Consumption of a meal containing refined barley flour bread is associated with a lower postprandial blood glucose concentration after a second meal compared with one containing refined wheat flour bread in healthy Japanese: A randomized control trial.

Objective: Foods reducing postprandial hyperglycemia could suppress the postprandial blood glucose response after the next meal (a "second-meal" effect). However, the second-meal effect of refined barley flour bread has not been evaluated. The aim of this study is to determine whether consumption of refined barley flour bread reduces postprandial glucose concentrations after this and the subsequent meal.

Evaluation of the olfactory nerve transport function by SPECT-MRI fusion image with nasal thallium-201 administration.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to visualize the human olfactory transport pathway to the brain by performing imaging after nasal thallium-201 ((201)Tl) administration.

Procedures: Healthy volunteers were enrolled in this study after giving informed consent (five males, 35-51 years old). The subjects were nasally administered (201)TlCl into either the olfactory cleft.