Faculty of Medicine / School of Medicine, First Department of Anatomy
Job title
Professor
Degree
MD、PhD(Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine)
Research funding number
40295639
Profile
Biographical Sketch
Mayumi Nishi M.D., Ph.D.
・1980: B.P. from Kyoto University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science
・1991: M.D. from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Internship and Residency
at Department of Anesthesiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
・1997: Ph.D. from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
・1994-1996: Visiting Scientist, Department of Biology and Center for Neural
Science, New York University at New York (c/o Professor Efrain C.
Amities)
・1997-1998: Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Kyoto
Prefectural University of Medicine
・1998-2005: Lecturer, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Kyoto
Prefectural University of Medicine
・2005-2009: Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Kyoto
Prefectural University of Medicine
・2009-: Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Nara Medical University
1999: Best Imaging Award, Japan Bioimaging Society
2017: Prize from academic society, Japan Society of Histochemistry and
Cytochemistry
My major research interest is neuroendocrinology of stress and emotion. Our research is aimed at understanding the mechanisms by which environmental factors interact with the genome to influence brain development and to produce diverse forms of neural plasticity over the lifetime.
Characterization of social behaviors in BTBR T+ Itpr3tf/J mouse model of Autism Spectrum Disorders under social-housing conditions by the Multiple Animals Positioning System
Endo N, Makinodan M, Somayama N, Komori T, Kishimoto T, Nishi M
Endo N, Ujita W, Fujiwara M, Miyauchi H, Mishima H, Makino Y, Hashimoto L, Oyama, H, Makinodan M, Nishi M, Tohyama C, Kakeyama M
Communications Biology 1(225) Dec 2018 [Refereed]
Insights from extracellular matrix studies in the hypothalamus: structural variations of perineuronal nets and discovering a new perifornical area of the anterior hypothalamus
Horii-Hayashi N*, Sasagawa T, Namikawa T, Nishi M
Anatomical Science International 92 18-24 2017 [Refereed]
A newly defined area of the mouse anterior hypothalamus involved in septohypothalamic circuit : Perifornical Area of the Anterior Hypothalamus.
Horii-Hayashi N, Nishi M*
Acta Histochem Cytochem 51 1-8 Feb 2018 [Refereed][Invited]
Effects of early life adverse
experiments on the brain: implications from maternal separation
Nishi M*, Sasagawa T, Horii-Hayashi N
Nihon Yakurigaku Zasshi 149 72-72 2017 [Refereed]
Long-term effects of maternal separation on reward seeking and dopamine D1 receptor expression via DNA methylation in female mice
Sasagawa T, Horii-Hayashi N, Okuda A, Hashimoto T, Azuma C, Nishi M*
Nishikawa K, Furube E, Morita-Takemura S, Horii-Hayashi N, Nishi M,
Miyata S
J Neuroendocrinol 29(2) 2017 [Refereed]
Detection of Nitric Oxide Induced by Angiotensin II Receptor
Type 1 Using Soluble Guanylate Cyclase beta1 Subunit Fused
to a Yellow Fluorescent Protein, Venus
Tsuji Y, Ozawa K*, Komatsubara T, Zhao J, Nishi M, Yoshizumi M
Horii-Hayashi N, Sasagawa T. Matsunaga W, Nishi M*
Neural plasticity 256389 2015 [Refereed]
A newly identified mouse hypothalamic area having bidirectional neural connections with the lateral septum:
the perifornical area of the anterior hypothalamus rich in chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans.
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