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Katsuko Yamashita

Katsuko Yamashita

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
12109
World Ranking
7843
National Ranking
523

Overview

Katsuko Yamashita is affiliated with Teikyo University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of medical research, with a focus on radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. Their work primarily spans the areas of advanced MRI techniques and applications, glioma diagnosis and treatment, as well as medical imaging techniques more broadly.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Morphology of perivascular spaces and enclosed blood vessels in young to middle-aged healthy adults at 7T: Dependences on age, brain region, and breathing gas, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Current status and challenges of percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP), 2022, Japanese Journal of Radiology
  • Diagnostic accuracy for the epileptogenic zone detection in focal epilepsy could be higher in FDG-PET/MRI than in FDG-PET/CT, 2020, European Radiology
  • Vessel-selective 4D-MR angiography using super-selective pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling may be a useful tool for assessing brain AVM hemodynamics, 2020, European Radiology
  • Differentiation of high-grade from low-grade diffuse gliomas using diffusion-weighted imaging: a comparative study of mono-, bi-, and stretched-exponential diffusion models, 2020, Neuroradiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yamashita include:

  • Kazufumi Kikuchi
  • Osamu Togao
  • Kousei Ishigami
  • Tatsuhiro Wada
  • Makoto Obara

Yamashita's work is frequently published in the following venues:

  • Neuroradiology
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Japanese Journal of Radiology
  • Cureus
  • Scientific Reports

Key fields of study represented throughout their publications include:

  • Medicine

More specifically, Yamashita's research spans several focused subfields:

  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Genetics
  • Neurology
  • Surgery
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Main topics of scientific inquiry and specialization within their research cover:

  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis
  • Moyamoya disease diagnosis and treatment
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Best Publications

  • Structural studies of two ovalbumin glycopeptides in relation to the endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase specificity.

    T Tai;K Yamashita;M Ogata-Arakawa;N Koide

  • Analysis of oligosaccharides by gel filtration.

    Katsuko Yamashita;Tsuguo Mizuochi;Akira Kobata

  • The structures of the galactose-containing sugar chains of ovalbumin.

    K Yamashita;Y Tachibana;A Kobata

  • Structures of the carbohydrate moiety of ovalbumin glycopeptide III and the difference in specificity of endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidases CII and H.

    T Tai;K Yamashita;S Ito;A Kobata

  • Fractionation of L-fucose-containing oligosaccharides on immobilized Aleuria aurantia lectin.

    K Yamashita;N Kochibe;T Ohkura;I Ueda

  • Comparative study of the oligosaccharides released from baby hamster kidney cells and their polyoma transformant by hydrazinolysis.

    K Yamashita;T Ohkura;Y Tachibana;S Takasaki

  • Carbohydrate binding properties of complex-type oligosaccharides on immobilized Datura stramonium lectin.

    Katsuko Yamashita;Kazuhide Totani;Takashi Ohkura;Seiichi Takasaki

  • Enzymatic basis for the structural changes of asparagine-linked sugar chains of membrane glycoproteins of baby hamster kidney cells induced by polyoma transformation.

    K Yamashita;Y Tachibana;T Ohkura;A Kobata

  • The substrate specificities of endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidases CII and H

    Tadashi Tai;Katsuko Yamashita;Akira Kobata

  • Structural determinants of Phaseolus vulgaris erythroagglutinating lectin for oligosaccharides.

    K Yamashita;A Hitoi;A Kobata

  • Sugar chains of serum transferrin from patients with carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome. Evidence of asparagine-N-linked oligosaccharide transfer deficiency.

    K Yamashita;H Ideo;T Ohkura;K Fukushima

  • Handbook of Glycosyltransferases and Related Genes

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  • Substrate specificity of diplococcal β-N-acetylhexosaminidase, a useful enzyme for the structural studies of complex type asparagine-linked sugar chains

    Katsuko Yamashita;Takashi Ohkura;Hideo Yoshima;Akira Kobata

  • Comparative Study of the Sugar Chains of γ-Glutamyltranspeptidases Purified from Rat Liver and Rat AH-66 Hepatoma Cells

    Katsuko Yamashita;Akira Hitoi;Naoyuki Taniguchi;Noriko Yokosawa

  • Structural studies of the sugar chains of human parotid alpha-amylase.

    K Yamashita;Y Tachibana;T Nakayama;M Kitamura

  • Structure of the carbohydrate moieties of bovine rhodopsin.

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  • The N-terminal carbohydrate recognition domain of galectin-8 recognizes specific glycosphingolipids with high affinity.

    Hiroko Ideo;Akira Seko;Ineo Ishizuka;Katsuko Yamashita

  • Oligosaccharides from human milk.

    Akira Kobata;Katsuko Yamashita;Yoko Tachibana

  • Structural Studies of the Carbohydrate Moieties of Carcinoembryonic Antigens

    Katsuko Yamashita;Kazuhide Totani;Masahide Kuroki;Yuji Matsuoka

  • Galectin-8-N-domain recognition mechanism for sialylated and sulfated glycans

    Hiroko Ideo;Tsutomu Matsuzaka;Takamasa Nonaka;Akira Seko

  • Urinary oligosaccharides of fucosidosis. Evidence of the occurrence of X-antigenic determinant in serum-type sugar chains of glycoproteins.

    Masanori Nishigaki;Katsuko Yamashita;Ichiro Matsuda;Shinichiro Arashima

  • Carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndromes become congenital disorders of glycosylation: an updated nomenclature for CDG. First International Workshop on CDGS.

    M Aebi;A Helenius;B Schenk;R Barone

  • Structures of the Asparagine-Linked Sugar Chains of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin

    Yoshinori Endo;Katsuko Yamashita;Yoko Tachibana;Shimpei Tojo

Frequent Co-Authors

Akira Kobata
Akira Kobata University of Tokyo
Yukio Ikehara
Yukio Ikehara Fukuoka University
Naoyuki Taniguchi
Naoyuki Taniguchi Osaka University
Nobuhiko Katunuma
Nobuhiko Katunuma University of Tokushima
Shintaro Okada
Shintaro Okada Osaka University
Ichiro Matsuda
Ichiro Matsuda Kumamoto University
Soichi Wakatsuki
Soichi Wakatsuki Stanford University
Koiti Titani
Koiti Titani Fujita Health University
Koji Takio
Koji Takio University of Washington

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