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Akira Miyazaki
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Department of Biochemistry, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Michio Imawari
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Second Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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About this book
It is my great pleasure to publish New Frontiers in Lifestyle-Related Dis eases, the proceedings of the Showa University International Symposium for Life Sciences, 3rd Annual Meeting, held at Showa University on Sep tember 13, 2006. This symposium was supported, in part, by Grants for the Promotion of the Advancement of Education and Research in Graduate Schools and Ordinary Expenses for Private Schools from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan. On behalf of Showa University, I would like to express my deepest thanks to all the authors and editors for their great contribution to the publication of this memorable book that accelerates research activity in lifestyle-related diseases. Akiyoshi Hosoyamada, M.D., Ph.D. President, Showa University Tokyo, Japan September 2007 v Preface The leading cause of death in Western countries and some developing countries is atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. Among them, acute myocardial infarction is the most common type of fatal disease, caused by the progression of atherosclerosis characterized by accumulation of choles terol in vascular walls. Development of atherosclerosis is greatly enhanced by major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases such as obesity, hyperlip idemia, diabetes (hyperglycemia), and hypertension. Among those, obesity frequently initiates a metabolic change that subsequently induces hyperlip idemia, diabetes, hypertension, and eventually atherosclerotic cardiovascu lar diseases. Because obesity and its related disorders largely depend on lifestyle factors such as high calorie intake and low physical activity, a series of disorders are termed lifestyle-related diseases.
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Table of contents (19 papers)
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Front Matter
Pages I-XXII
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Regulation of Feeding and Energy Homeostasis in the Brain
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- Hiroshi Nagasaki, Yanling Xu, Yumiko Saito, Olivier Civelli
Pages 3-19
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- Masamitsu Nakazato, Hiroaki Ueno
Pages 21-28
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- Fumiko Takenoya, Haruaki Kageyama, Seiji Shioda
Pages 29-38
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- Haruaki Kageyama, Koji Toshinai, Yukari Date, Masamitsu Nakazato, Fumiko Takenoya, Seiji Shioda
Pages 39-45
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- Seiji Shioda, Haruaki Kageyama, Fumiko Takenoya, Yukari Date, Masamitsu Nakazato, Toshimasa Osaka et al.
Pages 47-53
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Lipid Metabolism and Atherosclerosis
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- Ta-Yuan Chang, Catherine C. Y. Chang
Pages 57-69
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- Yoshihito Nakatani, Ichiro Kudo
Pages 77-80
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- Hiroyuki Itabe, Yutaka Masuda, Naoko Sasabe, Keiko Kitazato, Hiroyuki Arai, Tatsuya Takano
Pages 81-88
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- Takuya Watanabe, Akira Miyazaki
Pages 89-96
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Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases
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- Christopher P. O’Donnell
Pages 99-105
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- Shinji Koba, Tsutomu Hirano, Yuuya Yokota, Fumiyoshi Tsunoda, Yoshihisa Ban, Takayuki Sato et al.
Pages 115-123
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- Michihiko Usui, Reiko Suda, Yasushi Miyazawa, Makoto Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Okamatsu, Hisashi Takiguchi et al.
Pages 125-131
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Poster Sessions
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Front Matter
Pages 133-133
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- Katsuhiko Takahashi, Kiyoe Shimazaki, Takashi Obama, Rina Kato, Hiroyuki Itabe, Hirotada Akiyama et al.
Pages 135-138
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This is a compilation of oral presentations and poster presentations conveying the latest information from basic and clinical research on lifestyle-related diseases. … This book is targeted at physicians, physicians in training, students, midlevels, and researchers who wish to understand the effects of disease-modifiable illnesses … . For bench and clinical researchers … this is an excellent book. It is especially helpful for those who wish to acquire a broader fund of knowledge about the mechanisms of atherosclerotic heart disease." (Dedric J Clarke, Doody’s Review Service, March, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Biochemistry, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Akira Miyazaki
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Second Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Michio Imawari