Nuclear medical PET-study in the causal relationship between mastication and brain function in human evolutionary and developmental processes

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 185, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 565-569

  Kubota, Kinziro ^a   Momose, Toshimitsu ^b   Abe, Atushi ^b   Narita, Noriyuki ^c   Ohtomo, Kuni ^b   Minaguchi, Shunsuke ^a   Funakoshi, Masaya ^d   Sasaki, Yasuhito ^e   Kojima, Yoshiki ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain growth; Dietary habits; Human evolution; Mastication; Pet analysis

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN 15; WATER;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAMERA; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTISTRY; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIET; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; LIFESTYLE; MASS MEDIUM; MASTICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0346121542     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-9602(03)80127-9     Document Type: Article

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