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Yoshiyasu Fukuyama

Yoshiyasu Fukuyama

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Chemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
9254
World Ranking
11845
National Ranking
878

Overview

Yoshiyasu Fukuyama is affiliated with Tokushima Bunri University in Japan. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Organic Chemistry, and Rehabilitation.

Their research topics prominently feature Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Natural product bioactivities and synthesis, Magnolia and Illicium research, Phytochemistry and Biological Activities, Chemical synthesis and alkaloids, and Plant-derived Lignans Synthesis and Bioactivity.

Major publication venues where they have contributed include The Cambridge Structural Database, Journal of Natural Medicines, Phytochemistry, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Tetrahedron.

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts are Miwa Kubo, Kenichi Harada, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Hiroshi Imagawa, and Naoto Yamasaki.

Notable recent papers include:

  • The search for, and chemistry and mechanism of, neurotrophic natural products (2020, Journal of Natural Medicines)
  • Metabolite Profiling of Javanese Ginger Zingiber purpureum and Identification of Antiseizure Metabolites via a Low-Cost Open-Source Zebrafish Bioassay-Guided Isolation (2020, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry)
  • Design and synthesis of dual active neovibsanin derivatives based on a chemical structure merging method (2020, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters)
  • Chemistry and Neurotrophic Activities of (-)-Talaumidin and Its Derivatives (2020, Frontiers in Chemistry)
  • Vietnamese Dalbergia tonkinensis: A Promising Source of Mono- and Bifunctional Vasodilators (2022, Molecules)

Best Publications

  • Larvicidal action of ethanolic extracts from fruit endocarps of Melia azedarach and Azadirachta indica against the dengue mosquito Aedes aegypti

    Carolina B. Wandscheer;Jonny E. Duque;Mario A.N. da Silva;Yoshiyasu Fukuyama

  • Merrilactone A, a novel neurotrophic sesquiterpene dilactone from Illicium merrillianum

    Jian-mei Huang;Ritsuko Yokoyama;Chun-shu Yang;Yoshiyasu Fukuyama

  • Antioxidant xanthones from Garcinia subelliptica

    Hiroyuki Minami;Miho Kinoshita;Yoshiyasu Fukuyama;Mitsuaki Kodama

  • Novel Pentacyclic seco-Prezizaane-Type Sesquiterpenoids with Neurotrophic Properties from Illicium jiadifengpi

    Miwa Kubo;Chihiro Okada;Jian-Mei Huang;Kenichi Harada

  • Synthesis and neuroprotective activity of bergenin derivatives with antioxidant activity.

    Hironobu Takahashi;Masamiti Kosaka;Yasutoshi Watanabe;Kousuke Nakade

  • New seco-prezizaane-type sesquiterpenes, jiadifenin with neurotrophic activity and 1,2-dehydroneomajucin from Illicium jiadifengpi.

    Ritsuko Yokoyama;Jian-Mei Huang;Chun-Shu Yang;Yoshiyasu Fukuyama

  • Neurotrophic activity of honokiol on the cultures of fetal rat cortical neurons

    Yoshiyasu Fukuyama;Kousuke Nakade;Yuka Minoshima;Ritsuko Yokoyama

  • Structure and neurotrophic activity of seco-prezizaane-type sesquiterpenes from Illicium merrillianum.

    Jian-Mei Huang;Ritsuko Yokoyama;Chun-Shu Yang;Yoshiyasu Fukuyama

  • Novel neurotrophic isocuparane-type sesquiterpene dimers, mastigophorenes A, B, C and D, isolated from the Liverwort Mastigophora diclados

    Yoshiyasu Fukuyama;Yoshinori Asakawa

  • Anti-plasmin Inhibitor. VI. : Structure of Phlorofucofuroeckol A, a Novel Phlorotannin with Both Dibenzo-1, 4-dioxin and Dibenzofuran Elements, from Ecklonia kurome OKAMURA

    Yoshiyasu Fukuyama;Mitsuaki Kodama;Iwao Miura;Ziunei Kinzyo

  • Magnolol and honokiol prevent learning and memory impairment and cholinergic deficit in SAMP8 mice.

    Nobuaki Matsui;Kazuki Takahashi;Miho Takeichi;Touma Kuroshita

  • Garsubellin A, a novel polyprenylated phloroglucin derivative, increasing choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activity in postnatal rat septal neuron cultures

    Yoshiyasu Fukuyama;Atsuko Kuwayama;Hiroyuki Minami

  • Neurotrophic sesquiterpene-neolignans from magnolia obovata: structure and neurotrophic activity

    Yoshiyasu Fukuyama;Yukio Otoshi;Kumi Miyoshi;Kazuhiko Nakamura

  • BRYOPHYTES : BIO-AND CHEMICAL DIVERSITY, BIOACTIVITY AND CHEMOSYSTEMATICS

    Yoshinori Asakawa;Agnieszka Ludwiczuk;Fumihiro Nagashima;Masao Toyota

  • Portuloside A, a monoterpene glucoside, from Portulaca oleracea

    Naomi Sakai;Kyouko Inada;Michi Okamoto;Yoshikazu Shizuri

  • Structures of americanol A and isoamericanol A having a neurotrophic property from the seeds of Phytolacca americana.

    Yoshiyasu Fukuyama;Takashi Hasegawa;Miki Toda;Mitsuaki Kodama

  • Efficient synthesis and structure-activity relationship of honokiol, a neurotrophic biphenyl-type neolignan.

    Tomoyuki Esumi;Gouki Makado;Haifeng Zhai;Yasuhiro Shimizu

  • Antioxidant phenylpropanoid-substituted epicatechins from Trichilia catigua.

    Wanxia Tang;Hideaki Hioki;Kenichi Harada;Miwa Kubo

  • Structures of merrilactones B and C, novel anislactone-type sesquiterpenes from Illicium merrillianum, and chemical conversion of anislactone B to merrilactone A

    Jian-Mei Huang;Chun-Shu Yang;Masami Tanaka;Yoshiyasu Fukuyama

  • Xanthones and Benzophenones from the Stems of Garcinia multiflora

    Yi-Ming Chiang;Yueh-Hsiung Kuo;Shyuzo Oota;Yoshiyasu Fukuyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshinori Asakawa
Yoshinori Asakawa Tokushima Bunri University
Toshihiro Hashimoto
Toshihiro Hashimoto Tokushima Bunri University
Ih-Sheng Chen
Ih-Sheng Chen Kaohsiung Medical University
Isao Kubo
Isao Kubo University of California, Berkeley
Mugio Nishizawa
Mugio Nishizawa Tokushima Bunri University
Masayuki Inoue
Masayuki Inoue University of Tokyo
Seikou Nakamura
Seikou Nakamura Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
Masami Ishibashi
Masami Ishibashi Chiba University
Shoichi Kawano
Shoichi Kawano Kyoto University
Akio Kishida
Akio Kishida Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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