Anatomy and Neurobiology

Division: Advanced Biomedical Sciences

Great Departments: Neuroscience

Staff

Professor	FUKUDA Takaichi tfukuda(at mark)kumamoto-u.ac.jp
Lecturer	ESUMI Shigeyuki esumi(at mark)kumamoto-u.ac.jp
Assistant Professor	SHIGEMATSU Naoki sigematu(at mark)kumamoto-u.ac.jp
Assistant Professor	MIYAMOTO Yuta

Research theme

Neuronal gap junctions are ubiquitously observable throughout the cerebral cortex, striatum, and many other brain regions, but it remains almost unknown how they constitute neuron network and thereby how they play roles in neuronal computation during the brain activity.

We have for the first time visualized threedimensional structures of the gap junction-coupled network by innovated morphological techniques including the correlated EMCLSM.

The main goal of our study is to demonstrate a new architecture of the brain in which gap junctional linkage will be incorporated as a key component.

Striatal GABAergic interneurons linked by gap junctions

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