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Hitoshi Takahashi

Hitoshi Takahashi

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45869
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5144
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110

Overview

Hitoshi Takahashi is affiliated with Niigata University in Japan, where their research primarily focuses on the field of medicine with significant contributions to neurology, epidemiology, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and surgery.

The scientist's work covers a diverse range of main topics, including:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Vasculitis and related conditions
  • Neurological diseases and metabolism

The following are selected recent papers highlighting various aspects of their research contributions:

  • A New Framework for Investigating the Biological Basis of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 5]: Mechanical Stress, Vulnerability and Time, 2022, Global Spine Journal
  • Neuropathology associated with exposure to different concentrations and species of mercury: A review of autopsy cases and the literature, 2020, NeuroToxicology
  • Changes in virus detection in hospitalized children before and after the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic, 2022, Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
  • Stage-dependent immunity orchestrates AQP4 antibody-guided NMOSD pathology: a role for netting neutrophils with resident memory T cells in situ, 2024, Acta Neuropathologica
  • Genetic Variations and Neuropathologic Features of Patients with PRKN Mutations, 2021, Movement Disorders

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Neuropathology
  • Biologicals
  • Neurochemical Research
  • Journal of Pharmacological Sciences
  • Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society

Collaboration has been an important aspect of Takahashi's research activities, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Akiyoshi Kakita
  • Osamu Onodera
  • Yasuko Toyoshima
  • Mitsunori Yamada
  • Masatoyo Nishizawa

Best Publications

  • Unstable expansion of CAG repeat in hereditary dentatorubral–pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA)

    R. Koide;T. Ikeuchi;O. Onodera;H. Tanaka

  • Interference by Huntingtin and Atrophin-1 with CBP-Mediated Transcription Leading to Cellular Toxicity

    Frederick C. Nucifora;Masayuki Sasaki;Matthew F. Peters;Hui Huang

  • Identification of the spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 gene using a direct identification of repeat expansion and cloning technique, DIRECT.

    K Sanpei;H Takano;S Igarashi;T Sato

  • α-Synuclein immunoreactivity in glial cytoplasmic inclusions in multiple system atrophy

    Koichi Wakabayashi;Makoto Yoshimoto;Shoji Tsuji;Hitoshi Takahashi

  • Loss of aquaporin 4 in lesions of neuromyelitis optica: distinction from multiple sclerosis.

    T. Misu;K. Fujihara;A. Kakita;H. Konno

  • Parkinson's disease: the presence of Lewy bodies in Auerbach's and Meissner's plexuses

    K. Wakabayashi;H. Takahashi;S. Takeda;E. Ohama

  • Axonal α-synuclein aggregates herald centripetal degeneration of cardiac sympathetic nerve in Parkinson's disease

    Satoshi Orimo;Toshiki Uchihara;Ayako Nakamura;Fumiaki Mori

  • The Lewy body in Parkinson's disease: molecules implicated in the formation and degradation of alpha-synuclein aggregates.

    Koichi Wakabayashi;Kunikazu Tanji;Fumiaki Mori;Hitoshi Takahashi

  • Negative regulation of the RIG-I signaling by the ubiquitin ligase RNF125

    Kei-ichiro Arimoto;Hitoshi Takahashi;Takayuki Hishiki;Hideyuki Konishi

  • Neuropathology of autonomic nervous system in Parkinson's disease.

    Koichi Wakabayashi;Hitoshi Takahashi

  • Accumulation of alpha-synuclein/NACP is a cytopathological feature common to Lewy body disease and multiple system atrophy.

    K. Wakabayashi;Shintaro Hayashi;Akiyoshi Kakita;Mitsunori Yamada

  • Aging-related tau astrogliopathy (ARTAG): harmonized evaluation strategy

    Gabor G. Kovacs;Isidro Ferrer;Lea T. Grinberg;Lea T. Grinberg;Irina Alafuzoff

  • Expanded polyglutamine stretches interact with TAFII130, interfering with CREB-dependent transcription.

    Takayoshi Shimohata;Toshihiro Nakajima;Mitsunori Yamada;Chiharu Uchida

  • Phosphorylated α-Synuclein Is Ubiquitinated in α-Synucleinopathy Lesions

    Masato Hasegawa;Hideo Fujiwara;Takashi Nonaka;Koichi Wakabayashi

  • The Lewy Body in Parkinson’s Disease and Related Neurodegenerative Disorders

    Koichi Wakabayashi;Kunikazu Tanji;Saori Odagiri;Yasuo Miki

  • NACP, a presynaptic protein, immunoreactivity in Lewy bodies in Parkinson's disease

    Koichi Wakabayashi;Kayo Matsumoto;Kiyoshi Takayama;Makoto Yoshimoto

  • TDP-43 mutation in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Akio Yokoseki;Atsushi Shiga;Chun-Feng Tan;Asako Tagawa

  • A Neurological Disease Caused By an Expanded CAG Trinucleotide Repeat in The TATA-Binding Protein Gene: A New Polyglutamine Disease?

    Reiji Koide;Shigeichi Kobayashi;Takayoshi Shimohata;Takeshi Ikeuchi

  • Mutations in COQ2 in familial and sporadic multiple-system atrophy the multiple-system atrophy research collaboration

    Jun Mitsui;Takashi Matsukawa;Hiroyuki Ishiura;Yoko Fukuda;Yoko Fukuda

  • Familial juvenile parkinsonism: clinical and pathologic study in a family.

    H. Takahashi;E. Ohama;S. Suzuki;Y. Horikawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Akiyoshi Kakita
Akiyoshi Kakita Niigata University
Koichi Wakabayashi
Koichi Wakabayashi Hirosaki University
Shoji Tsuji
Shoji Tsuji University of Tokyo
Osamu Onodera
Osamu Onodera Niigata University
Hiroyuki Nawa
Hiroyuki Nawa Wakayama Medical University
Yukihiko Fujii
Yukihiko Fujii Niigata University
Takeshi Ikeuchi
Takeshi Ikeuchi Niigata University
Masahito Yamada
Masahito Yamada Kanazawa University
Hidehiro Mizusawa
Hidehiro Mizusawa Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Ryozo Kuwano
Ryozo Kuwano Niigata University

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