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Yoshihiro Yoshihara

Yoshihiro Yoshihara

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Neuroscience

D-Index
59
Citations
12132
World Ranking
4013
National Ranking
113

Overview

Yoshihiro Yoshihara is affiliated with RIKEN in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Sensory Systems, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's research topics focus largely on olfactory and sensory function studies, zebrafish biomedical research applications, and aquaculture disease management and microbiota. Additional areas of investigation include neurobiology and insect physiology research, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, memory and neural mechanisms, as well as neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

Yoshihara has contributed to multiple publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, Nature Neuroscience, and Neuron.

Their recent papers include:

  • The claustrum coordinates cortical slow-wave activity, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • A single vomeronasal receptor promotes intermale aggression through dedicated hypothalamic neurons, 2022, Neuron
  • Neuronal glutathione loss leads to neurodegeneration involving gasdermin activation, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Identification of olfactory alarm substances in zebrafish, 2024, Current Biology
  • Hemoglobin in the blood acts as a chemosensory signal via the mouse vomeronasal system, 2022, Nature Communications

Yoshihara has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Nobuhiko Miyasaka, Kazushige Touhara, Noriko Wakisaka, Towako Hiraki-Kajiyama, and Hideo Hagihara.

Best Publications

  • The Olfactory Bulb: Coding and Processing of Odor Molecule Information

    Kensaku Mori;Hiroshi Nagao;Yoshihiro Yoshihara

  • Negative feedback regulation ensures the one receptor-one olfactory neuron rule in mouse.

    Shou Serizawa;Kazunari Miyamichi;Hiroko Nakatani;Misao Suzuki

  • The male mouse pheromone ESP1 enhances female sexual receptive behaviour through a specific vomeronasal receptor

    Sachiko Haga;Tatsuya Hattori;Toru Sato;Koji Sato

  • OCAM: A New Member of the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule Family Related to Zone-to-Zone Projection of Olfactory and Vomeronasal Axons

    Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Miwa Kawasaki;Atsushi Tamada;Hiroko Fujita

  • Dendritic spine formation and stabilization

    Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Mathias De Roo;Dominique Muller

  • Molecular recognition and olfactory processing in the mammalian olfactory system.

    Kensaku Mori;Yoshihiro Yoshihara

  • Nocistatin, a peptide that blocks nociceptin action in pain transmission

    Emiko Okuda-Ashitaka;Toshiaki Minami;Shinro Tachibana;Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Yoshihiro Yoshihara

  • Mutually Exclusive Glomerular Innervation by Two Distinct Types of Olfactory Sensory Neurons Revealed in Transgenic Zebrafish

    Yuki Sato;Nobuhiko Miyasaka;Yoshihiro Yoshihara

  • From the olfactory bulb to higher brain centers: Genetic visualization of secondary olfactory pathways in zebrafish

    Nobuhiko Miyasaka;Kozo Morimoto;Tatsuya Tsubokawa;Shin-ichi Higashijima

  • Skn-1a (Pou2f3) specifies taste receptor cell lineage

    Ichiro Matsumoto;Makoto Ohmoto;Masataka Narukawa;Masataka Narukawa;Yoshihiro Yoshihara

  • The Habenulo-Raphe Serotonergic Circuit Encodes an Aversive Expectation Value Essential for Adaptive Active Avoidance of Danger

    Ryunosuke Amo;Ryunosuke Amo;Felipe Fredes;Masae Kinoshita;Ryo Aoki;Ryo Aoki

  • Mitral and Tufted Cells Differ in the Decoding Manner of Odor Maps in the Rat Olfactory Bulb

    Shin Nagayama;Yuji K. Takahashi;Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Kensaku Mori

  • The Claustrum Coordinates Cortical Slow-Wave Activity

    Kimiya Narikiyo;Rumiko Mizuguchi;Rumiko Mizuguchi;Ayako Ajima;Momoko Shiozaki;Momoko Shiozaki

  • Pax6 and Engrailed 1 Regulate Two Distinct Aspects of Renshaw Cell Development

    Tamar Sapir;Eric J. Geiman;Zhi Wang;Tomoko Velasquez

  • 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

  • Odorant receptor map in the mouse olfactory bulb : In vivo sensitivity and specificity of receptor-defined glomeruli

    Yuki Oka;Sayako Katada;Masayo Omura;Makiko Suwa

  • A Labeled-Line Neural Circuit for Pheromone-Mediated Sexual Behaviors in Mice

    Kentaro K. Ishii;Takuya Osakada;Hiromi Mori;Nobuhiko Miyasaka

  • Behavioral Transition from Attack to Parenting in Male Mice: A Crucial Role of the Vomeronasal System

    Kashiko S. Tachikawa;Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Kumi O. Kuroda

  • Overlapping and differential expression of BIG-2, BIG-1, TAG-1, and F3: four members of an axon-associated cell adhesion molecule subgroup of the immunoglobulin superfamily.

    Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Miwa Kawasaki;Atsushi Tamada;Shigekazu Nagata

  • Olfactory neural circuitry for attraction to amino acids revealed by transposon-mediated gene trap approach in zebrafish

    Tetsuya Koide;Nobuhiko Miyasaka;Kozo Morimoto;Kazuhide Asakawa

  • BIG-2 Mediates Olfactory Axon Convergence to Target Glomeruli

    Tomomi Kaneko-Goto;Sei ichi Yoshihara;Haruko Miyazaki;Yoshihiro Yoshihara

  • Sequential Arrival and Graded Secretion of Sema3F by Olfactory Neuron Axons Specify Map Topography at the Bulb

    Haruki Takeuchi;Kasumi Inokuchi;Mari Aoki;Fumikazu Suto;Fumikazu Suto

Frequent Co-Authors

Kensaku Mori
Kensaku Mori University of Tokyo
Yasuyoshi Watanabe
Yasuyoshi Watanabe Osaka Metropolitan University
Koichi Kawakami
Koichi Kawakami National Institute of Genetics
Hiroshi Takagi
Hiroshi Takagi Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Tsutomu Hashikawa
Tsutomu Hashikawa RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Shin-ichi Higashijima
Shin-ichi Higashijima National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Kathleen S. Rockland
Kathleen S. Rockland Boston University
Shinichi Kohsaka
Shinichi Kohsaka Keio University
Shuji Kaneko
Shuji Kaneko Kyoto University

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