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			Staffs				(2004/Jun)
			Professor Kiyotoshi Inenaga Associate professor Shuichi Nakamura Lecturer Eiko Honda Assistant Kentaro Ono Technician Masumi Tujisawa Post graduate Nao Sato Post graduate Hiroko Inoue
			physiol@kyu-dent.ac.jp				Achievements
2-6-1 Manazuru Kokurakkita-ku Kitakyushu Fukuoka, Japan 803-8580 TEL:+81-93-582-1131(6632) FAX:+81-93-582-8288

We have had tow studies.

One of them is the study of body fluid balance by central nervous system. When we feel thirsty, we usually want to drink water. Water intake is necessary for a land animals to stay alive. If this physiological system is damaged by some disorder, health will break down. We have now studied about (1)the salivary secretion and thirst, (2)the central controls of drinking behavior and (3)the central nervous system in body fluid balance.
Another is the international dental health promotion. We analyze the oral physiological characters and the oral health care of Asian people (particularly, Nepal).

• Patch clamp from brain slices (subfornical organ , supraoptic nucleus)
• Patch clamp from dissociated neurons (subfornical organ , dorsal root ganglion)
• Measure of bloof flow, pressure and body temperature in the anesthetized condition
• Measure of salivary secretion in free-moving condition
• Mesurments of salivary parametes
• Estimation of salivary gland sizes in human by using MR images
• I.C.V.injection of drugs
• Immunohistochemistoryic-fos, receptoresj
• RT-PCR (conventional and single-cell)