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Yasuyoshi Watanabe is affiliated with Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a total of 120 publications. Their research spans several subfields, including physiology, molecular biology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, and neurology.

The scientist's research interests focus primarily on medical imaging techniques and applications, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, hydrogen's biological and therapeutic effects, biochemical effects in animals, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, amino acid enzymes and metabolism, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Watanabe has co-authored frequently with several researchers, including Yasuhiro Wada, Hisashi Doi, Yilong Cui, Aya Mawatari, and Tsuyoshi Tahara. These collaborations have resulted in multiple publications across a variety of respected scientific venues.

The venues where Watanabe most often publishes include the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (8 publications), Scientific Reports (4 publications), Nutrients (4 publications), Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (4 publications), and PLoS ONE (3 publications).

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Watanabe are:

  • International consensus on the use of tau PET imaging agent 18F-flortaucipir in Alzheimer's disease, 2022, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • International Nuclear Medicine Consensus on the Clinical Use of Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography in Alzheimer's Disease, 2022, Phenomics
  • PET imaging of neural activity, β-amyloid, and tau in normal brain aging, 2021, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • Deep phenotyping of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome in Japanese population, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Disrupting tumor onset and growth via selective cell tagging (SeCT) therapy, 2021, Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Directed differentiation of telencephalic precursors from embryonic stem cells

    Kiichi Watanabe;Daisuke Kamiya;Ayaka Nishiyama;Tomoko Katayama

  • A new amyloid β variant favoring oligomerization in Alzheimer's-type dementia

    Takami Tomiyama;Tetsu Nagata;Hiroyuki Shimada;Rie Teraoka

  • Activation of the Keap1/Nrf2 pathway for neuroprotection by electrophilic [correction of electrophillic] phase II inducers.

    T. Satoh;S.-i. Okamoto;J. Cui;Y. Watanabe

  • Endothelial cells of the rat brain vasculature express cyclooxygenase-2 mRNA in response to systemic interleukin-1β: a possible site of prostaglandin synthesis responsible for fever

    Chunyu Cao;Kiyoshi Matsumura;Kanato Yamagata;Yasuyoshi Watanabe

  • Neuroinflammation in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: An ¹¹C-(R)-PK11195 PET Study.

    Yasuhito Nakatomi;Kei Mizuno;Akira Ishii;Yasuhiro Wada

  • 64Cu-DOTA-Trastuzumab PET Imaging in Patients with HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

    Kenji Tamura;Hiroaki Kurihara;Kan Yonemori;Hitoshi Tsuda

  • Neuroprotection by MAPK/ERK kinase inhibition with U0126 against oxidative stress in a mouse neuronal cell line and rat primary cultured cortical neurons.

    Takumi Satoh;Daisaku Nakatsuka;Yasuyoshi Watanabe;Yasuyoshi Watanabe;Izumi Nagata

  • Induction by lipopolysaccharide of cyclooxygenase-2 mRNA in rat brain; its possible role in the febrile response

    Chunyu Cao;Kiyoshi Matsumura;Kanato Yamagata;Yasuyoshi Watanabe

  • Mechanisms underlying fatigue: a voxel-based morphometric study of chronic fatigue syndrome

    Tomohisa Okada;Masaaki Tanaka;Hirohiko Kuratsune;Yasuyoshi Watanabe

  • Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtype 7 Ablation Causes Deficit in Fear Response and Conditioned Taste Aversion

    Miwako Masugi;Mineto Yokoi;Ryuichi Shigemoto;Keiko Muguruma

  • Neural mechanisms of mental fatigue.

    Akira Ishii;Masaaki Tanaka;Yasuyoshi Watanabe

  • Brain networks affected by synchronized sleep visualized by positron emission tomography.

    Jesper L. R. Andersson;Hirotaka Onoe;Jerker Hetta;Karin Lidström

  • A genetic approach to visualization of multisynaptic neural pathways using plant lectin transgene.

    Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Takeo Mizuno;Takeo Mizuno;Masakiyo Nakahira;Masakiyo Nakahira;Miwa Kawasaki

  • High Striatal Amyloid β-Peptide Deposition Across Different Autosomal Alzheimer Disease Mutation Types

    Victor L Villemagne;Suzuka Ataka;Toshiki Mizuno;William S Brooks

  • Non-synchronous behavior of neuronal activity, oxidative metabolism and blood supply during mental tasks in man

    Yoko Hoshi;Hirotaka Onoe;Yasuyoshi Watanabe;Jesper Andersson

  • Neural substrates of human facial expression of pleasant emotion induced by comic films : A PET study

    Masao Iwase;Yasuomi Ouchi;Hiroyuki Okada;Chihiro Yokoyama

  • Establishment and assessment of a rat model of fatigue.

    Masaaki Tanaka;Fusao Nakamura;Shigekazu Mizokawa;Akira Matsumura

  • Cortical Networks Recruited for Time Perception: A Monkey Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Study

    Hirotaka Onoe;Masashi Komori;Kayo Onoe;Hajime Takechi;Hajime Takechi

  • Supraspinal regulation of physical fatigue.

    Masaaki Tanaka;Yasuyoshi Watanabe

  • 6R-l-Erythro-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrobiopterin as a regulator of dopamine and serotonin biosynthesis in the rat brain

    Soichi Miwa;Yasuyoshi Watanabe;Osamu Hayaishi;Osamu Hayaishi

  • Molecular imaging for drug development

    Yasuyoshi Watanabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Hirotaka Onoe
Hirotaka Onoe Kyoto University
Hideo Tsukada
Hideo Tsukada Hamamatsu Photonics (Japan)
Kensaku Mori
Kensaku Mori University of Tokyo
Norihiro Sadato
Norihiro Sadato National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Takeshi Kaneko
Takeshi Kaneko Kyoto University

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