In an era of molecular biology, “gene therapy,” and increasingly sophisticated technological approaches to treat cardiovascular disease, it is easy to overlook the physical forces generated by and acting on the human cardiovascular system. In this issue of Circulation, Tanaka and colleagues1 report that aerobic exercise training can blunt the age-associated stiffening of large blood vessels in ...

Takaharu Tanaka Department of Mechanical Engineering Kobe University Nada, Kobe

OBJECTIVE To compare the actual sum of canine and premolars and that predicted from three mixed dentition prediction methods in orthodontic patients at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Karachi. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional comparative study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Orthodontic clinic at the Aga Khan University Hospital from June 2002 to December 2007. METHODOLOGY Data were col...

The morphological transforming region II (mtrII) of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) strain Towne has been localized to a 980-base-pair fragment containing three putative open reading frames (ORFs) of 79, 83, and 34 amino acids (aa). In addition, noncoding DNA sequence elements which have the potential to form stem-loop structures were also observed within mtrII. To determine what elements within H...

A total of 39 aroma compounds were detected in the essential oil of Citrus nagato-yuzukichi Tanaka (nagato-yuzukichi) by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The essential oil was characterized by a high percentage of monoterpene hydrocarbons (12 components, 90.52%). The composition pattern of essential oil in C. nagato-yuzukichi was fairly similar to that of Citrus sudachi Hort. ex Sh...

OBJECTIVES To test the applicability of the Tanaka and Johnston prediction method in a Saudi population. METHODS The current study was conducted at the College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from September 2013 to January 2014, on a sample of 409 pairs of orthodontic study models. The mesiodistal width of the mandibular permanent incisors, permanent canines, and perm...

OBJECTIVE To validate Tanaka and Kawasaki's formulas to calculate the salt intake by the sodium/creatinine ratio in spot of urine. METHODS Two hundred and seventy two adults (20 - 69 years old; 52.6% women) with 24 h urine collection and two urinary spots collected on the same day (while fasting - spot 1 - or not fasting - spot 2). Anthropometry, blood pressure and fasting blood were measured...

AIMS To evaluate the reliability of Tanaka and Johnston and Moyer's (75th percentile) mixed dentition prediction methods in Kodava population sample, to formulate regression equations for predicting the mesiodistal widths of unerupted canines and premolars and to construct probability tables for the Kodava population. SETTINGS AND DESIGN Data was obtained from Kodava subjects visiting the cli...

OBJECTIVE The present study evaluated the reliability and concurrent validity of the new Tanaka B Intelligence Scale, which is an intelligence test that can be administered on groups within a short period of time. METHODS The new Tanaka B Intelligence Scale and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition were administered to 81 subjects (mean age ± SD 15.2 ± 0.7 years) residing in ...

Drăguşanu and Tanaka (1999) provide intriguing new chemical and isotopic analyses of amphibolites and gneisses from the Cumpăna Group, the oldest lithostratigraphic unit in the Getic-Supragetic unit of the South Carpathians (Balintoni 1975; Pana 1994). Ten amphibolite whole-rock data points form a linear trend in a plot of measured Nd/Nd against Sm/Nd (Drăguşanu and Tanaka 1999, fig. 3). Drăguş...