Editorial

ARCHIVES OF HISTOLOGY AND CYTOLOGY

Published by the International Society of Histology and Cytology
Supported in part by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
under Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results

Editors : Yasuo Uchiyama (Tokyo) Tatsuo Ushiki (Niigata)	Founder : Masaji Seki
Editors : Yasuo Uchiyama (Tokyo) Tatsuo Ushiki (Niigata)	Editor emeritus : Tsuneo Fujita (Niigata)
Consulting Editors : Stephen W. Carmichael (Rochester) Sa Sun Cho (Seoul) Jean-Pierre Collin (Poitiers) William A. Dunn Jr. (Gainesville) Lars E. Ericson (Göteborg) Toyoshi Fujimoto (Nagoya) Tetsuo Fukumoto (Ube) John B. Furness (Melbourne) Giorgio Gabella (London) Andreas Gebert(Lübeck) Gareth Griffiths (Heidelberg) Miloš Grim (Praha) Nobutaka Hirokawa (Tokyo) Chizuka Ide (Kyoto) Toshihiko Iwanaga (Sapporo) Hisatake Kondo(Sendai)	A. Van Lommel (Leuven) Guido Macchiarelli (L'Aquila-Italy) Takeyasu Maeda (Niigata) Kenjiro Matsuno (Mibu, Tochigi) Makoto Naito (Niigata) Ronald W. Oppenheim (Winston-Salem) Robert L. Owen (San Francisco) Hajime Sawada (Yokohama) Yosaburo Shibata (Fukuoka) Yoshiro Takano (Tokyo) Kuniaki Takata (Maebashi) Toshio Terashima (Kobe) A. Wayne Vogl (Vancouver) Masahiko Watanabe (Sapporo) Hiroyuki Yaginuma (Fukushima) Shohei Yamashina (Kanagawa)