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Akiko Nishiyama is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant body of work in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Nishiyama's research spans several subfields including developmental neuroscience, neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cancer research, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work encompasses key topics such as neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, microRNA in disease regulation, immune cells in cancer, nerve injury and regeneration, axon guidance and neuronal signaling, as well as pluripotent stem cells research.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nishiyama include:

  • Microglial neuropilin-1 promotes oligodendrocyte expansion during development and remyelination by trans-activating platelet-derived growth factor receptor, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Life-long oligodendrocyte development and plasticity, 2021, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Shaping of Regional Differences in Oligodendrocyte Dynamics by Regional Heterogeneity of the Pericellular Microenvironment, 2021, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Features, Fates, and Functions of Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells, 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
  • Direct reprogramming of oligodendrocyte precursor cells into GABAergic inhibitory neurons by a single homeodomain transcription factor Dlx2, 2021, Scientific Reports

Nishiyama has worked frequently with several co-authors. Frequent collaborators include Amin Sherafat, Friederike Pfeiffer, William M. Wood, Yetunde O. Akinlaja, and Christopher D. Fekete.

The scholar's publications appear most often in the following venues:

  • Glia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Polydendrocytes (NG2 cells): multifunctional cells with lineage plasticity

    Akiko Nishiyama;Mila Komitova;Ryusuke Suzuki;Xiaoqin Zhu

  • NG2-positive oligodendrocyte progenitor cells in adult human brain and multiple sclerosis lesions.

    Ansi Chang;Akiko Nishiyama;John Peterson;John Peterson;John Prineas

  • NG2 cells generate both oligodendrocytes and gray matter astrocytes

    Xiaoqin Zhu;Dwight E. Bergles;Akiko Nishiyama

  • Mosaic Analysis with Double Markers Reveals Tumor Cell of Origin in Glioma

    Chong Liu;Jonathan C. Sage;Michael R. Miller;Roel G.W. Verhaak

  • Co-localization of NG2 proteoglycan and PDGF alpha-receptor on O2A progenitor cells in the developing rat brain.

    A. Nishiyama;X.-H. Lin;N. Giese;C.-H. Heldin

  • Vesicular release of glutamate from unmyelinated axons in white matter

    Jennifer L Ziskin;Akiko Nishiyama;Maria Rubio;Masahiro Fukaya

  • Age-dependent fate and lineage restriction of single NG2 cells.

    Xiaoqin Zhu;Robert A. Hill;Dirk Dietrich;Mila Komitova

  • Differentiation and death of premyelinating oligodendrocytes in developing rodent brain.

    Bruce D. Trapp;Akiko Nishiyama;David Cheng;Wendy Macklin

  • Dual origin of mesenchymal stem cells contributing to organ growth and repair

    Jifan Feng;Andrea Mantesso;Andrea Mantesso;Cosimo De Bari;Akiko Nishiyama

  • NG2+ glial cells: a novel glial cell population in the adult brain.

    Akiko Nishiyama;Ansi Chang;Bruce D. Trapp

  • Excitability and Synaptic Communication within the Oligodendrocyte Lineage

    Lindsay M. De Biase;Akiko Nishiyama;Dwight E. Bergles

  • The primary structure of NG2, a novel membrane-spanning proteoglycan.

    A Nishiyama;K J Dahlin;J T Prince;S R Johnstone

  • Differentiation of proliferated NG2-positive glial progenitor cells in a remyelinating lesion.

    Masahiko Watanabe;Yoshiaki Toyama;Akiko Nishiyama

  • NG2 cells: Properties, progeny and origin.

    Jacqueline Trotter;Khalad Karram;Akiko Nishiyama

  • Interaction between NG2 proteoglycan and PDGF alpha-receptor on O2A progenitor cells is required for optimal response to PDGF

    A. Nishiyama;X.-H. Lin;N. Giese;C.-H. Heldin

  • Non-Stem Cell Origin for Oligodendroglioma

    Anders I. Persson;Claudia Petritsch;Fredrik J. Swartling;Melissa Itsara

  • Antisense telomerase treatment: induction of two distinct pathways, apoptosis and differentiation

    Seiji Kondo;Yoshikazu Tanaka;Yasuko Kondo;Masahiro Hitomi

  • Normal and reactive NG2+ glial cells are distinct from resting and activated microglia

    Akiko Nishiyama;Min Yu;Judith A. Drazba;Vincent K. Tuohy

  • Identity, distribution, and development of polydendrocytes: NG2-expressing glial cells.

    Akiko Nishiyama;Masahiko Watanabe;Zhongshu Yang;Jie Bu

  • The Membrane-spanning Proteoglycan NG2 Binds to Collagens V and VI through the Central Nonglobular Domain of Its Core Protein *

    Emmanuelle Tillet;Florence Ruggiero;Akiko Nishiyama;William B. Stallcup

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahiko Watanabe
Masahiko Watanabe Hokkaido University
Bruce D. Trapp
Bruce D. Trapp Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Vincent K. Tuohy
Vincent K. Tuohy Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
William B. Stallcup
William B. Stallcup Discovery Institute
Gene H. Barnett
Gene H. Barnett Cleveland Clinic
Arthur M. Butt
Arthur M. Butt University of Portsmouth
Dwight E. Bergles
Dwight E. Bergles Johns Hopkins University
Kenji Sakimura
Kenji Sakimura Niigata University
Frank Kirchhoff
Frank Kirchhoff University of Ulm
John K. Cowell
John K. Cowell Augusta University

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