Recent major papers

1. Wu X, Seida M, Abe T, Higashitani A. Mitochonic acid 5 attenuates age-related neuromuscular dysfunction associated with mitochondrial Ca²⁺ overload in Caenorhabditis elegans. NPJ Aging. 2023 9:20.
2. Fuentes-Merlos MI, Bamba M, Sato S, Higashitani A. Self-grafting-induced epigenetic changes leading to drought stress tolerance in tomato plants. DNA Research 2023 30:dsad016.
3. Şekerci K, Higashitani N, Ozgur R, Uzilday B, Higashitani A, Turkan I. A stratagem for primary root elongation under moderate salt stress in the halophyte Schrenkiella parvula. Physiologia Plantrum 2023 175:e13937.
4. Higashitani A, Teranishi M, Nakagawa Y, Itoh Y, Sudevan S, Szewczyk NJ, Kubota Y, Abe T, Kobayashi T. Increased mitochondrial Ca²⁺ contributes to health decline with age and Duchene muscular dystrophy in C. elegans. FASEB Journal 2023 37:e22851
5. Deane CS, Phillips BE, Willis CRG, Wilkinson DJ, Smith K, Higashitani N, Williams JP, Szewczyk NJ, Atherton PJ, Higashitani A, Etheridge T. Proteomic features of skeletal muscle adaptation to resistance exercise training as a function of age. Geroscience 2023 45:1271-87.
6. Sudevan S, Muto K, Higashitani N, Hashizume T, Higashibata A, Ellwood RA, Deane CS, Rahman M, Vanapalli SA, Etheridge T, Szewczyk NJ, Higashitani A. Loss of physical contact in space alters the dopamine system in C. elegans. iScience 2022 25:103762.
7. Higashitani A, Hashizume T, Takiura M, Higashitani N, Teranishi M, Oshima R, Yano S, Kuriyama K, Higashibata A. Histone deacetylase HDA-4-mediated epigenetic regulation in space-flown C. elegans. NPJ Microgravity 2021 7:33.
8. Dündar G, Shao Z, Higashitani N, Kikuta M, Izumi M, Higashitani A. Autophagy mitigates high-temperature injury in pollen development of Arabidopsis thaliana. Developmental Biology 2019 456:190-200.
9. Sakata T, Oda S, Tsunaga Y, Shomura H, Kawagishi-Kobayashi M, Aya K, Saeki K, Endo T, Nagano K, Kojima M, Sakakibara H, Watanabe M, Matsuoka M, Higashitani A. Reduction of gibberellin by low temperature disrupts pollen development in rice. Plant Physiology 2014 164:2011-9.
10. Sakata T, Oshino T, Miura S, Tomabechi M, Tsunaga Y, Higashitani N, Miyazawa Y, Takahashi H, Watanabe M, Higashitani A. Auxins reverse plant male sterility caused by high temperatures. Proceeding National Academy of Science U.S.A. 2010 107:8569-74.

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