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National Institutes of Natural Sciences

National Institute for Basic Biology

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Professor Emeritus

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YAMAMORI, Tetsuo
Professor Emeritus
YAMAMORI, Tetsuo

Research Summary

In order to understand the formation and evolution of the brain and the mechanisms underlying memory, we are focusing primarily on two issues. Firstly, we are studying the genes that are expressed in specific areas of the primate neocortex. We have obtained genes that show marked differences within primate neocortical areas. Secondly, we study the mechanisms underlying learning behaviors by examining gene expression.

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Figure 1. The expression of occ1 (orange color) m Rbp (blue) and gdf7 (green) are schematicaly illustrated in Brodmann’s area figure in the guenon monkey. Top and bottom views are medial and lateral surfaces, respectively. (The figure is cited from Yamamori & Rockland, Neurosci. Res., 55, 11-27, 2006 ).

Reports

Selected Publications

Yamamori T, Rockland KS. (2006) Neocortical areas, layers, connections, and gene expression. Neurosci Res., 55, 11-27.

Takahata T, Komatsu Y, Watakabe A, Hashikawa T, Tochitani S, Yamamori T. (2006) Activity-dependent expression of occ1 in excitatory neurons is a characteristic feature of the primate visual cortex. Cereb Cortex, 16, 929-940.

Komatsu, Y., Watakabe, Y., Hashikawa, T., Tochitani, S. and Yamamori, T. (2005) Retinol-binding protein gene is highly expressed in higher-order association areas of the primate neocortex. Cerebral Cortex 15, 96-108.

Tochitani, S., Liang, F., Watakabe, A., Hashikawa, T. and Yamamori, T. (2001) occ1 is preferentially expressed in the primary visual cortex in an activity-dependent manner: a pattern of gene expression related to the cytoarchitectonic area in adult macaue neocortex. Eur. J. Neurosci. 13, 297-307.