Japanese Names in Medicine
Dec 2015
- Novel Prize
- Tonegawa Susumu: Antibody Gene Recombination (immunology)
- Yamanaka Shinya: iPS, induced PlurioPotent Cells (Molecular Cell Biology)
- Umami Taste sense(physiology): 5th taste. Umami means gerally a
good taste in Japanese. In medicine it is glutamine, an Amino
Acid. There is a specific taste receptor for it.
- Minamata Disease(Environmental Health)
- Tawara Bundle(the Heart conduction system).
- Hashimoto thyroiditis(pathophysiology)　thyroism
- Ito cell in Liver: (histology) Fat (Vit A) storage cell.
- Yokochi: An excellent Anatomy book with full of photos from
cadevars. The book is commonly called "Yokochi" by his name.
- Ishihara's chart: for color blindness(physiology).
- takayasu vasculitis: one more.
- Fukuda test: Neurological test for cerebellar damage.
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