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Taku Nagai is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and specializes in research areas intersecting biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. Their scholarly output includes significant contributions to molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, developmental neuroscience, and neurology. The primary fields of study encompass biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, as well as neuroscience.

The scientist's main topics of research focus on receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, protein kinase regulation and GTPase signaling, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, and neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

Recent publications by Taku Nagai highlight a range of topics and venues from 2020, showcasing the ongoing research interests:

  • "Maturation of pig oocytes in vivo and in vitro" (2020), Bioscientifica Proceedings
  • "ARHGAP10, which encodes Rho GTPase-activating protein 10, is a novel gene for schizophrenia risk" (2020), Translational Psychiatry
  • "AUTS2 Regulation of Synapses for Proper Synaptic Inputs and Social Communication" (2020), iScience
  • "Comprehensive analysis of a novel mouse model of the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: a model with the most common 3.0-Mb deletion at the human 22q11.2 locus" (2020), Translational Psychiatry
  • "Reelin Supplementation Into the Hippocampus Rescues Abnormal Behavior in a Mouse Model of Neurodevelopmental Disorders" (2020), Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Taku Nagai has coauthored extensively with several researchers, indicating active collaborations across related disciplines. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Kiyofumi Yamada
  • Kozo Kaibuchi
  • Toshitaka Nabeshima
  • Norio Ozaki
  • Hiroyuki Mizoguchi

The scientist's work has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Pharmacological Research
  • Neurochemistry International

Best Publications

  • CD38 is critical for social behaviour by regulating oxytocin secretion

    Duo Jin;Hong Xiang Liu;Hirokazu Hirai;Takashi Torashima

  • Cognition impairment in the genetic model of aging klotho gene mutant mice: a role of oxidative stress

    Taku Nagai;Kiyofumi Yamada;Kiyofumi Yamada;Hyoung Chun Kim;Yong Sun Kim

  • RAGE-mediated signaling contributes to intraneuronal transport of amyloid-β and neuronal dysfunction

    Kazuhiro Takuma;Fang Fang;Wensheng Zhang;Wensheng Zhang;Shiqiang Yan;Shiqiang Yan

  • Silibinin prevents amyloid β peptide-induced memory impairment and oxidative stress in mice

    P. Lu;P. Lu;T. Mamiya;L. L. Lu;L. L. Lu;Akihiro Mouri

  • Social isolation rearing-induced impairment of the hippocampal neurogenesis is associated with deficits in spatial memory and emotion-related behaviors in juvenile mice

    Daisuke Ibi;Kazuhiro Takuma;Hiroyuki Koike;Hiroyuki Mizoguchi

  • Behavioral abnormality and pharmacologic response in social isolation-reared mice

    Hiroyuki Koike;Daisuke Ibi;Hiroyuki Mizoguchi;Taku Nagai

  • Repeated methamphetamine treatment impairs recognition memory through a failure of novelty-induced ERK1/2 activation in the prefrontal cortex of mice.

    Hiroyuki Kamei;Taku Nagai;Taku Nagai;Hiroko Nakano;Yuriko Togan

  • Dopamine D1 receptors regulate protein synthesis-dependent long-term recognition memory via extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 in the prefrontal cortex.

    Taku Nagai;Kazuhiro Takuma;Hiroyuki Kamei;Yukio Ito

  • Aripiprazole ameliorates phencyclidine-induced impairment of recognition memory through dopamine D1 and serotonin 5-HT1A receptors.

    Taku Nagai;Rina Murai;Kanae Matsui;Hiroyuki Kamei

  • Role of Tumor Necrosis Factor-α in Methamphetamine-Induced Drug Dependence and Neurotoxicity

    Akira Nakajima;Kiyofumi Yamada;Kiyofumi Yamada;Taku Nagai;Takehisa Uchiyama

  • Clozapine, but not haloperidol, reverses social behavior deficit in mice during withdrawal from chronic phencyclidine treatment.

    H Qiao;Y Noda;H Kamei;T Nagai

  • Chronic restraint stress impairs neurogenesis and hippocampus-dependent fear memory in mice: possible involvement of a brain-specific transcription factor Npas4.

    Jaesuk Yun;Hiroyuki Koike;Hiroyuki Koike;Daisuke Ibi;Erika Toth

  • FUS regulates AMPA receptor function and FTLD/ALS-associated behaviour via GluA1 mRNA stabilization

    Tsuyoshi Udagawa;Yusuke Fujioka;Motoki Tanaka;Daiyu Honda

  • Butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors ameliorate cognitive dysfunction induced by amyloid-β peptide in mice

    Yoko Furukawa-Hibi;Tursun Alkam;Atsumi Nitta;Akihiro Matsuyama

  • Combined effect of neonatal immune activation and mutant DISC1 on phenotypic changes in adulthood.

    Daisuke Ibi;Taku Nagai;Hiroyuki Koike;Hiroyuki Koike;Yuko Kitahara

  • Behavioral alterations associated with targeted disruption of exons 2 and 3 of the Disc1 gene in the mouse

    Keisuke Kuroda;Shinnosuke Yamada;Motoki Tanaka;Michiro Iizuka

  • Nobiletin, a citrus flavonoid, improves cognitive impairment and reduces soluble Aβ levels in a triple transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (3XTg-AD).

    Akira Nakajima;Yuki Aoyama;Eun Joo Shin;Yunsung Nam

  • The tissue plasminogen activator-plasmin system participates in the rewarding effect of morphine by regulating dopamine release

    Taku Nagai;Kiyofumi Yamada;Masako Yoshimura;Kazuhiro Ishikawa

  • Neonatal polyI:C treatment in mice results in schizophrenia-like behavioral and neurochemical abnormalities in adulthood

    Daisuke Ibi;Taku Nagai;Yuko Kitahara;Hiroyuki Mizoguchi

  • Prostaglandin E receptor EP1 controls impulsive behavior under stress

    Yoko Matsuoka;Tomoyuki Furuyashiki;Kiyofumi Yamada;Kiyofumi Yamada;Taku Nagai;Taku Nagai

Frequent Co-Authors

Yukihiro Noda
Yukihiro Noda Meijo University
Kazuhiro Takuma
Kazuhiro Takuma Osaka University
Atsumi Nitta
Atsumi Nitta University of Toyama
Mitsuharu Hattori
Mitsuharu Hattori Nagoya City University
Akira Sawa
Akira Sawa Johns Hopkins University
Manabu Abe
Manabu Abe Niigata University
Kenji Sakimura
Kenji Sakimura Niigata University
Kinji Ohno
Kinji Ohno Nagoya University
Eun-Joo Shin
Eun-Joo Shin Kangwon National University
Ryota Hashimoto
Ryota Hashimoto National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry

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