Nanobiotechnology for Developing Microvascular Intervention -- Importance of the Villus Microcirculation for Intestinal Absorption of Glucose -- Oxygen Transport in the Microvessel Network -- Beating-Heart Microvascular Imaging by High-Speed Video Microscope and SPring-8 -- The Laser Hot Balloon Catheter: a New Approach to Treating Atheromatous Lesions -- Design and Modification of Nanoparticles for Blood Substitutes -- Analysis of Angiogenic Profiles After Antiangiogenic Therapy by Colored Dye Extraction Microsphere Technique -- Gastroduodenal Microcirculation and Disease -- Esophageal and Gastrointestinal Microcirculation: Essential for Mucosal Protection, a Target for Injury, and a Critical Component of Injury and Ulcer Healing -- Microvascular Pathophysiology in Gastric Mucosal Inflammation Associated with Helicobacter pylori Infection -- Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in the Stomach: Role of Oxygen-Derived Free Radicals and Complement Regulatory System -- Gastroduodenal Microcirculatory Response to Luminal Acid -- Intracellular pH (pHi) Measurement in Rat Duodenal Epithelium In Vivo Using SNARF-1 -- Prevention of Ethanol-induced Gastric Mucosal Microcirculatory Disturbances by Mild Irritant Through the Actions of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide and Prostaglandin I2 in Rats -- Role of Perforin and Granzyme B of Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte in the Onset of Peptic Ulcer Formation -- Re-Evaluation of Microcirculatory Endothelial Cell as an Endocrine System of Leptin: Its Significance During Ulcer Healing and Helicobacter pylori Infection -- Bile Nucleotides Exaggerate Ischemia-Reperfusion-Induced Epithelial Injury via P2Y, Not P2X Purinoceptor in Rat Jejunum -- Prostaglandin E1 and a Serine Protease Inhibitor Protect the Gastric Microcirculation and Increase the Gastric Acid Secretion After Thermal Injury -- Duodenal Blood Flow in Acute Portal Hypertension -- Liver Microcirculation Research for Clinical Application -- Genetic Manipulation of Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells -- Basic Aspects of the Hepatic Microvascular System -- Activation of Hepatic Stellate Cells: Anti-Adipogenic Differentiation? -- Microvascular Derangement in Liver Transplantation -- Regulation of Local Hepatic Oxygen Delivery Following Stress -- Application of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide for Hepatic Tumor Diagnosis -- Roles of Thromboxane in Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Hepatic Microcirculatory Dysfunction in Mice -- Changes of Hepatic Microcirculation in Acute Cholestasis -- Cell Adhesion and Traffic in Microcirculation -- Microvascular Aspects of Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury -- Analysis of Trigger Mechanisms for Inflammation in Cardiovascular Disease: Application to Shock and Multiorgan Failure -- Selectin-Dependent Leukocyte Interactions with Vascular Surfaces -- Lymphocyte Migration to the Intestinal Mucosa and its Relation to Mucosal Defense -- Role for P-Selectin in Platelet Thrombus Formation Under Flow -- Glomerular Microcirculation: Distinct Intracellular Mechanisms for Afferent and Efferent Arteriolar Tone -- Role of Lectin-Like Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-1 (LOX-1) in Adenosine Diphosphate-Activated Platelet Adhesion to Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells Under Flow In Vitro -- Role of Oxidative Stress in Interaction Between Endothelial Cells and Platelets in Diabetes -- T-Lymphocyte Migration is Differently Regulated in Appendiceal Lymph Follicles and Intestinal Peyer’s Patches -- Cardiotonic Pill Improves Ischemia-Reperfusion-Induced Microcirculatory Disturbances in Rat Mesentery -- Molecular Determinants of Dextran Sodium Sulfate Colitis-Induced Platelet Adhesion in Colonic Venules -- Lymphatic Vessels as a Selective Administration Route of Antitumor Agent -- Gaseous Molecules: Sensing and Bioregulation in Microcirculation -- The Heme Oxygenase-Carbon Monoxide System as a Regulator of Microvascular Function -- Biological Characteristics of Lymphatic Endothelial Cells with Special Reference to Nitric Oxide and Lymphangiogenesis -- How Does Inhaled Nitric Oxide Reach Peripheral Tissues? -- Tumor Angiogenesis Regulated by Gaseous Molecules in Tumor Microenvironment: Oxygen, pH, and Nitric Oxide -- Oxygen-Induced Cytoskeleton Rearrangement of Cultured Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells.