Department of Neuromuscular Research
We aim at the elucidation of pathomechanism and the development of therapy of neuromuscular disorders.
We identified a new congenital muscular dystrophy. Our paper was
published in the June 10, 2011 issue of American Journal of Human Genetics.
Satomi Mitsuhashi won Best Poster Presentation Award at the Annual NIN Research Meeting on May 10, 2011.
Annual Meeting of the Asian and Oceanian Myology Center (AOMC)
The 11th annual meeting of the AOMC will be held on June 7-8, 2012 in Kyoto, Japan. For further information, check the official meeting site or the AOMC website
Article about our DMRV research appeared in the front page of the newspaper "Sankei Shimbun" on October 24, 2010.
Our members won the following prizes at the 15th International Congress of World Muscle Society (WMS) held in Kumamoto, Japan on October 12-16, 2010.
Satomi Mitsuhashi the President's Prize for the Young Myologist of the Year
May Christine V. Malicdan the Elsevier Award for the Best Oral or Poster Presentation
Shinya Honda the Elsevier WMS Membership Award
Tomoharu Tokutomi the Elsevier WMS Membership Award
Our report at the meeting for Research on Ｉntractable diseases of Health and Labor Sciences was published in the online Journal of “Nikkei Biotechnology Japan” and “Medical Tribune Pro”
May Christine V. Malican won the Best Presentation Award at the 14th International Congress of World Muscle Society held in Geneva, Switzerland on September 9-12, 2009
She presented "Sialic acid metabolites preclude the development of myopathic phenotype in the DMRV/hIBM mouse model" in the oral session.
We demostrated, for the first time, a possibility of the development of therapy for distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles (DMRV)/hereditary inclusion body myopathy (hIBM)
We treated DMRV mice with ManNAc and sialic acid. Surprisingly, the disease was almost completely prevented by the therapy, supporting the next move towards the clinical trial.
The results were published in June 2009 issue of Nature Medicine
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