President's address“Towards the New Century”

Harunori Ishikawa

207

Reviews

Electronically excited atomic motion induced by electron irradiation

Koji Maeda

208

Keratinization disorders and abnormalities in the cornified cell envelopes

Akemi Ishida-Yamamoto

215

Theoretical calculations to interpret electron spectra from transmission electron microscopy

Isao Tanaka, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Masato Yoshiya, Takahiro Iwata, Kazuyoshi Ogasawara and Hirohiko Adachi

221

The localization and function of androgen metabolizing enzymes in the brain

Yoshihiro Tsuruo

230

Molecular mechanism of polymorphic supercoiling of the bacterial flagellum

Keiichi Namba

236

Feature Articles: Collagen

Introduction

Toshihiko Hayashi

239

Collagen superfamily

Yoshifumi Ninomiya and
Hidekatsu Yoshioka

240

Structure and function of fibrillar collagen

Kazunori Mizuno, Takanori Kihara, Yasutada Imamura,Eijiro Adachi and Toshihiko Hayashi

245

Structure and biological functions of collagen gels

Koichi Nakazato, Motohiro Hirose, Masami Harimoto, Kazunori Mizuno and Toshihiko Hayashi

248

Assembly of basement membrane by alveolar type II epithelial cells in vitro

Katsumi Mochitate and
Akiko Furuyama

251

Lectures

Image contrast of charged insulator specimen in the scanning electron microscope

Katsumi Ura

254

Three dimensional observation of coronary and renal microvasculature using confocal laser scanning microscope

Katsukuni Fujimoto, Eiji Toyota, Yasuo Ogasawara and Fumihiko Kajiya

258

Technical Notes

Three-dimensional imaging of tumor angiogenesis

Johbu Itoh

262

Developement of a super high-resolution HVEM

Hideki Ichinose and
Mitsuaki Osaki

265

Applications of EBSD

Masato Shimizu

269

Researches Today

Ultra-coherent electron beam

Kohei Matsuda, Tetsutane Yamashita and Chuhei Oshima

272

Viscoelastic imaging of mechanical structure related to cell locomotion in AFM

Hisashi Haga and Kazushige Kawabata

276

Conference Reports

15th congress of the international federation of Anatomists

Harumichi Seguchi

279

Book Review

Advanced Computing in Electron Microscopy

Toshio Sakai

281

Staff Commentary

Hitoshi Ozawa

282