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Michiko Takahashi

Michiko Takahashi

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Biology and Biochemistry

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46
Citations
12097
World Ranking
18844
National Ranking
1351

Overview

Michiko Takahashi is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has a research focus primarily in medicine, with particular attention to subfields including endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, physiology, oncology, ecology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The researcher has contributed extensively across several key topics such as bacteriophages and microbial interactions, adrenal hormones and disorders, nutrition and health in aging, growth hormone and insulin-like growth factors, pituitary gland disorders and treatments, hormonal regulation and hypertension, and plant disease resistance and genetics.

Takahashi's publication record includes papers appearing in diverse journals, with frequent venues being the Journal of the Endocrine Society, Research Square, Pediatrics International, PLoS ONE, and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Among recent papers are:

  • Serum Zinc and Selenium in Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Multicenter Study in Japan (2021, Digestive Diseases and Sciences)
  • A consensus statement on health-care transition for childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease patients (2022, Pediatrics International)
  • Impact of pH and protein hydrophobicity on norovirus inactivation by heat-denatured lysozyme (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Fluctuations in plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone concentration may predict the onset of immune checkpoint inhibitor-related hypophysitis (2024, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer)
  • Frailty and Colorectal Surgery: Review and Concept of Cancer Frailty (2023, Journal of Clinical Medicine)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Takahashi include Wataru Ogawa, Hironori Bando, Hidenori Fukuoka, Genzo Iguchi, and Shin Urai, indicating active interdisciplinary and collaborative work.

Best Publications

  • Rice plants take up iron as an Fe3+-phytosiderophore and as Fe2+.

    Yasuhiro Ishimaru;Motofumi Suzuki;Takashi Tsukamoto;Kazumasa Suzuki

  • OsYSL2 is a rice metal-nicotianamine transporter that is regulated by iron and expressed in the phloem.

    Shintaro Koike;Haruhiko Inoue;Daichi Mizuno;Michiko Takahashi

  • Rice OsYSL15 is an iron-regulated iron(III)-deoxymugineic acid transporter expressed in the roots and is essential for iron uptake in early growth of the seedlings

    Haruhiko Inoue;Takanori Kobayashi;Tomoko Nozoye;Michiko Takahashi

  • Phytosiderophore efflux transporters are crucial for iron acquisition in graminaceous plants

    Tomoko Nozoye;Seiji Nagasaka;Takanori Kobayashi;Michiko Takahashi

  • Rice metal-nicotianamine transporter, OsYSL2, is required for the long-distance transport of iron and manganese.

    Yasuhiro Ishimaru;Hiroshi Masuda;Khurram Bashir;Haruhiko Inoue

  • Enhanced tolerance of rice to low iron availability in alkaline soils using barley nicotianamine aminotransferase genes.

    Michiko Takahashi;Hiromi Nakanishi;Shinji Kawasaki;Naoko K. Nishizawa

  • Three rice nicotianamine synthase genes, OsNAS1, OsNAS2, and OsNAS3 are expressed in cells involved in long-distance transport of iron and differentially regulated by iron

    Haruhiko Inoue;Kyoko Higuchi;Michiko Takahashi;Hiromi Nakanishi

  • OsZIP4, a novel zinc-regulated zinc transporter in rice

    Yasuhiro Ishimaru;Motofumi Suzuki;Takanori Kobayashi;Michiko Takahashi

  • The rice bHLH protein OsIRO2 is an essential regulator of the genes involved in Fe uptake under Fe‐deficient conditions

    Yuko Ogo;Reiko Nakanishi Itai;Hiromi Nakanishi;Takanori Kobayashi

  • Cloning and Characterization of Deoxymugineic Acid Synthase Genes from Graminaceous Plants

    Khurram Bashir;Haruhiko Inoue;Seiji Nagasaka;Michiko Takahashi

  • Cloning two genes for nicotianamine aminotransferase, a critical enzyme in iron acquisition (Strategy II) in graminaceous plants.

    Michiko Takahashi;Hirotaka Yamaguchi;Hiromi Nakanishi;Takayuki Shioiri

  • Biosynthesis and secretion of mugineic acid family phytosiderophores in zinc-deficient barley.

    Motofumi Suzuki;Michiko Takahashi;Takashi Tsukamoto;Satoshi Watanabe

  • Iron biofortification in rice by the introduction of multiple genes involved in iron nutrition

    Hiroshi Masuda;Yasuhiro Ishimaru;Yasuhiro Ishimaru;May Sann Aung;Takanori Kobayashi;Takanori Kobayashi

  • Overexpression of the Barley Nicotianamine Synthase Gene HvNAS1 Increases Iron and Zinc Concentrations in Rice Grains

    Hiroshi Masuda;Kanako Usuda;Takanori Kobayashi;Yasuhiro Ishimaru

  • A novel NAC transcription factor, IDEF2, that recognizes the iron deficiency-responsive element 2 regulates the genes involved in iron homeostasis in plants

    Yuko Ogo;Takanori Kobayashi;Reiko Nakanishi Itai;Hiromi Nakanishi

  • Isolation and characterization of IRO2, a novel iron-regulated bHLH transcription factor in graminaceous plants

    Yuko Ogo;Reiko Nakanishi Itai;Hiromi Nakanishi;Haruhiko Inoue

  • The transcription factor IDEF1 regulates the response to and tolerance of iron deficiency in plants

    Takanori Kobayashi;Yuko Ogo;Reiko Nakanishi Itai;Hiromi Nakanishi

  • Increased Nicotianamine Biosynthesis Confers Enhanced Tolerance of High Levels of Metals, in Particular Nickel, to Plants

    Suyeon Kim;Michiko Takahashi;Kyoko Higuchi;Kyoko Tsunoda

  • Expression of iron-acquisition-related genes in iron-deficient rice is co-ordinately induced by partially conserved iron-deficiency-responsive elements

    Takanori Kobayashi;Motofumi Suzuki;Haruhiko Inoue;Reiko Nakanishi Itai

  • Deoxymugineic acid increases Zn translocation in Zn-deficient rice plants

    Motofumi Suzuki;Takashi Tsukamoto;Haruhiko Inoue;Satoshi Watanabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Naoko K. Nishizawa
Naoko K. Nishizawa Ishikawa Prefectural University
Hiromi Nakanishi
Hiromi Nakanishi University of Tokyo
Takanori Kobayashi
Takanori Kobayashi Ishikawa Prefectural University
Yasuhiro Ishimaru
Yasuhiro Ishimaru Tohoku University
Gynheung An
Gynheung An Kyung Hee University
Isomaro Yamaguchi
Isomaro Yamaguchi University of Tokyo
Nobuyuki Uozumi
Nobuyuki Uozumi Tohoku University
Mikio Nakazono
Mikio Nakazono Nagoya University
Hendrik Küpper
Hendrik Küpper Czech Academy of Sciences
Shoshi Kikuchi
Shoshi Kikuchi National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

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