Yoshio Masui

Research.com Recognitions

• 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
• 1998 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
• 1998 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation
• 1992 - Canada Gairdner International Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Cytoplasmic control of nuclear behavior during meiotic maturation of frog oocytes.

  Yoshio Masui;Clement L. Markert

  2254
  Citations

• Formation in vitro of sperm pronuclei and mitotic chromosomes induced by amphibian ooplasmic components

  Manfred J. Lohka;Yoshio Masui

  882
  Citations

• Effects of cyclohexamide on a cytoplasmic factor initiating meiotic naturation in Xenopus oocytes.

  Wasserman Wj;Masui Y

  388
  Citations

• Lithium-induced respecification of pattern in Xenopus laevis embryos

  Kenneth R. Kao;Yoshio Masui;Richard P. Elinson

  328
  Citations

• From oocyte maturation to the in vitro cell cycle: the history of discoveries of Maturation-Promoting Factor (MPF) and Cytostatic Factor (CSF).

  Yoshio Masui

  234
  Citations

• Understanding the cell cycle

  Paul Nurse;Yoshio Masui;Leland Hartwell

  222
  Citations

• A cytoplasmic factor promoting oocyte maturation: its extraction and preliminary characterization.

  William J. Wasserman;Yoshio Masui

  191
  Citations

• The induction of reversible and irreversible chromosome decondensation by protein synthesis inhibition during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes.

  Hugh J. Clarke;Yoshio Masui

  185
  Citations

• CELL CYCLE TRANSITION IN EARLY EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT OF XENOPUS LAEVIS

  Yoshio Masui;Ping Wang

  140
  Citations

• Initiation of meiotic maturation in Xenopus laevis oocytes by the combination of divalent cations and ionophore A23187.

  William J. Wasserman;Yoshio Masui

  139
  Citations

• Ca and Mg control of cytostatic factors from Rana pipiens oocytes which cause metaphase and cleavage arrest.

  Peter G. Meyerhof;Yoshio Masui

  138
  Citations

• Control of chromosome behavior in amphibian oocytes. I. The activity of maturing oocytes inducing chromosome condensation in transplanted brain nuclei.

  David Ziegler;Yoshio Masui

  137
  Citations

• Basic Medical Research Award

  Paul Nurse;Yoshio Masui;Leland Hartwell

  126
  Citations

• Effects of Ca2+ ions on the formation of metaphase chromosomes and sperm pronuclei in cell-free preparations from unactivated Rana pipiens eggs.

  Manfred J. Lohka;Yoshio Masui

  121
  Citations

• Regulation of the appearance of division asynchrony and microtubule-dependent chromosome cycles in Xenopus laevis embryos.

  Paul Clute;Yoshio Masui

  102
  Citations

• A cytostatic factor in amphibian oocytes: Its extraction and partial characterization

  Yoshio Masui

  101
  Citations

• Transformation of sperm nuclei to metaphase chromosomes in the cytoplasm of maturing oocytes of the mouse.

  Hugh J. Clarke;Yoshio Masui

  98
  Citations

• Microtubule dependence of chromosome cycles in Xenopus laevis blastomeres under the influence of a DNA synthesis inhibitor, aphidicolin.

  Paul Clute;Yoshio Masui

  96
  Citations

• Microtubule cycles in oocytes of the surf clam, Spisula solidissima: an immunofluorescence study.

  Ryoko Kuriyama;Ryoko Kuriyama;Gary G. Borisy;Yoshio Masui;Yoshio Masui

  90
  Citations

• Towards understanding the control of the division cycle in animal cells.

  Yoshio Masui

  89
  Citations