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Kaoru Inokuchi

Kaoru Inokuchi

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Neuroscience

D-Index
58
Citations
9800
World Ranking
4233
National Ranking
124

Overview

Kaoru Inokuchi is affiliated with the University of Toyama in Japan. Their research primarily addresses topics within Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Other subfields of their work include Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • Selective engram coreactivation in idling brain inspires implicit learning, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Food odor perception promotes systemic lipid utilization, 2022, Nature Metabolism
  • Pcdhβ deficiency affects hippocampal CA1 ensemble activity and contextual fear discrimination, 2020, Molecular Brain
  • Large-scale animal model study uncovers altered brain pH and lactate levels as a transdiagnostic endophenotype of neuropsychiatric disorders involving cognitive impairment, 2024, eLife
  • A cortical cell ensemble in the posterior parietal cortex controls past experience-dependent memory updating, 2022, Nature Communications

Their work appears frequently in specific journals and publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Brain
  • Nature Communications
  • eLife
  • Neuroscience Research

Kaoru Inokuchi has collaborated extensively with certain coauthors, among them:

  • Masanori Nomoto
  • Noriaki Ohkawa
  • Kareem Abdou
  • Reiko Okubo-Suzuki
  • Khaled Ghandour

Their research covers major topics linked to neuroscience and neural functions such as:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research

Best Publications

  • Hippocampal LTP Is Accompanied by Enhanced F-Actin Content within the Dendritic Spine that Is Essential for Late LTP Maintenance In Vivo

    Yugo Fukazawa;Yoshito Saitoh;Fumiko Ozawa;Yasuhiko Ohta

  • Adult Neurogenesis Modulates the Hippocampus-Dependent Period of Associative Fear Memory

    Takashi Kitamura;Yoshito Saitoh;Yoshito Saitoh;Noriko Takashima;Akiko Murayama

  • Ubiquitin C-Terminal Hydrolase Is an Immediate-Early Gene Essential for Long-Term Facilitation in Aplysia

    Ashok N. Hegde;Kaoru Inokuchi;Wanzheng Pei;Andrea Casadio

  • Novel Members of the Vesl/Homer Family of PDZ Proteins That Bind Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors *

    Akihiko Kato;Akihiko Kato;Fumiko Ozawa;Yoshito Saitoh;Yugo Fukazawa

  • vesl, a gene encoding VASP/Ena family related protein, is upregulated during seizure, long-term potentiation and synaptogenesis.

    Akihiko Kato;Fumiko Ozawa;Yoshito Saitoh;Keiko Hirai

  • Neuronal Stimulation Induces Autophagy in Hippocampal Neurons That Is Involved in AMPA Receptor Degradation after Chemical Long-Term Depression

    Mohammad Shehata;Hiroyuki Matsumura;Reiko Okubo-Suzuki;Noriaki Ohkawa

  • Primary structure of the ompF gene that codes for a major outer membrane protein of Escherichia coli K-12

    Kaoru Inokuchi;Norihiro Mutoh;Shin-ichi Matsuyama;Shoji Mizushima

  • Synapse-specific representation of the identity of overlapping memory engrams

    Kareem Abdou;Mohammad Shehata;Kiriko Choko;Hirofumi Nishizono

  • Pax6 is required for production and maintenance of progenitor cells in postnatal hippocampal neurogenesis.

    Motoko Maekawa;Noriko Takashima;Noriko Takashima;Yoko Arai;Tadashi Nomura

  • Orchestrated ensemble activities constitute a hippocampal memory engram.

    Khaled Ghandour;Noriaki Ohkawa;Chi Chung Alan Fung;Hirotaka Asai

  • Artificial association of pre-stored information to generate a qualitatively new memory.

    Noriaki Ohkawa;Yoshito Saitoh;Akinobu Suzuki;Shuhei Tsujimura

  • Activin in the Brain Modulates Anxiety-Related Behavior and Adult Neurogenesis

    Hiroshi Ageta;Akiko Murayama;Rika Migishima;Satoshi Kida

  • Mice containing a human chromosome 21 model behavioral impairment and cardiac anomalies of Down’s syndrome

    Tokuyuki Shinohara;Kazuma Tomizuka;Shinichi Miyabara;Shoko Takehara

  • N-acetyltransferase ARD1-NAT1 regulates neuronal dendritic development.

    Noriaki Ohkawa;Shunichiro Sugisaki;Shunichiro Sugisaki;Eri Tokunaga;Kazuko Fujitani

  • Overlapping memory trace indispensable for linking, but not recalling, individual memories

    Jun Yokose;Reiko Okubo-Suzuki;Masanori Nomoto;Noriaki Ohkawa

  • Arachidonic acid drives postnatal neurogenesis and elicits a beneficial effect on prepulse inhibition, a biological trait of psychiatric illnesses.

    Motoko Maekawa;Noriko Takashima;Miho Matsumata;Shiro Ikegami

  • Mild Impairment of Learning and Memory in Mice Overexpressing the mSim2 Gene Located on Chromosome 16: An Animal Model of Down's Syndrome

    Masatsugu Ema;Shiro Ikegami;Tomonori Hosoya;Junsei Mimura

  • Input-Specific Spine Entry of Soma-Derived Vesl-1S Protein Conforms to Synaptic Tagging

    Daisuke Okada;Fumiko Ozawa;Kaoru Inokuchi

  • Adult Neurogenesis Conserves Hippocampal Memory Capacity.

    Jahangir Alam;Takashi Kitamura;Yoshito Saitoh;Noriaki Ohkawa

  • Role of adult neurogenesis in hippocampal-cortical memory consolidation

    Takashi Kitamura;Kaoru Inokuchi

  • Differential functional interaction of two Vesl/Homer protein isoforms with ryanodine receptor type 1: a novel mechanism for control of intracellular calcium signaling.

    Sung-Yong Hwang;Jiao Wei;Jens H Westhoff;R.Scott Duncan

  • Homer/vesl proteins and their roles in CNS neurons

    Markus U Ehrengruber;Akihiko Kato;Kaoru Inokuchi;Sonia Hennou

Frequent Co-Authors

Shin-ichi Muramatsu
Shin-ichi Muramatsu Jichi Medical University
Yugo Fukazawa
Yugo Fukazawa University of Fukui
Satoshi Kida
Satoshi Kida University of Tokyo
Noriko Osumi
Noriko Osumi Tohoku University
Eric R. Kandel
Eric R. Kandel Columbia University
Tomoki Fukai
Tomoki Fukai Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Michael A. King
Michael A. King University of Florida
Kazuo Okanoya
Kazuo Okanoya University of Tokyo
Takeo Yoshikawa
Takeo Yoshikawa RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Yoshiyuki Sakaki
Yoshiyuki Sakaki Toyohashi University of Technology

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