Title: Dietary milk fat globule membrane improves endurance capacity in mice 1 2 Authors: Satoshi Haramizu, Noriyasu Ota, Atsuko Otsuka, Kohjiro Hashizume, Satoshi 3 Sugita, Tadashi Hase, Takatoshi Murase, and Akira Shimotoyodome 4 5 Affiliation: Biological Science Research, Health Science, Kao Corporation, Tochigi, 6 Japan, 2606 Akabane, Ichikai-machi, Haga-gun, Tochigi 321-3497, Japan 7 The f...

A fresh isolate of Akabane virus was inoculated intravenously into 11 seronegative pregnant cows at 62 to 96 days of gestation. Two of the cows were slaughtered 18 days post-inoculation, and the fetuses were examined; the remaining cows were allowed to give birth. All the inoculated cows developed viremia and neutralizing antibody for the virus, indicating that the cows were actually infected w...

Viruses of the Simbu serogroup cause lesions to foetuses that are seen at birth and that correlate with the stage of pregnancy at which the dam first contracts the virus. The Simbu serogroup comprises arboviruses known to cause outbreaks of abnormal parturitions in domestic ruminants; these abnormalities include abortion, stillbirth, and congenitally deformed neonates. Simbu serogroup members i...

Vector-borne arboviruses produce mild to severe symptoms in domestic animals. Bovine ephemeral fever (BEF), Akabane, Aino, and Chuzan virus have been primarily attributed to reproductive disorders or febrile diseases in cattle, and Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is mainly associated with reproductive failures in swine. We investigated antibody titers from domestic swine against four bovine a...

Schmallenberg virus (SBV) infection is an emerging infectious disease of ruminants first described in Germany in November, 2011. Since then it has spread very rapidly to several European countries. The disease is characterised by fever, reduced milk production and diarrhoea in cattle and abortions, stillbirths and foetal abnormalities in sheep and goats. SBV is an enveloped, negative-sense, seg...

An epidemiological study of cerebrovascular disease in Akabane and Asahi, Japan, was made. (These cities are located near Nagoy, Japan.) The study population included 4,737 men and women aged 40 to 79 at the time of entry into the study. There were 4,186 persons who were examined and, of these, 264 cases of cerebrovascular attacks were observed between 1964 and 1970. The incidence rate of strok...

Nootkatone, a characteristic constituent of grapefruit, stimulates energy metabolism and 1 prevents diet-induced obesity by activating AMPK 2 3 Takatoshi Murase, Koichi Misawa, Satoshi Haramizu, Yoshihiko Minegishi, and Tadashi Hase 4 5 Biological Science Laboratories, Kao Corporation, 2606 Akabane, Ichikai-machi, Haga-gun, Tochigi 6 321-3497, Japan 7 Running head: Nootkatone activates AMPK 8 9...