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Masahiro Fukaya

Masahiro Fukaya

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Neuroscience

D-Index
70
Citations
16583
World Ranking
2531
National Ranking
58

Overview

Masahiro Fukaya is affiliated with Kitasato University in Japan and specializes in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research covers a range of topics, with a strong focus on cellular transport and secretion, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

The scientist's body of work includes contributions to cellular and molecular neuroscience, cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, and cancer research. Specific subfields showing notable publication activity include cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Research topics covered by Masahiro Fukaya include:

  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation

Frequent collaborators appearing in Masahiro Fukaya's research network are:

  • Hiroyuki Sakagami
  • Takeyuki Sugawara
  • Yoshinobu Hara
  • Tomoko Shiroshima
  • Akiko Ito

Prominent publication venues where Masahiro Fukaya's work has appeared include:

  • FEBS Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cell Reports
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Masahiro Fukaya are:

  • BRAG2a Mediates mGluR-Dependent AMPA Receptor Internalization at Excitatory Postsynapses through the Interaction with PSD-95 and Endophilin 3, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • GluA2 overexpression in oligodendrocyte progenitors promotes postinjury oligodendrocyte regeneration, 2021, Cell Reports
  • The Vps52 subunit of the GARP and EARP complexes is a novel Arf6-interacting protein that negatively regulates neurite outgrowth of hippocampal neurons, 2020, Brain Research
  • Physiological and Pathological Roles of the Cytohesin Family in Neurons, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Cytohesin-2 mediates group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-dependent mechanical allodynia through the activation of ADP ribosylation factor 6 in the spinal cord, 2021, Neurobiology of Disease

Best Publications

  • Oligodendrocyte progenitors balance growth with self-repulsion to achieve homeostasis in the adult brain.

    Ethan G Hughes;Shin H Kang;Shin H Kang;Masahiro Fukaya;Masahiro Fukaya;Dwight E Bergles

  • NG2+ CNS Glial Progenitors Remain Committed to the Oligodendrocyte Lineage in Postnatal Life and following Neurodegeneration

    Shin H. Kang;Masahiro Fukaya;Jason K. Yang;Jeffrey D. Rothstein

  • The dynamin-related GTPase Drp1 is required for embryonic and brain development in mice

    Junko Wakabayashi;Zhongyan Zhang;Nobunao Wakabayashi;Yasushi Tamura

  • Degeneration and impaired regeneration of gray matter oligodendrocytes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Shin H Kang;Ying Li;Masahiro Fukaya;Ileana Lorenzini

  • 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

  • Vesicular release of glutamate from unmyelinated axons in white matter

    Jennifer L Ziskin;Akiko Nishiyama;Maria Rubio;Masahiro Fukaya

  • Transient Opening of the Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore Induces Microdomain Calcium Transients in Astrocyte Processes

    Amit Agarwal;Pei Hsun Wu;Ethan G. Hughes;Masahiro Fukaya

  • 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

  • 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

  • Selective scarcity of NMDA receptor channel subunits in the stratum lucidum (mossy fibre‐recipient layer) of the mouse hippocampal CA3 subfield

    Masahiko Watanabe;Masahiro Fukaya;Kenji Sakimura;Toshiya Manabe

  • Two distinct classes of muscarinic action on hippocampal inhibitory synapses: M2-mediated direct suppression and M1/M3-mediated indirect suppression through endocannabinoid signalling.

    Yuko Fukudome;Takako Ohno-Shosaku;Minoru Matsui;Yuko Omori

  • Subtype switching of vesicular glutamate transporters at parallel fibre-Purkinje cell synapses in developing mouse cerebellum.

    Taisuke Miyazaki;Masahiro Fukaya;Hidemi Shimizu;Masahiko Watanabe

  • Impairment of AMPA receptor function in cerebellar granule cells of ataxic mutant mouse stargazer.

    Kouichi Hashimoto;Masahiro Fukaya;Xiaoxi Qiao;Kenji Sakimura

  • GABAergic basket cells expressing cholecystokinin contain vesicular glutamate transporter type 3 (VGLUT3) in their synaptic terminals in hippocampus and isocortex of the rat.

    Jozsef Somogyi;Jozsef Somogyi;Agnès Baude;Agnès Baude;Yuko Omori;Hidemi Shimizu

  • Mitochondrial division ensures the survival of postmitotic neurons by suppressing oxidative damage

    Yusuke Kageyama;Zhongyan Zhang;Ricardo Roda;Masahiro Fukaya

  • Retention of NMDA receptor NR2 subunits in the lumen of endoplasmic reticulum in targeted NR1 knockout mice

    Masahiro Fukaya;Akira Kato;Chanel Lovett;Susumu Tonegawa

  • Signaling complex formation of phospholipase Cbeta4 with metabotropic glutamate receptor type 1alpha and 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor at the perisynapse and endoplasmic reticulum in the mouse brain.

    Michiko Nakamura;Kazunori Sato;Masahiro Fukaya;Kenji Araishi;Kenji Araishi

  • Improved immunohistochemical detection of postsynaptically located PSD-95/SAP90 protein family by protease section pretreatment: a study in the adult mouse brain.

    Masahiro Fukaya;Masahiko Watanabe

  • Dynamic transformation of Bergmann glial fibers proceeds in correlation with dendritic outgrowth and synapse formation of cerebellar Purkinje cells.

    Keiko Yamada;Masahiro Fukaya;Takashi Shibata;Hideo Kurihara

  • Synaptic distribution of the NR1, NR2A and NR2B subunits of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor in the rat lumbar spinal cord revealed with an antigen-unmasking technique

    Gergely G. Nagy;Masahiko Watanabe;Masahiro Fukaya;Andrew J. Todd

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahiko Watanabe
Masahiko Watanabe Hokkaido University
Hiroyuki Sakagami
Hiroyuki Sakagami Kitasato University
Kenji Sakimura
Kenji Sakimura Niigata University
Masanobu Kano
Masanobu Kano University of Tokyo
Toshiya Manabe
Toshiya Manabe University of Tokyo
Miwako Yamasaki
Miwako Yamasaki Hokkaido University
Manabu Abe
Manabu Abe Niigata University
Masayoshi Mishina
Masayoshi Mishina Ritsumeikan University
Kouichi Hashimoto
Kouichi Hashimoto Hiroshima University
Dwight E. Bergles
Dwight E. Bergles Johns Hopkins University

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