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    Blood pressure-independent increase in the cortical cerebral blood flow induced by manual acupuncture of the auricular region in rats

    We aimed to determine whether acupuncture to the auricular region increases cortical regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF). The rCBF was measured using laser speckle contrast imaging in urethane-anesthetized rat...

    Sae Uchida, Hiroshi Taniguchi, Yoshie Ito in The Journal of Physiological Sciences (2019)

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    Physiological Aspects of GAD-GABA System in the Pancreatic Islet

    In the pancreatic islet, which is non-neuronal, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and its synthesizing enzyme, L-glutamate decarboxylase (GAD), are so high in concentration and activity respectively as in the brain, ...

    Hiroshi Taniguchi, Junichi Katoh in GABA: Receptors, Transporters and Metaboli… (1996)

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    Transient coappearance of glucagon and insulin in the progenitor cells of the rat pancreatic islets

    Ontogenetic appearances of glucagon, insulin and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) were immunohistochemically investigated on develo** pancreatic islets of rats. Glucagon immunoreactivity appeared first in some epit...

    Takayo Hashimoto, Hitoshi Kawano, Shigeo Daikoku, Kenji Shima in Anatomy and Embryology (1988)