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  1. Endochondral bone growth in young growing mammals or adult mammals with persistent growth plates progresses from proliferation, maturation and hypertrophy of growth plate chondrocytes to mineralization of cart...

    Authors: Kannikar Wongdee, Nateetip Krishnamra and Narattaphol Charoenphandhu
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:212
  2. A possible application of acupuncture in alleviating depression-like behavioral changes and regulating serotonin signaling in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of maternally-separated rat pups was investigated in th...

    Authors: Hyemee Park, Doyoung Yoo, Sunoh Kwon, Tae-Won Yoo, Hi-Joon Park, Dae-Hyun Hahm, Hyejung Lee and Seung-Tae Kim
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:211
  3. The present study examined whether touch influences the autonomic responses and subjective pain intensity induced by noxious heat stimulation in humans. Heart rate and digital pulse wave were recorded. Heat st...

    Authors: Nobuhiro Watanabe, Shogo Miyazaki, Yoshito Mukaino and Harumi Hotta
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:210
  4. Ischemic postconditioning (IPOC) protects the myocardium from ischemic–reperfusion injury, improving functional recovery and cell viability. This protection is concurrent with stimulation of glycogen breakdown...

    Authors: R. Hermann, M. G. Marina Prendes, M. E. Torresin, D. Vélez, E. A. Savino and A. Varela
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:209
  5. This article reviews 40 years of research (1970–2010) into the capability of the efferent sympathetic nervous system to display differential responsiveness. Discovered first were antagonistic changes of activi...

    Authors: Masami Iriki and Eckhart Simon
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:208
  6. Several studies have demonstrated that serotonergic and noradrenergic systems have important roles in morphine analgesia and tolerance. However, the exact mechanism underlying the development of morphine toler...

    Authors: Ercan Ozdemir, Sinan Gursoy and Ihsan Bagcivan
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:207
  7. Hypoxia and light illumination can both decrease oxygen consumption in the photoreceptor layers. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the mutual effects of hypoxia and intense illuminati...

    Authors: Yun-Bin Lin, Jorn-Hon Liu and Yin Chang
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:201
  8. The mitochondrial calcium-activated potassium channel (mitoKCa) and the mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channel (mitoKATP) are both involved in cardiac preconditioning. Here, we examined whether these two c...

    Authors: Chunhong Jin, Jinrong Wu, Makino Watanabe, Takao Okada and Takafumi Iesaki
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:206
  9. Rapid lowering of the solution temperature (rapid cooling, RC) from 24 to 3°C within 3 s releases considerable amounts of Ca2+ from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) in mammalian cardiac muscles. In this study, we ...

    Authors: Etsuko Tanaka, Masato Konishi and Satoshi Kurihara
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:203
  10. We investigated the effect of mild (non-noxious) tactile stimulation (stroking) of skin on dopamine (DA) release in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) of rats. A coaxial microdialysis probe was stereotaxically implan...

    Authors: Kimiko Maruyama, Rie Shimoju, Masato Ohkubo, Hitoshi Maruyama and Mieko Kurosawa
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:205
  11. Cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) production is increased by both temperature and anticancer drugs. Antioxidants are known to suppress ROS production while cancer patients may take them as dietary supplem...

    Authors: Hidenobu Fukumura, Motohiko Sato, Kyouhei Kezuka, Itaru Sato, Xianfeng Feng, Satoshi Okumura, Takayuki Fujita, Utako Yokoyama, Haruki Eguchi, Yoshihiro Ishikawa and Tomoyuki Saito
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:204
  12. Studies have shown that chronic periodic fluid shifting upwards is not sensed as excessive fluid volume and excretion mechanisms are not activated. To determine if chronic periodic fluid and volume shifting up...

    Authors: Yan G. Zorbas, Victor A. Deogenov, Pavel L. Merkov and Yuri F. Federenko
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:202
  13. Serine proteases are versatile signaling molecules and often exert this function by activating the proteinase-activated receptors (PAR1–PAR4). Our previous study on the mouse cecum has shown that the PAR1-activat...

    Authors: Osamu Ikehara, Hisayoshi Hayashi, Toshiharu Waguri, Izumi Kaji, Shin-ichiro Karaki, Atsukazu Kuwahara and Yuichi Suzuki
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:198
  14. Cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA2a) is responsible for most of the Ca2+ removal during diastole and a larger Ca2+ handling energy consumer in excitation–contraction (E–C) coupling. To unders...

    Authors: Guo-Xing Zhang, Koji Obata, Daisuke Takeshita, Shinichi Mitsuyama, Tamiji Nakashima, Akio Kikuta, Masumi Hirabayashi, Koichi Tomita, Roland Vetter, Wolfgang H. Dillmann and Miyako Takaki
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:200
  15. Activation of protein kinase C (PKC) has been implicated in the protection of ischemic preconditioning (IPC), but the exact role of PKC in early and late hepatic IPC is still unclear. The present study was con...

    Authors: Nari Yun, Sung-Hwa Kim and Sun-Mee Lee
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:199
  16. To develop objective assessments of work fatigue, we investigated the patterns of changes in salivary cortisol levels in emergency care providers working extended work shifts. Fourteen subjects, comprising sev...

    Authors: Yasushi Nakajima, Takayuki Takahashi, Vivek Shetty and Masaki Yamaguchi
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:197
  17. The thymus involutes after puberty, although the mechanism by which this process occurs remains poorly understood. The profile of thymic involution, which is inversely correlated with an increase in peripheral...

    Authors: Yoshihiro Kushida, Sayaka Kumagai, Ken Gotoh, Masato Fujii, Maki Touma and Masamichi Hosono
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:194
  18. Lymphocytes are of rich in delayed rectifier K+-channels (Kv1.3) in their plasma membranes, and the channels play crucial roles in the lymphocyte activation and proliferation. Since chloroquine, a widely used ant...

    Authors: I. Kazama, Y. Maruyama, Y. Murata and M. Sano
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:195
  19. Ghrelin and adiponectin have been found in breast milk and are considered to take part in the regulation of growth and energy metabolism of infants. Our aims were to determine ghrelin and adiponectin levels in...

    Authors: Gokhan Cesur, Fehmi Ozguner, Nigar Yilmaz and Bumin Dundar
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:193
  20. Mean arterial pressure fluctuates depending on physical or psychological activity, but should be stable at rest at around 100 mmHg throughout an entire life in human. The causes of hypertension and the blood p...

    Authors: Yasuhiro Nishida, Megumi Tandai-Hiruma, Takehito Kemuriyama and Kohsuke Hagisawa
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:192
  21. Although vascular tortuosity is a ubiquitous phenomenon, almost no mathematical models exist to describe its shape. Given that the shape of tortuous vessel curves seems fairly uniform across orders of magnitud...

    Authors: Leith Hathout and Huy M. Do
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:191
  22. Physical performance of youth is influenced by various factors, including body composition, biological maturity status, level of habitual physical activity, and muscular strength. Muscular strength has been la...

    Authors: Li-Ling Chiu, Tzu-Wen Chen, Sandy S. Hsieh and Ling-Ling Hsieh
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:189
  23. 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...

    Authors: Cynthia Dela Cruz and Oduvaldo C. M. Pereira
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:190
  24. Skeletal muscles in animals with metabolic syndrome exhibit reduced oxidative capacity. We investigated the effects of running exercise on fiber characteristics, oxidative capacity, and mRNA levels in the sole...

    Authors: Fumiko Nagatomo, Hidemi Fujino, Hiroyo Kondo, Motoki Kouzaki, Ning Gu, Isao Takeda, Kinsuke Tsuda and Akihiko Ishihara
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:188
  25. Arrhythmogenic effects of slowed action potential conduction produced by the gap junction and sodium-channel inhibitor heptanol (0.1–2 mM) were explored in Langendorff-perfused mouse hearts. Monophasic action pot...

    Authors: Gary Tse, Sandeep S. Hothi, Andrew A. Grace and Christopher L. -H. Huang
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:187
  26. Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) is a Ca2+-permeable cation channel activated by a variety of physicochemical stimuli. The effect of hypoxia ( http://static-content.springer.com/image/art%3A10.1007%2Fs12576-011-0185-4/12576_2011_185_Article_IEq1.gif ...

    Authors: Kyung Soo Kim, Hae Young Yoo, Kyung Sun Park, Jin Kyoung Kim, Yin-Hua Zhang and Sung Joon Kim
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2012 62:185
  27. 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. ...

    Authors: Takashi Higuchi, Akiko Mizuno, Kazumi Narita, Toru Ichimaru and Takuya Murata
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 62:184
  28. 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...

    Authors: San-Qiang Li, Rui-Fang Li, Shou-Min Xi, Shu Hu, Zhi-Qiang Jia, Shao-Ping Li, Xin-Li Wen, Ya-Kun Song, Shuai Li, Shi-Peng Li, Fei-Biao Wei and Xue-Liang Chen
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 62:183
  29. 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 (...

    Authors: Ken Hashimoto, Noriyuki Kataoka, Emi Nakamura, Kimiko Hagihara, Takeaki Okamoto, Hiroaki Kanouchi, Satoshi Mohri, Katsuhiko Tsujioka and Fumihiko Kajiya
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 62:181
  30. 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...

    Authors: Ki Moo Lim, Jason Constantino, Viatcheslav Gurev, Renjun Zhu, Eun Bo Shim and Natalia A. Trayanova
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 62:180
  31. 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...

    Authors: Hiroshi Onimaru and Mathias Dutschmann
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 62:179
  32. 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...

    Authors: Akiko Sano, Keiichi Koshinaka, Natsuki Abe, Masashi Morifuji, Jinichiro Koga, Emi Kawasaki and Kentaro Kawanaka
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 62:170
  33. 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...

    Authors: Masataka Uchida, Eri Oyanagi, Michael J. Kremenik, Junzo Sasaki and Hiromi Yano
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 62:177
  34. 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...

    Authors: Takuto Fujii, Takuma Minagawa, Takahiro Shimizu, Noriaki Takeguchi and Hideki Sakai
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 62:176
  35. 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...

    Authors: Janwillem Testerink, Richard T. Jaspers, Jörn Rittweger, Arnold de Haan and Hans Degens
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:525
  36. 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...

    Authors: Takeshi Okamoto, Suguru Torii and Shuichi Machida
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:537
  37. Intermittent arm ischemia before percutaneous coronary intervention induces remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) and attenuates myocardial injury in patients with myocardial infarction. Several studies have ...

    Authors: Kenki Enko, Kazufumi Nakamura, Kei Yunoki, Toru Miyoshi, Satoshi Akagi, Masashi Yoshida, Norihisa Toh, Mutsuko Sangawa, Nobuhiro Nishii, Satoshi Nagase, Kunihisa Kohno, Hiroshi Morita, Kengo F. Kusano and Hiroshi Ito
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:507
  38. 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...

    Authors: Norio Fukuda, Takahiro Inoue, Mitsunori Yamane, Takako Terui, Fuyu Kobirumaki, Iwao Ohtsuki, Shin’ichi Ishiwata and Satoshi Kurihara
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:515
  39. 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...

    Authors: Sven-Olof Granstam and Elisabet Granstam
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:497
  40. 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...

    Authors: Nikola Hadzi-Petrushev, Nikola Jankulovski, Kiril Hristov and Mitko Mladenov
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:165
  41. 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...

    Authors: Mirsada Dervisevik, Suzana Dinevska-Kjovkarovska, Biljana Miova, Slavco Mitev, Marjan Velkovski and Damjan Susleski
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:162
  42. 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...

    Authors: Akio Kinazaki, Hongqin Chen, Kazuki Koizumi, Takuya Kawanai, Tomohiro M. Oyama, Masaya Satoh, Shiro Ishida, Yoshiro Okano and Yasuo Oyama
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:160
  43. 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...

    Authors: Etsuko Suzuki, Makiko Sato, Ryota Takezawa, Toyonobu Usuki and Takashi Okada
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:159
  44. 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...

    Authors: Shu-Ting Hu, Ying Tang, Ya-Feng Shen, Hai-Hang Ao, Jie Bai, Yong-Liang Wang and Yong-Ji Yang
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:154
  45. 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...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Tamaki, Hikari Kirimoto, Kengo Yotani and Hiroaki Takekura
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:157
  46. 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...

    Authors: Takashi X. Fujisawa and Kazuyuki Shinohara
    Citation: The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2011 61:156

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