Yasushi Hojo

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Yasushi Hojo is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Yasushi Hojo has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 34 papers in Genetics and 22 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Yasushi Hojo's work include Estrogen and related hormone effects (33 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (32 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (22 papers). Yasushi Hojo is often cited by papers focused on Estrogen and related hormone effects (33 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (32 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (22 papers). Yasushi Hojo collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Canada. Yasushi Hojo's co-authors include Suguru Kawato, Tetsuya Kimoto, Hideo Mukai, Gen Murakami, Hirotaka Ishii, Mari Ogiue‐Ikeda, Shimpei Higo, Yoshimasa Komatsuzaki, Yusuke Hatanaka and Tomokazu Tsurugizawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yasushi Hojo

59 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Adult male rat hippocampus synthesizes estradiol from pregnenolone by cytochromes P45017α and P450 aromatase localized in neurons

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yasushi Hojo Japan	32	1.5k	1.4k	1.2k	1.2k	526	60	3.5k
Tetsuya Kimoto Japan	29	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	476 0.9×	42	2.9k
Elizabeth M. Waters United States	33	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	957 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	578 1.1×	57	3.6k
Tibor Hajszán Hungary	28	833 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	593 0.5×	953 0.8×	509 1.0×	37	3.6k
Anne M. Etgen United States	39	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	955 0.8×	1.0k 2.0×	141	5.4k
L. Martini Italy	37	712 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	837 0.7×	772 1.5×	187	4.0k
Michael R. Foy United States	18	514 0.3×	729 0.5×	442 0.4×	677 0.6×	258 0.5×	29	1.9k
Marya Shanabrough United States	35	465 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	525 0.4×	585 0.5×	1.1k 2.0×	60	6.3k
C. Dominique Toran‐Allerand United States	41	3.5k 2.2×	1.8k 1.3×	2.5k 2.0×	1.4k 1.2×	1.5k 2.8×	57	6.9k
Imre Kalló Hungary	33	618 0.4×	721 0.5×	591 0.5×	460 0.4×	747 1.4×	74	3.3k
Erik Hrabovszky Hungary	38	871 0.6×	745 0.5×	624 0.5×	550 0.5×	948 1.8×	96	4.1k

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Hojo, Yasushi, et al.. (2024). Effects of systemic inflammation on the network oscillation in the anterior cingulate cortex and cognitive behavior. PLoS ONE. 19(5). e0302470–e0302470. 1 indexed citations

Hitomi, Suzuro, Yoshinori Hayashi, Akihiko Furukawa, et al.. (2023). Neonatal Injury Modulates Incisional Pain Sensitivity in Adulthood: An Animal Study. Neuroscience. 519. 60–72.

Hashizume, Miki, et al.. (2023). Correlation Between Cued Fear Memory Retrieval and Oscillatory Network Inhibition in the Amygdala Is Disrupted by Acute REM Sleep Deprivation. Neuroscience. 536. 12–20. 4 indexed citations

Nakano, Takanari, et al.. (2020). Chronic Restraint Stress Affects Network Oscillations in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Mice. Neuroscience. 437. 172–183. 9 indexed citations

Hashizume, Miki, et al.. (2019). Acute Sleep Deprivation Reduces Oscillatory Network Inhibition in the Young Rat Basolateral Amygdala. Neuroscience. 401. 73–83. 5 indexed citations

Hasegawa, Yoshitaka, Yasushi Hojo, Muneki Ikeda, et al.. (2015). Estradiol rapidly modulates synaptic plasticity of hippocampal neurons: Involvement of kinase networks. Brain Research. 1621. 147–161. 73 indexed citations

Hasegawa, Yoshitaka, Mari Ogiue‐Ikeda, Nobuaki Tanabe, et al.. (2013). Bisphenol A significantly modulates long-term depression in the hippocampus as observed by multi-electrode system.. PubMed. 34(2). 129–34. 9 indexed citations

Tanabe, Nobuaki, Tetsuya Kimoto, Yasushi Hojo, et al.. (2012). Nanomolar dose of bisphenol A rapidly modulates spinogenesis in adult hippocampal neurons. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 351(2). 317–325. 19 indexed citations

Komatsuzaki, Yoshimasa, Yusuke Hatanaka, Gen Murakami, et al.. (2012). Corticosterone Induces Rapid Spinogenesis via Synaptic Glucocorticoid Receptors and Kinase Networks in Hippocampus. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34124–e34124. 56 indexed citations

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Barron, Anna M., Yasushi Hojo, Hideo Mukai, et al.. (2011). Regulation of synaptic plasticity by hippocampus synthesized estradiol. Hormone Molecular Biology and Clinical Investigation. 7(2). 361–375. 2 indexed citations

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Mukai, Hideo, Yusuke Hatanaka, Yasushi Hojo, et al.. (2011). Automated Analysis of Spines from Confocal Laser Microscopy Images: Application to the Discrimination of Androgen and Estrogen Effects on Spinogenesis. Cerebral Cortex. 21(12). 2704–2711. 35 indexed citations

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Ooishi, Yuuki, Hideo Mukai, Yasushi Hojo, et al.. (2011). Estradiol Rapidly Rescues Synaptic Transmission from Corticosterone-induced Suppression via Synaptic/Extranuclear Steroid Receptors in the Hippocampus. Cerebral Cortex. 22(4). 926–936. 26 indexed citations

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Munetsuna, Eiji, Minoru Hattori, Yuya Sakimoto, et al.. (2010). Environmental enrichment alters gene expression of steroidogenic enzymes in the rat hippocampus. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 171(1). 28–32. 15 indexed citations

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Munetsuna, Eiji, Yasushi Hojo, Minoru Hattori, et al.. (2009). Retinoic Acid Stimulates 17β-Estradiol and Testosterone Synthesis in Rat Hippocampal Slice Cultures. Endocrinology. 150(9). 4260–4269. 71 indexed citations

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Higo, Shimpei, Yasushi Hojo, Hirotaka Ishii, et al.. (2009). Comparison of sex-steroid synthesis between neonatal and adult rat hippocampus. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 385(1). 62–66. 23 indexed citations

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Mukai, Hideo, Tomokazu Tsurugizawa, Mari Ogiue‐Ikeda, et al.. (2006). Local Neurosteroid Production in the Hippocampus: Influence on Synaptic Plasticity of Memory. Neuroendocrinology. 84(4). 255–263. 94 indexed citations

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Tsurugizawa, Tomokazu, Hideo Mukai, Nobuaki Tanabe, et al.. (2005). Estrogen induces rapid decrease in dendritic thorns of CA3 pyramidal neurons in adult male rat hippocampus. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 337(4). 1345–1352. 49 indexed citations

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Mukai, Hideo, Norio Takata, Hirotaka Ishii, et al.. (2005). Hippocampal synthesis of estrogens and androgens which are paracrine modulators of synaptic plasticity: Synaptocrinology. Neuroscience. 138(3). 757–764. 102 indexed citations

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Shibuya, Keisuke, Norio Takata, Yasushi Hojo, et al.. (2003). Hippocampal cytochrome P450s synthesize brain neurosteroids which are paracrine neuromodulators of synaptic signal transduction. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1619(3). 301–316. 119 indexed citations

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Yoshida, Satoshi, Shigeru Sugiyama, Yasushi Hojo, Haruhiko Tokuda, & Y Imae. (1990). Intracellular Na+ kinetically interferes with the rotation of the Na(+)-driven flagellar motors of Vibrio alginolyticus. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 265(33). 20346–20350. 28 indexed citations

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