Masanobu Kano

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

• Endocannabinoid-Mediated Control of Synaptic Transmission

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

  1760
  Citations

• Near-infrared deep brain stimulation via upconversion nanoparticle–mediated optogenetics

  Shuo Chen;Adam Z. Weitemier;Xiao Zeng;Linmeng He

  1105
  Citations

• Deficient cerebellar long-term depression and impaired motor learning in mGluR1 mutant mice.

  Atsu Aiba;Masanobu Kano;Chong Chen;Chong Chen;Mark Stanton

  1052
  Citations

• Endogenous cannabinoids mediate retrograde signals from depolarized postsynaptic neurons to presynaptic terminals.

  Takako Ohno-Shosaku;Takashi Maejima;Masanobu Kano

  1043
  Citations

• Long-lasting depression of parallel fiber-Purkinje cell transmission induced by conjunctive stimulation of parallel fibers and climbing fibers in the cerebellar cortex.

  Masao Ito;Masanobu Kano

  694
  Citations

• Presynaptic Inhibition Caused by Retrograde Signal from Metabotropic Glutamate to Cannabinoid Receptors

  Takashi Maejima;Kouichi Hashimoto;Takayuki Yoshida;Atsu Aiba

  681
  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

• Consensus Paper: Cerebellar Development.

  Ketty Leto;Marife Arancillo;Esther B. E. Becker;Annalisa Buffo

  490
  Citations

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

  Kei Watase;Kouichi Hashimoto;Masanobu Kano;Keiko Yamada

  476
  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

• Synaptic excitation produces a long-lasting rebound potentiation of inhibitory synaptic signals in cerebellar Purkinje cells.

  M. Kano;U. Rexhausen;J. Dreessen;A. Konnerth

  460
  Citations

• mGluR1 in cerebellar Purkinje cells essential for long-term depression, synapse elimination, and motor coordination.

  Taeko Ichise;Masanobu Kano;Kouichi Hashimoto;Dai Yanagihara

  448
  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

• Persistent Multiple Climbing Fiber Innervation of Cerebellar Purkinje Cells in Mice Lacking mGluR1

  Masanobu Kano;Kouichi Hashimoto;Hideo Kurihara;Masahiko Watanabe

  427
  Citations

• Impaired motor coordination correlates with persistent multiple climbing fiber innervation in PKCγ mutant mice

  Chong Chen;Chong Chen;Masanobu Kano;Asa Abeliovich;Asa Abeliovich;Lu Chen

  421
  Citations

• Targeted patch−clamp recordings and single−cell electroporation of unlabeled neurons in vivo

  Kazuo Kitamura;Benjamin Judkewitz;Masanobu Kano;Masanobu Kano;Winfried Denk

  418
  Citations

• Impaired synapse elimination during cerebellar development in PKCγ mutant mice

  Masanobu Kano;Kouichi Hashimoto;Chong Chen;Asa Abeliovich

  418
  Citations

• Impaired Parallel Fiber→Purkinje Cell Synapse Stabilization during Cerebellar Development of Mutant Mice Lacking the Glutamate Receptor δ2 Subunit

  Hideo Kurihara;Kouichi Hashimoto;Masanobu Kano;Chitoshi Takayama

  398
  Citations

• Locally synchronized synaptic inputs.

  Naoya Takahashi;Kazuo Kitamura;Naoki Matsuo;Mark Mayford

  390
  Citations

• Phospholipase Cβ Serves as a Coincidence Detector through Its Ca2+ Dependency for Triggering Retrograde Endocannabinoid Signal

  Yuki Hashimotodani;Takako Ohno-Shosaku;Hiroshi Tsubokawa;Hidenori Ogata

  385
  Citations