American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 295(1) H136-44 2008年7月 [査読有り]
The spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) is a model of cardiomyopathy that displays a genetic defect in cardiac fatty acid (FA) translocase/CD36, a plasma membrane long-chain FA transporter. Therapy with medium-chain FAs, which do not require CD36...
BACKGROUND: Primary polydipsia is a common complication in patients with chronic psychoses, particularly schizophrenia. Disease pathogenesis is poorly understood, but one contributory factor is thought to be dopamine dysregulation caused by prolon...
Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology 44 Suppl 1 S181-5-5 2004年11月 [査読有り]
In spontaneously hypertensive rats a decrease occurs in myocardial energy supply from long-chain triglyceride (LCT) by CD36 gene mutation-induced dysfunction. We investigated whether long-term intake of medium-chain triglyceride, which enters into...
Endothelin-1 has been known to promote tissue fibrosis. We previously reported in our animal experiments that a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha) inhibited cardiac fibrosis with suppression of endothelin-1 production, an...
Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is synthesized and secreted by cardiomyocytes and induces cardiac hypertrophy. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha (PPAR-alpha) is a lipid-activated nuclear receptor that negatively regulates the vascular inflammat...