… This was a successor to the first HCV classification meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in
1997, with a similar membership of scientists from North America, Europe, and Japan working in …

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a general term for chronic or remitting/relapsing inflammatory
diseases of the intestinal tract and generally refers to ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’…

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become a serious public health issue not only
in Western countries but also in Japan. Within the wide spectrum of NAFLD, nonalcoholic …

… on day 1 (84 min after admission) was positive for N, but not for N2. Therefore, we re-examined …
for N, but not for N2. Again, the nasopharyngeal swabs were negative for both N and N2. …

Background A region associated with sensitivity to interferon has been identified in the
nonstructural protein 5A (NS5A) of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1b. The region spans amino …

… λN, where N is the dimensionality of the feature space. The eigenvector bi associated with
… N largest eigenvalues (and eigenvectors), thus mapping N-dimensional feature vector x into …

We have previously demonstrated that sensitivity to interferon is different among hepatitis C
virus (HCV) quasispecies simultaneously detected in same individuals and that interferon-…

The first edition of the clinical practice guidelines for liver cirrhosis was published in 2010,
and the second edition was published in 2015 by the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (…

… Consecutive patients (n ¼ 2547) chronically infected with … biopsy was performed with 15G
needles (n ¼ 254). The mean … either for 24 weeks (n ¼ 1003) or for 2 to 5 years (n ¼ 59); 386 …

… as a dysplastic nodule (DN) (n = 12), progressed HCC (n = 66), or early HCC (n = 30). All but
two … as poorly differentiated (n = 7), moderately differentiated (n = 38), or well differentiated (…