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75
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2051
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47

Overview

Hiroshi Takagi is affiliated with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable concentration in molecular biology.

The scientist's research covers several subfields including molecular biology, food science, cell biology, plant science, and physiology. Their main topics of work encompass fungal and yeast genetics research, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, fermentation and sensory analysis, polyamine metabolism and applications, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, nitric oxide and endothelin effects, and biofuel production and bioconversion.

Takagi's publication record includes numerous appearances in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues consist of Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry, where they have contributed to 14 publications; FEMS Yeast Research with 5 publications; Yeast with 4; Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology with 4; and Applied and Environmental Microbiology with 3 publications.

They have coauthored papers with various scientists, most frequently collaborating with Akira Nishimura (27 publications), Ryoya Tanahashi (18), Shota Isogai (15), Ryo Nasuno (15), and Yoichi Toyokawa (8).

Selected recent papers by Hiroshi Takagi include:

  • Crystal structure of a YeeE/YedE family protein engaged in thiosulfate uptake, 2020, Science Advances
  • Molecular mechanisms and highly functional development for stress tolerance of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 2021, Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry
  • High-Level Production of Lysine in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Rational Design of Homocitrate Synthase, 2021, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Genomic stability and adaptation of beer brewing yeasts during serial repitching in the brewery, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Inhibitory effect of arginine on proline utilization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 2020, Yeast

Best Publications

  • Calcitonin gene-related peptide promotes mechanical nociception by potentiating release of substance P from the spinal dorsal horn in rats.

    Ryoya Oku;Masamichi Satoh;Nobutaka Fujii;Akira Otaka

  • Evidence that substance P and somatostatin transmit separate information related to pain in the spinal dorsal horn.

    Yasushi Kuraishi;Naoyoshi Hirota;Yoichi Sato;Yutaka Hino

  • A novel analgesic dipeptide from bovine brain is a possible Met-enkephalin releaser.

    Hiroshi Takagi;Hirohito Shiomi;Hiroshi Ueda;Hiro Amano

  • Ontogeny of substance P-containing neuron system of the rat: immunohistochemical analysis--I. Forebrain and upper brain stem.

    S. Inagaki;M. Sakanaka;S. Shiosaka;E. Senba

  • Noradrenergic inhibition of the release of substance P from the primary afferents in the rabbit spinal dorsal horn.

    Yasushi Kuraishi;Naoyoshi Hirota;Yoichi Sato;Shuji Kaneko

  • Glutamate decarboxylase immunoreactivity in the hippocampus of the cat: distribution of immunoreactive synaptic terminals with special reference to the axon initial segment of pyramidal neurons

    Somogyi P;Smith Ad;Nunzi Mg;Gorio A

  • Localization of substance P-like immunoreactivity in neurons and nerve terminals in the neostriatum of the rat: a correlated light and electron microscopic study.

    J. P. Bolam;P. Somogyi;H. Takagi;I. Fodor

  • Separate involvement of the spinal noradrenergic and serotonergic systems in morphine analgesia: the differences in mechanical and thermal algesic tests.

    Y Kuraishi;Y Harada;S Aratani;M Satoh

  • Ontogeny of somatostatin‐containing neuron system of the rat: Immunohistochemical analysis. II. Forebrain and diencephalon

    Sadao Shiosaka;Kenichi Takatsuki;Masahiro Sakanaka;Shinobu Inagaki

  • Analgesia induced by microinjection of morphine into, and electrical stimulation of, the nucleus reticularis paragigantocellularis of rat medulla oblongata

    A. Akaike;T. Shibata;M. Satoh;H. Takagi

  • Noradrenaline regulation of pain-transmission in the spinal cord mediated by alpha-adrenoceptors.

    Yasushi Kuraishi;Yoshio Harada;Hiroshi Takagi

  • Release of substance P from the spinal dorsal horn is enhanced in polyarthritic rats.

    Ryoya Oku;Masamichi Satoh;Hiroshi Takagi

  • Morphine-like analgesia by a new dipeptide, L-tyrosyl-L-arginine (Kyotorphin) and its analogue.

    Hiroshi Takagi;Hirohito Shiomi;Hiroshi Ueda;Hiro Amano

  • Fine structural studies on a type of somatostatin‐immurioreactive neuron and its synaptic connections in the rat neostriatum: A correlated light and electron microscopic study

    H. Takagi;P. Somogyi;J. Somogyi;A. D. Smith

  • Localizations of α1 and β1 subunits of soluble guanylate cyclase in the rat brain

    T. Furuyama;S. Inagaki;H. Takagi

  • Effect of topical administration of l-arginine on formalin-induced nociception in the mouse: a dual role of peripherally formed NO in pain modulation

    Atsufumi Kawabata;Sachiko Manabe;Yuki Manabe;Hiroshi Takagi

  • Stimulus specificity of peripherally evoked substance P release from the rabbit dorsal horn in situ

    Y. Kuraishi;N. Hirota;Y. Sato;N. Hanashima

  • Ontogeny of the neurotensin-containing neuron system of the rat: immunohistochemical analysis. I. Forebrain and diencephalon.

    Yoshinobu Hara;Sadao Shiosaka;Emiko Senba;Masahiro Sakanaka

  • Synaptic connections of enkephalin-immunoreactive nerve terminals in the neostriatum: a correlated light and electron microscopic study

    P. Somogyi;P. Somogyi;J. V. Priestley;A. C. Cuello;A. D. Smith

  • Ascending components of the medial forebrain bundle from the lower brain stem in the rat, with special reference to raphe and catecholamine cell groups. A study by the HRP method.

    Hiroshi Takagi;Sadao Shiosaka;Masaya Tohyama;Emiko Senba

Frequent Co-Authors

Tadashi Kokubo
Tadashi Kokubo Chubu University
Shuji Kaneko
Shuji Kaneko Kyoto University
Etsuro Ito
Etsuro Ito Waseda University
Hiroyuki Nawa
Hiroyuki Nawa Wakayama Medical University

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