Akira Hanashima, Yoshihiro Ujihara, Misaki Kimoto, Momoko Ohira, Yuu Usui, Ken Hashimoto, Satoshi Mohri. Cartilaginous fish and mammalian connectin evolved independently from an ancestral bony fish-like structure. Scientific Reports. 15, 24715, 2025.

Yubing Dong, Guohao Wang, Yoshihiro Ujihara, Yanzhu Chen, Masashi Yoshida, Kazufumi Nakamura, Kimiaki Katanosaka, Keiji Naruse, Yuki Katanosaka. TRPV2 mediates stress resilience in mouse cardiomyocytes. Communications Biology. 8(1), 1-13, 2025.

Andoh T, Kobayashi Y, Chen Y, Katanosaka Y. Effects of Shakuyakukanzoto on decreased grip strength and blood flow, and muscle atrophy in mice treated with paclitaxel. BPB reports, 2025, 8;116-122.

Kohjiro Nagao, Mayu Matsuo, Yoshie Hori, Norihiro Namba, Hiroyuki Saito The structural characteristics of cellular phospholipid acyl chains required for ABCA1-mediated HDL formation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 301 (8), 110457 (2025)

Shinri Morodomi, Kazushi Ito, Satoru Maegawa, Yoshihiro Ujihara, Shukei Sugita, Masanori Nakamura. Empirical estimation of Young’s modulus for biological tissue mimics using acoustic impedance measurements: A study on agar gel tissue phantoms. PloS one. 20(4), e0320705, 2025.

Taiki Shigematsu, Yuya Shinoda, Reiya Takagi, Yoshihiro Ujihara, Shukei Sugita, Masanori Nakamura. Interleaflet Translocation of Second-Harmonic-Generation-Active Dye Molecules in Phospholipid Bilayers with Transmembrane Pores. Langmuir. 41(5), 3209-3219, 2025.

Kotaro Hirano, Chika Nakabayashi, Mao Sasaki, Miki Suzuki, Yuta Aoyagi, Kaori Tanaka, Akira Murakami, Masaki Tsuchiya, Eiji Umemoto, Shuji Takabayashi, Yasuo Kitajima, Yusuke Ono, Takehisa Matsukawa, Masayuki Matsushita, Yasuyuki Ohkawa, Yasuo Mori, and Yuji Hara. Mg2+ influx mediated by TRPM7 triggers the initiation of muscle stem cell activation. Science Advances. 4 Apr 2025. Vol 11, Issue 14.

Yoshihiro Ujihara, Shota Watanabe, Shinri Morodomi, Shukei Sugita, Masanori Nakamura. Probing mechanical properties through acoustic impedance in cultured smooth muscle cells with cytoskeletal disruption using scanning acoustic microscopy. Journal of Biorheology. 38(2), 112-119, 2024.

Megumi Ito, Shukei Sugita, Masanori Nakamura, Yoshihiro Ujihara. Impact of habitat on ventricular stiffness in anurans: insights from Xenopus borealis and Buergeria buergeri. Journal of Biorheology. 38(2), 65-72, 2024.

Ken Hashimoto, Momoko Ohira, Aya Kodama, Misaki Kimoto, Mariko Inoue, Shigenobu Toné, Yuu Usui, Akira Hanashima, Takato Goto, Yuhei Ogura, Yoshihiro Ujihara, Satoshi Mohri. Loss of connectin novex-3 leads to heart dysfunction associated with impaired cardiomyocyte proliferation and abnormal nuclear mechanics. Scientific Reports, 14, 13727, 2024.

Masaki Tsuchiya, Nobuhiko Tachibana, Itaru Hamachi. Post-click labeling enables highly accurate single cell analyses of glucose uptake ex vivo and in vivo. Communications Biology. 7, 459, 2024.

Megumi Ito, Yoshihiro Ujihara, Shukei Sugita, Masanori Nakamura. Mathematical modeling and experimental analysis of the relationship between ventricular size and diastolic function of trabecular ventricles. Journal of Biorheology. 37(2), 96-104, 2023.

Yuhei Ogura, Shukei Sugita, Masanori Nakamura, Yoshihiro Ujihara. Comparison of changes in Ca2+ concentration in quail and rat cardiomyocytes using Fura-4F. Journal of Biorheology. 37(2), 138-144, 2023.

Masanori Nakamura, Reiya Takagi, Haruka Wada, Yuya Shinoda, Yoshihiro Ujihara, Shukei Sugita, Shigematsu T. Second harmonic generation signal imaging of the membrane damage due to electroporation. Journal of Biorheology. 37(2), 145-154, 2023.

Masaki Tsuchiya, Nobuhiko Tachibana, Itaru Hamachi. Flow cytometric analysis of phosphatidylcholine metabolism using organelle-selective click labeling. STAR Protocols. 4, 102525, 2023.