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Tomoaki Shirao

Tomoaki Shirao

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Neuroscience

D-Index
46
Citations
7007
World Ranking
6751
National Ranking
225

Best Publications

  • Role of actin cytoskeleton in dendritic spine morphogenesis.

    Yuko Sekino;Nobuhiko Kojima;Tomoaki Shirao

  • Modulatory Role of Drebrin on the Cytoskeleton within Dendritic Spines in the Rat Cerebral Cortex

    Kensuke Hayashi;Ryoki Ishikawa;Li-Hong Ye;Xiao-Ling He

  • AMPA receptor downscaling at the onset of Alzheimer’s disease pathology in double knockin mice

    Eric H. Chang;Mary J. Savage;Dorothy G. Flood;Justin M. Thomas

  • Change in the shape of dendritic spines caused by overexpression of drebrin in cultured cortical neurons.

    Kensuke Hayashi;Tomoaki Shirao

  • Drebrin-dependent actin clustering in dendritic filopodia governs synaptic targeting of postsynaptic density-95 and dendritic spine morphogenesis.

    Hideto Takahashi;Yuko Sekino;Satoshi Tanaka;Toshiyuki Mizui

  • Loss of proteins regulating synaptic plasticity in normal aging of the human brain and in Alzheimer disease.

    Kimmo J Hatanpaa;Krystyna R. Isaacs;Tomoaki Shirao;Daniel R. Brady

  • DREBRIN, A DEVELOPMENT-ASSOCIATED BRAIN PROTEIN FROM RAT EMBRYO, CAUSES THE DISSOCIATION OF TROPOMYOSIN FROM ACTIN FILAMENTS

    R. Ishikawa;K. Hayashi;T. Shirao;Yinhuan Xue

  • Disappearance of actin-binding protein, drebrin, from hippocampal synapses in Alzheimer's disease.

    Y. Harigaya;M. Shoji;T. Shirao;S. Hirai

  • Interactions of drebrin and gephyrin with profilin.

    Akiko Mammoto;Takuya Sasaki;Takeshi Asakura;Ikuko Hotta

  • Drebrin A is a postsynaptic protein that localizes in vivo to the submembranous surface of dendritic sites forming excitatory synapses

    Chiye Aoki;Yuko Sekino;Kenji Hanamura;Sho Fujisawa

  • Synaptic dysfunction and disruption of postsynaptic drebrin-actin complex : A study of neurological disorders accompanied by cognitive deficits

    Nobuhiko Kojima;Tomoaki Shirao

  • Immunochemical homology of 3 developmentally regulated brain proteins and their developmental change in neuronal distribution

    Tomoaki Shirao;Kunihiko Obata

  • Drebrin A regulates dendritic spine plasticity and synaptic function in mature cultured hippocampal neurons.

    Anton Ivanov;Monique Esclapez;Christophe Pellegrino;Tomoaki Shirao

  • Actin filaments and microtubules in dendritic spines

    Tomoaki Shirao;Christian González-Billault

  • Two acidic proteins associated with brain development in chick embryo.

    Tomoaki Shirao;Kunihiko Obata

  • Down-regulation of drebrin A expression suppresses synaptic targeting of NMDA receptors in developing hippocampal neurones.

    Hideto Takahashi;Toshiyuki Mizui;Tomoaki Shirao

  • Identification of a synaptic vesicle-specific 38,000-dalton protein by monoclonal antibodies.

    Kunihiko Obata;Hiroshi Nishiye;Hiroshi Nishiye;Shinobu C. Fujita;Tomoaki Shirao

  • Clustering and anchoring mechanisms of molecular constituents of postsynaptic scaffolds in dendritic spines.

    Tomoaki Shirao;Yuko Sekino

  • Overexpression of drebrin A in immature neurons induces the accumulation of F-actin and PSD-95 into dendritic filopodia, and the formation of large abnormal protrusions.

    Toshiyuki Mizui;Hideto Takahashi;Yuko Sekino;Tomoaki Shirao

  • High level of adenosine A1 receptor-like immunoreactivity in the CA2/CA3a region of the adult rat hippocampus.

    T. Ochiishi;Y. Saitoh;A. Yukawa;M. Saji

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