Our research investigates how our brain regulates the homeo status of blood glucose levels, and what kind of neurons, neuropeptides, and neuron circuits do that. Additionally, how does our memory of food, psychological stress, pain, and other somatic sensations affect it? It is difficult to assess glucose metabolism precisely.

We must check in insulin sensitivity or resistance, insulin secretion and counter regulatory responses. We should also check which tissue changes glucose uptake and glucose production regarding insulin sensitivity or resistance. We believe that not only insulin sensitivity, but also insulin secretion and counter regulatory responses are all affecting normal blood glucose levels, even in healthy conditions.

We are trying to understand the whole picture of glucose regulation by the brain. Our protocol is low cost and does not need a special and expensive device to create a clamp. It'll enable researchers to implement the use of the clamp easily and quickly.

Because this protocol helps researchers to use the clamp very easily, we expect our protocol will encourage more research in the entire field of life sciences.