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Miwako Yamasaki

Miwako Yamasaki

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Neuroscience

D-Index
40
Citations
6130
World Ranking
8113
National Ranking
281

Overview

Miwako Yamasaki is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans multiple specialized areas, including cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and sensory systems.

The primary topics addressed in their work include neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, receptor mechanisms and signaling, ion channel regulation and function, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, memory and neural mechanisms, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior.

Among their recent notable publications are:

  • "Glyoxal fixation: An approach to solve immunohistochemical problem in neuroscience research" (2023, Science Advances)
  • "mGluR1 signaling in cerebellar Purkinje cells: Subcellular organization and involvement in cerebellar function and disease" (2021, Neuropharmacology)
  • "TMEM163 Regulates ATP-Gated P2X Receptor and Behavior" (2020, Cell Reports)
  • "Pathogenic neuropsychiatric effect of stress-induced microglial interleukin 12/23 axis in systemic lupus erythematosus" (2022, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases)
  • "Compartmentalized Input-Output Organization of Lugaro Cells in the Cerebellar Cortex" (2020, Neuroscience)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Miwako Yamasaki include Masahiko Watanabe, Kohtarou Konno, Taisuke Miyazaki, and Susumu Tomita.

Their work is frequently published in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuroscience, Scientific Reports, eLife, and iScience.

Best Publications

  • Locus coeruleus and dopaminergic consolidation of everyday memory

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

  • Autoantibodies to epilepsy-related LGI1 in limbic encephalitis neutralize LGI1-ADAM22 interaction and reduce synaptic AMPA receptors.

    Toshika Ohkawa;Toshika Ohkawa;Yuko Fukata;Yuko Fukata;Miwako Yamasaki;Taisuke Miyazaki

  • 3-Phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase, a key enzyme for L-serine biosynthesis, is preferentially expressed in the radial glia/astrocyte lineage and olfactory ensheathing glia in the mouse brain

    Miwako Yamasaki;Keiko Yamada;Shigeki Furuya;Junya Mitoma

  • Preferential Localization of Muscarinic M1 Receptor on Dendritic Shaft and Spine of Cortical Pyramidal Cells and Its Anatomical Evidence for Volume Transmission

    Miwako Yamasaki;Minoru Matsui;Masahiko Watanabe

  • L-serine and glycine serve as major astroglia-derived trophic factors for cerebellar Purkinje neurons.

    Shigeki Furuya;Toshihide Tabata;Junya Mitoma;Keiko Yamada

  • Imaging extrasynaptic glutamate dynamics in the brain.

    Yohei Okubo;Hiroshi Sekiya;Shigeyuki Namiki;Hirokazu Sakamoto

  • Three Types of Neurochemical Projection from the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis to the Ventral Tegmental Area in Adult Mice

    Takehiro Kudo;Motokazu Uchigashima;Taisuke Miyazaki;Kohtarou Konno

  • Critical period for activity-dependent synapse elimination in developing cerebellum.

    Sho Kakizawa;Miwako Yamasaki;Masahiko Watanabe;Masanobu Kano

  • NMDA Receptor GluN2B (GluRε2/NR2B) Subunit Is Crucial for Channel Function, Postsynaptic Macromolecular Organization, and Actin Cytoskeleton at Hippocampal CA3 Synapses

    Kaori Akashi;Toshikazu Kakizaki;Haruyuki Kamiya;Masahiro Fukaya

  • Transsynaptic Modulation of Kainate Receptor Functions by C1q-like Proteins

    Keiko Matsuda;Timotheus Budisantoso;Nikolaos Mitakidis;Yuki Sugaya

  • Distinct functions of kainate receptors in the brain are determined by the auxiliary subunit Neto1

    Christoph Straub;David L Hunt;Miwako Yamasaki;Kwang S Kim

  • Gq protein alpha subunits Galphaq and Galpha11 are localized at postsynaptic extra-junctional membrane of cerebellar Purkinje cells and hippocampal pyramidal cells.

    Jun Tanaka;Shin Nakagawa;Etsuko Kushiya;Miwako Yamasaki

  • Unique inhibitory synapse with particularly rich endocannabinoid signaling machinery on pyramidal neurons in basal amygdaloid nucleus

    Takayuki Yoshida;Motokazu Uchigashima;Miwako Yamasaki;Istvan Katona

  • TARPs gamma-2 and gamma-7 are essential for AMPA receptor expression in the cerebellum.

    Maya Yamazaki;Masahiro Fukaya;Kouichi Hashimoto;Kouichi Hashimoto;Miwako Yamasaki

  • Molecular and morphological configuration for 2-arachidonoylglycerol-mediated retrograde signaling at mossy cell-granule cell synapses in the dentate gyrus.

    Motokazu Uchigashima;Maya Yamazaki;Miwako Yamasaki;Asami Tanimura

  • Cytochemical and cytological properties of perineuronal oligodendrocytes in the mouse cortex

    Chihiro Takasaki;Miwako Yamasaki;Motokazu Uchigashima;Kohtarou Konno

  • Territories of heterologous inputs onto Purkinje cell dendrites are segregated by mGluR1-dependent parallel fiber synapse elimination.

    Ryoichi Ichikawa;Kouichi Hashimoto;Taisuke Miyazaki;Motokazu Uchigashima

  • Cav2.1 in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells Regulates Competitive Excitatory Synaptic Wiring, Cell Survival, and Cerebellar Biochemical Compartmentalization

    Taisuke Miyazaki;Miwako Yamasaki;Kouichi Hashimoto;Maya Yamazaki

  • Enriched Expression of GluD1 in Higher Brain Regions and Its Involvement in Parallel Fiber–Interneuron Synapse Formation in the Cerebellum

    Kohtarou Konno;Keiko Matsuda;Chihiro Nakamoto;Motokazu Uchigashima

  • Olig2-Lineage Astrocytes: A Distinct Subtype of Astrocytes That Differs from GFAP Astrocytes.

    Kouko Tatsumi;Ayami Isonishi;Miwako Yamasaki;Yoshie Kawabe

  • Miniature synaptic events elicited by presynaptic Ca2+ rise are selectively suppressed by cannabinoid receptor activation in cerebellar Purkinje cells.

    Miwako Yamasaki;Kouichi Hashimoto;Masanobu Kano

  • Glutamate receptor δ2 is essential for input pathway-dependent regulation of synaptic AMPAR contents in cerebellar Purkinje cells

    Miwako Yamasaki;Taisuke Miyazaki;Hirotsugu Azechi;Manabu Abe

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahiko Watanabe
Masahiko Watanabe Hokkaido University
Kenji Sakimura
Kenji Sakimura Niigata University
Taisuke Miyazaki
Taisuke Miyazaki Hokkaido University
Masanobu Kano
Masanobu Kano University of Tokyo
Kouichi Hashimoto
Kouichi Hashimoto Hiroshima University
Masahiro Fukaya
Masahiro Fukaya Kitasato University
Manabu Abe
Manabu Abe Niigata University
Motokazu Uchigashima
Motokazu Uchigashima Niigata University
Masayoshi Mishina
Masayoshi Mishina Ritsumeikan University
Michisuke Yuzaki
Michisuke Yuzaki Keio University

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