PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH 105(4) 1109-1117 2009年10月 [査読有り]
Here, we carried out a survey to determine the prevalence of free-living amoebae (FLA) in tap-water sources from rivers and water treatment plants located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. A total of 374 raw water samples were collected from 113 samplin...
Koji Suzuki   Takashi Inoue   Risa Hioki   Junichi Ochiai   Yasuhiro Kusuhara   Naohiro Ichino   Keisuke Osakabe   Nobuyuki Hamajima   Yoshinori Ito   
CLINICAL NUTRITION 25(5) 780-789 2006年10月 [査読有り]
Background Et aims: Few epidemiological studies have investigated the relationship between abdominal adiposity and serum levels of carotenoids. This study investigated the relationship between total and abdominal obesity and serum Levels of carote...
A Hara   Y Hirose   H Mori   H Iwao   T Kato   Y Kusuhara   
ACTA CYTOLOGICA 48(4) 547-550 2004年7月 [査読有り]
BACKGROUND: Amebiasis is a parasitic infection with Entamoeba histolytica. Pulmonary amebiasis is rare since the infection is commonly manifested as amebic colitis or liver abscess. Most pleuropulmonary amebiasis is seen in patients with amebic li...
Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 4(3) 259-266 2003年 [査読有り]
The present study was conducted to assess the relationship between obesity and serum levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), carotenoids, oxidized LDL (oxLDL), oxidized LDL antibodies (oLAB), and leptin in Japanese residents. The subjects were 158 mal...
JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY 75(17) 8021-8030 2001年9月 [査読有り]
Aichi virus is the type species of a new genus, Kobuvirus, of the family Picornaviridae. In this study, we constructed a full-length cDNA clone of Aichi virus whose in vitro transcripts were infectious to Vero cells. During construction of the inf...
Assessment of plaque formation in the common carotid artery (CCA) is important for stratification of the risk of subsequent stroke. The stiffness parameter beta, which can be assessed using an ultrasonic phase-locked echo-tracking system, was deve...
Koji Suzuki   Takashi Inoue   Shuji Hashimoto   Junichi Ochiai   Yasuhiro Kusuhara   Yoshinori Ito   Nobuyuki Hamajima   
CLINICA CHIMICA ACTA 411(17-18) 1330-1334 2010年9月
Background: Several studies have reported that serum concentrations of carotenoids and adiponectin are inversely associated with the risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, no studies have investigated the association between serum concent...
Here, we carried out a survey to determine the prevalence of free-living amoebae (FLA) in tap-water sources from rivers and water treatment plants located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. A total of 374 raw water samples were collected from 113 samplin...
Suzuki K   Ishii J   Ito Y   Kitagawa F   Kuno A   Kusuhara Y   Ochiai J   Hamajima N   Inoue T