New Frontiers in Lifestyle-Related Diseases

Part I. Regulation of Feeding and Energy Homeostasis in the Brain

1. Orphan Neuropeptides and the Regulation of Food Intake
Hiroshi Nagasaki, Yanling Xu, Yumiko Saito, Olivier Civelli

2. Neuronal Mechanisms of Feeding Regulation by Peptides
Masamitsu Nakazato, Hiroaki Ueno

3. Distribution and Localization of Galanin-like peptide (GALP) in Brain
Fumiko Takenoya, Haruaki Kageyama, Seiji Shioda

4. Functional Analysis of GALP in Feeding Regulation
Haruaki Kageyama, Koji Toshinai, Yukari Date, Masamitsu Nakazato, Fumiko Takenoya, Seiji Shioda

5. Regulation of Energy Homeostasis by GALP
Seiji Shioda, Haruaki Kageyama, Fumiko Takenoya, Yukari Date, Masamitsu Nakazato, Toshimasa Osaka, Yasuhiko Minokoshi

Part II. Lipid Metabolism and Atherosclerosis

6. Cholesterol Trafficking and Esterification With Relation to Atherosclerosis and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Ta-Yuan Chang, Catherine C. Y. Chang

7. Atherogenic Lipoproteins in Type 2 Diabetes with Nephropathy
Tsutomu Hirano

8. Regulatory mechanisms for cytosolic prostaglandin E synthase, cPGES/p23
Yoshihito Nakatani, Ichiro Kudo

9. Regulation of Intracellular Lipid Storage and Adipose Differentiation-Related Protein (ADRP)
Hiroyuki Itabe, Yutaka Masuda, Naoko Sasabe, Keiko Kitazato, Hiroyuki Arai, Tatsuya Takano

10. Roles of Vasoactive Agents in Macrophage Foam Cell Formation and Atherosclerosis
Takuya Watanabe, Akira Miyazaki

Part III. Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases

11. Sleep Apnea and Metabolic and Cardiovascular Complications
Christopher P. O’Donnell

12. Sleep Apnea Syndrome and Atherosclerosis
Kenji Minoguchi

13. Significance of Small Dense Low-Density Lipoproteins in Coronary Heart Disease
Shinji Koba, Tsutomu Hirano, Yuuya Yokota, Fumiyoshi Tsunoda, Yoshihisa Ban, Takayuki Sato, Makoto Shoji, Hiroshi Suzuki, Eiichi Geshi, Takashi Katagiri

14. Statin decreases IL-1 and LPS-induced inflammatory cytokines production in oral epithelial cells
Michihiko Usui, Reiko Suda, Yasushi Miyazawa, Makoto Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Okamatsu, Hisashi Takiguchi, Motoyuki Suzuki, Matsuo Yamamoto

Part IV. Poster Sessions

15. Onco-suppressor p53 protein prevents an Alzheimer disease mouse model, Pin1-null mouse from the increase of presenilin-1
Katsuhiko Takahashi, Kiyoe Shimazaki, Takashi Obama, Rina Kato, Hiroyuki Itabe, Hirotada Akiyama, Chiyoko Uchida, Takafumi Uchida

16. Quantification of mouse oxidized low-density lipoprotein by sandwich ELISA
Rina Kato, Chihiro Mori, Keiko Kitasato, Katsuhiko Takahashi, Satoru Arata, Takashi Obama, Hiroyuki Itabe

17. Regulation of sPLA2-IIA expression in cytokinestimulated rat fibroblasts
Hiroshi Kuwata, Ichiro Kudo

18. Comparison Between Small Dense LDL-Cholesterol and LDL-Cholesterol to Predict Coronary Events in Stable Coronary Heart Disease
Yuuya Yokota, Shinji Koba, Fumiyoshi Tsunoda, Yoshihisa Ban, Takayuki Sato, Makoto Shoji, Hiroshi Suzuki, Takashi Katagiri

19. Acceleration of foam cell formation by leptin in human monocyte-derived macrophages
Shigeki Hongo, Takuya Watanabe, Keiko Takahashi, Akira Miyazaki

Avainsanat: Medicine & Public Health, Medical Biochemistry, Endocrinology