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Tôru Yoshizawa

Tôru Yoshizawa

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Chemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
8793
World Ranking
11387
National Ranking
838

Overview

Tôru Yoshizawa is affiliated with Osaka Sangyo University in Japan and has contributed to research primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work also spans important subfields such as Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine.

Their research topics focus on areas including:

  • Uterine Myomas and Treatments
  • Endometriosis Research and Treatment
  • Gynecological conditions and treatments

Yoshizawa has published papers in several academic venues, most notably:

  • Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (with four publications)
  • Balkan Medical Journal (with one publication)

Among their recent papers are:

  • "A Rare Cause of Acute Abdomen: Torsion of Subserous Uterine Fibroid in a Postmenopausal Woman," 2022, Balkan Medical Journal
  • "1," 2022, Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering
  • "2," 2023, Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering
  • "3," 2023, Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering
  • "4," 2023, Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering

Yoshizawa has collaborated with other researchers in their field. Frequent coauthors include So Yamashita and Hirohisa Fujikawa.

Best Publications

  • Pinopsin is a chicken pineal photoreceptive molecule

    Toshiyuki Okano;Toru Yoshizawa;Yoshitaka Fukada

  • Primary structures of chicken cone visual pigments: Vertebrate rhodopsins have evolved out of cone visual pigments

    Toshiyuki Okano;Daisuke Kojima;Yoshitaka Fukada;Yoshinori Shichida

  • Farnesylated gamma-subunit of photoreceptor G protein indispensable for GTP-binding.

    Yoshitaka Fukada;Toshifumi Takao;Hiroshi Ohguro;Tôru Yoshizawa

  • Photoisomerization in rhodopsin.

    H Kandori;Y Shichida;T Yoshizawa

  • Lipid modification at the N terminus of photoreceptor G-protein α-subunit

    Koichi Kokame;Yoshitaka Fukada;Tôru Yoshizawa;Toshifumi Takao

  • Carboxyl methylation and farnesylation of transducin gamma-subunit synergistically enhance its coupling with metarhodopsin II.

    H. Ohguro;Y. Fukada;T. Takao;Y. Shimonishi

  • Cone visual pigments are present in gecko rod cells

    Daisuke Kojima;Toshiyuki Okano;Yoshitaka Fukada;Yoshinori Shichida

  • Fourier transform infrared study of the N intermediate of bacteriorhodopsin

    Jean Marc Pfefferle;Akio Maeda;Jun Sasaki;Toru Yoshizawa

  • Effects of carboxyl methylation of photoreceptor G protein gamma-subunit in visual transduction.

    Y Fukada;T Matsuda;K Kokame;T Takao

  • Water structural changes in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle: analysis by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

    Akio Maeda;Jun Sasaki;Yoshinori Shichida;Toru Yoshizawa

  • Existence of a β-ionone ring-binding site in the rhodopsin molecule

    Hiroyuki Matsumoto;Tôru Yoshizawa

  • Structures of aspartic acid-96 in the L and N intermediates of bacteriorhodopsin: analysis by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

    Akio Maeda;Jun Sasaki;Yoshinori Shichida;Toru Yoshizawa

  • Studies on structure and function of rhodopsin by use of cyclopentatrienylidene 11-cis-locked-rhodopsin.

    Yoshitaka Fukada;Yoshinori Shichida;Toru Yoshizawa;Masayoshi Ito

  • Absorption spectra of intermediates of bacteriorhodopsin measured by laser photolysis at room temperatures

    Yoshinori Shichida;Sinzi Matuoka;Yusuke Hidaka;Toru Yoshizawa

  • Complete identification of C = O stretching vibrational bands of protonated aspartic acid residues in the difference infrared spectra of M and N intermediates versus bacteriorhodopsin

    Jun Sasaki;Janos K. Lanyi;Richard Needleman;Toru Yoshizawa

  • Fourier transform infrared spectral studies on the Schiff base mode of all-trans bacteriorhodopsin and its photointermediates, K and L

    Akio Maeda;Jun Sasaki;Jean-Marc Pfefferlé;Yoshinori Shichida

  • Is chicken green-sensitive cone visual pigment a rhodopsin-like pigment? A comparative study of the molecular properties between chicken green and rhodopsin.

    Yoshinori Shichida;Hiroo Imai;Yasushi Imamoto;Yoshitaka Fukada

  • [49] Low-temperature spectrophotometry of intermediates of rhodopsin

    Toˆru Yoshizawa;Yoshinori Shichida

  • Photocycle of phoborhodopsin from haloalkaliphilic bacterium (Natronobacterium pharaonis) studied by low-temperature spectrophotometry

    Junichi Hirayama;Yasushi Imamoto;Yoshinori Shichida;Naoki Kamo

  • Real-Time Detection of 60-fs Isomerization in a Rhodopsin Analog Containing Eight-Membered-Ring Retinal

    Hideki Kandori;Hiroyuki Sasabe;Koji Nakanishi;Tôru Yoshizawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshinori Shichida
Yoshinori Shichida Ritsumeikan University
Yoshitaka Fukada
Yoshitaka Fukada University of Tokyo
Toshifumi Takao
Toshifumi Takao Osaka University
Hideki Kandori
Hideki Kandori Nagoya Institute of Technology
Yasutsugu Shimonishi
Yasutsugu Shimonishi Osaka University
Saburo Nagakura
Saburo Nagakura University of Tokyo
Thomas G. Ebrey
Thomas G. Ebrey University of Washington
Naoki Kamo
Naoki Kamo Hokkaido University
Johan Lugtenburg
Johan Lugtenburg Leiden University
Masayuki Murata
Masayuki Murata Osaka University

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