Rate My Professor Rie Ishizawa

Ishizawa’s research specializes in exercise nutrition, focusing on the function of ion channels in skeletal muscle sensory nerves related to blood pressure responses during exercise and the relationship between such responses and fat diets. Her publication record includes “Abnormal cardiovascular control during exercise: Role of insulin resistance in the brain and periphery” (Autonomic Neuroscience, 2025), “Intracerebroventricular insulin injection acutely normalizes the augmented exercise pressor reflex in male rats with type 2 diabetes mellitus” (The Journal of Physiology, 2024), “TRPV1 sensitization of skeletal muscle afferents in type 2 diabetic rats with hyperglycemia” (Hypertension, 2021), “Skeletal muscle reflex-induced sympathetic dysregulation and sensitization of muscle afferents in type 1 diabetic rats” (Hypertension, 2020), and “Curcumin treatment enhances the effect of exercise on mitochondrial biogenesis in skeletal muscle by increasing cAMP levels” (Metabolism, 2015). She has obtained grants including a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) for elucidating mechanisms of elevated blood pressure during exercise in diabetes (2024–2026) and a Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up for control of blood pressure by gut-derived toxins in mechanosensitive muscle afferents (2023–2024). Ishizawa has presented her work at conferences such as the 101st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Physiological Society and the American Physiological Summit.