Official Journal of the Japanese Pharmacological Society

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences (JPS), an official journal of the Japanese Pharmacological Society, is an international open access journal intended for the advancement of pharmacological sciences in the world. The journal welcomes submissions in all fields of experimental and clinical pharmacology, including molecular, cellular, biochemical, physiological and behavioral pharmacology, for publication as "Reviews", "Full Papers" or "Short communications". Review articles are only accepted if they are requested by the editors. Short communications will only be accepted for papers that present novel and highly exciting pharmacological findings. Manuscripts concerning descriptive case reports, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies without pharmacological mechanisms and dose-response determinations are not acceptable and will be rejected without peer review. Ethnopharmacological studies are also out of the scope of this journal. Furthermore, JPS does not publish work on the actions of biological extracts unknown chemical composition.

Editor-in-Chief
Kiyofumi Yamada
Nagoya University, Furo-Cho, Chikusa-Ku, 464-8601, Nagoya, Japan Email Kiyofumi Yamada
Press Editor
Kazuhiro Takuma
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Associate Editor
Shenuarin Bhuiyan
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport, Shreveport, United States
Feng Han
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Naoki Inagaki
Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan
Masayuki Kobayashi
Nihon University School of Dentistry Graduate School of Dentistry, Tokyo, Japan
Junko Kurokawa
Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
Andrew John Lawrence
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Tangui Nicolas Maurice
University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Masahiro Nishibori
Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
Akira Nishiyama
Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine Graduate School of Medicine, Kagawa, Japan
Atsumi Nitta
University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
Yukihiro Ohno
Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Science, Takatsuki, Japan
Frank A. Redegeld
Utrecht University Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
Toshiyuki Sasaguri
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Yoo-Hun Suh
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Minoru Tsuji
International University of Health and Welfare, Otawara, Japan
Yasuhito Uezono
National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Peter Tsun-Hon Wong
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Qiang Xu
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Naoki Yoshimura
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States
Advisory Board Member
Yukio Ago
Naohiko Anzai
Hiroaki Araki
Ross Bathgate
Jinsong Bian
Yoshihiko Chiba
Young Hae Chong
Tomoe Fujita
Kohji Fukunaga
Chikuma Hamada
Yuichi Hattori
Katsuya Hirano
Hitoshi Ishibashi
Yoichiro Isohama
Katsunori Iwasaki
Junzo Kamei
Hiroshi Katsuki
Hye Sun Kim
Yasuo Kizawa
Kazunao Kondo
Tsutomu Kotegawa
Yutaka Koyama
Naoko Kuzumaki
Ying-mei Lu
Alessandra Mallei
Naoki Matsumoto
Hirokazu Mizoguchi
Masaki Mogi
Laura Musazzi
MItsuhiro Ohshima
Keiichi Ohya
Clare Parish
Abdur Razzaque
Norio Sakai
Toshiyasu Sasaoka
Jutamaad Satayavivad
Toshiaki Sendo
Yuxian Shen
Yang Sun
Takeshi Takarada
Yasuo Takeda
Tadayoshi Takeuchi
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Yoshio Tanaka
Akifumi Togari
Shogo Tokuyama
Masahiro Tsuboi
Hiromasa Tsuda
Masato Tsutsui
Shinya Uchida
Nasir Uddin
Susumu Ueno
Kazuo Umemura
Bruno Vincent
Toshihiko Yanagida
Yuichiro Yano
Wen-Xia Zhou