Journal of Pharmacological Sciences

Editor-in-Chief
	Yukio Yoneda (Kanazawa, Japan)
Press Editor
	Toshio Matsuda (Suita, Japan)
Associate Editors
	Satomi Adachi-Akahane (Tokyo, Japan) Piyarat Govitrapong (Salaya, Thailand) Naoki Inagaki (Gifu, Japan) Kuniaki Ishii (Yamagata, Japan) Yoshihisa Ito (Funabashi, Japan) Shuji Kaneko (Kyoto, Japan) Shokei Kim-Mitsuyama (Kumamoto, Japan) Junko Kimura (Fukushima, Japan) Schuichi Koizumi (Yamanashi, Japan) Andrew J. Lawrence (Parkville, Australia) Kinzo Matsumoto (Toyama, Japan) Kiyokazu Ogita (Hirakata, Japan) Toshiyuki Sasaguri (Fukuoka, Japan) Yoo-Hun Suh (Seoul, Korea) Toshio Tanaka (Tsu, Japan) Peter Tsun-Hon Wong (Singapore) Qiang Xu (Nanjing, China) Kiyofumi Yamada (Nagoya, Japan)
Advisory Board
	R. Bathgate (Parkville, Australia) J. Bian (Singapore) Y. Chiba (Tokyo, Japan) Y.H. Chong (Seoul, Korea) Y. Fujio (Suita, Japan) T. Furukawa (Tokyo, Japan) A. Haji (Nagoya, Japan) C. Hamada (Tokyo, Japan) H. Hashimoto (Suita, Japan) S. Horie (Togane, Japan) Y. Isohama (Kumamoto, Japan) T. Iwamoto (Fukuoka, Japan) K. Iwasaki (Fukuoka, Japan) Y. Kanai (Suita, Japan) T. Kanematsu (Hiroshima, Japan) S. Kato (Kyoto, Japan) Y. Kato (Kanazawa, Japan) H. Katsuki (Kumamoto, Japan) M. Katsuyama (Kyoto, Japan) H.-S. Kim (Seoul, Korea) N. Kuramoto (Hirakata, Japan) T. Nagamatsu (Nagoya, Japan) K. Nakamura (Nishinomiya, Japan) M. Narita (Tokyo, Japan)	I. Niki (Yufu, Japan) A. Nishiyama (Kagawa, Japan) Y. Noda (Nagoya, Japan) S. Ohdo (Fukuoka, Japan) M. Oike (Fukuoka, Japan) Y. Okuma (Choshi, Japan) C. Parish (Parkville, Australia) J. Satayavivad (Bangkok, Thailand) Y. Shen (Hefei, China) A. Sugiyama (Tokyo, Japan) Y. Sun (Nanjing, China) K. Takeuchi (Kyoto, Japan) H. Tanaka (Funabashi, Japan) H. Tanaka (Gifu, Japan) T. Taniguchi (Asahikawa, Japan) A. Togari (Nagoya, Japan) S. Tokuyama (Kobe, Japan) Y. Uezono (Tokyo, Japan) T. Urushidani (Kyotanabe, Japan) B. Vincent (Salaya, Thailand) H. Wakabayashi (Niigata, Japan) M. Yamada (Tokyo, Japan) H. Yamamoto (Okinawa, Japan) T. Yokoi (Kanazawa, Japan)
Language Editor S.M. Jung

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Abstracted/Indexed in
Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS), Chemical Abstracts, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Index Medicus (MEDLINE), Current Contents/Life Sci. (CC/LS), Reference Update (RIS), Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, ISI/BIOMED

Remarks

The following Journals covering pharmacological research have been published in

Japan

. Folia Pharmacologica Japonica, initiated by the Department of Pharmacology, Kyoto University in 1925 is the official publication of The Japanese Pharmacological Society from 1941 to the present. Society members published original papers herein. Japanese Journal of Medical Sciences Part IV, Pharmacology, published by the National Research Council of Japan in order to introduce

Japan

's Pharmacology abroad ran from 1926-1944. Prof. Abe's Archives of Experimental Pharmacology was established by the Department of Pharmacology, Keio University, in 1929. This publication merged with the above-mentioned Folia in 1944. Due to lack of original manuscripts in foreign languages, pharmacological papers were prepared for publication in The Japanese Journal of Physiology in 1950; however, in April 1951, The Japanese Journal of Pharmacology was published as an independent periodical. During the half century afterwards, the life sciences have been showing great progress, and research papers published in this Journal are dedicated to advancing different aspects of pharmacology. With the internationalization or globalization in the research environment, it was decided to change the Journal title to Journal of Pharmacological Sciences commencing from 2003, targeting more contributors and readers from all over the world. This Journal has been distributed as an on-line version since 2002, ensuring its rapid distribution to an international audience.

The Journal is supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

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