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Overview

Kengo Ito is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular attention to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neurology, and Spectroscopy.

They have explored topics including Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, tryptophan and brain disorders, computational drug discovery methods, molecular spectroscopy and chirality, and heat shock proteins research.

Their recent publications include:

  • "NMR-TS: de novo molecule identification from NMR spectra" (2020) published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
  • "Decomposition Factor Analysis Based on Virtual Experiments throughout Bayesian Optimization for Compost-Degradable Polymers" (2021) published in Applied Sciences
  • "Differences in biofilm formation and transcription of biofilm-associated genes among Acinetobacter baumannii clinical strains belonging to the international clone II lineage" (2020) published in Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
  • "Fish ecotyping based on machine learning and inferred network analysis of chemical and physical properties" (2021) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Improved Prediction of Carbonless NMR Spectra by the Machine Learning of Theoretical and Fragment Descriptors for Environmental Mixture Analysis" (2021) published in Analytical Chemistry

They have collaborated frequently with researchers including Aya Ogata, Hiroshi Ikenuma, Yasuyuki Kimura, Junichiro Abe, and Saori Hattori.

Their works have appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, notably:

  • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
  • EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
  • Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Best Publications

  • High performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease

    Akinori Nakamura;Naoki Kaneko;Victor L Villemagne;Takashi Kato

  • Discrimination between Alzheimer dementia and controls by automated analysis of multicenter FDG PET

    Karl Herholz;Eric Salmon;Daniela Perani;Jean-Claude Baron

  • The human amygdala plays an important role in gaze monitoring. A PET study.

    Ryuta Kawashima;Motoaki Sugiura;Takashi Kato;Akinori Nakamura

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial of Multicomponent Exercise in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Takao Suzuki;Hiroyuki Shimada;Hyuma Makizako;Takehiko Doi

  • Somatosensory Homunculus as Drawn by MEG

    Akinori Nakamura;Takako Yamada;Atsuko Goto;Takashi Kato

  • Functional delineation of the human occipito-temporal areas related to face and scene processing. A PET study.

    K. Nakamura;R. Kawashima;N. Sato;A. Nakamura

  • Activation of the right inferior frontal cortex during assessment of facial emotion.

    Katsuki Nakamura;Ryuta Kawashima;Kengo Ito;Motoaki Sugiura

  • Frontal, midbrain and striatal dopaminergic function in early and advanced Parkinson's disease A 3D [18F]dopa-PET study

    J. S. Rakshi;T. Uema;K. Ito;D. L. Bailey

  • High performance plasma amyloid-beta biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    Akinori Nakamura;Naoki Kaneko;Victor L Villemagne;Takashi Kato

  • Neural substrates for recognition of familiar voices: a PET study.

    Katsuki Nakamura;Ryuta Kawashima;Motoaki Sugiura;Takashi Kato

  • Striatal and extrastriatal dysfunction in Parkinson's disease with dementia: A 6-[18F]fluoro-L-dopa PET study

    Kengo Ito;Atsuko Nagano‐Saito;Takashi Kato;Yutaka Arahata

  • Occipital hypoperfusion in Parkinson’s disease without dementia: correlation to impaired cortical visual processing

    Y Abe;T Kachi;T Kato;Y Arahata

  • Cortical hypometabolism and hypoperfusion in Parkinson’s disease is extensive: probably even at early disease stages

    Per Borghammer;Mallar Chakravarty;Mallar Chakravarty;Kristjana Yr Jonsdottir;Noriko Sato

  • Electromagnetic signatures of the preclinical and prodromal stages of Alzheimer’s disease

    Akinori Nakamura;Pablo Cuesta;Pablo Cuesta;Alberto Fernández;Yutaka Arahata

  • Inter-rater variability of visual interpretation and comparison with quantitative evaluation of 11C-PiB PET amyloid images of the Japanese Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (J-ADNI) multicenter study

    Tomohiko Yamane;Kenji Ishii;Muneyuki Sakata;Yasuhiko Ikari

  • Visual hallucination in Parkinson's disease with FDG PET

    Atsuko Nagano-Saito;Yukihiko Washimi;Yutaka Arahata;Katsushige Iwai

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of the assessment of facial attractiveness

    Katsuki Nakamura;Ryuta Kawashima;Sumiharu Nagumo;Kengo Ito

  • Japanese and North American Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative studies: Harmonization for international trials

    Takeshi Iwatsubo;Atsushi Iwata;Kazushi Suzuki;Ryoko Ihara

  • Cognitive- and motor-related regions in Parkinson's disease: FDOPA and FDG PET studies

    Atsuko Nagano-Saito;Takashi Kato;Yutaka Arahata;Yukihiko Washimi

  • Rat-PET study without anesthesia: anesthetics modify the dopamine D1 receptor binding in rat brain.

    Sotaro Momosaki;Kentaro Hatano;Yasuhiro Kawasumi;Takashi Kato

  • Activation reduction in anterior temporal cortices during repeated recognition of faces of personal acquaintances.

    M. Sugiura;R. Kawashima;K. Nakamura;N. Sato

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Kato
Takashi Kato Nagoya University
Kenji Ishii
Kenji Ishii Nippon Medical School
Hiroshi Fukuda
Hiroshi Fukuda Tohoku University
Ryuta Kawashima
Ryuta Kawashima Tohoku University
Motoaki Sugiura
Motoaki Sugiura Tohoku University
Kazuyoshi Watanabe
Kazuyoshi Watanabe Nagoya University
Hidenao Fukuyama
Hidenao Fukuyama Kyoto University
Hiroshi Matsuda
Hiroshi Matsuda Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Gen Sobue
Gen Sobue Aichi Medical University
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich

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