Takao Endo

TL;DR: The results of clinical tests in colonoscopy and esophagoscopy indicated that NBI will be useful as a supporting method for observation of the endoscopic findings of early cancer.

TL;DR: A new illumination method for a medical endoscope: narrow band imaging (NBI), in which the spectral bandwidth of the filtered light is narrowed, which has been shown that NBI can enhance the capillary pattern and the crypt pattern on the mucosa.

TL;DR: Magnifying endoscopy by NBI is more useful than conventional magnifying endoscopeopy for the diagnosis of Barrett’s esophagus and the relationship between the endoscopic and histopathologic diagnoses was more accurate by N BI endoscopes than by conventional endoscope.

TL;DR: By affecting mitotic checkpoint function, CHFR inactivation likely plays a key role in tumorigenesis in gastric cancer, and the aberrant methylation of CHFR appears to be a good molecular marker with which to predict the sensitivity of gastric cancers to microtubule inhibitors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the expression and DNA methylation status of BNIP3 gene in a panel of colorectal and gastric cancer cell lines were examined, and it was found that methylation of the 5' CpG island was closely correlated with silencing the gene.