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（Last updated : 2022-05-03 11:33:05）

SAWANO TOSHINORI

Department / Course College of Life Sciences Department of Biomedical Sciences

Title / Position Assistant Professor

Academic background
1.	2017/03 Degree Acquisition	│ Osaka University Ph. D. (Health Science)
2.	～2012/03	Department of Physical Therapy │ Faculty of Health and Welfare │ Prefectural University of Hiroshima │ Graduated
3.	～2017/03	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Division of Health Sciences │ Graduate School of Medicine │ Osaka University │ Completed

Business career
1.	2017/04/01 ～ 2018/03/31	Specially Appointed Researcher │ Graduate School of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences │
2.	2016/12/01 ～ 2018/03/31	Specially Appointed Researcher │ Medicine Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences │ Hyogo College of Medicine Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences

Research activities
1.		The Japanese Association of Anatomists
2.		The Japanese Society for Neurochemistry
3.		The Japanese Biochemical Society
4.		The Japanese Pharmacological Society

Qualification and license
1.	2012	Physiotherapist

Subject of research
1.	Involvement of microglia in various tissue responses during brain ischemia

Research summary
Involvement of microglia in various tissue responses during brain ischemia Recently, it is revealed that neuronal remodeling and appearance of ischemia-induced multipotent stem cells: iSCs are occurred after the brain ischemia. These facts suggest that ischemic brain tissue shows the active and various reactions for recovery, not just wait for the cell death, however it is difficult to repair injury tissue of ischemic brain completely. My questions are “How does ischemic brain attempt to repair?” and “Why does not repair of ischemic brain succeed completely?” I expect that a key factor of these two questions is microglia. Microglia, the brain resident immune cells, exert diverse and even sometimes opposite effects on the process of brain ischemia by production of inflammatory mediators and neurotrophic factors, phagocytosis, and synaptic pruning etc. So, microglia play important roles in pathogenesis and amelioration of brain ischemia. I want to reveal the detail of microglial functions in the ischemic brain.

Present specialized field
Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering, Nerve anatomy/Neuropathology, Neurochemistry/Neuropharmacology, General anatomy (including histology/embryology) (Keyword：・Brain ischemia ・Microglia ・Polyamines ・tissue repair ・ischemia-induced multipotent stem cells ・rehabilitation)

Papers
1.	2023/02/22	Voluntary running exercise modifies astrocytic population and features in the peri-infarct cortex │ IBRO Neuroscience Reports │ 14,pp.253-263 (Co-authored)
2.	2022/04/25	A potential new tool to enhance translational success rate in stroke research by backcrossing techniques in transgenic mice │ Neural Regeneration Research │ 18 (1),pp.107-108 (Co-authored)
3.	2022	Comparative distribution of Arcadlin/Protocadherin‐8 mRNA in the intact and ischemic brains of adult mice │ Journal of Comparative Neurology │ (Co-authored)
4.	2021/11	Establishment of a Reproducible Ischemic Stroke Model in Nestin-GFP Mice with High Survival Rates │ International Journal of Molecular Sciences │ 22 (23) (Co-authored)
5.	2021	Indigo enhances wound healing activity of Caco-2 cells via activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor │ Journal of Natural Medicines │ (Co-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2021/03/30	Investigation of novel Iba1-positive cells in the ischemic core (第126回日本解剖学会総会・全国学術集会 / 第98回日本生理学会大会　合同大会)
2.	2018	An antidepressant-induced protocadherin Arcadlin/protocadherin-8 regulates dendritic spine density in hippocampal neurons (The 40 th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Biological Psychiatry / The 61th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Neurochemistry)
3.	2015	Sema4D is involved in microglial polarization after cerebral ischemia (第120回日本解剖学会総会・全国学術集会)
4.	2015	Study on effect of Sema4D on microglial functions in cerebral ischemia
5.	2014	Contribution of Sema4D to microglial functions and behavior after cerebral ischemia
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