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Takakazu Yamamoto is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, physiology, and cell biology.

The scientist's work has focused on key topics such as cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, ion channel regulation and function, cardiovascular function and risk factors, cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, cardiovascular effects of exercise, and viral infections and immunology research.

Yamamoto has coauthored numerous publications alongside frequent collaborators including Masafumi Yano, Shigeki Kobayashi, Hitoshi Uchinoumi, Tetsuro Oda, and Yoshihide Nakamura.

Their research has been published in various specialized venues, with multiple papers in:

  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports
  • Heart and Vessels
  • Circulation

Significant recent papers by Yamamoto cover investigations into cardiac and neuronal conditions, including:

  • Enhancing calmodulin binding to cardiac ryanodine receptor completely inhibits pressure-overload induced hypertrophic signaling, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Stabilization of RyR2 maintains right ventricular function, reduces the development of ventricular arrhythmias, and improves prognosis in pulmonary hypertension, 2022, Heart Rhythm
  • Enhancing calmodulin binding to ryanodine receptor is crucial to limit neuronal cell loss in Alzheimer disease, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Stabilizing cardiac ryanodine receptor prevents the development of cardiac dysfunction and lethal arrhythmia in Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IIδc transgenic mice, 2020, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • RyR2-targeting therapy prevents left ventricular remodeling and ventricular tachycardia in post-infarction heart failure, 2023, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Best Publications

  • .pi.-Conjugated Poly(pyridine-2,5-diyl), Poly(2,2'-bipyridine-5,5'-diyl), and Their Alkyl Derivatives. Preparation, Linear Structure, Function as a Ligand to Form Their Transition Metal Complexes, Catalytic Reactions, n-Type Electrically Conducting Properties, Optical Properties, and Alignment on Substrates

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Tsukasa Maruyama;Zhen-Hua Zhou;Takayori Ito

  • Preparation of π-conjugated poly(thiophene-2,5-diyl), poly(p-phenylene), and related polymers using zerovalent nickel complexes. Linear structure and properties of the π-conjugated polymers

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Atsushi Morita;Yuichi Miyazaki;Tsukasa Maruyama

  • Preparation of thermostable and electric-conducting poly(2,5-thienylene)

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Kenichi Sanechika;Akio Yamamoto

  • A Novel Type of Polycondensation Utilizing Transition Metal-Catalyzed C–C Coupling. I. Preparation of Thermostable Polyphenylene Type Polymers

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Yasuhiro Hayashi;Akio Yamamoto

  • Organo (dipyridyl) nickel complexes. I. Stability and activation of the alkyl-nickel bonds of dialkyl (dipyridyl) nickel by coordination with various substituted olefins

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Akio Yamamoto;Sakuji Ikeda

  • Extensive studies on pi-stacking of poly(3-alkylthiophene-2,5-diyl)s and poly(4-alkylthiazole-2,5-diyl)s by optical spectroscopy, NMR analysis, light scattering analysis, and X-ray crystallography

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  • Preparation and characterization of poly(thienylene)s.

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Ken-ichi Sanechika;Akio Yamamoto

  • Mechanism of CC coupling reactions of aromatic halides, promoted by Ni(COD)2 in the presence of 2,2′-bipyridine and PPh3, to give biaryls

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Shoichiro Wakabayashi;Kohtaro Osakada

  • Preparation of New Electron-Accepting π-Conjugated Polyquinoxalines. Chemical and Electrochemical Reduction, Electrically Conducting Properties, and Use in Light-Emitting Diodes

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Kiyoshi Sugiyama;Takashi Kushida;Tetsuji Inoue

  • Palladium-catalyzed double carbonylation of aryl halides to give .alpha.-keto amides. Mechanistic studies

    Fumiyuki Ozawa;Hidehiko Soyama;Hisayoshi Yanagihara;Issei Aoyama

  • π-Conjugated Donor−Acceptor Copolymers Constituted of π-Excessive and π-Deficient Arylene Units. Optical and Electrochemical Properties in Relation to CT Structure of the Polymer

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  • Rechargeable Zn∣ZnSO4∣MnO2-type cells

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Takayuki Shoji

  • A novel type of polycondensation of polyhalogenated organic aromatic compounds producing thermostable polyphenylene type polymers promoted by nickel complexes.

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Akio Yamamoto

  • Palladium catalyzed C−C coupling for synthesis of π-conjugated polymers composed of arylene and ethynylene units

    Kenichi Sanechika;Takakazu Yamamoto;Akio Yamamoto

  • Zinc-manganese dioxide galvanic cell using zinc sulphate as electrolyte. Rechargeability of the cell

    Takayuki Shoji;Masakazu Hishinuma;Takakazu Yamamoto

  • New coplanar (ABA)n-type donor-acceptor π-conjugated copolymers constituted of alkylthiophene (unit A) and pyridazine (unit B): Synthesis using hexamethylditin, self-organized solid structure, and optical and electrochemical properties of the copolymers

    Takuma Yasuda;Yoshimasa Sakai;Shinji Aramaki;Takakazu Yamamoto

  • Catalytic double carbonylation of organohalogen compounds promoted by palladium complexes

    Fumiyuki Ozawa;Hidehiko Soyma;Takakazu Yamamoto;Akio Yamamoto

  • .pi.-Conjugated Soluble Poly(aryleneethynylene) Type Polymers. Preparation by Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling Reaction, Nonlinear Optical Properties, Doping, and Chemical Reactivity

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Wataru Yamada;Masakazu Takagi;Kenichi Kizu

  • Electrically conducting and thermally stable π-conjugated poly(arylene)s prepared by organometallic processes

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  • Mechanisms of double and single carbonylation reactions of aryl iodides catalyzed by palladium complexes to give .alpha.-keto esters and esters

    Fumiyuki. Ozawa;Nobuo. Kawasaki;Hidekazu. Okamoto;Takakazu. Yamamoto

  • AN ASSOCIATIVE MECHANISM FOR REDUCTIVE ELIMINATION OF D8 NIR2(PR3)2

    K. Tatsumi;A. Nakamura;S. Komiya;A. Yamamoto

  • π-Conjugated and Light Emitting Poly(4,4‘-dialkyl-2,2‘-bithiazole-5,5‘-diyl)s and Their Analogues Comprised of Electron-Accepting Five-Membered Rings. Preparation, Regioregular Structure, Face-to-Face Stacking, and Electrochemical and Optical Properties

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Hajime Suganuma;Tsukasa Maruyama;Tetsushi Inoue

  • Interaction of palladium(0) complexes with allylic acetates, allyl ethers, allyl phenyl chalcogenides, allylic alcohols, and allylamines. Oxidative addition, condensation, disproportionation, and .pi.-complex formation

    Takakazu Yamamoto;Mitsuru Akimoto;Osamu Saito;Akio Yamamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Kohtaro Osakada
Kohtaro Osakada Tokyo Institute of Technology
Akio Yamamoto
Akio Yamamoto Waseda University
Takaki Kanbara
Takaki Kanbara University of Tsukuba
Takuma Yasuda
Takuma Yasuda Kyushu University
Fumiyuki Ozawa
Fumiyuki Ozawa Kyoto University
Hideomi Koinuma
Hideomi Koinuma Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takehiko Yagi
Takehiko Yagi University of Tokyo
Isao Ando
Isao Ando Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hideo Takezoe
Hideo Takezoe Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tomiki Ikeda
Tomiki Ikeda Chuo University

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