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Tomoo Hirano

Tomoo Hirano

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Neuroscience

D-Index
53
Citations
8965
World Ranking
5146
National Ranking
162

Overview

Tomoo Hirano is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and contributes to the field of Neuroscience with a focus on various subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Developmental Neuroscience.

Their research covers multiple main topics such as Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Vestibular and auditory disorders, Glaucoma and retinal disorders, Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling, Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, and Cellular transport and secretion.

Tomoo Hirano has published recent papers including:

  • Developmental stage-specific spontaneous activity contributes to callosal axon projections, 2022, eLife
  • Norepinephrine Facilitates Induction of Long-term Depression through β-Adrenergic Receptor at Parallel Fiber-to-Purkinje Cell Synapses in the Flocculus, 2020, Neuroscience
  • Live-cell imaging of endocytosed synaptophysin around individual hippocampal presynaptic active zones, 2023, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Developmental stage-specific spontaneous activity contributes to callosal axon projections, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent coauthors working alongside Tomoo Hirano include:

  • Yuta Tezuka
  • Kenta M. Hagihara
  • Kenichi Ohki
  • Yoshiaki Tagawa
  • Takuma Inoshita

The primary venues for Hirano's publications have been:

  • eLife
  • Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Impairment of motor coordination, Purkinje cell synapse formation, and cerebellar long-term depression in GluRδ2 mutant mice

    Nobuko Kashiwabuchi;Kazutaka Ikeda;Kazuaki Araki;Tomoo Hirano

  • Activation and Involvement of p38 Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase in Glutamate-induced Apoptosis in Rat Cerebellar Granule Cells *

    Hiroshi Kawasaki;Takaya Morooka;Shun Shimohama;Jun Kimura

  • Antibodies inactivating mGluR1 metabotropic glutamate receptor block long-term depression in cultured Purkinje cells

    Ryuichi Shigemoto;Takaaki Abe;Sakashi Nomura;Shigetada Nakanishi

  • Ablation of Cerebellar Golgi Cells Disrupts Synaptic Integration Involving GABA Inhibition and NMDA Receptor Activation in Motor Coordination

    Dai Watanabe;Hitoshi Inokawa;Kouichi Hashimoto;Norimitsu Suzuki

  • DNER acts as a neuron-specific Notch ligand during Bergmann glial development

    Mototsugu Eiraku;Akira Tohgo;Katsuhiko Ono;Megumi Kaneko

  • Evidence for Activity-Dependent Cortical Wiring: Formation of Interhemispheric Connections in Neonatal Mouse Visual Cortex Requires Projection Neuron Activity

    Hidenobu Mizuno;Tomoo Hirano;Yoshiaki Tagawa

  • Microtubule-based nuclear movement occurs independently of centrosome positioning in migrating neurons

    Hiroki Umeshima;Tomoo Hirano;Mineko Kengaku

  • Motor Discoordination Results from Combined Gene Disruption of the NMDA Receptor NR2A and NR2C Subunits, But Not from Single Disruption of the NR2A or NR2C Subunit

    Hiroshi Kadotani;Tomoo Hirano;Miwako Masugi;Kenji Nakamura

  • Synaptic N 6 -methyladenosine (m 6 A) epitranscriptome reveals functional partitioning of localized transcripts.

    Daria Merkurjev;Wan Ting Hong;Kei Iida;Ikumi Oomoto

  • Depression and potentiation of the synaptic transmission between a granule cell and a Purkinje cell in rat cerebellar culture.

    T. Hirano

  • Mechanisms underlying cerebellar motor deficits due to mGluR1‐autoantibodies

    Michiel Coesmans;Peter A. Sillevis Smitt;David J. Linden;Ryuichi Shigemoto

  • Regulation of dendritic maintenance and growth by a mammalian 7-pass transmembrane cadherin

    Yasuyuki Shima;Mineko Kengaku;Tomoo Hirano;Masatoshi Takeichi

  • Ontogeny-recapitulating generation and tissue integration of ES cell–derived Purkinje cells

    Keiko Muguruma;Ayaka Nishiyama;Yuichi Ono;Hiroyuki Miyawaki

  • Opposing roles in neurite growth control by two seven-pass transmembrane cadherins

    Yasuyuki Shima;Shin-ya Kawaguchi;Kazuyoshi Kosaka;Manabu Nakayama

  • Delta/notch-like epidermal growth factor (EGF)-related receptor, a novel EGF-like repeat-containing protein targeted to dendrites of developing and adult central nervous system neurons.

    Mototsugu Eiraku;Yutaka Hirata;Hiroshi Takeshima;Tomoo Hirano

  • Pax6 regulates granule cell polarization during parallel fiber formation in the developing cerebellum.

    Takao Yamasaki;Kousuke Kawaji;Katsuhiko Ono;Haruhiko Bito

  • Learning and memory.

    Hideyuki Okano;Tomoo Hirano;Evan Balaban

  • Signaling Cascade Regulating Long-Term Potentiation of GABAA Receptor Responsiveness in Cerebellar Purkinje Neurons

    Shin-ya Kawaguchi;Tomoo Hirano

  • Suppression of LTD in cultured Purkinje cells deficient in the glutamate receptor delta 2 subunit.

    Tomoo Hirano;Keizo Kasono;Kazuaki Araki;Masayoshi Mishina

  • Involvement of the glutamate receptor δ2 subunit in the long-term depression of glutamate responsiveness in cultured rat Purkinje cells

    Tomoo Hirano;Keizo Kasono;Kazuaki Araki;Kazuo Shinozuka

  • Retarded vestibular compensation in mutant mice deficient in delta 2 glutamate receptor subunit

    Kazuo Funabiki;Masayoshi Mishina;Tomoo Hirano

Frequent Co-Authors

Masayoshi Mishina
Masayoshi Mishina Ritsumeikan University
Ryuichi Shigemoto
Ryuichi Shigemoto Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Kelsey C. Martin
Kelsey C. Martin University of California, Los Angeles
Yoji Nakamura
Yoji Nakamura Kyoto University
Masanobu Kano
Masanobu Kano University of Tokyo
Yuchio Yanagawa
Yuchio Yanagawa Gunma University
Ryota Kanai
Ryota Kanai University of Sussex
Masahiko Watanabe
Masahiko Watanabe Hokkaido University
Akira Sawa
Akira Sawa Johns Hopkins University
Matteo Pellegrini
Matteo Pellegrini University of California, Los Angeles

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