■　REVIEWS

Medical Application of Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles.
Akira Ito, Masashige Shinkai, Hiroyuki Honda, and Takeshi Kobayashi

Culture Systems for Pluripotent Stem Cells.
Fernando Ulloa-Montoya, Catherine M. Verfaillie, and Wei-Shou Hu

Engineering a Mimicry of Bone Marrow Tissue Ex Vivo.
Nicki Panoskaltsis, Athanasios Mantalaris, and J. H. David Wu

A Composite of Hydroxyapatite with Electrospun Biodegradable Nanofibers as a Tissue Engineering Material.
Yoshihiro Ito, Hirokazu Hasuda, Masanobu Kamitakahara, Chikara Ohtsuki, Masao Tanihara, Inn-Kyu Kang, and Oh Hyeong Kwon

Effects of Heparin and Its 6-O- and 2-O-Desulfated Derivatives with Low Anticoagulant Activity on Proliferation of Human Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells.
Hideki Mori, Yonehiro Kanemura, Junichi Onaya, Masayuki Hara, Jun Miyake, Mami Yamasaki, and Yutaka Kariya

Promotion of Monolayer Formation and High Expression of Ammonia Metabolism of Primary Rat Hepatocytes on Arginine-Glycine-Aspartic Acid-Containing Peptide-Coated Polystyrene Dish.
Hiroyuki ljima and Koei Kawakami

Process Design of Chondrocyte Cultures with Monolayer Growth for Cell Expansion and Subsequent Three-Dimensional Growth for Production of Cultured Cartilage.
Masahiro Kino-oka, Yoshikatsu Maeda, Yuka Ota, Shino Yashiki, Katsura Sugawara, Takeyuki Yamamoto, and Masahito Taya

Cell Adhesion Ability of Artificial Extracellular Matrix Proteins Containing a Long Repetitive Arg-Gly-Asp Sequence.
Hiroyuki Kurihara and Teruyuki Nagamune

Formation of Embryoid Bodies by Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells on Plastic Surfaces.
Tomohiro Konno, Kunihiko Akita, Kimio Kurita, and Yoshihiro Ito

Formation Characterization of Hydroxyapatite on Titanium by Microarc Oxidation and Hydrothermal Treatment.
Fu Liu, Ying Song, Fuping Wang, Tadao Shimizu, Kaoru Igarashi, and Liancheng Zhao

Hydrostatic Pressure/Perfusion Culture System Designed and Validated for Engineering Tissue.
Setsuo Watanabe, Shuji Inagaki, Ibuki Kinouchi, Hidetada Takai, Yoshinobu Masuda, and Shuichi Mizuno

Long-Term Subculture of Human Keratinocytes under an Anoxic Condition.
Masahiro Kino-oka, Yuka Agatahama, Yuki Haga, Masukazu Inoie, and Masahito Taya

Effect of Chondroitin Sulfate and Hyaluronic Acid on Gene Expression in a Three-Dimensional Culture of Chondrocytes.
Shohei Nishimoto, Mutsumi Takagi, Shigeyuki Wakitani, Takuya Nihira, and Toshiomi Yoshida

Transition of Mechanical Property of Porous Alginate Scaffold with Cells during Culture Period.
Shinji Sakai, Hiroki Masuhara, Yusuke Yamada, Tsutomu Ono, Hiroyuki Ijima, and Koei Kawakami

MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Screening of Cytokines to Enhance Vaccine Effects of Heat Shock Protein 70-Rich Tumor Cell Lysate.
Akira Ito, Masatake Fujioka, Kouji Tanaka, Takeshi Kobayashi, and Hiroyuki Honda

Availability of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells in Three-Dimensional Coculture with Hepatocytes and Transplantation into Liver-Damaged Mice.
Masashi Takeda, Marii Yamamoto, Katsuhiro Isoda, Shinji Higashiyama, Motohiro Hirose, Hajime Ohgushi, Masaya Kawase, and Kiyohito Yagi

Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells into Neurons Using Conditioned Medium of Dorsal Root Ganglia.
Ayako Kitazawa and Norio Shimizu

Heat Immunotherapy Using Magnetic Nanoparticles and Dendritic Cells for T-Lymphoma.
Kouji Tanaka, Akira Ito, Takeshi Kobayashi, Tatsuyoshi Kawamura, Shinji Shimada, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Toshiaki Saida, and Hiroyuki Honda

METHODS

Processing of Membrane Protein Crystal Using Ultraviolet Laser Irradiation.
Hiroshi Kitano, Satoshi Murakami, Hiroaki Adachi, Hiroyoshi Matsumura, Kazufumi Takano, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Yusuke Mori, Masaaki Doi, and Takatomo Sasaki

Note in Statistical Treatment of Medical and Pharmaceutical Data.
Masaya Kawase, Hiroki Konishi, Kiyohito Yagi, Rika Nishikiori, and Tatsuya Takagi