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Atsumi Nitta is affiliated with the University of Toyama in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their research primarily spans neuroscience, with a focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, biological psychiatry, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their recent publication record includes works on neuropharmacology, neural mechanisms, and brain disorders. Selected recent papers include:

  • Schizophrenia-Like Behavioral Impairments in Mice with Suppressed Expression of Piccolo in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex, 2021, Journal of Personalized Medicine
  • New Insights Regarding Diagnosis and Medication for Schizophrenia Based on Neuronal Synapse-Microglia Interaction, 2021, Journal of Personalized Medicine
  • Shati/Nat8l deficiency disrupts adult neurogenesis and causes attentional impairment through dopaminergic neuronal dysfunction in the dentate gyrus, 2020, Journal of Neurochemistry
  • Striatal Shati/Nat8l-BDNF pathways determine the sensitivity to social defeat stress in mice through epigenetic regulation, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • A Role of BDNF in the Depression Pathogenesis and a Potential Target as Antidepressant: The Modulator of Stress Sensitivity "Shati/Nat8l-BDNF System" in the Dorsal Striatum, 2021, Pharmaceuticals

The themes of their work address neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, tryptophan and brain disorders, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, nerve injury and regeneration, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Naotaka Izuo
  • Shin-ichi Muramatsu
  • Takashi Asano
  • Hajime Miyanishi
  • Kyosuke Uno

Nitta's publications often appear in venues such as:

  • Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society
  • The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Neurochemical Research
  • Neuropsychopharmacology Reports
  • Folia Pharmacologica Japonica

The breadth of Nitta's work encompasses fundamental neuroscience as well as clinical and translational medicine, emphasizing molecular mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric disorders and their potential therapeutic targets.

Best Publications

  • β-Amyloid protein-induced Alzheimer's disease animal model

    Atsumi Nitta;Akio Itoh;Takaaki Hasegawa;Toshitaka Nabeshima

  • Production and functions of IL-17 in microglia

    Jun Kawanokuchi;Kouki Shimizu;Atsumi Nitta;Kiyofumi Yamada

  • A natural scavenger of peroxynitrites, rosmarinic acid, protects against impairment of memory induced by Aβ25–35

    Tursun Alkam;Atsumi Nitta;Hiroyuki Mizoguchi;Akio Itoh

  • Behavioral abnormality and pharmacologic response in social isolation-reared mice

    Hiroyuki Koike;Daisuke Ibi;Hiroyuki Mizoguchi;Taku Nagai

  • DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES IN BRAIN ARE INDUCED BY DEFICIENCY OF BDNF

    A Nitta;R Murai;N Suzuki;H Ito

  • Continuous Infusion of β-Amyloid Protein into the Rat Cerebral Ventricle Induces Learning Impairment and Neuronal and Morphological Degeneration

    Atsumi Nitta;Atsumi Nitta;Taneo Fukuta;Takaaki Hasegawa;Toshitaka Nabeshima

  • The Allosteric Potentiation of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors by Galantamine Ameliorates the Cognitive Dysfunction in Beta Amyloid25–35 I.c.v.-Injected Mice: Involvement of Dopaminergic Systems

    Dayong Wang;Yukihiro Noda;Yukihiro Noda;Yuan Zhou;Yuan Zhou;Akihiro Mouri

  • Role of Tumor Necrosis Factor-α in Methamphetamine-Induced Drug Dependence and Neurotoxicity

    Akira Nakajima;Kiyofumi Yamada;Kiyofumi Yamada;Taku Nagai;Takehisa Uchiyama

  • Dysfunction of cholinergic and dopaminergic neuronal systems in β-amyloid protein-infused rats

    Akio Itoh;Atsumi Nitta;Masayuki Nadai;Kyoko Nishimura

  • Dietary n-3 fatty acid deficiency decreases nerve growth factor content in rat hippocampus.

    Atsushi Ikemoto;Atsumi Nitta;Shoei Furukawa;Masayo Ohishi

  • Chronic restraint stress impairs neurogenesis and hippocampus-dependent fear memory in mice: possible involvement of a brain-specific transcription factor Npas4.

    Jaesuk Yun;Hiroyuki Koike;Hiroyuki Koike;Daisuke Ibi;Erika Toth

  • Impairments of long-term potentiation in hippocampal slices of β-amyloid-infused rats

    Akio Itoh;Tadashi Akaike;Tadashi Akaike;Masahiro Sokabe;Atsumi Nitta

  • Alterations in hippocampal GAP-43, BDNF, and L1 following sustained cerebral ischemia.

    Keiko Miyake;Wataru Yamamoto;Mina Tadokoro;Norio Takagi

  • Butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors ameliorate cognitive dysfunction induced by amyloid-β peptide in mice

    Yoko Furukawa-Hibi;Tursun Alkam;Atsumi Nitta;Akihiro Matsuyama

  • Combined effect of neonatal immune activation and mutant DISC1 on phenotypic changes in adulthood.

    Daisuke Ibi;Taku Nagai;Hiroyuki Koike;Hiroyuki Koike;Yuko Kitahara

  • The role of TNF-alpha and its receptors in the production of NGF and GDNF by astrocytes.

    Reiko Kuno;Yusuke Yoshida;Atsumi Nitta;Toshitaka Nabeshima

  • Regulations of methamphetamine reward by extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2/ets-like gene-1 signaling pathway via the activation of dopamine receptors.

    Hiroyuki Mizoguchi;Kiyofumi Yamada;Makoto Mizuno;Tomoko Mizuno

  • The tissue plasminogen activator-plasmin system participates in the rewarding effect of morphine by regulating dopamine release

    Taku Nagai;Kiyofumi Yamada;Masako Yoshimura;Kazuhiro Ishikawa

  • Neonatal polyI:C treatment in mice results in schizophrenia-like behavioral and neurochemical abnormalities in adulthood

    Daisuke Ibi;Taku Nagai;Yuko Kitahara;Hiroyuki Mizoguchi

  • Memory impairment and neuronal dysfunction induced by beta-amyloid protein in rats.

    Toshitaka Nabeshima;Atsumi Nitta

Frequent Co-Authors

Shin-ichi Muramatsu
Shin-ichi Muramatsu Jichi Medical University
Yukihiro Noda
Yukihiro Noda Meijo University
Taku Nagai
Taku Nagai Nagoya University
Ryota Hashimoto
Ryota Hashimoto National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
Ichiro Sora
Ichiro Sora Kobe University
Eun-Joo Shin
Eun-Joo Shin Kangwon National University
Shigeyoshi Itohara
Shigeyoshi Itohara RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Akira Sawa
Akira Sawa Johns Hopkins University
Tangui Maurice
Tangui Maurice University of Montpellier
Nakao Iwata
Nakao Iwata Fujita Health University

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