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Hiroshi Yamada

Hiroshi Yamada

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Biology and Biochemistry

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61
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10962
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11548
National Ranking
796

Overview

Hiroshi Yamada is a researcher affiliated with Okayama University in Japan. Their work spans multiple fields including Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable focus on subfields such as Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Surgery, Physiology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The major research topics covered in Yamada's publications include:

  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology
  • Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments

Recent papers authored by Yamada cover a range of biomedical subjects, such as membrane remodeling, microtubule organization, and renal pathology. These include:

  • Mutant BIN1-Dynamin 2 complexes dysregulate membrane remodeling in the pathogenesis of centronuclear myopathy, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Dynamin 1 is important for microtubule organization and stabilization in glomerular podocytes, 2020, The FASEB Journal
  • JRAB/MICAL-L2 undergoes liquid-liquid phase separation to form tubular recycling endosomes, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Comparable survival outcome between acquired cystic disease associated renal cell carcinoma and clear cell carcinoma in patients with end-stage renal disease: a multi-institutional central pathology study, 2021, Pathology
  • The Lipid-Binding Defective Dynamin 2 Mutant in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Impairs Proper Actin Bundling and Actin Organization in Glomerular Podocytes, 2022, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Yamada frequently collaborates with several co-authors, with whom they have multiple joint publications. These frequent collaborators include:

  • Kohji Takei
  • Tadashi Abe
  • Tetsuya Takeda
  • Kenshiro Fujise
  • Toshinori Nishikimi

The researcher has published in a variety of venues, with several papers appearing in:

  • IJU Case Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Preprints.org
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • The Japanese Journal of Urology

Best Publications

  • Immunohistochemical localization of Klotho protein in brain, kidney, and reproductive organs of mice.

    Shun Ai Li;Masami Watanabe;Hiroshi Yamada;Atsushi Nagai

  • Open TG-GATEs: a large-scale toxicogenomics database

    Yoshinobu Igarashi;Noriyuki Nakatsu;Tomoya Yamashita;Atsushi Ono

  • Long-term treatment with the sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor, dapagliflozin, ameliorates glucose homeostasis and diabetic nephropathy in db/db mice.

    Naoto Terami;Daisuke Ogawa;Hiromi Tachibana;Takashi Hatanaka

  • G-Quadruplex stabilization by telomestatin induces TRF2 protein dissociation from telomeres and anaphase bridge formation accompanied by loss of the 3' telomeric overhang in cancer cells.

    H Tahara;K Shin-Ya;H Seimiya;H Yamada

  • Repetitive Elements in Mammalian Telomeres Suppress Bacterial DNA-Induced Immune Activation

    Ihsan Gursel;Mayda Gursel;Hiroshi Yamada;Ken J. Ishii

  • Fission yeast minichromosome loss mutants mis cause lethal aneuploidy and replication abnormality.

    Kohta Takahashi;Hiroshi Yamada;Mitsuhiro Yanagida

  • Predicting Drug-induced Hepatotoxicity Using QSAR and Toxicogenomics Approaches

    Yen Low;Takeki Uehara;Yohsuke Minowa;Hiroshi Yamada

  • Distribution of medullary respiratory neurons in the rat.

    Kazuhisa Ezure;Motomu Manabe;Hiroshi Yamada

  • The Japanese toxicogenomics project: Application of toxicogenomics

    Takeki Uehara;Atsushi Ono;Toshiyuki Maruyama;Ikuo Kato

  • 20S cyclosome complex formation and proteolytic activity inhibited by the cAMP/PKA pathway

    Yukiko M. Yamashita;Yukinobu Nakaseko;Itaru Samejima;Kazuki Kumada

  • Molecular Markers of Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Cell Damage in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.

    Shunsaku Nakagawa;Kumiko Nishihara;Hitomi Miyata;Haruka Shinke

  • Secretory granule-mediated co-secretion of L-glutamate and glucagon triggers glutamatergic signal transmission in islets of Langerhans.

    Mitsuko Hayashi;Hiroshi Yamada;Shunsuke Uehara;Riyo Morimoto

  • Enhanced genomic instabilities caused by deregulated microtubule dynamics and chromosome segregation: a perspective from genetic studies in mice

    Chinthalapally V. Rao;Hiroshi Y. Yamada;Yixin Yao;Wei Dai

  • Efficacy of selenium in tuna and selenite in modifying methylmercury intoxication

    Gen Ohi;Susumu Nishigaki;Hironobu Seki;Yukihiro Tamura

  • Vacuolar H+-ATPase Localized in Plasma Membranes of Malaria Parasite Cells, Plasmodium falciparum, Is Involved in Regional Acidification of Parasitized Erythrocytes

    Mitsuko Hayashi;Hiroshi Yamada;Toshihide Mitamura;Toshihiro Horii

  • Distinct subunit functions and cell cycle regulated phosphorylation of 20S APC/cyclosome required for anaphase in fission yeast

    Hiroshi Yamada;Kazuki Kumada;Mitsuhiro Yanagida

  • Frequently mutated genes/pathways and genomic instability as prevention targets in liver cancer

    Chinthalapally V. Rao;Adam S. Asch;Hiroshi Y. Yamada

  • Effect of Suppressive DNA on CpG-Induced Immune Activation

    Hiroshi Yamada;Ihsan Gursel;Fumihiko Takeshita;Jackie Conover

  • Proteases essential for human influenza virus entry into cells and their inhibitors as potential therapeutic agents.

    Hiroshi Kido;Yuushi Okumura;Hiroshi Yamada;Trong Quang Le

  • Efferent projections of inspiratory neurons of the ventral respiratory group. A dual labeling study in the rat

    Hiroshi Yamada;Kazuhisa Ezure;Motomu Manabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Kohji Takei
Kohji Takei Okayama University
Chinthalapally V. Rao
Chinthalapally V. Rao University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Yoshinori Moriyama
Yoshinori Moriyama Okayama University
Akitsugu Yamamoto
Akitsugu Yamamoto Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology
Akihito Yamaguchi
Akihito Yamaguchi Osaka University
Kazuhito Tomizawa
Kazuhito Tomizawa Kumamoto University
Masamitsu Futai
Masamitsu Futai Osaka University
Gary J. Gorbsky
Gary J. Gorbsky Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Pietro De Camilli
Pietro De Camilli Yale University
Dennis M. Klinman
Dennis M. Klinman National Institutes of Health

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