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57-1-Editorial Board.Fm JOURNAL OF CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY AND NUTRITION Official Journal of the Society for Free Radical Research Japan EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief Executive Editors Hidehiko Nakagawa Toshikazu Yoshikawa Tetsuo Adachi Nagoya City University, Japan Kyoto Prefectural University Gifu Pharmaceutical University, ([email protected]) of Medicine, Japan Japan ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Shinya Toyokuni Kazunori Anzai Nagoya University, Japan Honorable Editors Nihon Pharmaceutical University, ([email protected]) Etsuo Niki Japan ([email protected]) National Institute of Advanced Yasukazu Yoshida Industrial Science & Technology, Kazuki Kanazawa National Institute of Advanced Japan Kibi International University, Japan Industrial Science & Technology, ([email protected]) Japan ([email protected]) Nobuko Ohishi Institute of Applied Biochemistry, Yuji Naito Japan Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan ([email protected]) Editors Takaaki Akaike Osamu Handa Periannan Kuppusamy Yoshiji Ohta Tohoku University, Japan Kyoto Prefectural Geisel School of Medicine at Fujita Health University University of Medicine, Dartmouth, USA School of Medicine, Japan Gediminas Cepinskas Japan Lawson Health Research Mikinori Kuwabara Toshihiko Ozawa Institute, Canada Aki Hirayama Hokkaido University, Japan Showa Pharmaceutical Center for Integrative University, Japan Yaoung-Nam Cha Medicine, Tsukuba Peter R. Kvietys Seoul National University, University of Technology, Alfaisal University, Eisuke F. Sato Korea Japan Saudi Arabia Suzuka University of Medical Science, Japan Hun-Taeg Chung Hiroshi Ichikawa Masaichi-Chang-il Lee Wonkwang University Doshisha University, Japan Kanagawa Dental College, Young-Joon Surh School of Medicine, Korea Japan Seoul National University, Kazuhiro Ichikawa Korea Michael Davies Kyushu University, Japan Hiroshi Masutani University of Copenhagen, Kyoto University, Japan Hidekazu Suzuki Denmark Hirotaka Imai Keio University School of Kitasato University, Japan Hirofumi Matsui Medicine, Japan Richard J. Deckelbaum University of Tsukuba, Japan Columbia University, USA Takashi Joh Kunihiko Tajima Nagoya City University, Tatsuya Matsura Kyoto Institute of Junichi Fujii Japan Tottori University, Japan Technology, Japan Yamagata University, Japan Misato Kashiba Yukiko Minamiyama Tomohisa Takagi Akio Fujisawa Tokyo University of Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto Prefectural Tokyo University of Technology, Japan Japan University of Medicine, Technology, Japan Japan Yoji Kato Teruo Miyazawa Kiyoshi Fukuhara University of Hyogo, Japan Tohoku University, Japan Eiji Takeda Showa University, Japan Akira Murakami The University of Tokushima, Yoshichika Kawai Japan Koji Fukui Nagoya University, Japan University of Hyogo, Japan Shibaura Institute of Ryoji Nagai Keizo Takeshita Technology, Japan Shosuke Kojo Sojo University, Japan The Open University of Tokai University, Japan Matthew B. Grisham Japan, Japan Noriko Noguchi Junji Terao Texas Tech University Doshisha University, Japan The University of Tokushima, Health Sciences Center, Takashi Kondo Japan USA University of Toyama, Japan Naomi Osakabe John X. Wilson Masahiro Kohno Shibaura Institute of Ki-Baik Hahm Technology, Japan University at Buffalo, USA CHA University, Korea Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
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