Japanese Journal of Veterinary Research 66(2) 63-70 2018年5月 [査読有り]
We investigated changes in cortisol (COR) concentration, which is well known as an index of stress in the serum of dairy cattle. The COR concentrations in serum obtained from dairy cattle were collected during practical training of first-year stud...
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE 78(8) 1283-1291 2016年8月 [査読有り]
Pentobarbital sodium (Somnopentyl) can induce surgical anesthesia with a strong hypnotic effect that causes loss of consciousness. Animals have been known to die during experimental surgery under anesthesia with Somnopentyl, causing it to be decla...
Masakatsu Nohara   Atsushi Tohei   Takumi Sato   Hiromi Amao   
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE 78(5) 775-780 2016年5月 [査読有り]
Saliva as a sampling method is a low invasive technique for the detection of physiologically active substances, as opposed to sampling the plasma or serum. In this study, we obtained glucocorticoids transferred from the blood to the saliva from mi...
Shu-ichi Kojima   Atsushi Tohei   Masashi Ikeda   Naohiko Anzai   
Current neuropharmacology 13(6) 830-5 2015年
5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) released from colonic mucosal enterochromaffin (EC) cells is a major signaling molecule, which participates in the pathophysiological regulation of colonic functions in gut disorder including irritable bowel syndrome (IB...