2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Establishment of an objective method for the effect of dietary supplements applying neurological and cardiological tests
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22590546
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Hygiene
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| Research Institution | Akita University |
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Principal Investigator |
IWATA Toyoto 秋田大学, 大学院・医学系研究科, 助教 (00321894)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MURATA Katsuyuki 秋田大学, 大学院・医学系研究科, 教授 (80157776)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 健康食品 / 長鎖不飽和脂肪酸 / ドコサヘキサエン酸 / アラキドン酸 / 手のふるえ / 心拍変動 / QT時間 |
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| Research Abstract |
Dietary supplements, suppliers claim their beneficent effect to certain physiological functions, should be examined beforehand for their safety and effects. We tried to work out an example of such functional test applying objective and valid methods that have been used for neurological evaluations especially in environmental sciences. Aimed supplement was docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a kind of essential fatty acids we usually take from fish. A remarkable result was that, among persons taking DHA, there was tendency of decrease in tremor intensity as the serum arachidonic acid concentration increased.
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