Influence of tea and coffee on biomonitoring of toluene exposure (2009)
Munaka, Masahiro, Katoh, Takahiko, Kohshi, Kiyotaka, Sasaki, Satomi
Background The intake of some benzoic acid-containing foods or drinks such as green tea and coffee is known to increase urinary hippuric acid (HA) concentrations, and, unless this can be accounted...
Replication of Prostate Cancer Risk Loci in a Japanese Case-Control Association Study (2009)
Yamada, Hiroki, Penney, Kathryn L., Takahashi, Hiroyuki, Katoh, Takahiko, Yamano, Yuko, Yamakado, Minoru, ...
Background Two prostate cancer genome-wide scans in populations of European ancestry identified several genetic variants that are strongly associated with prostate cancer risk. The effect of these...
Tsuchiya, Masaki, Tsukino, Hiromasa, Iwasaki, Motoki, Sasaki, Hiroshi, Tanaka, Tadao, Katoh, Takahiko, ...
Exposure to dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) has been suggested as a possible etiologic factor for endometriosis, but the association remains highly controversial. To assess whether...
Engel, Lawrence S., Taioli, Emanuela, Pfeiffer, Ruth, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Marcus, Pamela M., Lan, Qing, ...
Smoking is a known risk factor for bladder cancer. The product of the GSTM1 gene, glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1), is involved in the detoxification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons found in...
Ozawa, Shogo, Shimizu, Makiko, Katoh, Takahiko, Miyajima, Atsuko, Ohno, Yasuo, Matsumoto, Yoshiaki, ...
We recently found single amino acid substitutions (J13Arg/His and 223Met/Val) in polymorphic human phenol-sulfating phenol sulfotransferase (SULT: cDNAs encoding ST1A3, P PST or HAST1/2) among...
Katoh, Takahiko, Nagata, Naoki, Kuroda, Yusuke, Itoh, Hideaki, Kawahara, Akio, Kuroki, Nobuyoshi, ...
Genes coding for the glutatione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1) and Theta 1 (GSTT1) proteins are polymorphic in humans and these genes are absent, or homozygous null, in 10–60% of different ethnic...
Katoh, Takahiko, Inatomi, Hisato, Nagaoka, Akira, Sugita, Atsuo
Japanese urothelial (bladder, renal pelvis and ureter) cancer patients (n = 83) and community controls (n = 101) were compared for rates of polymorphism in exon 7 of the cytochrome...
Ohmori, Hisamitsu, Abe, Tetsuya, Hirano, Hideyasu, Murakami, Tadamasa, Katoh, Takahiko, Gotoh, Sadao, ...
Mouse lung tumors were induced in C57BL/6J(female) � A/J(male) F1 mice by a single s.c. injection of urethan. About 6 months later, multiple small-sized lung tumors were detectable in almost all...
Characteristics of psychiatric hospitals associated with length of stay in Japan
Imai, Hirohisa, Hosomi, Jun, Nakao, Hiroyuki, Tsukino, Hiromasa, Katoh, Takahiko, Itoh, Toshihiro, ...