User profiles for Nao Nakagawa

Nao Nakagawa-Tamagawa

- Verified email at m.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp - Cited by 169

Nao Nakagawa

- Verified email at lmd.ist.hokudai.ac.jp - Cited by 8

In vitro evaluation of inhibitory effects of antidiabetic and antihyperlipidemic drugs on human carboxylesterase activities

T Fukami, S Takahashi, N Nakagawa, T Maruichi… - Drug metabolism and …, 2010 - ASPET
Human carboxylesterase (CES) 1A is responsible for the biotransformation of angiotensin-converting
enzyme (ACE) inhibitors such as imidapril and temocapril. Because antidiabetic or …

Lattice system of functionally distinct cell types in the neocortex

H Maruoka, N Nakagawa, S Tsuruno, S Sakai… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The mammalian neocortex contains many cell types, but whether they organize into repeated
structures has been unclear. We discovered that major cell types in neocortical layer 5 …

Arylacetamide deacetylase is a determinant enzyme for the difference in hydrolase activities of phenacetin and acetaminophen

…, S Takahashi, Y Kobayashi, N Nakagawa… - Drug Metabolism and …, 2010 - ASPET
Phenacetin was withdrawn from the market because it caused renal failure in some patients.
Many reports indicated that the nephrotoxicity of phenacetin is associated with the …

Gromov-wasserstein autoencoders

N Nakagawa, R Togo, T Ogawa… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Variational Autoencoder (VAE)-based generative models offer flexible representation learning
by incorporating meta-priors, general premises considered beneficial for downstream …

Identity of neocortical layer 4 neurons is specified through correct positioning into the cortex

K Oishi, N Nakagawa, K Tachikawa, S Sasaki… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.10907.001 Many cell-intrinsic mechanisms have been shown to regulate
neuronal subtype specification in the mammalian neocortex. However, how much cell …

Metabolic activation of benzodiazepines by CYP3A4

K Mizuno, M Katoh, H Okumura, N Nakagawa… - Drug Metabolism and …, 2009 - ASPET
Cytochrome P450 3A4 is the predominant isoform in liver, and it metabolizes more than 50%
of the clinical drugs commonly used. However, CYP3A4 is also responsible for metabolic …

Effects of Japanese herbal medicine, Kampo, on human UGT1A1 activity

M Katoh, Y Yoshioka, N Nakagawa, T Yokoi - Drug Metabolism and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Kampo is a traditional Japanese herbal medicine and widely used in clinical practice in Japan.
Little is known about interactions between Kampo and other medicines. Kampo contains …

[HTML][HTML] Complex activity and short-term plasticity of human cerebral organoids reciprocally connected with axons

…, R Beaubois, T Levi, N Nakagawa-Tamagawa… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
An inter-regional cortical tract is one of the most fundamental architectural motifs that
integrates neural circuits to orchestrate and generate complex functions of the human brain. To …

Inhibitory effects of Kampo medicine on human UGT2B7 activity

N Nakagawa, M Katoh, Y Yoshioka, M Nakajima… - Drug metabolism and …, 2009 - Elsevier
: Kampo medicine is traditional Japanese medicine modified from the Chinese original. Kampo
medicine is a mixture of several medicinal herbs and includes many ingredients such as …

Slow dynamics in microcolumnar gap junction network of developing neocortical pyramidal neurons

N Nakagawa, T Hosoya - Neuroscience, 2019 - Elsevier
Gap junctions mediate electrical coupling between neurons and modulate their firing activity.
In mouse neocortical layer 5, the major types of pyramidal neurons organize into cell type-…