Aims: Atherosclerosis is associated with oxidative stress and fatty acid composition plays a critical role in vascular endothelial dysfunction and injury leading to the coronary atherosclerotic progression. However, the correlation between the fatty acid profile and coronary athe...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2020/v9i230132
Aims: Hemorheologic and microvascular dysfunction are interdependent in type 2 diabetic patients. However, exact mechanisms explaining this interaction remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the impairment of erythrocyte deformability under concurrent recording of elect...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2020/v9i130127
Aims: Brugada syndrome is characterised by ST segment elevation in right precordial leads and associated sometimes with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation leading to sudden cardiac death. Although ECG recording at higher intercostal space unmasks Brugada syndrome, the vectorcard...
Hisataka Nakamura, Keita Odashiro, Masahiko Fujihara, Mitsuhiro Fukata, Takeshi Arita, Taku Yokoyama, Shioto Yasuda, Toru Maruyama & Koichi Akashi·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2016
Aims: Serum eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) to arachidonic acid (AA) ratio (EPA/AA) in Japanese is rapidly changing according to the senescence and food westernization, and sonographic carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) is increasingly used as a surrogate of systemic atheros...
Background: Erythrocyte deformability is a major determinant of microcirculation in vivo. Although this concept was defined as filterability evaluated by flow-pressure curve constructed during a filtration process of erythrocyte suspension through a nickel mesh filter, the behavi...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2018/44667
Takeshi Arita, Taku Yokoyama, Shohei Moriyama, Kei Irie, Mitsuhiro Fukata, Keita Odashiro, Toru Maruyama, Seira Hazeyama, Shiro Mawatari, Takehiko Fujino & Koichi Akashi·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2018
Aims: Plasmalogens are unique phospholipid of biological membrane and is considered to play a potent role of intrinsic antioxidant. Atherosclerosis is associated with oxidative stress, but the correlation between plasmalogens and atherosclerosis is debatable. Therefore, this stud...