji Matsuzaki
   • Keishu Yasuda

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 85 - 90

4. Venous drainage method for cardiopulmonary bypass in single-access minimally invasive cardiac surgery: siphon and vacuum-assisted drainage

   • Noriyuki Murai
   • Mamiko Cho
   • Takao Imazeki

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 91 - 94

5. Early clinical results of St. Jude Medical Symmetry aortic connector

   • Masashi Toyama
   • Akihiko Usui
   • Yuichi Ueda

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 95 - 99

6. QRS width does not reflect ventricular dyssynchrony in patients with heart failure

   • Tomoe Uchiyama
   • Kazuo Matsumoto
   • Shigeyuki Nishimura

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 100 - 103

7. Enhancement of liver-specific functions of primary rat hepatocytes co-cultured with bone marrow cells on tissue culture-treated polystyrene surfaces

   • Hiroyuki Ijima
   • Sunao Murakami
   • Koei Kawakami

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 104 - 109

8. Differentiation from embryonic stem cells to vascular wall cells under in vitro pulsatile flow loading

   • Haiying Huang
   • Yasuhide Nakayama
   • Yasushi Nemoto

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 110 - 118

9. Development of sutureless vascular connecting system for easy implantation of small-caliber artificial grafts

   • Osamu Sakai
   • Yasuhide Nakayama
   • Hitoshi Yaku

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 119 - 124

10. The effect of peritoneal rest in combination therapy of peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis: using the cultured human peritoneal mesothelial cell model

    • Tadashi Tomo
    • Eiji Okabe
    • Masaru Nasu

    BRIEF COMMUNICATION Pages: 125 - 129