Welcome to our lab

The artificial control of reproduction of an animal species is an important aspect of domestication. Breeding of super-producing livestock would not be successful without an efficient way of controlling reproduction, such as artificial insemination, superovulation, embryo transfer, sexing, and cloned animals. 

The Laboratory of Animal Reproduction is carrying out basic reproductive biology to provide the theoretical rationale for the above-mentioned means of reproductive engineering.

Mammalian reproduction is controlled by a functional unit called the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is a decapeptide situated at the highest place in the axis and constitutes the final common pathway of the brain control of the reproduction.

Our current research uses rat and mouse models to analyze neural circuits controlling the activity of GnRH-producing neurons to understand the neuroendocrine mechanism of reproduction.

Call for graduate students

See this Website of our lab. Contact Profs. Uenoyama and Inoue before you decide to sit the entrance exam. You are always welcome to visit our lab.

Members

Yoshihisa UENOYAMA, PhD
uenoyama(at)agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp 

Naoko INOUE, PhD
inoue(at)agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp