Staff

Professor: Toshiyuki Kaidoh
Associate professor: Takao Mukuda
Associate professor: Shigefumi Yokota
Junior associate professor: Sawako Hamasaki
Assistant professor: Kenji Okazaki
Assistant professor: Yuka Koyama
Project researcher: Sumire Inaga
Assistant administrative staff: Hisano Sawaguchi

Features of the Division

The Department of Anatomy presently serves two major roles: teaching human anatomy to medical and paramedical students, and conducting cutting edge research.
We believe that the teaching of gross and microscopic anatomy is an essential element of medical education. Dissection of the human body provides indispensable knowledge of three-dimensional structures of various organs and tissues. Our goal is for our medical students to be able to apply the anatomical knowledge they have learned to future clinical situations.
Our main research areas are ultrastructural morphology, molecular biology, genome science, and gross anatomy.

Present research topics

・Immunoelectron microscopic analysis of mechanoreceptors
・Gross anatomical analysis to highlight anatomically and morphogenetically important cases
・Application of low-vacuum scanning electron microscope to the rapid analysis of renal biopsy samples
・Morphological analysis on human bones excavated from archaeological sites
・Neurogenesis in the hippocampus
・Regeneration of peripheral sensory nerves in skin flaps
・Morphological and physiological analysis of autonomic nervous system
・Mechanisms of thirst and drinking in the hippocampus
・Morphological analysis of ancient human bones