Tokyo Women's Medical University

Graduate School of Medical Science

Hormonal Medicine and Bioregulatory Science

About us

Our department is in charge of hypertension and endocrine diseases. We have been giving ourselves
1) to establish strategies to “cure” hypertension,
2) to create novel treatments for endocrine diseases by utilizing epigenetic analyses, and
3) to discover novel humoral factors originating from endocrine organs to apply innovative drug development for lifestyle-related diseases. Our ultimate goal is to bring up our graduate students to excellent researchers to win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Research

(1) Investigations of roles and regulatory mechanisms of the (pro)renin receptor in endocrine and endocrine-related diseases (Instructors: Ando T, Morimoto S, Ichihara A)
(2) Analyses of the blood pressure control system by the diencephalohypophysial renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (Morimoto S, Ichihara A)
(3) Mechanism analyses of the tissue renin-angiotensin system dependent organ damages by thyroid dysfunction (Morimoto S, Ichihara A)
(4) Elucidation of pathophysiological roles of steroid hormones in lifestyle-related diseases (Ando T, Ichihara A)
(5) Elucidation of tumorigenesis mechanisms of adrenal tumors via ectopic receptor expressions (Watanabe D, Morimoto S, Ichihara A)
(6) Establishment of appropriate evaluation criteria for endocrine diseases (Yatabe M, Morimoto S, Ichihara A)
(7) Investigations of regulatory mechanisms of neurohumoral factors and anti-atherosclerotic effects by medications for lifestyle-related diseases (Morimoto S, Ichihara A)
(8) Investigations of pathophysiology of hypertension induced by neurovascular compression of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (Morimoto S, Ichihara A)
(9) Mechanism analyses of the blood pressure control system by sex hormones (Yatabe J, Morimoto S, Ichihara A)

Faculty

Professor and Department head Atsuhiro ICHIHARA
Associate Professor Yasufumi SEKI
Lecturer Daisuke WATANABE

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