Hakone Best Presentation Award

The recipients of Hakone Best Presentation Awards are as follows:

Oral Presentations

Treatment of cold injury-induced brain edema with a nonspecific matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor MMI270 in rats.
Nobuyuki Kawai, Masahiko Kawanishi, Seigo Nagao.
Department of Neurological Surgery, Kagawa Medical University, Kagawa, Japan.

DNA microarray-based gene expression analysis for induced ischemic tolerance and delayed neuronal death following transient global ischemia in rats*.
Nobutaka Kawahara1, Yang Wang1, Takeaki Musaka1, Kazuhide Furuya1, Takao Hamakubo2, Hiroyuki Aburatani2, Tatsuhiko Kodama2, Takaaki Kirino1.
1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 2Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Role of water channel proteins (Aquaporins) in brain tumor edema.
Marios C. Papadopoulos1, Samira Saadoun2, D. Ceri Davies3, Sanjeev Krishna2, B. Anthony Bell1.
1Department of Neurosurgery, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, London, UK; 2Department of Infectious Diseases, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK; 3Department of Anatomy, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK.

Poster Presentations

Temporal and spatial profile of phosphorylated mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways following lateral percussion brain injury in rats.
Naoki Otani, Hiroshi Nawashiro, Shinji Fukui, Nobusuke Tsuzuki, Hiroshi Katoh, Takahito Miyazawa, Katsuji Shima.
Department of Neurosurgery, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.

Recovery of apparent diffusion coefficient in a rat model of embolic stroke does not mean completely salvage from ischemic neuronal injury.
Yoji Tanaka1, Toshihiko Kuroiwa2, Naoyuki Miyasaka3, Fumiko Tanabe3, Tsukasa Nagaoka4, Kikuo Ohno1. 1Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan; 2Department of Neuropathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University; 3Department of Comprehensive Reproductive Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University; 4Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Src family kinase inhibitor PP1 improves motor functions by reducing edema after spinal cord contusion in rats.
Chihiro Akiyama, Takamichi Yuguchi, Masami Nishi, Toshiyuki Fujinaka, Masaaki Taniguchi, Yoshikazu Nakajima, Toshiki Yoshimine.
Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Osaka, Japan.

Members of the Selection Committee are as follows:


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