1. Moving into the ranks of the world's important journals

   • Michio Mori

   EDITORIAL Pages: 1 - 1

2. Role of macula densa neuronal nitric oxide synthase in renal diseases

   • Akihiro Tojo
   • Maristela Lika Onozato
   • Toshiro Fujita

   AWARD REVIEW Pages: 2 - 7

3. New trends of immunohistochemistry for making differential diagnosis of breast lesions

   • Takuya Moriya
   • Atsuko Kasajima
   • Hironobu Sasano

   SPECIAL REVIEW SERIES: Clinical morphology of breast cancer Pages: 8 - 13

4. Series introduction:Molecular morphological approaches to the pathophysiology of liver disease

   • Takafumi Ichida

   SPECIAL REVIEW SERIES: Molecular morphological approaches to the pathophysiology of liver disease Pages: 14 - 15

5. Angiogenic cell therapy for hepatic fibrosis

   • Takato Ueno
   • Toru Nakamura
   • Michio Sata

   SPECIAL REVIEW SERIES: Molecular morphological approaches to the pathophysiology of liver disease Pages: 16 - 21

6. Studies on oxidative stress in liver diseases: important future trends in liver research

   • Kyuichi Tanikawa
   • Takuji Torimura

   SPECIAL REVIEW SERIES: Molecular morphological approaches to the pathophysiology of liver disease Pages: 22 - 27

7. Perineuronal germinal cells in the rat cerebral cortex

   • Yosky Kataoka
   • Yasuhisa Tamura
   • Hisao Yamada

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 28 - 32

8. Vascularization in tissue remodeling after rat hepatic necrosis induced by dimethylnitrosamine

   • Yu-Lan Jin
   • Hideaki Enzan
   • Toshiji Saibara

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 33 - 43

9. Bicarbonate secretion by rat bile duct brush cells indicated by immunohistochemical localization of CFTR, anion exchanger AE2, Na⁺/HCO₃ ⁻ cotransporter, carbonic anhydrase II, Na⁺/H⁺ exchangers NHE1 and NHE3, H⁺/K⁺-ATPase, and Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase

   • Takuro Ogata

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 44 - 48

10. An autopsy case of primary mixed choriocarcinoma and mature teratoma located in the thymic region associated with elevated human chorionic gonadotropin levels and characteristic testicular changes

    • Takashi Yuri
    • Naoto Shimano
    • Airo Tsubura

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 49 - 53

11. Long-term inhibition of intimal hyperplasia using vascular photodynamic therapy in balloon-injured carotid arteries

    • Takeshi Wakamatsu
    • Takashi Saito
    • Katsuo Aizawa

    Erratum Pages: 54 - 54