Department of Pathology
Main purpose of our research is fundamentally pathological investigation of tropical diseases, mainly infectious diseases, focused on its geographical and ethnical peculiarities, namely interdisciplinary study on environmental pathology: environmental factors, human ecology and disease manifestation in the tropics, and establishes the basis of their treatment and prevention.
Members
- Research Associate SENBA, Masachika
Activities
Pathological diagnosis of infectious diseases.
The pathology department is responsible for histological diagnostic pathology of surgical specimens, especially focused on bacterial, viral, protozoal and helminthous diseases in the tropics.
Carcinogenesis in oncogenic virus infections.
Cervical, cancer, malignant lymphoma, including Burkitt lymphoma, hepatocelluar carcinoma which are caused by oncogenic virus infection such as human papillomavirus (HPV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), hepatitis B and C virus (HBV, HCV), respectively are common and important malignant tumors in the tropics. We are carrying on an epidemiological research of these malignant tumors in tropical Africa and South-East Asia and also investigating carcinogenesis of these oncogenic viruses using the molecular and pathological methods.
Hepatitis virus infection in South-east Asia.
HBV and HCV infection is a world-wide public health problem. More than 2 billion people have been infected with HBV and around three quarters of the infection occur in Asia and Africa. We are carrying on a seroepidemiological research to know a risk assessment of HBV and HCV infection in northern Thailand and Lao PDR.
Clinicopathological study of the liver diseases.
In collaboration with First Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University Hospital and Department of Pathology, Chiang Mai University, we are investigating liver biopsy specimens from both areas and comparing the clinicopathological manifestations.
