May 14,2021

Dr. Daisuke Yamada's paper “Modulation of glutamatergic synaptic transmission and neuronal excitability in the prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex via delta opioid receptors in mice” appears in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications!

Volume 560, 30 June 2021, Pages 192-198.

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.05.002


April 23, 2021

Junpei Takahashi has been awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship!!


March 22, 2021

Junpei Takahashi received an award of excellence for his master's thesis “Effects of oxytocin on the amyloid- and/or abused drugs- induced learning and memory deficient in animal model”.

 


March 15, 2021

Ayako Kawaminami received an award of excellence for her presentation “Neuronal mechanisms on the promoted effects of fear memory extinction learning by a selective delta opioid receptor agonist KNT-127 ” at Young Researchers' Society of Neurobehavioral Pharmacology 30th Annual Meeting.

 


January 29, 2021

Kotaro Sakamoto's paper  “A selective delta opioid receptor agonist SNC 80, but not KNT-127, induced tremor-like behaviors via hippocampal glutamatergic system in mice”  appears in Brain Research, Volume 1757, 15 April 2021, 147297.


November 15, 2020

Dr. Akiyoshi Saitoh received a research grant for his project “Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms on delta opioid receptor agonist induced fear memory modulation” from SENSHIN Medical Research Foundation. 


June 27, 2020

Junpei Takahashi's paper "Love Hormone, Oxytocin Could Be Used to Treat Cognitive Disorders Like Alzheimer's" was posted on "Biochemical and        Biophysical Research Communications". For further information, click here.

In addition, his paper is getting people's attention from all over the world.      You'd better hurry and go check it out! Click here!


March 26, 2020

Our research is introduced on the following websites.

Medical Express

Asian Scientist

Science Daily


March 23, 2020

Shoko Yanagizawa received Master Thesis Award of Excellence for her thesis “Selective agonists of the δ-opioid receptor, KNT-147 and SNC80, act differentially on extinction learning of contextual fear memory in mice.”