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Yasuo Kagawa is affiliated with Kagawa Nutrition University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on areas within medicine and nursing, with a particular emphasis on nutrition and dietetics, physiology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. The scientist's work often intersects with studies on infectious diseases and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

Their academic output includes research papers published in several recognized journals. Notable recent papers by Yasuo Kagawa include:

  • Influence of Nutritional Intakes in Japan and the United States on COVID-19 Infection (2022) in Nutrients
  • Investigation of Maternal Diet and FADS1 Polymorphism Associated with Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Compositions in Human Milk (2022) in Nutrients
  • Associations of umbilical cord fatty acid profiles and desaturase enzyme indices with birth weight for gestational age in Japanese infants (2020) in Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids
  • Serum 5-Methyltetrahydrofolate Status Is Associated with One-Carbon Metabolism-Related Metabolite Concentrations and Enzyme Activity Indicators in Young Women (2023) in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Association of maternal blood and umbilical cord blood plasma fatty acid levels with the body size at birth of Japanese infants (2024) in Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Common venues for their publications include:

  • Nutrients
  • Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
  • Dietetics

Kagawa's frequent co-authors are:

  • Terue Kawabata
  • Kumiko Shoji
  • Nozomi Tatsuta
  • Takahiro Arima
  • Nobuo Yaegashi

The scientist's research topics encompass:

  • Fatty Acid Research and Health
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Infant Nutrition and Health
  • Folate and B Vitamins Research
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

The combination of these research topics, publication venues, and collaborative authorships situates Yasuo Kagawa's work at the intersection of nutritional science, maternal and infant health, and metabolic disease research.

Best Publications

  • Partial Resolution of the Enzymes Catalyzing Oxidative Phosphorylation XXV. RECONSTITUTION OF VESICLES CATALYZING 32Pi—ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE EXCHANGE

    Yasuo Kagawa;Efraim Racker

  • Deficiencies in Complex I subunits of the respiratory chain in Parkinson's disease

    Yoshikuni Mizuno;Shigeo Ohta;Masashi Tanaka;Shinzaburo Takamiya

  • A point mutation in the mitochondrial tRNA(Leu)(UUR) gene in MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes).

    Yoko Kobayashi;Mariko Y. Momoi;Kaoru Tominaga;Takashi Momoi

  • The gene for Machado–Joseph disease maps to human chromosome 14q

    Y Takiyama;M Nishizawa;H Tanaka;S Kawashima

  • Partial Resolution of the Enzymes Catalyzing Oxidative Phosphorylation VIII. PROPERTIES OF A FACTOR CONFERRING OLIGOMYCIN SENSITIVITY ON MITOCHONDRIAL ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE

    Yasuo Kagawa;Efraim Racker

  • Eicosapolyenoic acids of serum lipids of japanese islanders with low incidence of cardiovascular diseases

    Yasuo Kagawa;Masatoyo Nishizawa;Minoru Suzuki;Tadashi Miyatake

  • The crystal structure of the nucleotide-free α3β3 subcomplex of F1-ATPase from the thermophilic Bacillus PS3 is a symmetric trimer

    Yasuo Shirakihara;Andrew G. W. Leslie;Jan Pieter Abrahams;John E. Walker

  • A highly stable adenosine triphosphatase from a thermophillie bacterium. Purification, properties, and reconstitution.

    M Yoshida;N Sone;H Hirata;Y Kagawa

  • Reconstitution of the energy transformer, gate and channel subunit reassembly, crystalline ATPase and ATP synthesis.

    Yasuo Kagawa

  • High guanine plus cytosine content in the third letter of codons of an extreme thermophile. DNA sequence of the isopropylmalate dehydrogenase of Thermus thermophilus.

    Y Kagawa;H Nojima;N Nukiwa;M Ishizuka

  • Reconstitution of adenosine triphosphatase of thermophilic bacterium from purified individual subunits.

    M Yoshida;N Sone;H Hirata;Y Kagawa

  • Mitochondrial Functions and Estrogen Receptor-dependent Nuclear Translocation of Pleiotropic Human Prohibitin 2

    Katsumi Kasashima;Eriko Ohta;Yasuo Kagawa;Hitoshi Endo

  • Purification and properties of a dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-sensitive adenosine triphosphatase from a thermophilic bacterium.

    N Sone;M Yoshida;H Hirata;Y Kagawa

  • Differential sublocalization of the dynamin-related protein OPA1 isoforms in mitochondria

    Masaaki Satoh;Toshiro Hamamoto;Norimasa Seo;Yasuo Kagawa

  • Purified proton conductor in proton translocating adenosine triphosphatase of a thermophilic bacterium.

    H Okamoto;N Sone;H Hirata;M Yoshida

  • Subunit structure of adenosine triphosphatase. Comparison of the structure in thermophilic bacterium PS3 with those in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and Escherichia coli.

    M Yoshida;N Sone;H Hirata;Y Kagawa

  • Adenosine triphosphate synthesis by electrochemical proton gradient in vesicles reconstituted from purified adenosine triphosphatase and phospholipids of thermophilic bacterium.

    N Sone;M Yoshida;H Hirata;Y Kagawa

  • Proton translocating ATPase of a thermophilic bacterium. Morphology, subunits, and chemical composition.

    Yasuo Kagawa;Nobuhito Sone;Masasuke Yoshida;Hajime Hirata

  • Structure and function of H + -ATPase

    Yasuo Kagawa;Nobuhito Sone;Hajime Hirata;Masasuke Yoshida

  • Reconstitution of thermostable ATPase capable of energy coupling from its purified subunits

    Masasuke Yoshida;Harumasa Okamoto;Nobuhito Sone;Hajime Hirata

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigeo Ohta
Shigeo Ohta Juntendo University
Masasuke Yoshida
Masasuke Yoshida Kyoto Sangyo University
Nobuhito Sone
Nobuhito Sone Kyushu Institute of Technology
Masafumi Yohda
Masafumi Yohda Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Jun-Ichi Hayashi
Jun-Ichi Hayashi University of Tsukuba
Michisuke Yuzaki
Michisuke Yuzaki Keio University
Makoto Nakanishi
Makoto Nakanishi University of Tokyo
Nobuo Yaegashi
Nobuo Yaegashi Tohoku University
Teruo Miyazawa
Teruo Miyazawa Tohoku University
Masashi Tanaka
Masashi Tanaka Juntendo University

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