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1995
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Overview

Youji Mitsui is affiliated with Tokushima Bunri University in Japan. Their research spans several fields including neuroscience, medicine, and psychology, with a focus on both broad and specific subfields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine
  • Psychology

Within these fields, Mitsui has contributed to subfields such as:

  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Social Psychology

The core topics addressed in their research include:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

One recent paper authored by Mitsui focuses on the effects of prenatal stress, titled "Social-defeat stress exposure during pregnancy induces abnormalities in spontaneous activity, sociality, and resilience to stress in offspring of mice", published in 2024 in the journal Behavioural Brain Research.

Frequent collaborators in this work include:

  • Tomokuni Yabe
  • Rena Tanikawa
  • Mitsuki Tanizaki
  • Rei Sugiyama
  • Niina Kiriyama

Most of Mitsui's publications appear in Behavioural Brain Research, indicating a consistent engagement with this venue.

Best Publications

  • A novel potent vasoconstrictor peptide produced by vascular endothelial cells.

    Masashi Yanagisawa;Hiroki Kurihara;Hiroki Kurihara;Sadao Kimura;Yoko Tomobe

  • The relationship between in vitro cellular aging and in vivo human age.

    Edward L. Schneider;Youji Mitsui

  • The human preproendothelin-1 gene. Complete nucleotide sequence and regulation of expression.

    A. Inoue;Masashi Yanagisawa;Y. Takuwa;Y. Mitsui

  • Cloning and sequence analysis of cDNA encoding the precursor of a human endothelium-derived vasoconstrictor peptide, endothelin: Identity of human and porcine endothelin

    Yasuaki Itoh;Masashi Yanagisawa;Shoichi Ohkubo;Chiharu Kimura

  • A novel peptide, vasoactive intestinal contractor, of a new (endothelin) peptide family. Molecular cloning, expression, and biological activity.

    K Saida;Y Mitsui;N Ishida

  • cDNA cloning, sequence analysis and tissue distribution of rat preproendothelin-1 mRNA

    Takeshi Sakurai;Masashi Yanagisawa;Akihiro Inoue;Una S. Ryan

  • Inactivation of tumor suppressor p53 by mot-2, a hsp70 family member

    Renu Wadhwa;Syuichi Takano;Martin Robert;Akiko Yoshida

  • Endothelin-1 is produced and secreted by neonatal rat cardiac myocytes in vitro.

    T. Suzuki;T. Kumazaki;Y. Mitsui

  • Extended longevity of Caenorhabditis elegans by knocking in extra copies of hsp70F, a homolog of mot-2 (mortalin)/mthsp70/Grp75

    Ken Yokoyama;Keiji Fukumoto;Tatsuya Murakami;Shin-ichi Harada

  • The human preproendothelin-1 gene: possible regulation by endothelial phosphoinositide turnover signaling.

    Masashi Yanagisawa;Akihiro Inoue;You Takuwa;Youji Mitsui

  • Hsp70 family member, mot-2/mthsp70/GRP75, binds to the cytoplasmic sequestration domain of the p53 protein.

    Renu Wadhwa;Tomoko Yaguchi;Md.K. Hasan;Youji Mitsui

  • A new human diploid cell strain, TIG-1, for the research on cellular aging

    M. Ohashi;S. Aizawa;H. Ooka;T. Ohsawa

  • mdm2 and bax, downstream mediators of the p53 response, are degraded by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.

    Y C Chang;Y S Lee;T Tejima;K Tanaka

  • Relationship between cell replication and volume in senescent human diploid fibroblasts.

    Youji Mitsui;Edward L. Schneider

  • 5-Bromodeoxyuridine induces senescence-like phenomena in mammalian cells regardless of cell type or species.

    Michishita Eriko;Kazuhiko Nakabayashi;Toshikazu Suzuki;Sunil C. Kaul

  • Increased nuclear sizes in senescent human diploid fibroblast cultures.

    Y. Mitsui;E.L. Schneider

  • Tissue factor, osteopontin, αvβ3 integrin expression in microvasculature of gliomas associated with vascular endothelial growth factor expression

    S Takano;K Tsuboi;Y Tomono;Y Mitsui

  • Differential Regulation of Human RecQ Family Helicases in Cell Transformation and Cell Cycle

    Tamae Kawabe;Naohiro Tsuyama;Saori Kitao;Kaori Nishikawa

  • Endothelin stimulates hypertrophy and contractility of neonatal rat cardiac myocytes in a serum-free medium.

    Takahiko Suzuki;Hiroyoshi Hoshi;Youji Mitsui

  • Tissue-specific differences in cultured human diploid fibroblasts

    E.L. Schneider;Y. Mitsui;K.S. Au;S. Stuart Shorr

Frequent Co-Authors

Renu Wadhwa
Renu Wadhwa National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Sunil C. Kaul
Sunil C. Kaul National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Norio Ishida
Norio Ishida National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Roger R. Reddel
Roger R. Reddel Children's Medical Research Institute
Shinichi Aizawa
Shinichi Aizawa Kumamoto University
Masashi Yanagisawa
Masashi Yanagisawa University of Tsukuba
Edward L. Schneider
Edward L. Schneider University of Southern California
Tomoh Masaki
Tomoh Masaki Kyoto University
Sei-itsu Murota
Sei-itsu Murota Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Katsutoshi Goto
Katsutoshi Goto University of Tsukuba

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