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Katsuhiko Nishimori

Katsuhiko Nishimori

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
49
Citations
13156
World Ranking
2607
National Ranking
195

Overview

Katsuhiko Nishimori is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and focuses their research primarily in the fields of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work covers various subfields including Social Psychology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics studied by Nishimori encompass neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, stress responses and cortisol, infant health and development, human-animal interaction studies, and circadian rhythm and melatonin.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Oxytocin neurons enable social transmission of maternal behaviour" (2021, Nature)
  • "Molecular design of hypothalamus development" (2020, Nature)
  • "Quantitative cellular-resolution map of the oxytocin receptor in postnatally developing mouse brains" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "BMPR1A maintains skeletal stem cell properties in craniofacial development and craniosynostosis" (2021, Science Translational Medicine)
  • "Calcitonin receptor signaling in the medial preoptic area enables risk-taking maternal care" (2021, Cell Reports)

Nishimori frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Nature, Scientific Reports, and the Journal of Neuroendocrinology.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Shizu Hidema, Kenju Shimomura, Kengo Horie, Yuko Maejima, and Tomoyuki Ono.

Best Publications

  • Growth differentiation factor-9 is required during early ovarian folliculogenesis

    Dong J;Albertini Df;Nishimori K;Kumar Tr

  • Lgr5 homologues associate with Wnt receptors and mediate R-spondin signalling

    Wim De Lau;Nick Barker;Nick Barker;Teck Y. Low;Bon Kyoung Koo

  • Pervasive social deficits, but normal parturition, in oxytocin receptor-deficient mice

    Yuki Takayanagi;Masahide Yoshida;Isadora F. Bielsky;Heather E. Ross

  • Oxytocin is required for nursing but is not essential for parturition or reproductive behavior

    Katsuhiko Nishimori;Larry J. Young;Qiuxia Guo;Zuoxin Wang

  • Evidence That Oxytocin Exerts Anxiolytic Effects via Oxytocin Receptor Expressed in Serotonergic Neurons in Mice

    Masahide Yoshida;Yuki Takayanagi;Kiyoshi Inoue;Tadashi Kimura

  • Molecular Characterization of the Follicle Defects in the Growth Differentiation Factor 9-Deficient Ovary

    Julia A. Elvin;Changning Yan;Pei Wang;Katsuhiko Nishimori

  • Pharmacologic Rescue of Impaired Cognitive Flexibility, Social Deficits, Increased Aggression, and Seizure Susceptibility in Oxytocin Receptor Null Mice: A Neurobehavioral Model of Autism

    Mariaelvina Sala;Daniela Braida;Daniela Lentini;Marta Busnelli

  • Oxytocin receptor-deficient mice developed late-onset obesity.

    Yuki Takayanagi;Yoshiyuki Kasahara;Tatsushi Onaka;Nobuyuki Takahashi

  • Oxytocin is an anabolic bone hormone

    Roberto Tamma;Graziana Colaianni;Ling Ling Zhu;Adriana DiBenedetto

  • Fear-enhancing effects of septal oxytocin receptors

    Yomayra F Guzmán;Natalie C Tronson;Natalie C Tronson;Vladimir Jovasevic;Keisuke Sato

  • Oxytocin neurons enable social transmission of maternal behaviour

    Ioana Carcea;Naomi López Caraballo;Bianca J. Marlin;Rumi Ooyama

  • Oxytocin-induced analgesia and scratching are mediated by the vasopressin-1A receptor in the mouse

    Ara Schorscher-Petcu;Susana Sotocinal;Sorana Ciura;Anouk Dupré

  • Tumor metastasis-associated human MTA1 gene and its MTA1 protein product: role in epithelial cancer cell invasion, proliferation and nuclear regulation.

    Garth L. Nicolson;Akihiro Nawa;Yasushi Toh;Shigeki Taniguchi

  • Functional, anatomical, and neurochemical differentiation of medial preoptic area subregions in relation to maternal behavior in the mouse

    Yousuke Tsuneoka;Teppo Maruyama;Sachine Yoshida;Katsuhiko Nishimori

  • Oxytocin Signaling in the Lateral Septum Prevents Social Fear during Lactation

    Rohit Menon;Thomas Grund;Iulia Zoicas;Ferdinand Althammer

  • Activin βC and βE Genes Are Not Essential for Mouse Liver Growth, Differentiation, and Regeneration

    A. L. Lau;T. R. Kumar;K. Nishimori;J. Bonadio

  • Oxytocin stimulates hippocampal neurogenesis via oxytocin receptor expressed in CA3 pyramidal neurons

    Yu Ting Lin;Chien Chung Chen;Chiung Chun Huang;Katsuhiko Nishimori

  • Vascular RAGE transports oxytocin into the brain to elicit its maternal bonding behaviour in mice.

    Yasuhiko Yamamoto;Mingkun Liang;Seiichi Munesue;Kisaburo Deguchi

  • Mice Heterozygous for the Oxytocin Receptor Gene (Oxtr+/−) Show Impaired Social Behaviour but not Increased Aggression or Cognitive Inflexibility: Evidence of a Selective Haploinsufficiency Gene Effect

    M. Sala;D. Braida;A. Donzelli;R. Martucci

  • Oxytocin Neurons Enable Social Transmission of Maternal Behavior

    Ioana Carcea;Naomi López Caraballo;Bianca J. Marlin;Rumi Ooyama;Rumi Ooyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry J. Young
Larry J. Young Emory University
Hiroaki Mizukami
Hiroaki Mizukami Jichi Medical University
Tadashi Kimura
Tadashi Kimura Osaka University
Martin M. Matzuk
Martin M. Matzuk Baylor College of Medicine
Jelena Radulovic
Jelena Radulovic Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bice Chini
Bice Chini University of Milan
Teruo Kawada
Teruo Kawada Kyoto University
Toshihiko Yada
Toshihiko Yada Kobe University
Yasuo Sakuma
Yasuo Sakuma Nippon Medical School
Daniela Braida
Daniela Braida University of Milan

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