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Field

Integrative Life Sciences :
Cooperative faculties

Research

Professor OWADA Yuji
Campus Seiryo campus
Laboratory Neuroanatomy
Tel +81-22-217-8039
E-mail yuji.owada.e2@tohoku.ac.jp
Website https://organ-anatomy.med.tohoku.ac.jp/
Career
1989 MD: School of Medicine, Tohoku University
1996 Ph.D.: Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University 
1996 Assistant Professor: Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University
2006 Professor: Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University
2015- Professor: Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University(present position)
2023- Executive Director: Fukushima Institute for Research Education and Innovation(present position)
 
Selected Publications
Yang S, Miyazaki H, Wannakul T, Amo E, Saido T, Saito T, Sasaguri H, Maekawa M, Owada Y. High-fat diet-induced excessive accumulation of cerebral cholesterol esters and microglial dysfunction exacerbate Alzheimer's disease pathology in APPNL-G-F mice.
Mol Neurobiol 2025 doi: 10.1007/s12035-025-05052-8.
 
Miyazaki H, Wannakul T, Yang S, Yang D, Karasawa A, Shishido A, Cao R, Yamamoto Y, Kagawa Y, Kobayashi S, Ogata M, Maekawa M,  Owada Y. FABP7 in hepatic macrophages promotes fibroblast activation and CD4+ T cell migration by regulating M2 polarization during liver fibrosis.
J Immunol Res 9:2025:6987981, 2025. doi: 10.1155/jimr/6987981
 
Umaru BA, Kagawa Y, Ohsaki Y, Pan Y, Chen CT, Chen DK, Abe T, Shil SK, Miyazaki H, Kobayashi S, Maekawa M, Yamamoto Y, Wannakul T, Yang S, Bazinet RP, Owada Y. Oleic acid-bound FABP7 drives glioma cell proliferation through regulation of nuclear lipid droplet formation.
FEBS J 290, 1798-1821, 2023. doi: 10.1111/febs.16672.
 
Kagawa Y, Umaru BA, Kanamori M, Zama R, Shil SK, Miyazaki H, Kobayashi S, Wannakul T, Yang S, Tominaga T, Owada Y. Nuclear FABP7 regulates cell proliferation of wild-type IDH1 glioma through caveolae function.
Mol Oncol 16, 289-306, 2022. doi: 10.1002/1878-0261.13130.
 
Kobayashi S, Phung HT, Kagawa Y, Miyazaki H, Takahashi Y, Asao A, Maruyama T, Yoshimura A, Ishii N, Owada Y. Fatty acid-binding protein 3 controls contact hypersensitivity through regulating skin dermal Vγ4+ γ/δ T cell in a murine model.
Allergy 76, 1776-1788, 2021. doi: 10.1111/all.14630.
 
Activities in Academic Societies
Japanese Society of Anatomists: member
Japan Society for Neuroscience: member
The Society for Neuroscience: member
 

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