MRI in staging advanced gastric cancer: is it useful compared with spiral CT?
Although MRI was superior to spiral CT in T staging, MRI cannot completely replace spiral CT in staging AGC because of its limitation in N staging.
We conclude that cathepsin H is involved in the SP-B production and reduced SP-B levels impair the physical properties of the lung surfactant. However, Ctsh defiency does not reproduce the severe phenotype of SP-B deficient mice. Hence, other proteases of the secretory pathway of type II pneumocytes, i.e. cathepsins C or E, are still able to produce surfactant of sufficient quality in absence of Ctsh.