著者

Kazue Ishitsuka Mayumi Tsuji Megumi Yamamoto Rie Tanaka Reiko Suga Mami Kuwamura Toshihide Sakuragi Masayuki Shimono Koichi Kusuhara the Japan Environment and Children’s Study Group

出版者

The Japanese Society for Hygiene

雑誌

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine (ISSN:1342078X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.28, pp.47, 2023 (Released:2023-08-30)

参考文献数

50

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Background: Fish are a rich source of essential nutrients that protect against preterm birth. However, as fish can absorb environmental pollutants, their consumption can also increase the risk of preterm birth. This study aimed to assess whether maternal fish consumption during pregnancy is associated with preterm birth in a nationwide large Japanese cohort that consumed relatively high amounts and many types of fish.Methods: This study included 81,428 mother-child pairs enrolled in a nationwide prospective Japanese birth cohort study. Fish consumption was assessed using a validated food frequency questionnaire. Multivariate logistic regression was used to investigate the association of total consumption of fish, fatty fish and lean fish, fish paste, and seafood and clams with preterm birth, adjusted for potential confounders.Results: There was no association between overall fish consumption and preterm births. However, the highest quintile of fish paste consumption was significantly associated with an increased risk of preterm birth (odds ratio [OR]: 1.11; 95% confidence interval [CI: 1.04, 1.17]). The consumption of baked fish paste at least three times per week was significantly associated with preterm birth (OR: 1.20; 95% CI: 1.03, 1.40). Consumption of other types of fish, except fish paste, was not significantly associated with preterm birth risk.Conclusions: Fish paste consumption may increase the risk of preterm birth. Further studies are required to confirm this association.

著者

Mayumi Tsuji Chihaya Koriyama Yasuhiro Ishihara Megumi Yamamoto Kiwako Yamamoto-Hanada Kumiko Kanatani Yu Ait Bamai Kazunari Onishi Ayako Senju Shunsuke Araki Eiji Shibata Seiichi Morokuma Masafumi Sanefuji Hiroshi Kitazawa Mayako Saito Masakazu Umezawa Atsuto Onoda Koichi Kusuhara Rie Tanaka Toshihiro Kawamoto the Japan Environment & Children’s Study Group

出版者

Japan Epidemiological Association

雑誌

Journal of Epidemiology (ISSN:09175040)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.JE20180098, (Released:2019-01-12)

参考文献数

54

被引用文献数

6

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Background: Metal exposures could possibly affect allergic responses in pregnant women, although no studies have yet shown a clear relationship between the two, and such exposures might also affect the development of allergic diseases in children.Methods: We investigated the relationship between metal concentrations in whole blood and immunoglobulin E (IgE; total and specific) in 14,408 pregnant women who participated in the Japan Environment and Children’s Study. The subjects submitted self-administered questionnaires, and blood samples were collected from them twice, specifically, during the first trimester and again during the second/third trimester. Concentrations of the metals Cd, Pb, Hg, Se, and Mn, as well as serum total and allergen-specific IgEs for egg white, house dust-mites (HDM), Japanese cedar pollen (JCP), animal dander, and moth, were measured. Allergen-specific IgE(s) were divided based on concentrations <0.35 or ≥0.35 UA/mL, and the metal levels were divided into quartiles.Results: Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that there was a significant negative correlation between HDM- and animal dander-specific IgEs and Hg and Mn concentrations. Conversely, there was a significant positive relationship between JCP-specific IgE and Hg and Se concentrations.Conclusions: Metal exposures may be related to both increases and decreases in allergen-specific IgEs in pregnant women.

著者

Megumi Yamamoto Yuma Ito Masaki Fukui Kazuya Otake Yoshimichi Shoji Tatsuya Kitao Hiroaki Shirahase Eiichi Hinoi

出版者

The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

雑誌

Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin (ISSN:09186158)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.46, no.10, pp.1435-1443, 2023-10-01 (Released:2023-10-01)

参考文献数

35

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Osteoporosis is treated with oral and parenteral bone resorption inhibitors such as bisphosphonates, and parenteral osteogenic drugs including parathyroid hormone (PTH) analogues and anti-sclerostin antibodies. In the present study, we synthesized KY-054, a 4,6-substituted coumarin derivative, and found that it potently promoted osteoblast differentiation with an increase in alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity at 0.01–1 µM in mouse-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ST2 cells) and rat bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs). In the ovariectomized (OVX) rats, KY-054 (10 mg/kg/d, 8 weeks) increased plasma bone-type ALP activity, suggesting in vivo promoting effects on osteoblast differentiation and/or activation. In dual-energy X-ray absorption (DEXA) scanning, KY-054 significantly increased the distal and diaphyseal femurs areal bone mineral density (aBMD) that was decreased by ovariectomy, indicating its beneficial effects on bone mineral contents (BMC) and/or bone volume (BV). In micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) scanning, KY-054 had no effect on metaphysis trabecular bone loss and microarchitecture parameters weakened by ovariectomy, but instead increased metaphysis and diaphysis cortical bone volume (Ct.BV) and cortical BMC (Ct.BMC) without reducing medullary volume (Med.V), resulting in increased bone strength parameters. It is concluded that KY-054 preferentially promotes metaphysis and diaphysis cortical bone osteogenesis with little effect on metaphysis trabecular bone resorption, and is a potential orally active osteogenic anti-osteoporosis drug candidate.

著者

Shota Kawai Shunsuke Takashima Masafumi Ando Sayaka Shintaku Shigemitsu Takeda Kazuya Otake Yuma Ito Masaki Fukui Megumi Yamamoto Yoshimichi Shoji Hiroaki Shirahase Tatsuya Kitao

出版者

The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

雑誌

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin (ISSN:00092363)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.71, no.9, pp.701-716, 2023-09-01 (Released:2023-09-01)

参考文献数

27

被引用文献数

1

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The readthrough mechanism, which skips the premature termination codon and restores the biosynthesis of the defective enzyme, is an emerging therapeutic tactic for nonsense mutation-related diseases, such as Hurler syndrome, a type of mucopolysaccharidosis. In the present study, novel triaryl derivatives were synthesized and their readthrough-inducing activities were evaluated by a luciferase reporter assay with a partial α-L-iduronidase (IDUA) DNA sequence containing the Q70X nonsense mutation found in Hurler syndrome and by measuring the enzyme activity of IDUA knockout cells transfected with the mutant IDUA gene. KY-516, a representative compound in which the meta position carboxyl group of the left ring of the clinically used ataluren was converted to the para position sulfamoylamino group, the central ring to triazole, and the right ring to cyanobenzene, exhibited the most potent readthrough-inducing activity in the Q70X/luciferase reporter assay. In Q70X mutant IDUA transgenic cells, KY-516 significantly increased enzyme activity at 0.1 µM. After the oral administration of KY-516 (10 mg/kg), the highest plasma concentration of KY-516 was above 5 µM in rats. These results indicate that KY-516, a novel triaryl derivative, exhibits potent readthrough-inducing activity and has potential as a therapeutic agent for Hurler syndrome.

著者

Koichi HARAGUCHI Mineshi SAKAMOTO Akito MATSUYAMA Megumi YAMAMOTO Dang T. HUNG Hiromitsu NAGASAKA Keisuke UCHIDA Yasunori ITO Hitoshi KODAMATANI Milena HORVAT Hing M. CHAN Matthew RAND Ciprian M. CIRTIU Byoung-Gwon KIM Flemming NIELSEN Akane YAMAKAWA Nikolay MASHYANOV Nikolai PANICHEV Elena PANOVA Tomoaki WATANABE Naoki KANEKO Jun YOSHINAGA Ranny F. HERWATI Alfrida E. SUOTH Hirokatsu AKAGI

出版者

The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry

雑誌

Analytical Sciences (ISSN:09106340)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.36, no.5, pp.561-567, 2020-05-10 (Released:2020-05-10)

参考文献数

28

被引用文献数

3

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A certified reference material, NIMD-01, was developed for the analysis of mercury speciation in human hair. We collected the hair of Vietnamese males from a barbershop in Hanoi in 2016 and prepared 1200 bottles containing 3 g of sieved and blended hair powder. The certified value was given on a dry-mass basis, with the moisture content obtained by drying at 85°C for 4 h. Certified values with the expanded uncertainties (coverage factor, k = 2) were as follows: methylmercury, 0.634 ± 0.071 mg kg−1 as mercury; total mercury, 0.794 ± 0.050 mg kg−1; copper, 12.8 ± 1.4 mg kg−1; zinc, 234 ± 29 mg kg−1; selenium, 1.52 ± 0.29 mg kg−1. An indicative arsenic concentration of 0.17 ± 0.03 mg kg−1 was measured. Extended uncertainties were estimated by sample homogeneity, long- and short-term stabilities, and a characterization from measurements made by collaborating laboratories.

著者

Koichi HARAGUCHI Mineshi SAKAMOTO Akito MATSUYAMA Megumi YAMAMOTO Dang T. HUNG Hiromitsu NAGASAKA Keisuke UCHIDA Yasunori ITO Hitoshi KODAMANTANI Milena HORVAT Hing M. CHAN Matthew RAND Ciprian M. CIRTIU Byoung-Gwon KIM Flemming NIELSEN Akane YAMAKAWA Nikolay MASHYANOV Nikolai PANICHEV Elena PANOVA Tomoaki WATANABE Naoki KANEKO Jun YOSHINAGA Ranny F. HERWATI Alfrida E. SUOTH Hirokatsu AKAGI

出版者

The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry

雑誌

Analytical Sciences (ISSN:09106340)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.19SBP07, (Released:2020-03-06)

被引用文献数

3