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Kazunobu Sawamoto

Kazunobu Sawamoto

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Biology and Biochemistry

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65
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14650
World Ranking
9179
National Ranking
616

Overview

Kazunobu Sawamoto is affiliated with Nagoya City University in Japan and specializes in neuroscience and related fields. Their research encompasses a variety of topics central to neural development, plasticity, and brain regeneration.

The main fields of study for Sawamoto include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, Sawamoto's work concentrates on several subfields:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Neurology

The scientific topics they frequently address in their research are:

  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques

Sawamoto has contributed to a number of publications in prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Molecular Brain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Nature Communications
  • Science Translational Medicine

Their recent papers include:

  • Sparse Activity of Hippocampal Adult-Born Neurons during REM Sleep Is Necessary for Memory Consolidation (2020, Neuron)
  • Synaptic pruning of murine adult-born neurons by microglia depends on phosphatidylserine (2022, The Journal of Experimental Medicine)
  • Efficient protein incorporation and release by a jigsaw-shaped self-assembling peptide hydrogel for injured brain regeneration (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Phosphorylation of GAP-43 T172 is a molecular marker of growing axons in a wide range of mammals including primates (2021, Molecular Brain)
  • Neurogenesis and neuronal migration in the postnatal ventricular-subventricular zone: Similarities and dissimilarities between rodents and primates (2020, Neuroscience Research)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sawamoto are:

  • Masato Sawada
  • Naoko Kaneko
  • José Manuel García-Verdugo
  • Mami Matsumoto
  • Vicente Herranz-Pérez

Best Publications

  • New neurons follow the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the adult brain.

    Kazunobu Sawamoto;Hynek Wichterle;Oscar Gonzalez-Perez;Jeremy A. Cholfin

  • Subventricular Zone-Derived Neuroblasts Migrate and Differentiate into Mature Neurons in the Post-Stroke Adult Striatum

    Toru Yamashita;Mikiko Ninomiya;Mikiko Ninomiya;Pilar Hernández Acosta;Jose Manuel García-Verdugo

  • Transplantation of in vitro‐expanded fetal neural progenitor cells results in neurogenesis and functional recovery after spinal cord contusion injury in adult rats

    Y. Ogawa;K. Sawamoto;K. Sawamoto;T. Miyata;S. Miyao

  • Musashi1: An evolutionally conserved marker for CNS progenitor cells including neural stem cells

    Y. Kaneko;S. Sakakibara;T. Imai;A. Suzuki

  • Coupling between hydrodynamic forces and planar cell polarity orients mammalian motile cilia.

    Boris Guirao;Alice Meunier;Stéphane Mortaud;Andrea Aguilar

  • Nestin-EGFP transgenic mice: visualization of the self-renewal and multipotency of CNS stem cells.

    Ayano Kawaguchi;Takaki Miyata;Takaki Miyata;Kazunobu Sawamoto;Noriko Takashita

  • Subventricular Zone-Derived Neural Progenitor Cells Migrate Along a Blood Vessel Scaffold Toward the Post-stroke Striatum

    Takuro Kojima;Takuro Kojima;Yuki Hirota;Masatsugu Ema;Satoru Takahashi

  • β‐Catenin Signaling Promotes Proliferation of Progenitor Cells in the Adult Mouse Subventricular Zone

    Kazuhide Adachi;Zaman Mirzadeh;Masanori Sakaguchi;Toru Yamashita;Toru Yamashita

  • Control of the cell death pathway by Dapaf-1, a Drosophila Apaf-1/CED-4-related caspase activator.

    Hirotaka Kanuka;Kazunobu Sawamoto;Naohiro Inohara;Kenji Matsuno

  • Visualization, direct isolation, and transplantation of midbrain dopaminergic neurons

    Kazunobu Sawamoto;Naoyuki Nakao;Kazuto Kobayashi;Natsuki Matsushita

  • Generation of Dopaminergic Neurons in the Adult Brain from Mesencephalic Precursor Cells Labeled with a nestin-GFP Transgene

    Kazunobu Sawamoto;Naoyuki Nakao;Koji Kakishita;Yuto Ogawa;Yuto Ogawa

  • New Neurons Clear the Path of Astrocytic Processes for Their Rapid Migration in the Adult Brain

    Naoko Kaneko;Oscar Marín;Masato Koike;Yuki Hirota

  • Role of the cholinergic system in regulating survival of newborn neurons in the adult mouse dentate gyrus and olfactory bulb

    Naoko Kaneko;Hideyuki Okano;Kazunobu Sawamoto

  • Blockade of interleukin-6 signaling aggravates ischemic cerebral damage in mice: possible involvement of Stat3 activation in the protection of neurons.

    Toru Yamashita;Kazunobu Sawamoto;Shigeaki Suzuki;Norihiro Suzuki

  • Neuronal regeneration in a zebrafish model of adult brain injury

    Norihito Kishimoto;Kohei Shimizu;Kazunobu Sawamoto

  • The Subventricular Zone En-face: Wholemount Staining and Ependymal Flow

    Zaman Mirzadeh;Fiona Doetsch;Kazunobu Sawamoto;Hynek Wichterle

  • A genetic approach to visualization of multisynaptic neural pathways using plant lectin transgene.

    Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Takeo Mizuno;Takeo Mizuno;Masakiyo Nakahira;Masakiyo Nakahira;Miwa Kawasaki

  • Roles of disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1-interacting protein girdin in postnatal development of the dentate gyrus.

    Atsushi Enomoto;Naoya Asai;Takashi Namba;Yun Wang

  • A carbohydrate-binding protein, Galectin-1, promotes proliferation of adult neural stem cells.

    Masanori Sakaguchi;Tetsuro Shingo;Takuya Shimazaki;Hirotaka James Okano

  • Erratum: Coupling between hydrodynamic forces and planar cell polarity orients mammalian motile cilia: (Nature Cell Biol. (2010) 12 (341-350))

    Boris Guirao;Alice Meunier;Stéphane Mortaud;Andrea Aguilar

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideyuki Okano
Hideyuki Okano Keio University
José Manuel García-Verdugo
José Manuel García-Verdugo University of Valencia
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla University of California, San Francisco
Katsuhiko Mikoshiba
Katsuhiko Mikoshiba ShanghaiTech University
Takaki Miyata
Takaki Miyata Nagoya University
Yoshiaki Toyama
Yoshiaki Toyama Keio University
Kazuto Kobayashi
Kazuto Kobayashi Fukushima Medical University
Naoya Asai
Naoya Asai Nagoya University
Kozo Kaibuchi
Kozo Kaibuchi Nagoya University
Atsushi Enomoto
Atsushi Enomoto Nagoya University

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