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（Last updated : 2025-12-02 13:00:15）　

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.	2025	UNC5B is an isoform-dependent target for ectodomain shedding │ The Journal of Biochemistry │ ,pp.1-9
2.	2025/11/26	Effects of Arcadlin on dendritic spine morphology of hippocampal granule cells in a mouse model of ischemic stroke │ Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications │ 794 (November 2025),pp.153058
3.	2024/05/29	Administration of Human-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Activates Locally Stimulated Endogenous Neural Progenitors and Reduces Neurological Dysfunction in Mice after Ischemic Stroke │ Cells │ 13 (11),pp.939
4.	2023/08/10	Microglia Negatively Regulate the Proliferation and Neuronal Differentiation of Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells Isolated from Poststroke Mouse Brains │ Cells │ 12 (16),pp.2040
5.	2023/02/22	Voluntary running exercise modifies astrocytic population and features in the peri-infarct cortex │ IBRO Neuroscience Reports │ 14,pp.253-263
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2025/11/27	Investigating Functions of Novel Microglia in Infarct Tissue Using Mass Spectrometry Imaging
2.	2024/07/24	Analysis of the effects exerted by microglia appearing within a necrotic tissue after ischemic stroke
3.	2021/03/30	Investigation of novel Iba1-positive cells in the ischemic core
4.	2018	An antidepressant-induced protocadherin Arcadlin/protocadherin-8 regulates dendritic spine density in hippocampal neurons
5.	2015	Sema4D is involved in microglial polarization after cerebral ischemia
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2021/04/01 ～ 2024/03/31	新規ミクログリアiSMGと血管反応に着目した脳梗塞巣組織ダイナミクスの解明 │ Early-Career Scientists
2.	2020/04/01 ～ 2025/03/31	リハビリテーションによる神経回路リモデリングへのアルカドリンの関与 │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
3.	2018/04/01 ～ 2021/03/31	Analysis of new type of microglia appeared in the necrotic tissue after cerebral ischemia │ Early-Career Scientists

Subject
1.	英語JP2