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Overview

Tatsunori Seki is affiliated with Tokyo Medical University in Japan and focuses on research in Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, and Neurology.

The primary research themes covered in their publications include:

  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

The scientist has contributed to multiple papers in journals such as Gastroenterology, Cells, Frontiers in Neuroscience, EMBO Molecular Medicine, and Neuropsychopharmacology Reports.

Notable recent publications include:

  • The PSA-NCAM-Positive "Immature" Neurons: An Old Discovery Providing New Vistas on Brain Structural Plasticity, 2021, published in Cells
  • Understanding the Real State of Human Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis From Studies of Rodents and Non-human Primates, 2020, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Neuraminidase inhibition promotes the collective migration of neurons and recovery of brain function, 2024, published in EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • The long-term prognosis of hippocampal neurogenesis and behavioral changes of offspring from rats exposed to valproic acid during pregnancy, 2021, published in Neuropsychopharmacology Reports
  • P0815 Oral alpha 4 beta 7 (α4β7) integrin antagonist EA1080 (NSHO-101) demonstrates target engagement and α4β7 integrin receptor occupancy following once-daily administration in healthy volunteers, 2025, published in Journal of Crohn's and Colitis

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tatsunori Seki include:

  • H Ohishi
  • Ulrike Lorch
  • Yutaka Takeuchi
  • Luca Bonfanti
  • Mami Matsumoto

Best Publications

  • GABAergic Excitation Promotes Neuronal Differentiation in Adult Hippocampal Progenitor Cells

    Yusuke Tozuka;Satoshi Fukuda;Takashi Namba;Tatsunori Seki

  • Highly polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM-H) is expressed by newly generated granule cells in the dentate gyrus of the adult rat

    T Seki;Y Arai

  • Distribution and possible roles of the highly polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM-H) in the developing and adult central nervous system

    Tatsunori Seki;Yasumasa Arai

  • Age-related production of new granule cells in the adult dentate gyrus

    Tatsunori Seki;Yasumasa Arai

  • Removal of Polysialic Acid–Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule Induces Aberrant Mossy Fiber Innervation and Ectopic Synaptogenesis in the Hippocampus

    Tatsunori Seki;Urs Rutishauser

  • Expression of highly polysialylated NCAM in the neocortex and piriform cortex of the developing and the adult rat.

    Tatsunori Seki;Yasumasa Arai

  • Neuron‐Specific Phosphorylation of Alzheimer's β‐Amyloid Precursor Protein by Cyclin‐Dependent Kinase 5

    Ko-ichi Iijima;Kanae Ando;Shizu Takeda;Yasushi Satoh

  • The persistent expression of a highly polysialylated NCAM in the dentate gyrus of the adult rat.

    Tatsunori Seki;Yasumasa Arai

  • Expression patterns of immature neuronal markers PSA‐NCAM, CRMP‐4 and NeuroD in the hippocampus of young adult and aged rodents

    Tatsunori Seki

  • Roles of disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1-interacting protein girdin in postnatal development of the dentate gyrus.

    Atsushi Enomoto;Naoya Asai;Takashi Namba;Yun Wang

  • The ontogeny of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) producing neurons in the chick embryo: possible evidence for migrating LHRH neurons from the olfactory epithelium expressing a highly polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecule.

    Shizuko Murakami;Tatsunori Seki;Katsumi Wakabayashi;Yasumasa Arai

  • Possibility for neurogenesis in substantia nigra of parkinsonian brain

    Kenji Yoshimi;Yong Ri Ren;Tatsunori Seki;Masanori Yamada

  • Hippocampal adult neurogenesis occurs in a microenvironment provided by PSA-NCAM-expressing immature neurons.

    Tatsunori Seki

  • Temporal and spacial relationships between PSA-NCAM-expressing, newly generated granule cells, and radial glia-like cells in the adult dentate gyrus.

    Tatsunori Seki;Yasumasa Arai

  • Glial fibrillary acidic protein-expressing neural progenitors give rise to immature neurons via early intermediate progenitors expressing both glial fibrillary acidic protein and neuronal markers in the adult hippocampus

    Y. Liu;T. Namba;T. Namba;J. Liu;R. Suzuki

  • The fate of neural progenitor cells expressing astrocytic and radial glial markers in the postnatal rat dentate gyrus

    Takashi Namba;Hideki Mochizuki;Masafumi Onodera;Yoshikuni Mizuno

  • Repetitive cocaine administration decreases neurogenesis in adult rat hippocampus.

    M Yamaguchi;M Yamaguchi;T Suzuki;T Seki;T Namba

  • Seizures decrease postnatal neurogenesis and granule cell development in the human fascia dentata.

    Gary W. Mathern;James L. Leiphart;Adelaine De Vera;P. David Adelson

  • Clustering, migration, and neurite formation of neural precursor cells in the adult rat hippocampus

    Tatsunori Seki;Takashi Namba;Takashi Namba;Hideki Mochizuki;Masafumi Onodera

  • Vascular adventitia generates neuronal progenitors in the monkey hippocampus after ischemia.

    Tetsumori Yamashima;Anton B. Tonchev;Ivan H. Vachkov;Boryana K. Popivanova

Frequent Co-Authors

Yasumasa Arai
Yasumasa Arai Juntendo University
Hideki Mochizuki
Hideki Mochizuki Osaka University
Noriko Osumi
Noriko Osumi Tohoku University
Katsuya Nagai
Katsuya Nagai Osaka University
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla University of California, San Francisco
Isabelle Aubert
Isabelle Aubert Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Shigeyoshi Itohara
Shigeyoshi Itohara RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Edward S. Ruthazer
Edward S. Ruthazer Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Gary W. Mathern
Gary W. Mathern University of California, Los Angeles
Nobuaki Tamamaki
Nobuaki Tamamaki Kumamoto University

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