Responsibility for the scientific contents of a manuscript remains with the author. In the case of rejection, a short explanation only will be provided. When submitting Rapid Communications, please include a floppy disk containing the text and any figures, tables etc. Manuscripts containing interesting findings without adequate discussion, research results of narrow scope or of a predominantly negative nature may nevertheless be suitable for publication as a Research Letter if they are considered sufficiently important. Subjects of relevance to health science, for example DNA sequences of unknown genes and transcriptional regulation regions etc, are also suitable as Research Letters .
Manuscripts containing valuable data obtained in field work are also acceptable.
When it is necessary to present a relatively large amount of data in field work, the paper may extend to more than 3 printed pages. Minireviews mainly involve a description of recent research results from the author's laboratory. Reviews are more broad based. Whilst Reviews do not have a page limit, Minireviews should be 3 pages or less of printed Journal space. Since after printing, one page contains about 4300 characters, please take care when preparing the paper to not exceed the allowed length for the specific type of manuscript.