1-2
Editorials
New advisory board members, new guide for authors, and on-line access
Hidenori Toyooka
3
The effect of thoracic sympathectomy on baroreflex control of circulation
Sumio Hoka
4-8
Original articles
Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy attenuates reflex tachycardia during head-up tilt in lightly anesthetized patients with essential plamar hyperhidrosis
Takashi Suzuki, Yutaka Masuda, Makoto Nonaka, Mitsutaka Kadokura and Akiyoshi Hosoyamada
9-12
Flumazenil reduces the hypnotic dose of propofol in male patients under spinal anesthesia
Yushi U. Adachi, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Hideyuki Higuchi and Tetsuo Satoh
13-16
Thoracoscopic sympathectomy: endobronchial anesthesia vs endotracheal anesthesia with intrathoracic CO2 insufflation
Abdelazeem El-Dawlatly, Abdullah Al-Dohayan, Walid Riyad, Ahmed Thalaj and Bilal Delvi, et al.
17-22
Renal function in surgical patients after administration of low-flow sevoflurane and amikacin
Hideyuki Higuchi and Yushi Adachi
23-27
Comparison of heart rate changes after neostigmine-atropine administration during recovery from propofol-N2O and isoflurane-2O anesthesia
Tetsu Kimura, Makoto Tanaka and Toshiaki Nishikawa
28-33
The effect of propofol infusion on minimum alveolar concentration of sevoflurane for smooth tracheal intubation
Tsuyoshi Satsumae, Seiji Watanabe and Hiroshi Yamaguchi
34-43
Anticonvulsant effects of sevoflurane on amygdaloid kindling and bicuculline-induced seizures in cats: comparison with isoflurane and halothane
Kohei Murao, Koh Shingu, Etsuko Miyamoto, Sakahiro Ikeda and Shin-ichi Nakao, et al.
44-50
Comparison between sevoflurane and isoflurane anesthesia in pig hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury
Hiroshi Ishida, Yoshitami Kadota, Teruko Sameshima, Atsushi Nishiyama and Toshiyuki Oda, et al.
51-64
Review article
Anesthesia and the gastrointestinal tract
Alexander Ng and Graham Smith
65-69
Special article
Education in anesthesiology for the twenty-first century
David E. Longnecker
70-71
Clinical reports
Malignant hyperthermia with normal calcium-induced calcium release rate of sarcoplasmic reticulum in skeletal muscle
Tetsuo Takaya, Kenji Ito, Mamoru Takiguchi, Yasuko Ichihara and Junji Sasaki, et al.
72-74
Accidental subarachnoid injection of atracurium: A case report
Ziya Salihoglu, Sener Demiroluk and Yildiz Kose
75-78
An adult with ARDS managed with high-frequency oscillatory ventilation and prone position
Osamu Nagano, Hiromi Fujii, Hiroshi Morimatsu, Satoshi Mizobuchi and Keiji Goto, et al.
79-83
Blood component therapy guided by celite-activated thromboelastography for perioperative coagulopathy
Jun Kawasaki, Kenichi A. Tanaka, Nobukazu Sato, Toshie Saitoh and Masahiro Shimizu, et al.
84-86
Post-herpetic neuralgia in a patient with congenital insensitivity to pain and anhidrosis
Toshiya Tomioka, Yutaka Awaya, Kenji Nihei and Kazuo Hanaoka
87-89
Short communication
Simple high-performance liquid chromatographic assay of propofol in human and rat plasma and various rat tissues
Hiroshi Seno, Yan-Ling He, Chikara Tashiro, Hiroshi Ueyama and Takashi Mashimo
90-91
Letters to the editor
Unexpectedly severe hypoxia during sprint swimming
Kiyoyuki William Miyasaka, Yasuyuki Suzuki and Katsuyuki Miyasaka
92
Perioperative coronary spasm reported in Japanese journals
Koh Mizutani
93-94
Obituary
Akira Inamoto (1909–2001)