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Yuichiro Watanabe

Yuichiro Watanabe

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
58
Citations
14689
World Ranking
2072
National Ranking
166

Overview

Yuichiro Watanabe is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan, focusing primarily on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields, including genetics, public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, molecular biology, and social psychology.

Their research contributions include topics such as maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, attachment and relationship dynamics, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, hepatocellular carcinoma treatment and prognosis, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Watanabe has published extensively in journals including:

  • Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
  • Scientific Reports
  • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • Hepatology International
  • Biological Psychiatry

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Depression, Anxiety and Primiparity are Negatively Associated with Mother-Infant Bonding in Japanese Mothers," 2020, Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
  • "Cross-Disorder Analysis of Genic and Regulatory Copy Number Variations in Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, and Autism Spectrum Disorder," 2022, Biological Psychiatry
  • "Exclusive Breastfeeding Is Not Associated with Maternal-Infant Bonding in Early Postpartum, Considering Depression, Anxiety, and Parity," 2021, Nutrients
  • "Influence of Child-Pugh B7 and B8/9 cirrhosis on laparoscopic liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma: a retrospective cohort study," 2022, Surgical Endoscopy
  • "Identification of Bonding Difficulties in the Peripartum Period Using the Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale-Japanese Version and Its Tentative Cutoff Points," 2021, Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Watanabe include Toshiyuki Someya, Jun Egawa, Naoki Fukui, Takaharu Motegi, and Maki Ogawa.

Best Publications

  • Criteria for Annotation of Plant MicroRNAs

    Blake C. Meyers;Michael J. Axtell;Bonnie Bartel;David P. Bartel

  • Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome

    John L Bowman;Takayuki Kohchi;Katsuyuki T Yamato;Jerry Jenkins

  • Arabidopsis micro-RNA biogenesis through Dicer-like 1 protein functions

    Yukio Kurihara;Yuichiro Watanabe

  • Activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor δ induces fatty acid β-oxidation in skeletal muscle and attenuates metabolic syndrome

    Toshiya Tanaka;Joji Yamamoto;Satoshi Iwasaki;Hiroshi Asaba

  • Improved Gateway binary vectors: high-performance vectors for creation of fusion constructs in transgenic analysis of plants.

    Tsuyoshi Nakagawa;Takamasa Suzuki;Satoko Murata;Shinya Nakamura

  • The interaction between DCL1 and HYL1 is important for efficient and precise processing of pri-miRNA in plant microRNA biogenesis.

    Yukio Kurihara;Yuasa Takashi;Yuichiro Watanabe

  • The Mechanism Selecting the Guide Strand from Small RNA Duplexes is Different Among Argonaute Proteins

    Atsushi Takeda;Shintaro Iwasaki;Toshiaki Watanabe;Toshiaki Watanabe;Maki Utsumi

  • Function of the 30 kd protein of tobacco mosaic virus: involvement in cell-to-cell movement and dispensability for replication.

    Tetsuo Meshi;Yuichiro Watanabe;Tetsuichiro Saito;Asako Sugimoto

  • Tobacco mosaic virus infection spreads cell to cell as intact replication complexes

    Shigeki Kawakami;Yuichiro Watanabe;Roger N. Beachy

  • Large-scale analysis of full-length cDNAs from the tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ) cultivar Micro-Tom, a reference system for the Solanaceae genomics

    Koh Aoki;Kentaro Yano;Ayako Suzuki;Shingo Kawamura

  • A New Tobacco Mosaic Virus Vector and its Use for the Systemic Production of Angiotensin-I-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor in Transgenic Tobacco and Tomato

    Hiroshi Hamamoto;Yoshinori Sugiyama;Noriaki Nakagawa;Eiji Hashida

  • Two concomitant base substitutions in the putative replicase genes of tobacco mosaic virus confer the ability to overcome the effects of a tomato resistance gene, Tm-1.

    Tetsuo Meshi;Fusao Motoyoshi;Atsuko Adachi;Yuichiro Watanabe

  • SGS3 and RDR6 interact and colocalize in cytoplasmic SGS3/RDR6-bodies

    Naoyoshi Kumakura;Atsushi Takeda;Yoichiro Fujioka;Hiroyasu Motose

  • Identification of the TMV Replicase Sequence That Activates the N Gene-Mediated Hypersensitive Response

    Hal S. Padgett;Yuichiro Watanabe;Roger N. Beachy

  • Location of a possible miRNA processing site in SmD3/SmB nuclear bodies in Arabidopsis.

    Yoichiro Fujioka;Maki Utsumi;Yusuke Ohba;Yuichiro Watanabe

  • Distribution of tobamovirus movement protein in infected cells and implications for cell-to-cell spread of infection.

    Hal S. Padgett;Bernard L. Epel;Theodore W. Kahn;Manfred Heinlein

  • UPF3 suppresses aberrant spliced mRNA in Arabidopsis

    Koichi Hori;Yuichiro Watanabe

  • klavier (klv), a novel hypernodulation mutant of Lotus japonicus affected in vascular tissue organization and floral induction.

    Erika Oka-Kira;Kumiko Tateno;Kin Ichiro Miura;Tatsuya Haga

  • Systemic production of foreign peptides on the particle surface of tobacco mosaic virus

    Yoshinori Sugiyama;Hiroshi Hamamoto;Shizume Takemoto;Yuichiro Watanabe

  • Synthesis of TMV-specific RNAs and proteins at the early stage of infection in tobacco protoplasts: transient expression of the 30K protein and its mRNA.

    Yuichiro Watanabe;Yasufumi Emori;Ikuo Ooshika;Tetsuo Meshi

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshimi Okada
Yoshimi Okada University of Tokyo
Tetsuo Meshi
Tetsuo Meshi University of Tokyo
Takashi Ueda
Takashi Ueda National Institute for Basic Biology
Takao Hamakubo
Takao Hamakubo Nippon Medical School
Shoichi Ishiura
Shoichi Ishiura University of Tokyo
Mitsuyasu Hasebe
Mitsuyasu Hasebe The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Takayuki Kohchi
Takayuki Kohchi Kyoto University
John L. Bowman
John L. Bowman Monash University
Makoto Naito
Makoto Naito Niigata University
Tatsuhiko Kodama
Tatsuhiko Kodama University of Tokyo

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