Assistant Prof. Satoshi Fuke, Ph.D.

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Education

2005          : Ph. D., Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

Professional Appointments

2012-         : Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, Shiga University
                        of Medical Science
2006-2012 : Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory for Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders,
                        RIKEN BSI
2005-2006 : Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Nano Materials and Technology, Japan
                        Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
2002-2005 : Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1) of JSPS, Graduate School of
                        Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

Research Interest

Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases; Temperament; Gene-Environment Interaction; Molecular Neurobiology; Neurophysiology; Mitochondria

Selected publications

  • Fuke S, Kubota-Sakashita M, Kasahara T, Shigeyoshi Y, Kato T. (2011) Regional variation in mitochondrial DNA copy number in mouse brain. Biochim Biophys Acta – Bioenergetics 1807, 270-274
  • Fuke S, Kametani M, Kato T. (2008) Quantitative analysis of the 4977-bp common deletion of mitochondrial DNA in postmortem frontal cortex from patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Neurosci Lett 439, 173-177.
  • Fuke S, Minami N, Kokubo H, Yoshikawa A, Yasumatsu H, Sasagawa N, Saga Y, Tsukahara T, Ishiura S. (2006) Hesr1 knockout mice exhibit behavioral alterations through the dopaminergic nervous system. J Neurosci Res 84, 1555-1563
  • Uchida S, Fuke S, Tsukahara T. (2006) Upregulations of Gata4 and oxytocin receptor are important in cardiomyocyte differentiation processes of P19CL6 cells. J Cell Biochem 100, 629-641
  • Sugiura M, Fuke S, Suo S, Sasagawa N, Van Tol HH, Ishiura S. (2005) Characterization of a novel D2-like dopamine receptor with a truncated splice variant and a D1-like dopamine receptor unique to invertebrates from Caenorhabditis elegans. J Neurochem 94, 1146-1157
  • Fuke S, Sasagawa N, Ishiura S. (2005) Identification and characterization of the HESR1/HEY1 as a candidate trans-acting factor on gene expression through the 3' non-coding polymorphic region of the human dopamine transporter (DAT1) gene. J Biochem 137, 205-216
  • Fuke S, Suo S, Takahashi N, Koike H, Sasagawa N, Ishiura S. (2001) The VNTR polymorphism of the human dopamine transporter (DAT1) gene affects gene expression. Pharmacogenomics J 1, 152-156


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