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Hideyo Ohuchi

Hideyo Ohuchi

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Biology and Biochemistry

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62
Citations
14164
World Ranking
10767
National Ranking
733

Overview

Hideyo Ohuchi is affiliated with Okayama University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with notable contributions to molecular biology and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topics, including retinal development and disorders, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, circadian rhythm and melatonin, neurobiology and insect physiology research, receptor mechanisms and signaling, CRISPR and genetic engineering, and nosocomial infections in intensive care units.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hideyo Ohuchi include Keita Sato, Takahiro Yamashita, Hirofumi Fujita, Tsutomu Nohno, and Tetsuya Bando. These collaborations have produced research published in various scientific journals and venues.

Some of the notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Hideyo Ohuchi are:

  • Toll signalling promotes blastema cell proliferation during cricket leg regeneration via insect macrophages, 2021, Development
  • Direct photoreception by pituitary endocrine cells regulates hormone release and pigmentation, 2025, Science
  • KCNJ13 Gene Deletion Impairs Cell Alignment and Phagocytosis in Retinal Pigment Epithelium Derived from Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, 2020, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
  • The Opsin 3/Teleost multiple tissue opsin system: mRNA localization in the retina and brain of medaka (Oryzias latipes), 2021, The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • Mammalian type opsin 5 preferentially activates G14 in Gq-type G proteins triggering intracellular calcium response, 2023, Journal of Biological Chemistry

Hideyo Ohuchi's frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Journal of Developmental Biology
  • Development
  • Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science

Best Publications

  • Fgf10 is essential for limb and lung formation

    Keisuke Sekine;Hideyo Ohuchi;Masanori Fujiwara;Masahiro Yamasaki

  • FGF10 acts as a major ligand for FGF receptor 2 IIIb in mouse multi-organ development.

    Hideyo Ohuchi;Yukiko Hori;Masahiro Yamasaki;Hidemitsu Harada

  • Mouse Pitx2 deficiency leads to anomalies of the ventral body wall, heart, extra- and periocular mesoderm and right pulmonary isomerism.

    Kunio Kitamura;Hirohito Miura;Sachiko Miyagawa-Tomita;Masako Yanazawa

  • The mesenchymal factor, FGF10, initiates and maintains the outgrowth of the chick limb bud through interaction with FGF8, an apical ectodermal factor.

    Hideyo Ohuchi;Takashi Nakagawa;Atsuyo Yamamoto;Akihiro Araga

  • Pitx2, a Bicoid-Type Homeobox Gene, Is Involved in a Lefty-Signaling Pathway in Determination of Left-Right Asymmetry

    Hidefumi Yoshioka;Chikara Meno;Kazuko Koshiba;Minoru Sugihara

  • Essential roles of the winged helix transcription factor MFH-1 in aortic arch patterning and skeletogenesis

    Kiyoshi Iida;Haruhiko Koseki;Hideaki Kakinuma;Naoko Kato

  • A mutation in the Pax-6 gene in rat small eye is associated with impaired migration of midbrain crest cells

    T. Matsuo;T. Matsuo;N. Osumi-Yamashita;S. Noji;H. Ohuchi

  • Role of Pax‐5 in the regulation of a mid‐hindbrain organizer’s activity

    Jun ichi Funahashi;Tatsuya Okafuji;Hideyo Ohuchi;Sumihare Noji

  • FGF10 maintains stem cell compartment in developing mouse incisors

    Hidemitsu Harada;Takashi Toyono;Kuniaki Toyoshima;Masahiro Yamasaki

  • STRUCTURE AND EXPRESSION OF A NOVEL HUMAN FGF, FGF-19, EXPRESSED IN THE FETAL BRAIN

    Tetsuya Nishimura;Yukari Utsunomiya;Masamitsu Hoshikawa;Hideyo Ohuchi

  • Pax-6 is involved in the specification of hindbrain motor neuron subtype.

    Noriko Osumi;Arisa Hirota;Hideyo Ohuchi;Masato Nakafuku

  • Opn5 is a UV-sensitive bistable pigment that couples with Gi subtype of G protein

    Takahiro Yamashita;Hideyo Ohuchi;Sayuri Tomonari;Keiko Ikeda

  • Involvement of Wingless/Armadillo signaling in the posterior sequential segmentation in the cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera), as revealed by RNAi analysis

    Katsuyuki Miyawaki;Taro Mito;Isao Sarashina;Hongjie Zhang

  • Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling Is Required for Maintenance of Differentiated Phenotype, Control of Proliferation, and Hypertrophy in Chondrocytes

    Motomi Enomoto-Iwamoto;Masahiro Iwamoto;Yoshiki Mukudai;Yasuhiko Kawakami

  • Involvement of androgen-induced growth factor (FGF-8) gene in mouse embryogenesis and morphogenesis.

    Hideyo Ohuchi;Hidefumi Yoshioka;Akira Tanaka;Yasuhiko Kawakami

  • Non-transgenic genome modifications in a hemimetabolous insect using zinc-finger and TAL effector nucleases

    Takahito Watanabe;Hiroshi Ochiai;Tetsushi Sakuma;Hadley W. Horch

  • Sonic hedgehog is expressed in epithelial cells during development of whisker, hair, and tooth.

    Sachiko Iseki;Akihiro Araga;Hideyo Ohuchi;Tsutomu Nohno

  • Correlation of diversity of leg morphology in Gryllus bimaculatus (cricket) with divergence in dpp expression pattern during leg development

    Nao Niwa;Yoshiko Inoue;Akiyoshi Nozawa;Mariko Saito

  • Mutations in the gene encoding fibroblast growth factor 10 are associated with aplasia of lacrimal and salivary glands.

    Miriam Entesarian;Hans Matsson;Joakim Klar;Birgitta Bergendal

  • Fibroblasts expressing Sonic hedgehog induce osteoblast differentiation and ectopic bone formation

    Naoki Kinto;Naoki Kinto;Masahiro Iwamoto;Motomi Enomoto-Iwamoto;Sumihare Noji

Frequent Co-Authors

Sumihare Noji
Sumihare Noji University of Tokushima
Tsutomu Nohno
Tsutomu Nohno Kawasaki Medical School
Yoshinori Shichida
Yoshinori Shichida Ritsumeikan University
Nobuyuki Itoh
Nobuyuki Itoh Kyoto University
Junken Aoki
Junken Aoki Tohoku University
Yoshio Hayashi
Yoshio Hayashi University of Tokushima
Shigeaki Kato
Shigeaki Kato University of Tokyo
Eiji Tanaka
Eiji Tanaka Shinshu University
Mitsuo Itakura
Mitsuo Itakura University of Tokushima
Masayuki Tanaka
Masayuki Tanaka National Institutes of Natural Sciences

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