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Effect of preceding exercise on cerebral and splanchnic vascular responses to mental task

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2012
Background To investigate the effect of preceding acute exercise on the peripheral vascular response to a mental task, we measured splanchnic and cerebral blood flow responses to performing a mental task after exercise and resting.
Someya Nami, Ikemura Tsukasa, Hayashi Naoyuki   +2 more
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Risk factors of asthma in the Asian population: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2021
Background and objective An increasing trend of asthma prevalence was observed in Asia; however, contributions of environmental and host-related risk factors to the development of this disease remain uncertain.
Yang Yie Sio, Fook Tim Chew
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Current health status and its risk factors of the Tsarang villagers living at high altitude in the Mustang district of Nepal

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2018
Background Epidemiology of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity and diabetes mellitus (DM) are influenced by multiple hosts and environmental factors. This study aims to investigate the prevalence of NCDs and determine their risk factors among
Sweta Koirala, Masayuki Nakano, Hiroaki Arima, Shouhei Takeuchi, Tomo Ichikawa, Takayuki Nishimura, Hiromu Ito, Basu Dev Pandey, Kishor Pandey, Takayuki Wada, Taro Yamamoto   +10 more
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Body weight at 1.5- and 3-year health checks and body fat at 14 years of age: a population-based retrospective cohort study using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2022
Background In Japan, height and weight measurements, taken for all children at birth and 1.5- and 3-year health checks, are recorded in the Mother and Child Health (MCH) Handbook, as required by the law.
Katsuyasu Kouda, Yuki Fujita, Kumiko Ohara, Harunobu Nakamura, Munkhjargal Dorjravdan, Chikako Nakama, Toshimasa Nishiyama, Masayuki Iki   +7 more
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Adaptive changes in physiological and perceptual responses during 10-day heat acclimation training using a water-perfused suit

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2020
Background While active heat acclimation strategies have been robustly explored, not many studies highlighted passive heat acclimation strategies. Particularly, little evidence demonstrated advantages of utilizing a water-perfused suit as a passive ...
Yelin Ko, Seon-Hong Seol, Juho Kang, Joo-Young Lee   +3 more
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Reimagining zoonotic malaria control in communities exposed to Plasmodium knowlesi infection

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2022
Plasmodium knowlesi malaria infection in humans has been reported throughout southeast Asia. The communities at risk are those living in areas where Macaque monkeys and Anopheles mosquito are present.
Nurul Athirah Naserrudin, April Monroe, Richard Culleton, Rozita Hod, Muhammad Saffree Jeffree, Kamruddin Ahmed, Mohd Rohaizat Hassan   +6 more
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Activation timing of postural muscles of lower legs and prediction of postural disturbance during bilateral arm flexion in older adults

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2017
Background Activation timings of postural muscles of lower legs and prediction of postural disturbance were investigated in young and older adults during bilateral arm flexion in a self-timing task and an oddball task with different probabilities of ...
Chie Yaguchi, Katsuo Fujiwara, Naoe Kiyota   +2 more
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Daily rhythms of the sleep-wake cycle

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2012
The amount and timing of sleep and sleep architecture (sleep stages) are determined by several factors, important among which are the environment, circadian rhythms and time awake. Separating the roles played by these factors requires specific protocols,
Waterhouse Jim, Fukuda Yumi, Morita Takeshi   +2 more
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Standard reference values of weight and maximum pressure distribution in healthy adults aged 18–65 years in Germany

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2020
Background The aim of this study was to collect standard reference values of the weight and the maximum pressure distribution in healthy adults aged 18–65 years and to investigate the influence of constitutional parameters on it.
D. Ohlendorf, K. Kerth, W. Osiander, F. Holzgreve, L. Fraeulin, H. Ackermann, D. A. Groneberg   +6 more
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Cathodal transcranial direct-current stimulation over right posterior parietal cortex enhances human temporal discrimination ability

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2017
Background Time perception associated with durations from 1 s to several minutes involves activity in the right posterior parietal cortex (rPPC). It is unclear whether altering the activity of the rPPC affects an individual’s timing performance. Here, we
Fuyuki Oyama, Keita Ishibashi, Koichi Iwanaga   +2 more
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