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Kato Lab
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The lab studies body temperature regulation and the sense of heat and cold in humans, from the perspective of environmental physiology.
AboutAbout the lab
How people feel heat, cold, and humid stuffiness
The Kato Lab studies how people feel heat and cold and how they regulate their body temperature.
Its specialties are environmental physiology and neuroscience. In environments where temperature and humidity are varied, the lab measures both the body's responses and how those conditions are perceived.
The lab has investigated how the nose and fingertips sense moisture, and how the brain works in relation to the sensation of temperature.
It also conducts research that contributes to heatstroke prevention, such as evaluating a technology that measures core body temperature with a sensor attached to the skin.
Key terms
- Environmental physiology
- The field that studies how the body responds to environmental changes such as heat, cold, and humidity
- Thermoregulation
- The body's function of keeping its internal temperature constant, for example by sweating or changing blood flow
- Core body temperature
- The temperature inside the body rather than at the skin. It is a clue to a person's condition and risk of heatstroke
ResearchResearch themes
The lab examines how the body's temperature regulation, and the way people perceive heat, cold, and moisture, change in environments where temperature and humidity vary. Its research proceeds on two fronts: the neural mechanisms that generate sensation, and technologies for measuring body temperature.
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- Assistant ProfessorIssei Kato
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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: “Menthol Crystals close up” Debeo Morium / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Measuring core body temperature from inside the ear: “Red background thermometer ( )” Karl-Ludwig Poggemann from Salzbergen, Germany / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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