Professor
Veterinary science
Osaka Prefecture University
Japan
College of Life, Environment, and Advanced Sciences , Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, School of Life and Environmental Sciences
It is increasingly being realized that neurodegeneration diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Prion disease have common mechanism including protein aggregation. One of our goals is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying in neuronal cell death with the aggregation of a pro-apoptoic protein, GAPDH, which has been identified at our labs. Currently, we are investigating the function and regulation of the aggregated GAPDH in vivo. In addition, we have special interests in the patho-physiological roles of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation catalyzed by PARP and PARG in glia cells. These projects are going now using our techniques of cell biology and molecular biology.