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BCAA-enriched snack improves nutritional state of cirrhosisYutaka Nakaya
University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
Nutrition 23:113-20. 2007....
Cilostazol, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, improves insulin sensitivity in the Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty Rat, a model of spontaneous NIDDMY Nakaya
Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Tokushima City, Japan
Diabetes Obes Metab 1:37-41. 1999..The present study aimed to clarify whether cilostazol, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, improves insulin sensitivity in a model of spontaneous non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) rat...
Taurine improves insulin sensitivity in the Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty rat, a model of spontaneous type 2 diabetesY Nakaya
Department of Nutrition, Tokushima University, School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan
Am J Clin Nutr 71:54-8. 2000..However, taurine also increases the excretion of cholesterol via conversion to bile acid and would be expected to improve insulin resistance...
Respiratory quotient in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus treated with insulin and oral hypoglycemic agentsY Nakaya
Department of Nutrition, University of Tokushima, School of Medicine, Aichi Medical School, Tokushima, Japan
Ann Nutr Metab 42:333-40. 1998..These results suggest that a high RQ results from excess insulin and excess food. The RQ is a good predictor of weight gain in diabetic patients treated with either insulin or oral hypoglycemic agents...
Does prolonged exercise alter diet-induced thermogenesis?M Ohnaka
Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, Faculty of Integrated Arts, University of Tokushima, Japan
Ann Nutr Metab 42:311-8. 1998..05). These findings suggest that changes in DIT are affected by many factors and may be related to the balance between these counteracting factors...
Is autonomic dysfunction a necessary condition for chronic peptic ulcer formation?M Nomura
Second Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 14:82-6. 2000..The relationship between 1/f fluctuation of the heart rate variability and Helicobacter pylori infection was evaluated, in order to clarify whether autonomic nervous dysfunction is a necessary condition for chronic peptic ulcer formation...
Age-related changes in the magnitude of ventricular depolarization vector: analyses by magnetocardiogramH Miyajima
Second Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan
J Electrocardiol 33:31-5. 2000..The results additionally suggest that no effects of aging were observed in the actual heart current of the heart during the depolarization phase...
The nutritional status of elderly bed-ridden patients receiving tube feedingK Okada
Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan
J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo) 47:236-41. 2001..These findings raise a problem concerning nutritional management of bed-ridden patients...
Effects of losartan in combination with or without exercise on insulin resistance in Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty ratsK Ishizawa
Department of Pharmacology, University of Tokushima School of Medicine, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, 770-8503, Tokushima, Japan
Eur J Pharmacol 430:359-67. 2001..The enhancing effect of angiotensin AT(1) receptor antagonist on skeletal muscle glucose uptake may be attributable to MAP kinase activation or other mechanisms rather than phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activation...
Activation of Ca2+-activated K+ channels in human myometrium by nitric oxideM Shimano
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
Gynecol Obstet Invest 49:249-54. 2000..These results indicate that nitric oxide should control human myometrial relaxation during pregnancy via activation of Ca2+-activated K+ channels...
Age-related endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation in rat thoracic aorta in response to colforsinK Mori
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan
Pediatr Int 41:673-81. 1999..However, it is not known whether colforsin causes nitric oxide (NO) release and enhances endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation...
Involvement of Ca2+ -activated K+ channels in ginsenosides-induced aortic relaxation in ratsZ Li
Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima City, Japan
J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 37:41-7. 2001..In addition, the GS-induced activity of KCa channels was partially inhibited by MB or H-8. These results indicate that the activation of KCa channels involved, at least in part, the GS-induced vasorelaxation of rat aorta...
Involvement of adenosine in vascular contractile preconditioningN Harada
Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Tokushima City, 770-8503 Japan
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 280:H2911-9. 2001..Our results suggest that during vasocontraction, endothelium-derived adenosine acquires an ability to protect vascular tone against subsequent repeated contractions by mediating a delayed, possibly indirect, opening of K(ATP) channels...
Cortactin, an actin binding protein, regulates GLUT4 translocation via actin filament remodelingH Nazari
Department of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute of Health Biosciences, University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
Biochemistry (Mosc) 76:1262-9. 2011....
Relationship among gastric motility, autonomic activity, and portal hemodynamics in patients with liver cirrhosisH Miyajima
Second Department of Internal Medicine; Department of Radiology and; Department of Nutrition, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 16:647-59. 2001..In addition, gastric motility was decreased, at least in part, by the ingestion of food in cirrhotic patients because of abnormalities in autonomic functions and portal blood flow following a meal...
Impaired retention of technetium-99m tetrofosmin in hypertrophic cardiomyopathyS Morishita
Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan
Am J Cardiol 87:743-7. 2001..The dysfunction of myocardial cells was limited to the hypertrophied region in the apical HC group...
Impairment of gastrointestinal motility by nitrate administration: evaluation based on electrogastrographic changes and autonomic nerve activityM Nomura
Department of Digestive Medicine, School of Medicine, Graduate School University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 20:118-24. 2004..Nitrates decrease the tone of the lower oesophageal sphincter, and may thus induce gastro-oesophageal reflux...
Production of beta-defensin-2 by human colonic epithelial cells induced by Salmonella enteritidis flagella filament structural proteinA Takahashi
Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan
FEBS Lett 508:484-8. 2001..We conclude that FliC increased [Ca(2+)](in) via inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate, which was followed by up-regulating hBD-2 mRNA expression via an NF-kappaB-dependent pathway...
Blockade of adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channels by thiamylal in rat ventricular myocytesY Tsutsumi
Department of Anesthesiology, Tokushima University School of Medicine, Japan
Anesthesiology 92:1154-9. 2000..This study investigated the effects of thiamylal on the activities of KATP channels in isolated rat ventricular myocytes during simulated ischemia...
Lidocaine and mexiletine inhibit mitochondrial oxidation in rat ventricular myocytesY Tsutsumi
Department of Anesthesiology, Tokushima University School of Medicine, Japan
Anesthesiology 95:766-70. 2001..Because both lidocaine and mexiletine are frequently used antiarrhythmic drugs during myocardial ischemia, it is important to investigate whether they affect mitochondrial K(ATP) channel activities...
Minoxidil-induced hair growth is mediated by adenosine in cultured dermal papilla cells: possible involvement of sulfonylurea receptor 2B as a target of minoxidilM Li
Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
J Invest Dermatol 117:1594-600. 2001....
Evaluation of the total health promotion plan in Japan, as related to health promotion effects and the prevention of lifestyle-related diseasesR Oura
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tokushima Industrial Promotion Center, University of Tokushima, Japan
J Med 32:365-79. 2001..These results suggest that such efforts may help prevent the development of lifestyle-related diseases...
Autonomic nervous activity before and after eradication of Helicobacter pylori in patients with chronic duodenal ulcerK Katoh
Second Department of Internal Medicine, and Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, Japan
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 16:180-6. 2002..Abnormalities in autonomic activity persist even after H. pylori eradication, suggesting that they may be an independent risk factor in the formation of chronic peptic ulcer in addition to H. pylori infection...
Autonomic nervous function in patients with peptic ulcer studied by spectral analysis of heart rate variabilityT Nada
Second Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan
J Med 32:333-47. 2001..These results suggest that the nocturnal acceleration of LF, HF, and LF/HF is related to peptic ulcer diseases...
Novel 31-amino-acid-length endothelins cause constriction of vascular smooth muscleF Kishi
School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, 770, Japan
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 248:387-90. 1998..Therefore, trachea-constricting peptides ETs(1-31) play roles as vasoconstrictors in a different manner from ETs(1-21)...
Lactate stimulates insulin secretion without blocking the K+ channels in HIT-T15 insulinoma cellsH Akiyoshi
Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima City, Japan
Horm Metab Res 31:257-61. 1999..These results suggest that the lactate-induced Ca2+ increase is not due to the closing of K+ channels, but at least in part, to the suppression of Ca2+ efflux from HIT cells...
Altered sensitivity to a novel vasoconstrictor endothelin-1 (1-31) in myometrium and umbilical artery of women with severe preeclampsiaY Saijo
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, 770 8503, Japan
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 286:964-7. 2001..The stronger contraction of myometrium by ET-1 (1-31) in patients with severe preeclampsia observed for the first time in the present study suggests that ET-1 (1-31) might be involved in the development of preeclampsia...
Ischaemic electrocardiographic changes after massive blood transfusion: findings based on myocardial scintigraphy using 99mTc-MIBI and 123I-MIBGY Kondo
Second Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan
Acta Cardiol 53:279-83. 1998..Myocardial scintigraphy using 99mTc-MIBI or 123I-MIBG can be useful for the evaluation of myocardial dysfunction with reversible myocardial infarction...
Evaluation of myocardial sympathetic nerve function in patients with mitral valve prolapse using iodine-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine myocardial scintigraphyF Kishi
Department of Digestive and Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima 770-8053, Japan
J Med 35:187-99. 2004..There was no significant difference in the H/M ratio between MVP patients and the control group. These results indicate that MIBG can be used to evaluate localized myocardial sympathetic nerve function in MVP...
A 90-year old patient with atrial septal defect and sinus rhythmM Nomura
Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan
Acta Cardiol 51:377-80. 1996..Literature searches revealed no similar report of such a case. In addition, this patient represents the oldest documented patients with ASD associated and sinus rhythm...
Catecholamine-induced stimulation of growth in Vibrio speciesM Nakano
Department of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
Lett Appl Microbiol 44:649-53. 2007....
Changes in hemodynamics and autonomic nervous activity in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy: differences between the pneumoperitoneum and abdominal wall-lifting methodN Uemura
Department of Gastroenterology, National Kochi Hospital, Kochi, Japan
Endoscopy 34:643-50. 2002....
K(Ca) channel-opening activity of Ginkgo Biloba extracts and ginsenosides in cultured endothelial cellsZ Li
Department of Pharmacology, Hunan Medical University, Changsha, China
Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 28:441-5. 2001..These compounds may regulate nitric oxide release by changing the cell membrane potential in vascular endothelial cells...
Activation of human post heparin lipoprotein lipase by apolipoprotein H (beta 2-glycoprotein I)Y Nakaya
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 95:1168-72. 1980
