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Kazuhiko Kume is affiliated with Nagoya City University in Japan. Their research primarily spans neuroscience as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broad fields, Kume's work focuses on several subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, endocrine and autonomic systems, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, and plant science.

Kume has published extensively on topics related to circadian rhythm and melatonin, neurobiology and insect physiology, sleep and wakefulness research, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, sleep and related disorders, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, and infant health and development.

Frequent publication venues for Kume include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Kume's recent scientific papers include:

  • Kleine-Levin syndrome is associated with birth difficulties and genetic variants in the TRANK1 gene loci, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Na + /Ca 2+ exchanger mediates cold Ca 2+ signaling conserved for temperature-compensated circadian rhythms, 2021, Science Advances
  • Protocerebral Bridge Neurons That Regulate Sleep in Drosophila melanogaster, 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Insulin signaling in clock neurons regulates sleep in Drosophila, 2021, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • VMAT2 Safeguards β-Cells Against Dopamine Cytotoxicity Under High-Fat Diet-Induced Stress, 2020, Diabetes

Kume collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include Jun Tomita, Yoshiaki Kato, Sho Yamaguchi, Riho Kobayashi, and Makoto Honda.

Best Publications

  • mCRY1 and mCRY2 are essential components of the negative limb of the circadian clock feedback loop.

    Kazuhiko Kume;Mark J Zylka;Sathyanarayanan Sriram;Lauren P Shearman

  • Interacting Molecular Loops in the Mammalian Circadian Clock

    Lauren P. Shearman;Sathyanarayanan Sriram;David R. Weaver;Elizabeth S. Maywood

  • Role of cytosolic phospholipase A2 in allergic response and parturition.

    Naonori Uozumi;Kazuhiko Kume;Takahide Nagase;Noriaki Nakatani

  • Dopamine Is a Regulator of Arousal in the Fruit Fly

    Kazuhiko Kume;Shoen Kume;Sang Ki Park;Jay Hirsh

  • High-frequency transformation method and library transducing vectors for cloning mammalian cDNAs by trans-complementation of Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

    Koei Okazaki;Noriko Okazaki;Kazuhiko Kume;Shigeki Jinno

  • Methionine Metabolism Regulates Maintenance and Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Nobuaki Shiraki;Yasuko Shiraki;Tomonori Tsuyama;Fumiaki Obata

  • Molecular cloning of canalicular multispecific organic anion transporter defective in EHBR

    K. Ito;H. Suzuki;T. Hirohashi;K. Kume

  • Acute lung injury by sepsis and acid aspiration: a key role for cytosolic phospholipase A2.

    Takahide Nagase;Naonori Uozumi;Satoshi Ishii;Kazuhiko Kume

  • Hepatic Expression of Multidrug Resistance-Associated Protein-Like Proteins Maintained in Eisai Hyperbilirubinemic Rats

    Tomoko Hirohashi;Hiroshi Suzuki;Kousei Ito;Kotaro Ogawa

  • Forward-genetics analysis of sleep in randomly mutagenized mice

    Hiromasa Funato;Hiromasa Funato;Chika Miyoshi;Tomoyuki Fujiyama;Takeshi Kanda

  • Identification of a dopamine pathway that regulates sleep and arousal in Drosophila

    Taro Ueno;Jun Tomita;Hiromu Tanimoto;Keita Endo

  • Behavioral consequences of dopamine deficiency in the Drosophila central nervous system

    Thomas Riemensperger;Guillaume Isabel;Hélène Coulom;Kirsa Neuser

  • Impaired Anaphylactic Responses with Intact Sensitivity to Endotoxin in Mice Lacking a Platelet-activating Factor Receptor

    Satoshi Ishii;Tomoyuki Kuwaki;Takahide Nagase;Kazushige Maki

  • Drosophila Fragile X Protein, DFXR, Regulates Neuronal Morphology and Function in the Brain

    Joannella Morales;P.Robin Hiesinger;Andrew J. Schroeder;Kazuhiko Kume

  • Gender dimorphism in the role of cycle (BMAL1) in rest, rest regulation, and longevity in Drosophila melanogaster.

    Joan C. Hendricks;Sumei Lu;Kazuhiko Kume;Jerry C.-P. Yin

  • Critical Duration of Intracellular Ca2+ Response Required for Continuous Translocation and Activation of Cytosolic Phospholipase A2

    Tetsuya Hirabayashi;Kazuhiko Kume;Kenzo Hirose;Takehiko Yokomizo

  • Cytosolic Phospholipase A2α–deficient Mice Are Resistant to Collagen-induced Arthritis

    Martin Hegen;Linhong Sun;Naonori Uozumi;Kazuhiko Kume

  • The Nutrient-Responsive Hormone CCHamide-2 Controls Growth by Regulating Insulin-like Peptides in the Brain of Drosophila melanogaster

    Hiroko Sano;Akira Nakamura;Michael J. Texada;James W. Truman

  • Wortmannin inhibits mitogen-activated protein kinase activation induced by platelet-activating factor in guinea pig neutrophils.

    I M Ferby;I Waga;C Sakanaka;K Kume

  • Bronchial hyperreactivity, increased endotoxin lethality and melanocytic tumorigenesis in transgenic mice overexpressing platelet-activating factor receptor.

    Satoshi Ishii;Satoshi Ishii;Takahide Nagase;Fumi Tashiro;Fumi Tashiro;Koichi Ikuta

Frequent Co-Authors

Takao Shimizu
Takao Shimizu University of Tokyo
Satoshi Ishii
Satoshi Ishii Akita University
Takashi Kanbayashi
Takashi Kanbayashi University of Tsukuba
Yuichi Sugiyama
Yuichi Sugiyama University of Tokyo
Masayasu Kojima
Masayasu Kojima Kurume University
Kazuo Mishima
Kazuo Mishima Akita University
Hiroshi Suzuki
Hiroshi Suzuki Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine
Mitsuhiro Kato
Mitsuhiro Kato Showa University
Koichi Ikuta
Koichi Ikuta Kyoto University
Katsushi Tokunaga
Katsushi Tokunaga University of Tokyo

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