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Toshiyuki Fukao

Toshiyuki Fukao

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
10735
World Ranking
14476
National Ranking
1020

Overview

Toshiyuki Fukao was affiliated with Gifu University in Japan. Their research spanned a range of topics primarily within the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. The subfields of their work included Molecular Biology, Physiology, Surgery, Genetics, and Clinical Biochemistry.

Their studies often addressed specific topics such as:

  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
  • Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Vascular Malformations and Hemangiomas
  • Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Trypanosoma species research and implications

Fukao coauthored frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Hidenori Ohnishi (9 collaborations)
  • Hideo Sasai (8 collaborations)
  • Seiji Yamaguchi (7 collaborations)
  • Kenji E. Orii (7 collaborations)
  • Shunji Tomatsu (7 collaborations)

The scientific venues where Fukao published included:

  • Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease (2 publications)
  • Molecular Genetics and Metabolism (2 publications)
  • Human Genome Variation (2 publications)
  • Pediatrics International (2 publications)
  • Diagnostics (2 publications)

Selected recent papers by Toshiyuki Fukao included:

  • "Deficiency of 3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (BDH1) in mice causes low ketone body levels and fatty liver during fasting," 2020, Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
  • "Newborn screening for mucopolysaccharidoses: Measurement of glycosaminoglycans by LC-MS/MS," 2020, Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports
  • "Newborn screening of mucopolysaccharidoses: past, present, and future," 2020, Journal of Human Genetics
  • "POLR3A variants in striatal involvement without diffuse hypomyelination," 2020, Brain and Development
  • "Analysis of mTOR pathway expression in lymphatic malformation and related diseases," 2020, Pathology International

Best Publications

  • Pathways and control of ketone body metabolism: on the fringe of lipid biochemistry.

    Toshiyuki Fukao;Gary D. Lopaschuk;Grant A. Mitchell

  • Ketone body metabolism and its defects

    Toshiyuki Fukao;Grant Mitchell;Jörn Oliver Sass;Tomohiro Hori

  • Reduced interferon gamma production by antigen-stimulated cord blood mononuclear cells is a risk factor of allergic disorders--6-year follow-up study.

    N Kondo;Y Kobayashi;S Shinoda;R Takenaka

  • Enzymes of ketone body utilization in human tissues: protein and messenger RNA levels of succinyl-coenzyme A (CoA):3-ketoacid CoA transferase and mitochondrial and cytosolic acetoacetyl-CoA thiolases.

    Fukao T;Song Xq;Mitchell Ga;Yamaguchi S

  • Morquio disease: isolation, characterization and expression of full-length cDNA for human N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase.

    Shunji Tomatsu;Seiji Fukuda;Michiya Masue;Kazuko Sukegawa

  • Functional link between BLM defective in Bloom's syndrome and the ataxia-telangiectasia-mutated protein, ATM.

    Heather Beamish;Padmini Kedar;Hideo Kaneko;Philip Chen

  • Decreased levels of metabolic enzymes in pancreatic islets of patients with type 2 diabetes.

    M. J. MacDonald;M. J. Longacre;E.-C. Langberg;A. Tibell

  • Crystallographic and Kinetic Studies of Human Mitochondrial Acetoacetyl-CoA Thiolase: The Importance of Potassium and Chloride Ions for Its Structure and Function

    Antti M Haapalainen;Gitte Meriläinen;Päivi L Pirilä;Naomi Kondo

  • Clinical and molecular investigation of 19 Japanese cases of glutaric acidemia type 1.

    Yuichi Mushimoto;Seiji Fukuda;Yuki Hasegawa;Hironori Kobayashi

  • Differences between human and rodent pancreatic islets: low pyruvate carboxylase, atp citrate lyase, and pyruvate carboxylation and high glucose-stimulated acetoacetate in human pancreatic islets.

    Michael J. MacDonald;Melissa J. Longacre;Scott W. Stoker;Mindy A. Kendrick

  • Succinyl-CoA: 3-ketoacid CoA transferase (SCOT): Cloning of the human SCOT gene, tertiary structural modeling of the human SCOT monomer, and characterization of three pathogenic mutations

    Toshiyuki Fukao;Grant A. Mitchell;Xiang-Qian Song;Haruki Nakamura

  • The clinical phenotype and outcome of mitochondrial acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase deficiency (beta-ketothiolase or T2 deficiency) in 26 enzymatically proved and mutation-defined patients.

    Toshiyuki Fukao;Charles R. Scriver;Naomi Kondo

  • Diversity in the incidence and spectrum of organic acidemias, fatty acid oxidation disorders, and amino acid disorders in Asian countries: Selective screening vs. expanded newborn screening.

    Naoaki Shibata;Yuki Hasegawa;Kenji Yamada;Hironori Kobayashi

  • Propranolol for Intractable Diffuse Lymphangiomatosis

    Michio Ozeki;Toshiyuki Fukao;Naomi Kondo

  • Clinical Features and Prognosis of Generalized Lymphatic Anomaly, Kaposiform Lymphangiomatosis, and Gorham–Stout Disease

    Michio Ozeki;Akihiro Fujino;Kentaro Matsuoka;Shunsuke Nosaka

  • Haploinsufficiency of A20 causes autoinflammatory and autoimmune disorders

    Tomonori Kadowaki;Hidenori Ohnishi;Norio Kawamoto;Tomohiro Hori

  • Biochemical and structural analysis of missense mutations in N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase causing mucopolysaccharidosis IVA phenotypes

    Kazuko Sukegawa;Haruki Nakamura;Zenichiro Kato;Shunji Tomatsu

  • Genetic Basis for Correction of Very-Long-Chain Acyl–Coenzyme A Dehydrogenase Deficiency by Bezafibrate in Patient Fibroblasts: Toward a Genotype-Based Therapy

    S. Gobin‐Limballe;F. Djouadi;F. Aubey;S. Olpin

  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Patients with Mucopolysaccharidosis II

    Francyne Kubaski;Francyne Kubaski;Hiromasa Yabe;Yasuyuki Suzuki;Toshiyuki Seto

  • Propranolol as an alternative treatment option for pediatric lymphatic malformation.

    Michio Ozeki;Kaori Kanda;Norio Kawamoto;Hidenori Ohnishi

Frequent Co-Authors

Naomi Kondo
Naomi Kondo Gifu University
Seiji Yamaguchi
Seiji Yamaguchi Shimane University
Tadao Orii
Tadao Orii Gifu University
Shunji Tomatsu
Shunji Tomatsu Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
Yasuyuki Suzuki
Yasuyuki Suzuki Gifu University
Takashi Hashimoto
Takashi Hashimoto Shinshu University
Osamu Ohara
Osamu Ohara Chiba University
Nobuyuki Shimozawa
Nobuyuki Shimozawa Gifu University
Martin F. Lavin
Martin F. Lavin University of Queensland
Ronald J.A. Wanders
Ronald J.A. Wanders University of Amsterdam

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