Japanese
Yamaguchi University, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary Surgery <To save animals lives>

Faculty

TANI Kenji, PhD, DVM
Professor, Veterinary Surgery

SUNAHARA Hiroshi, PhD, DVM
Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Veterinary Surgery


Our Lab

The proportion of veterinary surgery in veterinary clinic field is very high, and especially, the veterinary surgery lab has focus on the treatment of neurological diseases occur in animal brain and spine, and various types of neoplastic diseases. Also the lab is responsible of the clinical diagnostic imaginings, aiming the improvement in diagnostic accuracy of various diseases with the use of latest diagnostic imaginings, such as MRI or CT.

Research Interests

  • The diagnosis and treatment of animal geriatric diseases.
  • The diagnosis and treatment of various neoplastic diseases of small animals.
  • The donor-specific immune tolerance, the use of anesthesia to animals.
  • The protozoal agent of small animals, the mechanism of "self or non-self" recognition, and the functional reconstruction of the central nerve.
  • Study on mechanism and prevention of pulmonary restenosis in dogs.
  • Study on acquired heart disease in dogs.
  • Study on cardiomyopathy in cats