RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research Laboratory for Cellular Function Imaging
Team Leader: Yosky Kataoka (M.D., Ph.D.)
Research Summary

We are investigating physiological or pathological roles of cells functioning in living tissues by using in vivo imaging methods including PET, MRI, fluorescence/bioluminescence imaging, microendoscope imaging, electron microscope imaging. In particular, we aim to establish new strategies for treating neurological disorders or malignancy by imaging stem/progenitor cells in the central nervous system or cancer/cancer stem cells. Further, we study metabolic dynamics in pathophysiological states including fatigue, and develop new techniques for controlling the living systems.
Main Research Fields
- Medicine, Dentistry & Pharmacy
Related Research Fields
- Biological Sciences
- Biology
Keywords
- Neuroscience
- Fatigue
- Neuroinflammation
- Aging
- Stem cell
Selected Publications
- 1.Kume S, Nishimura Y, Mizuno K, Sakimoto N, Hori H, Tamura Y, Yamato M, Mitsuhashi R, Akiba K, Koizumi J, Watanabe Y, Kataoka Y.:
"Music improves subjective feelings leading to cardiac autonomic nervous modulation: A pilot study."
Front Neurosci, 11: Article 108 (2017). - 2.Nakano M, Tamura Y, Yamato M, Kume S, Eguchi A, Takata K, Watanabe Y, Kataoka Y.:
"NG2 glial cells regulate neuroimmunological responses to maintain neuronal function and survival."
Sci Rep, 7: 42041 (2017). - 3.Tamura Y, Kataoka Y.:
"PET imaging of neurogenic activity in the adult brain: Toward in vivo imaging of human neurogenesis."
Neurogenesis, 4: e1281861 (2017). - 4.Yamano E, Sugimoto M, Hirayama A, Kume S, Yamato M, Jin G, Tajima S, Goda N, Iwai K, Fukuda S, Yamaguti K, Kuratsune H, Soga T, Watanabe Y, Kataoka Y.:
"Index markers of chronic fatigue syndrome with dysfunction of TCA and urea cycles."
Sci Rep, 6: 34990 (2016). - 5.Tamura Y, Takahashi K, Takata K, Eguchi A, Yamato M, Kume S, Nakano M, Watanabe Y, Kataoka, Y.:
"Noninvasive evaluation of cellular proliferative activity in brain neurogenic regions in rats under depression and the treatment by enhanced [18F]FLT PET imaging."
J Neurosci, 36: 8123-8131 (2016). - 6.Iwawaki T, Akai R, Oikawa D, Toyoshima T, Yoshino M, Suzuki M, Takeda N, Ishikawa T, Kataoka Y, Yamamura K.
"Transgenic mouse model for imaging of interleukin-1β-related inflammation in vivo."
Sci Rep, 5: 17205 (2015). - 7.Kume, S., Yamato, M., Tamura, Y., Jin, G., Nakano, M., Miyashige, Y., Eguchi, A., Ogata, Y., Goda, N., Iwai, K., Yamano, E., Watanabe, Y., Soga, T., and Kataoka, Y.:
"Potential biomarkers of fatigue identified by plasma metabolome analysis in rats."
PLOS ONE, 10: e0120106 (2015). - 8.Cui Y, Toyoda H, Sako T, Onoe K, Hayashinaka E, Wada Y, Yokoyama C, Onoe H, Kataoka Y, Watanabe Y.:
"A voxel-based analysis of brain activity in high-order trigeminal pathway in the rat induced by cortical spreading depression."
Neuroimage, 108: 17-22 (2015). - 9.Nakatomi Y, Mizuno K, Ishii A, Wada Y, Tanaka M, Tazawa S, Onoe K, Fukuda S, Kawabe J, Takahashi K, Kataoka Y, Shiomi S, Yamaguti K, Inaba M, Kuratsune H, Watanabe Y.:
"Neuroinflammation in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: an 11C-(R)-PK11195 PET study."
J Nucl Med, 108: 17-22 (2015). - 10.Yamato M, Kataoka Y.:
"Fatigue sensation following peripheral viral infection is triggered by neuroinflammation: who will answer these questions?"
Neural Regen Res, 10: 203-204 (2015).
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Yosky Kataoka
- Team Leader
Core members
- Yasuhisa Tamura
- Deputy Team Leader
- Masanori Yamato
- Research Scientist
- Asami Eguchi
- Technical Staff I
- Kumi Takata
- Technical Staff I
- Sally Danno
- Technical Staff I
- Mayako Okamoto
- Assistant
- Kunpei Kawakatsu
- Junior Research Associate
- Mitsuyo Maeda
- Senior Visiting Scientist
- Kazuo Funabiki
- Senior Visiting Scientist
- Toshiyuki Goto
- Visiting Scientist
- Nozomu Kubota
- Visiting Scientist
- Chie Ueta
- Visiting Technician
- Yuki Okinaka
- Student Trainee
- Tomoka Akita
- Research Part-time Worker II
- Yoshika Seta
- Research Part-time Worker II
- Shizuka Kozaki
- Research Part-time Worker II
Contact Information
6-7-3 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan
Email: kataokay [at] riken.jp