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      <img src="/_resources/MSMimages/FacultyDirectoryImages/Neurobiology/ShobuNamura.jpg" alt="Shobu Namura, M.D., Ph.D."></img>
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   <name>Shobu Namura, M.D., Ph.D.</name>
   <title>Professor </title>
   <department>Neurobiology</department>
   <title2></title2>
   <department2></department2>
   <email>snamura@msm.edu</email>
   <phone>404-756-8929 </phone>
   <location>Multidisciplinary Research Center</location>
   <education>
      <strong>
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            <strong>POSTGRADUATE:
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            </strong>
         </strong>
      </strong>Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
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         <strong>
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               <br></br>MEDICAL SCHOOL:
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            </strong>
         </strong>
      </strong>Kyoto University
      <strong>
         <strong>
            <strong>
               <strong>
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               </strong>
            </strong>
            <strong>Degree: </strong>
         </strong>
      </strong>Doctor of Medicine
      <strong>
         <strong>
            <br></br>
            <br></br>GRADUATE:
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         </strong>
      </strong>Kyoto University
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         <strong>
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         </strong>
      </strong>
      <strong>Degree: </strong>
      <span>Doctor of Philosophy 
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      </span>
   </education>
   <clinicalinterests>
      <ul>
         <li>Stroke</li>
         <li>Cerebrovascular Diseases</li>
      </ul>
   </clinicalinterests>
   <specialties></specialties>
   <research>
      <ul>
         <li>Neuroprotection</li>
         <li>Neural development</li>
         <li>Neural conversion</li>
      </ul>
   </research>
   <boardcerts></boardcerts>
   <publications>
      <ul>
         <li>
            <strong>Namura S</strong>, Ooboshi H, Liu J, Yenari MA. Neuroprotection after cerebral ischemia. Ann N Y Acad
            Sci. 2013 Mar;1278:25-32.
         </li>
         <li>Wang G, 
            <strong>Namura S.</strong> Effects of chronic systemic treatment with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor
            α activators on neuroinflammation induced by intracerebral injection of lipopolysaccharide
            in adult mice. Neurosci Res. 2011 Jun;70(2):230-237.
         </li>
         <li>Wang G, Liu X, Guo Q, 
            <strong>Namura S</strong>. Chronic treatment with fibrates elevates superoxide dismutase in adult mouse brain
            microvessels. Brain Res. 2010 Nov 4;1359:247-255.
         </li>
         <li>Tsukamoto T, Nakata R, Tamura E, Kosuge Y, Kariya A, Katsukawa M, Mishima S, Ito T,
            Iinuma M, Akao Y, Nozawa Y, Arai Y, 
            <strong>Namura S</strong>, Inoue H. Vaticanol C, a resveratrol tetramer, activates PPARalpha and PPARbeta/delta
            in vitro and in vivo. Nutr Metab (Lond). 2010 May 27;7:46.
         </li>
         <li>Guo Q, Wang G, 
            <strong>Namura S.</strong> Fenofibrate improves cerebral blood flow after middle cerebral artery occlusion in
            mice. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2010 Jan;30(1):70-78.
         </li>
      </ul>
   </publications>
   <awards></awards>
</profile>