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Yasuo Terauchi is affiliated with Yokohama City University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on medicine with a significant emphasis on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Terauchi's subfields of study include endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, molecular biology, surgery, genetics, and epidemiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to diabetes treatment and management, metabolism as it relates to diabetes and cancer, diabetes management and research, pancreatic function and diabetes, diabetes and associated disorders, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, and diabetes in relation to cardiovascular risks and lipoproteins.

Terauchi's frequent coauthors include Jun Shirakawa, Mayu Kyohara, Ryota Inoue, Tomoko Okuyama, and Yu Togashi, each having a notable number of collaborative publications.

They have published numerous papers across several well-known venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Diabetes Investigation (20 publications)
  • Diabetes (13 publications)
  • Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism (6 publications)
  • Endocrine Journal (6 publications)
  • Diabetes Therapy (6 publications)

Recent selected papers showcasing the scope of Terauchi's work are:

  • "Imeglimin Ameliorates β-Cell Apoptosis by Modulating the Endoplasmic Reticulum Homeostasis Pathway," 2021, Diabetes
  • "Canagliflozin Increases Calorie Intake in Type 2 Diabetes Without Changing the Energy Ratio of the Three Macronutrients: CANA-K Study," 2020, Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics
  • "Efficacy and safety of insulin glargine/lixisenatide fixed-ratio combination ( iGlarLixi 1:1) in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus inadequately controlled on oral antidiabetic drugs: A randomized, 26-week, open-label, multicentre study: The LixiLan JP-O2 randomized clinical trial," 2020, Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism
  • "Glucokinase activation or inactivation: Which will lead to the treatment of type 2 diabetes?", 2021, Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism
  • "Hepatic FASN deficiency differentially affects nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and diabetes in mouse obesity models," 2023, JCI Insight

Best Publications

  • The fat-derived hormone adiponectin reverses insulin resistance associated with both lipoatrophy and obesity

    T. Yamauchi;J. Kamon;H. Waki;Y. Terauchi

  • Cloning of adiponectin receptors that mediate antidiabetic metabolic effects

    Toshimasa Yamauchi;Junji Kamon;Yusuke Ito;Atsushi Tsuchida

  • Disruption of adiponectin causes insulin resistance and neointimal formation.

    Naoto Kubota;Yasuo Terauchi;Toshimasa Yamauchi;Tetsuya Kubota

  • PPARγ Mediates High-Fat Diet–Induced Adipocyte Hypertrophy and Insulin Resistance

    Naoto Kubota;Yasuo Terauchi;Hiroshi Miki;Hiroyuki Tamemoto;Hiroyuki Tamemoto

  • Insulin resistance and growth retardation in mice lacking insulin receptor substrate-1.

    Hiroyuki Tamemoto;Takashi Kadowaki;Kazuyuki Tobe;Takeshi Yagi

  • Globular Adiponectin Protected ob/ob Mice from Diabetes and ApoE-deficient Mice from Atherosclerosis

    Toshimasa Yamauchi;Junji Kamon;Hironori Waki;Yasushi Imai

  • Adiponectin Stimulates AMP-Activated Protein Kinase in the Hypothalamus and Increases Food Intake

    Naoto Kubota;Wataru Yano;Tetsuya Kubota;Tetsuya Kubota;Toshimasa Yamauchi

  • PPAR γ insufficiency enhances osteogenesis through osteoblast formation from bone marrow progenitors

    Toru Akune;Shinsuke Ohba;Satoru Kamekura;Masayuki Yamaguchi

  • The Mechanisms by Which Both Heterozygous Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor γ (PPARγ) Deficiency and PPARγ Agonist Improve Insulin Resistance

    Toshimasa Yamauchi;Junji Kamon;Hironori Waki;Koji Murakami

  • Insulin/Foxo1 Pathway Regulates Expression Levels of Adiponectin Receptors and Adiponectin Sensitivity

    Atsushi Tsuchida;Toshimasa Yamauchi;Yusuke Ito;Yusuke Hada

  • PI3K-mediated negative feedback regulation of IL-12 production in DCs

    Taro Fukao;Masanobu Tanabe;Yasuo Terauchi;Takayuki Ota

  • Disruption of insulin receptor substrate 2 causes type 2 diabetes because of liver insulin resistance and lack of compensatory beta-cell hyperplasia.

    Naoto Kubota;Kazuyuki Tobe;Yasuo Terauchi;Kazuhiro Eto

  • Xid-Like Immunodeficiency in Mice with Disruption of the p85α Subunit of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase

    Harumi Suzuki;Yasuo Terauchi;Mari Fujiwara;Shinichi Aizawa

  • Severe hypoglycaemia and cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis with bias analysis.

    Atsushi Goto;Onyebuchi A Arah;Onyebuchi A Arah;Maki Goto;Yasuo Terauchi

  • Role of NADH Shuttle System in Glucose-Induced Activation of Mitochondrial Metabolism and Insulin Secretion

    Kazuhiro Eto;Yoshiharu Tsubamoto;Yasuo Terauchi;Takuya Sugiyama

  • Impaired Insulin Signaling in Endothelial Cells Reduces Insulin-Induced Glucose Uptake by Skeletal Muscle

    Tetsuya Kubota;Naoto Kubota;Hiroki Kumagai;Shinichi Yamaguchi

  • Increased insulin sensitivity and hypoglycaemia in mice lacking the p85α subunit of phosphoinositide 3–kinase

    Y. Terauchi;Y. Tsuji;S. Satoh;H. Minoura

  • Glucokinase and IRS-2 are required for compensatory β cell hyperplasia in response to high-fat diet–induced insulin resistance

    Yasuo Terauchi;Iseki Takamoto;Naoto Kubota;Junji Matsui

  • Pioglitazone Ameliorates Insulin Resistance and Diabetes by Both Adiponectin-dependent and -independent Pathways

    Naoto Kubota;Yasuo Terauchi;Tetsuya Kubota;Hiroki Kumagai

  • Inhibition of RXR and PPARγ ameliorates diet-induced obesity and type 2 diabetes

    Toshimasa Yamauchi;Hironori Waki;Junji Kamon;Koji Murakami

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Kadowaki
Takashi Kadowaki Toranomon Hospital
Naoto Kubota
Naoto Kubota University of Tokyo
Kazuyuki Tobe
Kazuyuki Tobe University of Toyama
Atsushi Nakajima
Atsushi Nakajima Yokohama City University
Toshimasa Yamauchi
Toshimasa Yamauchi University of Tokyo
Ryozo Nagai
Ryozo Nagai Jichi Medical University
Masato Yoneda
Masato Yoneda Yokohama City University
Tatsuya Atsumi
Tatsuya Atsumi Hokkaido University
Tetsuo Noda
Tetsuo Noda Japanese Foundation For Cancer Research
Yasuo Akanuma
Yasuo Akanuma University of Tokyo

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