2016

Developed a method for measuring ether phospholipids in humanserum
by HPLC-ELSD method

Ref:Lipids,51(8),997-1006,2016

2015

Started open trials for people with moderate or sevior Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia symptoms on January

Ref: PLos ONE.2016,11:e0150846

2014

Started large scale clinical trials for people with mild dementia(called as
Alzheimer’s disease) for scallop derived Plasmalogen on November

Succeeded in extracting high-purity plasmalogen derived from sallops.
Safety test completed.

2013

Prove that Plasmalogen suppresses apoptosis through activation of Akt and ERK 1/2

Ref: Los ONE 2013,8:e83508

Started research on double shellfish to find for the better materials

2012

Prove that erythrocyte Plasmalogen is reduced in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

Ref: Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord Extra 2:298-303,2012 Patent pending 2010-001337

Started research on double shellfish to find for the better materials

Ref: Journal of Neuro inflammation 9:197-209,2012

Prove that oral administration of Plasmalogen increases erythrocyte plasmalogen

Ref: Lipids in Health and Disease 11:161-167,2012

Plasmalogen safety test completed

2009

Confirmation of safety and improvement effects of Alzheimer’s disease in human trial at medical institutions

2007

Successful sophystification of the Plasmalogen detection, Simplification method

Ref:Analytical Biochemistry 370:54-59,2007

2006

Discovered high purity plasmalogen extraction method from chicken meat

Patent published 2006-23296 Patent pending 2007-16056

Hall of Fame for Pioneers

Takehiko Fujino,MD,PhD.

Takehiko Fujino,MD,PhD, is an Emeritus Professor of Kyushu University. He graduated from Medical School of Kyushu University, Japan, in 1964. He is strongly interested in the integrated medicine, especially in the correlation between brain and other organs although his specialty was initially cardiology of internal medicine. He advocated a new concept “Brain Fatigue”, from which many kinds of diseases might be induced, and developed “BOOCS: Brain-Oriented Oneself-Care System”, a new method for removal of “Brain Fatigue” in 1991. It has been known that many kinds of disorders such as metabolic syndrome, depression and dementia were improved and then the death rate of those patients decreased by “BOOCS” method. As one of those researches, he has studied the correlation among “Brain Fatigue”, Alzheimer’s disease and plasmalogen.

Shiro Mawatari,MD.PhD.

Shiro Mawatari, MD, PhD, is a Director of Institute of Rheological functions of Food. He graduated from Medical School of Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) in 1964, and was engaged in biochemical research on erythrocyte membrane of dystrophy at School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA) and Columbia Neuroscience, Columbia University (New York, USA) for three years and a half. After returning to Japan, he worked as an associate professor at Kyushu Institute of Technology (Fukuoka, Japan) and a professor at Fukuoka Women’s University (Fukuoka, Japan). In recent 15 years, he has been dedicated to developing technology for measurement and extraction, and to developing functional food from raw materials with its technology.