Ishitani Lab
ishitani-lab.bsky.social
Ishitani Lab
@ishitani-lab.bsky.social
exploring cell-cell/organ-organ communication systems ensuring developmental robustness and disease/ageing prevention, using small fish models.
小魚をヒトモデルに、健康な発育・成長を支え、健康寿命を伸ばすメカニズムの探索・解析を行います!やってる人も聞く人もどっちも楽しくなるようなサイエンスを目指してます!!!
VERY HAPPY to share our new paper in Aging Cell (doi.org/10.1111/acel...). We discovered the unexpected roles of ER stress in youthful skin maintenance, using ultra-short lived killifish and spacial transcriptomics PIC. #aging #killifish
ER Stress Ire1‐Xbp1s Pathway Maintains Youthful Epidermal Basal Layer Through the Regulation of Cell Proliferation
In young epidermal basal layer, the Ire1-Xbp1s endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-response pathway maintains cell proliferation by activating the cell cycle regulator Vcp, whereas the age-dependent de....
doi.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Excited to share our latest review article published in Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology "Mechanical force-driven cell competition ensures robust morphogen gradient formation"
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April 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Our recent paper featured in a Nature Communications Editors’ Highlights (the 50 best papers recently published)!!
www.nature.com/collections/...
January 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The meeting report of the international zebrafish conference (IZFC2024) "Swimming Into Future Breakthroughs From Kyoto, Japan:"has been published in Genes to Cells.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Swimming Into Future Breakthroughs From Kyoto, Japan: Report of the 18th International Zebrafish Conference (IZFC2024)
IZFC2024, held from August 17 to 21, 2024, in Kyoto, Japan, attracted 641 researchers from 38 countries. The conference fostered investigation, innovation, and collaboration in zebrafish research, in...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
EXCITED to share our new paper in Nat Commun @natureportfolio.bsky.social "Foxo3-mediated physiological cell competition ensures robust tissue patterning throughout vertebrate development”, identifying a potential marker of cell competition. #zebrafish #cellcompetition
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Foxo3-mediated physiological cell competition ensures robust tissue patterning throughout vertebrate development - Nature Communications
Physiological roles of cell competition in vertebrates and the universal mechanisms regulating diverse cell competition are unknown. Here, authors show that Foxo3-mediated physiological cell competiti...
www.nature.com
December 17, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Reposted by Ishitani Lab
The longevity factor Foxo3 mediates “unfit” cell elimination to ensure both precise development and cancer prevention

Open Access
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Foxo3-mediated physiological cell competition ensures robust tissue patterning throughout vertebrate development - Nature Communications
Physiological roles of cell competition in vertebrates and the universal mechanisms regulating diverse cell competition are unknown. Here, authors show that Foxo3-mediated physiological cell competiti...
www.nature.com
December 17, 2024 at 11:53 AM