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Naoki Tajiri is affiliated with Nagoya City University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a particular emphasis on neurology, rehabilitation, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. They have contributed extensively to the fields of stroke rehabilitation and recovery, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and neurological disease mechanisms and treatments.

The scientist has published their work in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Stem Cell Research & Therapy
  • Cell Transplantation
  • Biomedicines
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience

Co-authorship collaborations have been significant in their research endeavors. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Cesar V. Borlongan
  • Tatsuya Sasaki
  • Takao Yasuhara
  • Kakeru Hosomoto
  • Yosuke Okazaki

Some recent papers by Naoki Tajiri include:

  • "Vagus Nerve Stimulation with Mild Stimulation Intensity Exerts Anti-Inflammatory and Neuroprotective Effects in Parkinson's Disease Model Rats," 2021, Biomedicines
  • "Long-Term Continuous Cervical Spinal Cord Stimulation Exerts Neuroprotective Effects in Experimental Parkinson's Disease," 2020, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • "Social Defeat Stress in Adolescent Mice Induces Depressive-like Behaviors with Reduced Oligodendrogenesis," 2020, Neuroscience
  • "Synergistic therapeutic effects of intracerebral transplantation of human modified bone marrow-derived stromal cells (SB623) and voluntary exercise with running wheel in a rat model of ischemic stroke," 2023, Stem Cell Research & Therapy
  • "Eyeballing stroke: Blood flow alterations in the eye and visual impairments following transient middle cerebral artery occlusion in adult rats," 2020, Cell Transplantation

The main research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological Disorders and Treatments
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

Naoki Tajiri's work integrates experimental models for neurological diseases, including Parkinson's disease and ischemic stroke, and explores therapeutic interventions such as vagus nerve stimulation and spinal cord stimulation. Their research bridges basic neuroscience and clinical relevance through examining neuroprotective effects and behavioral outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Neuroinflammatory responses to traumatic brain injury: etiology, clinical consequences, and therapeutic opportunities.

    Diego Lozano;Gabriel S Gonzales-Portillo;Sandra Acosta;Ike de la Pena

  • Exercise exerts neuroprotective effects on Parkinson's disease model of rats

    Naoki Tajiri;Takao Yasuhara;Tetsuro Shingo;Akihiko Kondo

  • Microglia Activation as a Biomarker for Traumatic Brain Injury

    Diana G. Hernandez-Ontiveros;Naoki Tajiri;Sandra Acosta;Brian Giunta

  • The great migration of bone marrow-derived stem cells toward the ischemic brain: Therapeutic implications for stroke and other neurological disorders

    Cesar V. Borlongan;Loren E. Glover;Naoki Tajiri;Yuji Kaneko

  • Intravenous Bone Marrow Stem Cell Grafts Preferentially Migrate to Spleen and Abrogate Chronic Inflammation in Stroke

    Sandra A. Acosta;Naoki Tajiri;Jaclyn Hoover;Yuji Kaneko

  • Long-term upregulation of inflammation and suppression of cell proliferation in the brain of adult rats exposed to traumatic brain injury using the controlled cortical impact model.

    Sandra A. Acosta;Naoki Tajiri;Kazutaka Shinozuka;Hiroto Ishikawa

  • Intravenous administration of mesenchymal stem cells exerts therapeutic effects on parkinsonian model of rats: Focusing on neuroprotective effects of stromal cell-derived factor-1α

    Feifei Wang;Takao Yasuhara;Tetsuro Shingo;Masahiro Kameda

  • Intravenous Transplants of Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cell Protect the Brain from Traumatic Brain Injury-Induced Neurodegeneration and Motor and Cognitive Impairments: Cell Graft Biodistribution and Soluble Factors in Young and Aged Rats

    N. Tajiri;S. A. Acosta;M. Shahaduzzaman;H. Ishikawa

  • Electrical Stimulation of the Cerebral Cortex Exerts Antiapoptotic, Angiogenic, and Anti-Inflammatory Effects in Ischemic Stroke Rats Through Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase/Akt Signaling Pathway

    Tanefumi Baba;Masahiro Kameda;Takao Yasuhara;Takamasa Morimoto

  • Alpha‐Synuclein as a Pathological Link Between Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury and Parkinson's Disease

    Sandra A. Acosta;Naoki Tajiri;Ike de la Pena;Marina Bastawrous

  • Long noncoding RNA MALAT1 in exosomes drives regenerative function and modulates inflammation-linked networks following traumatic brain injury

    Niketa A. Patel;Lauren Daly Moss;Jea-Young Lee;Naoki Tajiri;Naoki Tajiri

  • Amniotic fluid as a rich source of mesenchymal stromal cells for transplantation therapy.

    Ivana Antonucci;Liborio Stuppia;Yuji Kaneko;Seongjin Yu

  • Electromagnetic treatment to old Alzheimer's mice reverses β-amyloid deposition, modifies cerebral blood flow, and provides selected cognitive benefit.

    Gary W. Arendash;Takashi Mori;Maggie Dorsey;Rich Gonzalez

  • Combination Therapy of Human Umbilical Cord Blood Cells and Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor Reduces Histopathological and Motor Impairments in an Experimental Model of Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury

    Sandra A. Acosta;Naoki Tajiri;Kazutaka Shinozuka;Hiroto Ishikawa

  • Blood-brain barrier alterations provide evidence of subacute diaschisis in an ischemic stroke rat model.

    Svitlana Garbuzova-Davis;Maria C. O. Rodrigues;Diana G. Hernandez-Ontiveros;Naoki Tajiri

  • Stem Cell Recruitment of Newly Formed Host Cells via a Successful Seduction? Filling the Gap between Neurogenic Niche and Injured Brain Site

    Naoki Tajiri;Yuji Kaneko;Kazutaka Shinozuka;Hiroto Ishikawa

  • Neuroprotective effects of edaravone-administration on 6-OHDA-treated dopaminergic neurons

    Wen Ji Yuan;Takao Yasuhara;Tetsuro Shingo;Kenichiro Muraoka

  • Oxytocin modulates GABA A R subunits to confer neuroprotection in stroke in vitro

    Yuji Kaneko;Colleen Pappas;Naoki Tajiri;Cesar V. Borlongan

  • Cell Therapy for Parkinson's Disease.

    Takao Yasuhara;Masahiro Kameda;Tatsuya Sasaki;Naoki Tajiri;Naoki Tajiri

  • Vasculogenesis in Experimental Stroke After Human Cerebral Endothelial Cell Transplantation

    Hiroto Ishikawa;Naoki Tajiri;Kazutaka Shinozuka;Julie Vasconcellos

Frequent Co-Authors

Cesar V. Borlongan
Cesar V. Borlongan University of South Florida
Paula C. Bickford
Paula C. Bickford University of South Florida
Seung U. Kim
Seung U. Kim University of British Columbia
Liborio Stuppia
Liborio Stuppia University of Chieti-Pescara
David M. Diamond
David M. Diamond University of South Florida
Gary W. Arendash
Gary W. Arendash University of South Florida
Sergei A. Kirov
Sergei A. Kirov Augusta University
Tsung-Ping Su
Tsung-Ping Su National Institute on Drug Abuse
Adam D. Bachstetter
Adam D. Bachstetter University of Kentucky
Yun Wang
Yun Wang National Health Research Institutes

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