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Kano Lab
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A bioimaging lab that uses optical technology to observe muscle cells in living small animals.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how muscle cells adapt through optical imaging.
The Kano Lab uses bioimaging to explore new mechanisms by which skeletal muscle cells adapt.
Applying optical technology, a distinctive strength of the University of Electro-Communications, the lab develops techniques that shine light of specific wavelengths on living small animals to image substances inside and outside cells.
The lab aims to discover new physiological functions and to apply them to effective medical treatments.
The lab carries out its research jointly with the Hoshino Lab in the same Department of Engineering Science.
Key terms
- Bioimaging
- A technology that shines light on a living body to image substances inside and outside cells.
- Skeletal muscle
- The muscles that move the body. This lab studies the mechanisms by which their cells adapt.
- Microcirculation
- The movement of blood through the body's thin blood vessels. The lab studies its mechanisms as one of its research topics.
ResearchResearch themes
The Kano Lab seeks to clarify new mechanisms by which skeletal muscle cells adapt, using bioimaging that observes living small animals with light. Its research topics include elucidating the regulatory mechanisms of muscle cells, developing models of muscle damage, developing devices for diagnosing muscle damage, elucidating the mechanisms of microcirculation dynamics, and the adaptation of the body to oxygen environments.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Kano Lab are faculty members, doctoral and master's students, undergraduate students, and researchers.As of 2026
- ProfessorYutaka Kano
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Microscope stage set up for intravital microscopy” Aleanora / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Bioimaging of Muscle Cells with Light: “Confocal microscope and PC monitor used for intravital microsopy” Aleanora / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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