We study the existence and the large time behavior of global-intime solutions of a nonlinear integral equation with a generalized heat kernelwhere ϕ ∈ W ,∞ (R N ) and ∈ {0, 1, . . . }. The arguments of this paper are applicable to the Cauchy problem for various nonlinear parabolic equations such as fractional semilinear parabolic equations, higher order semilinear parabolic equations and viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary: 35A01, 35K55; Secondary: 35K91.