Masahiko Watanabe

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Japan Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Japan Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Japan Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Epilepsy and Exacerbation of Brain Injury in Mice Lacking the Glutamate Transporter GLT-1

  Kohichi Tanaka;Kei Watase;Toshiya Manabe;Keiko Yamada

  2077
  Citations

• Endocannabinoid-Mediated Control of Synaptic Transmission

  Masanobu Kano;Takako Ohno-Shosaku;Yuki Hashimotodani;Motokazu Uchigashima

  1760
  Citations

• Requirement for Hippocampal CA3 NMDA Receptors in Associative Memory Recall

  Kazu Nakazawa;Michael C. Quirk;Raymond A. Chitwood;Masahiko Watanabe

  1302
  Citations

• Developmental changes in distribution of NMDA receptor channel subunit mRNAs.

  Masahiko Watanabe;Yoshiro Inoue;Kenji Sakimura;Masayoshi Mishina

  1030
  Citations

• Locus coeruleus and dopaminergic consolidation of everyday memory

  Tomonori Takeuchi;Adrian Duszkiewicz;Alex Sonneborn;Patrick A. Spooner

  862
  Citations

• JGES guidelines for colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection/endoscopic mucosal resection

  Shinji Tanaka;Hiroshi Kashida;Yutaka Saito;Naohisa Yahagi

  699
  Citations

• Impairment of suckling response, trigeminal neuronal pattern formation, and hippocampal LTD in NMDA receptor ε2 subunit mutant mice

  Tatsuya Kutsuwada;Kenji Sakimura;Toshiya Manabe;Chitoshi Takayama

  638
  Citations

• The CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor Is the Major Cannabinoid Receptor at Excitatory Presynaptic Sites in the Hippocampus and Cerebellum

  Yoshinobu Kawamura;Masahiro Fukaya;Takashi Maejima;Takayuki Yoshida

  592
  Citations

• The Endocannabinoid 2-Arachidonoylglycerol Produced by Diacylglycerol Lipase α Mediates Retrograde Suppression of Synaptic Transmission

  Asami Tanimura;Maya Yamazaki;Yuki Hashimotodani;Motokazu Uchigashima

  566
  Citations

• Ptf1a, a bHLH transcriptional gene, defines GABAergic neuronal fates in cerebellum.

  Mikio Hoshino;Shoko Nakamura;Kiyoshi Mori;Kiyoshi Mori;Takeshi Kawauchi

  547
  Citations

• Complementary Roles of Cholecystokinin- and Parvalbumin-Expressing GABAergic Neurons in Hippocampal Network Oscillations

  Thomas Klausberger;Laszlo F. Marton;Joseph O'Neill;Jojanneke H. J. Huck

  538
  Citations

• Diversity Revealed by a Novel Family of Cadherins Expressed in Neurons at a Synaptic Complex

  Naohiro Kohmura;Kouji Senzaki;Shun Hamada;Nobuyuki Kai

  523
  Citations

• Glutamate Transporter GLAST Is Expressed in the Radial Glia–Astrocyte Lineage of Developing Mouse Spinal Cord

  Takashi Shibata;Keiko Yamada;Masahiko Watanabe;Kazuhiro Ikenaka

  488
  Citations

• Distinct distributions of five N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor channel subunit mRNAs in the forebrain

  Masahiko Watanabe;Y. Inoue;K. Sakimura;M. Mishina

  477
  Citations

• Motor discoordination and increased susceptibility to cerebellar injury in GLAST mutant mice.

  Kei Watase;Kouichi Hashimoto;Masanobu Kano;Keiko Yamada

  476
  Citations

• Release probability of hippocampal glutamatergic terminals scales with the size of the active zone

  Noemi Holderith;Andrea Lorincz;Gergely Katona;Balázs Rózsa

  475
  Citations

• Localization of diacylglycerol lipase-alpha around postsynaptic spine suggests close proximity between production site of an endocannabinoid, 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol, and presynaptic cannabinoid CB1 receptor.

  Takayuki Yoshida;Masahiro Fukaya;Motokazu Uchigashima;Eriko Miura

  461
  Citations

• ADC Mapping of Benign and Malignant Breast Tumors

  Reiko Woodhams;Keiji Matsunaga;Shinichi Kan;Hirofumi Hata

  455
  Citations

• The cellular and synaptic architecture of the mechanosensory dorsal horn

  Victoria E. Abraira;Emily D. Kuehn;Emily D. Kuehn;Anda M. Chirila;Mark W. Springel

  444
  Citations

• Subcellular arrangement of molecules for 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol-mediated retrograde signaling and its physiological contribution to synaptic modulation in the striatum

  Motokazu Uchigashima;Madoka Narushima;Masahiro Fukaya;Istvan Katona

  442
  Citations

• Cloning and expression of the ε4 subunit of the NMDA receptor channel

  Kazutaka Ikeda;Michiaki Nagasawa;Hisashi Mori;Kazuaki Araki

  438
  Citations