8 results on '"Hiromi Ikeda"'
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2. Differential Energy Expenditure is Involved in the Difference in Activity Levels between the Djungarian Hamster (P. Sungorus) and the Roborovskii Hamster (P. Roborovskii)
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Hiromi Ikeda, Guofeng Han, Vishwajit Sur Chowdhury, and Mitsuhiro Furuse
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- 2023
3. Manipulation of dopamine metabolism contributes to attenuating innate high locomotor activity in ICR mice
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Vishwajit S. Chowdhury, Kimie Minaminaka, Mao Nagasawa, Shinobu Yasuo, Mitsuhiro Furuse, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Momoko Kodaira, and Hiromi Ikeda
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Dopamine ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Dopamine Agents ,Intraperitoneal injection ,Motor Activity ,Neurotransmission ,Locomotor activity ,Open field ,Levodopa ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,0302 clinical medicine ,Species Specificity ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Analysis of Variance ,Mice, Inbred ICR ,Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ,Tyrosine hydroxylase ,Chemistry ,Brain ,Amino acid ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,030104 developmental biology ,Endocrinology ,Mice, Inbred CBA ,Neuroscience ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Icr mice ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is defined as attention deficiency, restlessness and distraction. The main characteristics of ADHD are hyperactivity, impulsiveness and carelessness. There is a possibility that these abnormal behaviors, in particular hyperactivity, are derived from abnormal dopamine (DA) neurotransmission. To elucidate the mechanism of high locomotor activity, the relationship between innate activity levels and brain monoamines and amino acids was investigated in this study. Differences in locomotor activity between ICR, C57BL/6J and CBA/N mice were determined using the open field test. Among the three strains, ICR mice showed the greatest amount of locomotor activity. The level of striatal and cerebellar DA was lower in ICR mice than in C57BL/6J mice, while the level of L-tyrosine (L-Tyr), a DA precursor, was higher in ICR mice. These results suggest that the metabolic conversion of L-Tyr to DA is lower in ICR mice than it is in C57BL/6J mice. Next, the effects of intraperitoneal injection of (6R)-5, 6, 7, 8-tetrahydro-l-biopterin dihydrochloride (BH4) (a co-enzyme for tyrosine hydroxylase) and L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) on DA metabolism and behavior in ICR mice were investigated. The DA level in the brain was increased by BH4 administration, but the increased DA did not influence behavior. However, L-DOPA administration drastically lowered locomotor activity and increased DA concentration in several parts of the brain. The reduced locomotor activity may have been a consequence of the overproduction of DA. In conclusion, the high level of locomotor activity in ICR mice may be explained by a strain-specific DA metabolism.
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- 2017
4. l-Leucine acts as a potential agent in reducing body temperature at hatching and affords thermotolerance in broiler chicks
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Phong H. Do, Hui Yang, Mitsuhiro Furuse, Hiromi Ikeda, Vishwajit S. Chowdhury, Mohammad A. Bahry, Phuong V. Tran, and Guofeng Han
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0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,animal structures ,Physiology ,Lysine ,Phenylalanine ,Chick Embryo ,Growth ,Biology ,In ovo ,Biochemistry ,03 medical and health sciences ,Leucine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,Molecular Biology ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Hatching ,business.industry ,0402 animal and dairy science ,Broiler ,Feeding Behavior ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,Thermoregulation ,040201 dairy & animal science ,Amino acid ,Biotechnology ,030104 developmental biology ,Endocrinology ,chemistry ,embryonic structures ,business ,Chickens ,Body Temperature Regulation - Abstract
Thermal manipulation (TM) of incubation temperature causes metabolic alterations and contributes to improving thermotolerance in chicks post hatching. However, there has been no report on amino acid metabolism during TM and the part it plays in thermotolerance. In this study, we therefore first analyzed free amino acid concentrations in the embryonic brain and liver during TM (38.6°C, 6h/d during embryonic day (ED) 10 to ED 18). It was found that leucine (Leu), phenylalanine and lysine were significantly decreased in the embryonic brain and liver. We then chose l-Leu and other branched-chain amino acids (l-isoleucine (L-Ile) and l-valine (l-Val)) for in ovo injection on ED 7 to reveal their roles in thermoregulation, growth, food intake and thermotolerance in chicks. It was found that in ovo injection of l-Leu, but not of l-Ileu or l-Val, caused a significant decline in body temperature at hatching and increased food intake and body weight gain in broiler chicks. Interestingly, in ovo injection of l-Leu resulted in the acquisition of thermotolerance under high ambient temperature (35±1°C for 180min) in comparison with the control thermoneutral temperature (28±1°C for 180min). These results indicate that the free amino acid concentrations during embryogenesis were altered by TM. l-Leu administration in eggs caused a reduction in body temperature at hatching, and afforded thermotolerance in heat-exposed young chicks, further suggesting that l-Leu may be one of the key metabolic factors involved in controlling body temperature in embryos, as well as in producing thermotolerance after hatching.
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- 2017
5. CCAAT Enhancer-binding Protein α Suppresses the Rat Placental Glutathione S-Transferase Gene in Normal Liver
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Kazuki Omoteyama, Hiromi Ikeda, Shinzo Nishi, Kazuhiko Yoshida, and Masaharu Sakai
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Carcinoma, Hepatocellular ,Pregnancy Proteins ,Biology ,Biochemistry ,Isozyme ,Mice ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Liver Neoplasms, Experimental ,Cell Line, Tumor ,Gene expression ,CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-alpha ,Animals ,Enhancer ,Molecular Biology ,Gene ,Glutathione Transferase ,Ccaat-enhancer-binding proteins ,Cell Biology ,Glutathione ,Molecular biology ,Rats ,Enhancer Elements, Genetic ,Glutathione S-transferase ,Liver ,chemistry ,biology.protein ,Chromatin immunoprecipitation - Abstract
The rat placental glutathione S-transferase (GST-P), an isozyme of glutathione S-transferase, is not expressed in normal liver but is highly induced at an early stage of chemical hepatocarcinogenesis and in hepatomas. Recently, we reported that the NF-E2 p45-related factor 2 (Nrf2)/MafK heterodimer binds to GST-P enhancer 1 (GPE1), a strong enhancer of the GST-P gene, and activates this gene in preneoplastic lesions and hepatomas. In addition to the positive regulation during hepatocarcinogenesis, negative regulatory mechanisms might work to repress GST-P in normal liver, but this remains to be clarified. In this work, we identify the CCAAT enhancer-binding protein alpha (C/EBPalpha) as a negative regulator that binds to GPE1 and suppresses GST-P expression in normal liver. C/EBPalpha binds to part of the GPE1 sequence, and the binding of Nrf2/MafK and C/EBPalpha to GPE1 is mutually exclusive. In a transient-transfection analysis, C/EBPalpha activated GPE1 in F9 embryonal carcinoma cells but strongly inhibited GPE1 activity in hepatoma cells. The expression of C/EBPalpha was specifically suppressed in GST-P-positive preneoplastic foci in the livers of carcinogentreated rats. A chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis showed that C/EBPalpha bound to GPE1 in the normal liver in vivo but did not bind in preneoplastic hepatocytes. Introduction of the C/EBPalpha gene fused with the estrogen receptor ligand-binding domain into hepatoma cells, and subsequent activation by beta-estradiol led to the suppression of endogenous GST-P expression. These results indicate that C/EBPalpha is a negative regulator of GST-P gene expression in normal liver.
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- 2006
6. Regulation and differential expression of the c-maf gene in differentiating cultured cells
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Masaharu Sakai, Kazuki Omoteyama, Junich Hirokawa, Hiromi Ikeda, Shinzo Nishi, and Mohamed S. Serria
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Transcriptional Activation ,Cellular differentiation ,Biophysics ,Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear ,Biology ,MyoD ,Biochemistry ,Cell Line ,Myoblasts ,Mice ,Transactivation ,MyoD Protein ,Proto-Oncogene Proteins ,Gene expression ,Adipocytes ,Animals ,Molecular Biology ,Myogenin ,Regulation of gene expression ,Myogenesis ,Cell Differentiation ,Cell Biology ,Molecular biology ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,Repressor Proteins ,Gene Expression Regulation ,Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-maf ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
The Maf transcription factors are involved in a variety of developmental and cellular differentiation processes, but their role in the differentiation of mesenchymal cells has not been described. Here, we have analyzed c-maf expression during the differentiation of adipocytes and muscle cells in cultured systems. The expression of c-maf mRNA was down-regulated during adipogenesis and up-regulated during myogenesis. In adipogenesis, the c-maf mRNA was down-regulated 58h after switching to the differentiation medium and just after PPARgamma2 mRNA was induced. A transient transfection analysis of a reporter gene containing the 5(')-flanking region of the c-maf gene showed that PPARgamma2 represses c-maf gene expression. We previously found that c-Maf, c-Jun, and Pax6 bind to and stimulate the c-maf gene. The PPARgamma2 repression of c-maf expression seems to be due, at least in part, to inhibition of the transactivation functions of c-Maf, c-Jun, and Pax6. The repression of c-maf was partly reversed by CBP, suggesting that these transcription factors compete for CBP or related transcription co-factors. In myogenesis, there was a differentiation-dependent stimulation of c-maf mRNA expression. The increased expression correlated with myoD expression. A transient transfection analysis showed that myoD stimulated a c-maf reporter gene through binding to two typical E-box elements located between 160 and 180 nucleotides upstream of the cap site. Binding of MyoD to the E-boxes was confirmed by a gel mobility shift assay and DNaseI footprinting analysis. Combined, these results suggest that the c-maf gene plays an important role during the differentiation of adipocyte and muscle cells from mesenchymal fibroblast cells.
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- 2003
7. Specific regulation of nucleocytoplasmic distribution of poly(C)-binding protein gene mRNA in mouse development
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Shinichiro Kokubun, Hiroshi Kasanuki, Hiromi Ikeda, Chiaki Hidai, Hiromi Kazama, Masako Ohno, and Masatoshi Kawana
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Aging ,Cytoplasm ,Biophysics ,RNA-binding protein ,Biology ,Kidney ,Biochemistry ,Mice ,Culture Techniques ,Gene expression ,Animals ,Tissue Distribution ,RNA, Messenger ,Muscle, Skeletal ,Molecular Biology ,Gene ,In Situ Hybridization ,Cell Nucleus ,Regulation of gene expression ,Gene knockdown ,Messenger RNA ,Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Myocardium ,Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ,RNA-Binding Proteins ,Cell Biology ,Embryo, Mammalian ,Molecular biology ,Cell biology ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,Liver ,Organ Specificity ,GAPDH Gene ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
Post-transcriptional regulation plays a pivotal role in gene expression. In this study, the intracellular distribution of the murine cytoplasmic poly(C)-binding protein (alphaCP2) gene transcript was investigated. The nucleocytoplasmic mRNA distribution of alphaCP2 was shown to change throughout the course of mouse development. Furthermore, in situ hybridization of the embryo revealed that the alphaCP2 transcript was widely distributed in the cytoplasm of endothelial cells and cardiac myocytes, but accumulated in the nuclei of other cells. In the adult, alphaCP2 was ubiquitously expressed and alphaCP2 mRNA was found to accumulate in the nucleus. In vitro experiments showed that the nucleocytoplasmic mRNA distribution of alphaCP2 mRNA was distinct from that of the GAPDH gene used as an internal control. These results suggest that the intracellular distribution of alphaCP2 mRNA is developmentally regulated in a gene and/or cell specific manner.
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- 2003
8. Preparative isotachophoretic analyser equipped with a dropwise fractionating device
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Jian-Ying Hu, Takeshi Hirokawa, Yoshiyuki Kiso, Keiji Umeda, Goji Kimura, Fumitaka Nishiyama, and Hiromi Ikeda
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Sample volume ,Chromatography ,Chemistry ,Organic Chemistry ,Analyser ,Nozzle ,Analytical chemistry ,General Medicine ,Counter flow ,Electrolyte ,Biochemistry ,Analytical Chemistry - Abstract
A preparative isotachophoretic analyser with a series of four separation tubes of I.D. 0.5–5 mm was constructed and its fundamental efficiency was evaluated. The maximum injectable sample volume was 2.5 ml. The heat convection in the separation tube (I.D. = 5 mm) was suppressed by adding hydroxypropylcellulose to the leading electrolyte (1%) and sucrose to the terminating electrolyte (20%). The entire separated zones were fractionated dropwise (5.4 μl each) through a narrow-bore nozzle by a counter flow of the leading electrolyte. Variations in the course of dropping due to electrostatic forces were suppressed by a simple electrostatic device. The recoveries of several micrograms of separands were determined by photometric and PIXE analysis and were almost 100%. The separability and apparent sensitivity were very good; e.g., 150 ppb (109) Sm3+ (10−6M, 2 ml) was separated from a mixture with Dy3+, Tm3+ and Lu3+.
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- 1990
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