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  1. Palm oil and interesterified fat have been used to replace partially hydrogenated fats, rich in trans isomers, in processed foods. This study investigated whether the maternal consumption of normolipidic diets co...

    Authors: Kenia Pereira Bispo, Letícia de Oliveira Rodrigues, Érica da Silva Soares de Souza, Daniela Mucci, Maria das Graças Tavares do Carmo, Kelse Tibau de Albuquerque and Fatima Lucia de Carvalho Sardinha
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 65:351
  2. The signaling molecule 5′-AMP-activated protein kinase plays a pivotal role in metabolic adaptations. Treatment with 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1-β-d-ribofranoside (AICAR) promotes the expression of metabolic...

    Authors: Masataka Suwa, Hiroshi Nakano, Zsolt Radak and Shuzo Kumagai
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 65:349
  3. The importance of hypoxia inducible factor (HIF) as the master regulator of hypoxic responses is well established. Oxygen-dependent prolyl hydroxylase domain enzymes (PHDs) negatively regulate HIF directing it...

    Authors: Charu Nimker, Gurpreet Kaur, Anshula Revo, Pooja Chaudhary and Anju Bansal
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 65:348
  4. The aim of this paper is to investigate cortical excitability in patients with end-stage renal disease receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD) without any symptoms suggestive of uremic encephalopathy. We performed ...

    Authors: Hideyuki Matsumoto, Katsunori Saito, Yuko Konoma, Shingo Okabe, Yoshikazu Ugawa and Yoshitaka Ishibashi
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 65:347
  5. Hyperalgesia and allodynia are commonly observed in patients with diabetic neuropathy. The mechanisms responsible for neuropathic pain are not well understood. Thus, in this study, we examined the role played ...

    Authors: Jianfei Guo, Xudong Fu, Xia Cui and Minhua Fan
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 65:344
  6. We aim to compare the effects of stretch on isometric tension/Ca2+ transient in the right ventricular trabeculae of control (CONT) and hypertensive (MCT, monocrotaline application) adult male and female rats. The...

    Authors: Oleg Lookin, Daniil Kuznetsov and Yuri Protsenko
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 65:341
  7. Use of a plano-concave lens improved the quality of optical signals from the rat cerebral cortex by improving the focus. When detecting neural activity from a curved surface of an in vivo brain by optical tech...

    Authors: Minako Kawai, Noriyuki Hama, Shin-ichi Ito and Akihiko Hirota
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:336
  8. It is is well known that insulin stimulates glucose transport and epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC)-mediated Na+ reabsorption; however, the action of insulin on Cl− secretion is not fully understood. In this study, w...

    Authors: Hongxin Sun, Naomi Niisato, Toshio Inui and Yoshinori Marunaka
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:338
  9. Spontaneous neuronal activity is present in virtually all brain regions, but neither its function nor spatiotemporal patterns are fully understood. Ex vivo organotypic slice cultures may offer an opportunity t...

    Authors: Kazuki Okamoto, Tomoe Ishikawa, Reimi Abe, Daisuke Ishikawa, Chiaki Kobayashi, Mika Mizunuma, Hiroaki Norimoto, Norio Matsuki and Yuji Ikegaya
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:337
  10. Myokines are skeletal muscle-derived hormones. In this study, using a C2C12 myotube contraction system, we sought to determine whether the skeletal muscle secreted thioredoxin (TRX) and related redox proteins....

    Authors: Yasuko Manabe, Mayumi Takagi, Mio Nakamura-Yamada, Naoko Goto-Inoue, Masato Taoka, Toshiaki Isobe and Nobuharu L. Fujii
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:334
  11. Aspirin (ASA), as a multifunctional drug has been used as a hypoglycaemic agent in the treatment of diabetes and severe hyperglycaemia and has been established as a secondary strategy which may prevent many c...

    Authors: M. Dervisevik, Suzana Dinevska-Kovkarovska, M. Dimitrovska, N. Cipanovska and B. Miova
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:335
  12. This study was designed to investigate the anti-arrhythmic effect of diosgenin preconditioning in myocardial reperfusion injury in rat, focusing on the involvement of the nitric oxide (NO) system and mitochond...

    Authors: Reza Badalzadeh, Bahman Yousefi, Maryam Majidinia and Hadi Ebrahimi
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:333
  13. T lymphocytes predominantly express delayed rectifier K+ channels (Kv1.3) in their plasma membranes. More than 30 years ago, patch-clamp studies revealed that the channels play crucial roles in facilitating the c...

    Authors: Itsuro Kazama
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 65:331
  14. Since commercial forced oscillation technique (FOT) devices became available, they have been widely used for physiological assessments, mainly of obstructive lung diseases. However, it is not known whether the...

    Authors: Kazuya Tanimura, Toyohiro Hirai, Susumu Sato, Koichi Hasegawa, Shigeo Muro, Hajime Kurosawa and Michiaki Mishima
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:329
  15. As the first step in evaluating the possibility of low-temperature atmospheric plasma for clinical applications in the treatment of rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), we determined the effects of plasma exposure on C2C12...

    Authors: Naoya Nakai, Ryo Fujita, Fuminori Kawano, Kazuo Takahashi, Takashi Ohira, Tsubasa Shibaguchi, Ken Nakata and Yoshinobu Ohira
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:328
  16. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), as a member of the incretin family, has a role in glucose homeostasis, its receptors distributed throughout the body, including the heart. The aim was to investigate cardiac le...

    Authors: Eman AbdElmonem Elbassuoni
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:327
  17. Mitochondrial Ca2+ is known to regulate diverse cellular functions, for example energy production and cell death, by modulating mitochondrial dehydrogenases, inducing production of reactive oxygen species, and op...

    Authors: Ayako Takeuchi, Bongju Kim and Satoshi Matsuoka
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 65:326
  18. Consequences of gestational protein restriction (GPR) on liver metabolism in rat offspring were investigated. Pregnant dams were divided into groups: normal (NP, 17 % casein) or low-protein diet (LP, 6 % casei...

    Authors: Camila Moraes, Hércules J. Rebelato, Maria Esmeria C. Amaral, Thais Marangoni Resende, Eduarda V. C. Silva, Marcelo A. M. Esquisatto and Rosana Catisti
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:325
  19. The objective of this study was to investigate the late cardiac effect of exercise preconditioning (EP) on the exhaustive exercise-induced myocardial injury in rats and the role of protein kinase C (PKC) in EP...

    Authors: Zhe Hao, Shan-Shan Pan, Yu-Jun Shen and Jun Ge
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:323
  20. Regular exercise has beneficial effects on cerebrovascular diseases; however, its biochemical mechanisms are not fully known. The purpose of this study was to determine antioxidant enzyme activities and lipid...

    Authors: Mehrnoush Moghaddasi, Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard, Parham Reisi, Mohamadhasan Tajadini and Majid Taati
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:322
  21. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of acute aerobic exercise on the expression of PGC-1α transcript variants in human skeletal muscle. Seven endurance-trained athletes performed a 90-mi...

    Authors: Daniil V. Popov, Anton V. Bachinin, Evgeny A. Lysenko, Tatiana F. Miller and Olga L. Vinogradova
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:321
  22. Motor execution processing has been examined using an index of behavioral performance such as reaction times, kinetics, and kinematics. However, difficulties have been associated with the study of motor inhibi...

    Authors: Hiroki Nakata, Kiwako Sakamoto, Yukiko Honda and Ryusuke Kakigi
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:320
  23. Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels play important roles in thermal, chemical, and mechanical sensation in various tissues. In this study, we investigated the differences in urothelial TRP channels bet...

    Authors: Hideki Mizuno, Yoshiro Suzuki, Masaki Watanabe, Takaaki Sokabe, Tokunori Yamamoto, Ryohei Hattori, Momokazu Gotoh and Makoto Tominaga
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:319
  24. Our laboratory has demonstrated that the cardiomotor component of aortic baroreflex is temporarily inhibited at the onset of spontaneous motor activity in decerebrate cats, without altering carotid sinus baror...

    Authors: Kanji Matsukawa, Kei Ishii, Akito Kadowaki, Tomoko Ishida, Mitsuhiro Idesako and Nan Liang
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:318
  25. The effects of non-noxious skin stimulation on nerve growth factor (NGF) secretion in the parietal cortex were examined in anesthetized rats. Innocuous skin stimulation was delivered to the left hindlimb with ...

    Authors: Harumi Hotta, Nobuhiro Watanabe, Mathieu Piché, Sanae Hara, Takashi Yokawa and Sae Uchida
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:313
  26. The aim of the present study was to investigate the gastroprotective effect of apelin on water-immersion and restraint stress (WIRS)-induced gastric lesions. Male Wistar rats were divided into four groups: con...

    Authors: V. Nimet İzgüt-Uysal, Burcu Gemici, İlknur Birsen, Nuray Acar and İsmail Üstünel
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:317
  27. The heart has an intrinsic ability to increase systolic force in response to a rise in ventricular filling (the Frank–Starling law of the heart). It is widely accepted that the length dependence of myocardial...

    Authors: Fuyu Kobirumaki-Shimozawa, Takahiro Inoue, Seine A. Shintani, Kotaro Oyama, Takako Terui, Susumu Minamisawa, Shin’ichi Ishiwata and Norio Fukuda
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:314
  28. Authors: M. G. Marina Prendes, R. Hermann, M. E. Torresin, P. Souto, S. Tallis, E. A. Savino, A. Varela and M. M. Jaitovich
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:307

    The original article was published in The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:s12576-011-0152-0

  29. Ovariectomy leads to suppression of cardiac myofilament activation in healthy rats implicating the physiological essence of female sex hormones on myocardial contraction. However, the possible function of thes...

    Authors: Sulaksana Pandit, Warunya Woranush, Jonggonnee Wattanapermpool and Tepmanas Bupha-Intr
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:316
  30. The purpose of this study was to determine the utility of salivary cortisol levels for screening mental states such as depression in adolescents following a natural disaster. We examined the relationship of sa...

    Authors: Takashi Yonekura, Kazunori Takeda, Vivek Shetty and Masaki Yamaguchi
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:315
  31. The effect of static exercise on neurovascular coupling (NVC) was investigated by measuring the blood flow velocity in the posterior cerebral artery (PCAv) during 2-min static handgrip exercises (HG) at 30 % o...

    Authors: Yuji Yamaguchi, Hideaki Kashima, Yoshiyuki Fukuba and Naoyuki Hayashi
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:311
  32. In order to elucidate the involvement of melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) and orexin-A (ORX-A) neurons of the perifornical/lateral hypothalamic areas (PF/LH) in the regulation of food intake induced by acut...

    Authors: Yuri Nishimura, Kaori Mabuchi, Sayumi Taguchi, Saori Ikeda, Eri Aida, Hiroko Negishi and Akira Takamata
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:312
  33. We aimed to investigate whether the pressor responses to mental stress (MS) are exaggerated in men due to heightened cardiac responses, before and after a bout of exercise. Fifteen men and 19 women underwent a...

    Authors: Lauro C. Vianna, Bruno M. Silva and Antonio Claudio L. Nóbrega
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:306
  34. It is well known that Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in humans. In this regard, the neuroprotective effect of Althaea officinalis (AO) has already been reported. Th...

    Authors: Maryam Rezaei and Masoud Alirezaei
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:305
  35. The effects of mitragynine on anxiety-related behaviours in the open-field and elevated plus-maze tests were evaluated. Male Sprague–Dawley rats were orally treated with mitragynine (10, 20 and 40 mg/kg) or di...

    Authors: Ammar Imad Hazim, Surash Ramanathan, Suhanya Parthasarathy, Mustapha Muzaimi and Sharif Mahsufi Mansor
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:304

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