Yoshichika Kawai
Professor
Faculty of Medicine
University of Tokushima
Japan
Biography
Yoshichika Kawai has done his Doctor of Medicine from Nagoya University in 2003. Currently he is working as Professor in Faculty of Medicine at Tokushima University. His research interests are Food Science, Functional Food Science, Mechanism of lipid peroxidation and oxidative DNA damage, Inhibitory effect of antioxidants in food against oxidative stress (polyphenol, flavonoids, oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation, mass spectrometry). Several papers of his work were pubished in reputed international journals. He is also the member of Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry, The Japanese Society of Food & Nutrition, The Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Japan Food Factor Society, Japan Society for Oxidative Stress.
Research Interest
Food Science, Functional Food Science, Mechanism of lipid peroxidation and oxidative DNA damage, Inhibitory effect of antioxidants in food against oxidative stress (polyphenol, flavonoids, oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation, mass spectrometry)
Publications
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Akari Ishisaka, Rie Mukai, Junji Terao, Noriyuki Shibata and Yoshichika Kawai. Specific localization of quercetin-3-O-glucuronide in human brain. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2014.
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Maerjianghan Abuduli, Hirokazu Ohminami, Tamaki Otani, Hitoshi Kubo, Haruka Ueda, Yoshichika Kawai, Masashi Masuda, Hisami Okumura, Hiroshi Sakaue, Hironori Yamamoto, Eiji Takeda and Yutaka Taketani. Effects of dietary phosphate on glucose and lipid metabolism. American Journal of Physiology, Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2016, 310(7): E526-E538.
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Erika Nuka, Susumu Tomono, Akari Ishisaka, Yoji Kato, Noriyuki Miyoshi and Yoshichika Kawai. Metal-catalyzed oxidation of 2-alkenals generates genotoxic 4-oxo-2-alkenals during lipid peroxidation. Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. 2016, 80(10): 2007-2013.
