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    Thoracoscopic esophagectomy while in a prone position for esophageal cancer: a preceding anterior approach method

    In 2009, the rate of thoracoscopic esophagectomy for esophageal cancer was about 20 % in Japan. This low rate may be due to the difficulty in maintaining a good surgical field and the meticulous procedures tha...

    Soji Ozawa, Eisuke Ito, Akihito Kazuno, Osamu Chino, Minoru Nakui in Surgical Endoscopy (2013)

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    Technique of the double-channel ESD method performed with an EEMR tube

    Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) recently has been aggressively performed to treat superficial esophageal cancer; however, it is difficult to secure a good field of view for mucosal dissection, and the t...

    Hideo Shimada, Hiroyasu Makuuchi, Soji Ozawa, Osamu Chino, Takayuki Nishi in Esophagus (2011)

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    The critical role of Th1-dominant immunity in tumor immunology

     To investigate the precise role of antigen-specific Th1 and Th2 cells in tumor immunity, we developed a novel adoptive tumor-immunotherapy model using OVA-specific Th1 and Th2 cells and an OVA gene-transfecte...

    Takashi Nishimura, Minoru Nakui, Marimo Sato in Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology (2000)

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    Potentiation of antitumor effect of NKT cell ligand, α-galactosylceramide by combination with IL-12 on lung metastasis of malignant melanoma cells1

    The combined therapeutic effect of natural killer T (NKT) cell ligand α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) and IL-12 against highly metastatic B16-BL6-HM melanoma cells was investigated. In comparison with a single...

    Minoru Nakui, Akio Ohta, Masashi Sekimoto in Clinical & Experimental Metastasis (2000)