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The objective of this study was to investigate whether prenatal exposure to testosterone (T) could change the body weight (BW), anogenital distance (AGD), anogenital distance index (AGDI), puberty onset, socia...
Leptin has been thought to work as a mediator for body weight control by inhibiting food intake. Leptin, however, cannot prevent obesity induced by a high-fat diet (HFD) probably because of leptin resistance. ...
Heat stress will stimulate cells of living organisms to generate heat shock proteins (Hsps). In the mouse liver, impacts of heat stress on hepatocyte proliferation, apoptosis and metabolism have not been studi...
In response to atherogenic stimuli, blood monocytes transmigrate across the vascular endothelium not only through endothelial cell–cell junctions (para-cellular) but also through endothelial cells themselves (...
The aim of this study was to re-evaluate wave reflection in the healthy pulmonary arteries of sheep utilizing the time-domain-based method of wave intensity analysis. A thorough understanding of patterns of wa...
Left ventricular-assist devices (LVADs) are used to supply blood to the body of patients with heart failure. Pressure unloading is greater for counter-pulsating LVADs than for continuous LVADs. However, severa...
The parafacial respiratory group (pFRG) is thought to be involved in respiratory rhythm generation in neonates. This subgroup expresses the transcription factor, Phox2b, and contains intrinsically CO2 sensitive n...
A single bout of prolonged endurance exercise stimulates glucose transport in skeletal muscles, leading to post-exercise muscle glycogen supercompensation if sufficient carbohydrate is provided after the cessa...
It remains unclear whether immune response to viral infection is inhibited by severe exercise. We determined whether exhaustive exercise inhibits interferon (IFN)-β and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α production...
Effects of curcumin, a major constituent of turmeric, on ecto-nucleotidases have not been clarified. Here, we investigated whether curcumin affects ecto-nucleotidase activities in human hepatocellular carcino...
Supra-physiological levels of vitamin D induce skeletal muscle atrophy, which may be particularly detrimental in already sarcopaenic elderly. Neither the cause nor whether the atrophy is fibre type specific ar...
We examined muscle-specific ubiquitin ligases MAFbx/Atrogin-1 and MuRF1 gene expression resulting from immobilization-induced skeletal muscle atrophy of slow-twitch soleus and fast-twitch plantaris muscles. Ma...
Intermittent arm ischemia before percutaneous coronary intervention induces remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) and attenuates myocardial injury in patients with myocardial infarction. Several studies have ...
In skeletal muscle, active force production varies as a function of sarcomere length (SL). It has been considered that this SL dependence results simply from a change in the overlap length between the thick an...
In this study, using the microsphere method, the hemodynamic response to endothelin-1 (ET-1) in healthy and streptozotocin (STZ)-diabetic rats was evaluated as well as the influences of inhibition of nitric ox...
The effects of deconditioning on exercise-induced bone gains in rats were investigated in 12-week-old female WKY rats performing a standard jumping exercise regimen for either 8, 12 or 24 weeks, followed by se...
Endurance swimming is known to increase duodenal calcium absorption in normal rats and bone strength in estrogen-deficient rats. Because the stress resulting from forced training often attenuates the stimulato...
When the Norwood procedure is conducted for the hypoplastic left heart syndrome using a non-valved right ventricle (RV) to pulmonary artery (PA) shunt, diastolic regurgitation from PA to RV may have an adverse...
A number of studies have shown that changes in muscle contractile activity regulate the expression of monocarboxylate transporters (MCTs) in the skeletal muscle. The aim of this study was to investigate the ef...
A powdered diet containing 100 or 3 ppm Fe was fed to rats starting at the age of 3 weeks. The voluntary activity level was checked using a wheel in the cage during the 17th week after the beginning of supplem...
We hypothesized that the role of stroke volume (SV) in the metaboreflex-induced cardiac output (CO) increase was blunted when the metaboreflex was stimulated by exercise muscle ischemia (EMI) compared with pos...
In the present study, we investigated both the age- and heat exposure-related redox changes of blood plasma by analyzing GSH, thiol status and carbonyl groups. Our results clearly indicated that the plasma red...
Based on the observation that heat acclimation is a slowly developing response, evoked by continuous exposure to moderate heat, we investigated the time-dependent acclimatory changes of heart glycogen metaboli...
Although the ability of zinc to retard the oxidative process has been recognized for many years, zinc itself has been reported to induce oxidative stress. In order to give some insights into elucidating the ro...
In this study, after confirming the suppression of autonomic nervous function by isoflurane anesthesia using autonomic antagonists, we pharmacologically investigated the involvement of vasomotor and cardiac sy...
Bilobalide, a unique constituent of Ginkgo biloba, has been reported to potentiate population spikes in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells and to protect the brain against cell death. In this study, the effects of b...
Oxymatrine is one of the alkaloids extracted from the Chinese herb Sophora japonica (Sophora flavescens Ait.) with anti-inflammatory, immune reaction inhibiting, antiviral, and hepatocyte and antihepatic fibrosis...
During severe hypoxia in the heart, impaired supply of ATP by oxidative phosphorylation could lead to a great drop in ATP turnover and heart work. Anaerobic glycolysis enables unchanged ATP turnover to be main...
We have investigated the appropriate joint angle for detecting frequent alternating activity in synergistic muscles and the relationship between muscle activation patterns and endurance during static low-level...
We examined sex-related differences in the ability to recognize emotional prosody in late childhood (9–12 year olds) and adolescence (13–15 year olds) in relation to salivary testosterone levels. In order to e...
Animals collect sensory information through self-generated movements. Muscle movements drive active feedback of sensory information and determine large parts of the sensory inputs the animal receives; however,...
In type 2 diabetes mellitus, glucose homeostasis is tightly maintained through insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity. Therefore, finding an accurate method to assess insulin secretion and sensitivity using...
The human ether-a-go-go-related gene (hERG) protein is a cardiac potassium channel. Mutations in hERG can result in reductions in membrane channel current, cardiac repolarization, prolongation of QT intervals,...
The effects of ischemic-postconditioning (IPOC) on functional recovery and cell viability of ischemic-reperfused hearts from fed and fasted rats were studied in relation to triacylglycerol and glycogen mobiliz...
The Erratum to this article has been published in The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2014 64:s12576-014-0307-x
To test the hypothesis that the mesencephalic ventral tegmental area (VTA) plays a role in autonomic control of the cardiovascular system, we examined the cardiovascular effects of electrical stimulation of th...
Previous studies have confirmed that tea polyphenols possess a broad spectrum of biological functions such as anti-oxidative, anti-bacterial, anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral and cardiovascular protec...
We have investigated whether acute (swimming) exercise is sufficient to have sustained beneficial effects against cardiac functional decline observed after high-dose isoproterenol administration. Mice were sub...
This study examined whether aging influences the effect of gentle mechanical cutaneous stimulation (touch) on somato-cardiac sympathetic reflexes in anesthetized rats. A single electrical stimulus (15 V, 0.5 m...
The effect of exercise on the increase of exhaled CO in smokers compared to non-smokers has not been clarified yet. In this study we compared the dynamics of exhaled CO before, during and after exercise betwee...
Despite substantial efforts, the entire cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein proved to be difficult for structural analysis at high resolution, and little is still known about the...
In order to optimize manganese ion-enhanced MRI in thalamic and hypothalamic nuclei, we analyzed the diffusion of manganese in the brain followed by the intra-cerebroventricular application of manganese-bicine...
In animal models, the secretion of the cardiac hormone, brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), and its closely related peptide, atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), are stimulated by acute hypoxia. There is extensive h...
The present study was to investigate whether there are functional connections between the hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus (SON) and the stomach, which is the case with the paraventricular nucleus. The rats wer...
Inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate receptors (IP3Rs) are intracellular ligand-gated Ca2+ channels that mediate Ca2+ release from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) into the cytosol and function in diverse cellular proces...
We examined whether activity of the nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) regulates regional cerebral cortical blood flow (rCBF) in mice, using laser speckle and laser Doppler flowmetry. In anesthetized mice, unila...
Motor activities of interacting agents get temporally coordinated to form synchronized actions. Such activity synchrony is observed in several mammalian species and is supposed to play vital roles in human soc...
Electrical stimulation of the superior ovarian nerve in rats reduces both the plasma flow rate of ovarian venous blood (ovarian blood flow) and the ovarian estradiol secretion rate. Here, we examined the possi...
Voluntary muscle contractions activate sympathetic efferent pathways. Using a fatiguing electrical stimulation protocol designed specifically to enhance sympathetically-mediated vasoconstrictor tone, we explor...
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