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Yoshiro Shiba

Research Associate in Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Verified email at cam.ac.uk
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Allogeneic transplantation of iPS cell-derived cardiomyocytes regenerates primate hearts

Y Shiba, T Gomibuchi, T Seto, Y Wada, H Ichimura… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) constitute a potential source of autologous patient-specific
cardiomyocytes for cardiac repair, providing a major benefit over other sources of cells …

Production of the antimalarial drug precursor artemisinic acid in engineered yeast

…, TS Ham, J Kirby, MCY Chang, ST Withers, Y Shiba… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Malaria is a global health problem that threatens 300–500 million people and kills more
than one million people annually 1 . Disease control is hampered by the occurrence of multi-drug…

Electrical integration of human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in a guinea pig chronic infarct model

Y Shiba, D Filice, S Fernandes… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
… Animals were then assessed for a semiquantitative arrhythmia score by Shiba et al. … Yuji
Shiba, Dominic Filice, and Sarah Fernandes contributed equally to this study. Dr. Kloner served …

Human ES-cell-derived cardiomyocytes electrically couple and suppress arrhythmias in injured hearts

Y Shiba, S Fernandes, WZ Zhu, D Filice, V Muskheli… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Transplantation studies in mice and rats have shown that human embryonic-stem-cell-derived
cardiomyocytes (hESC-CMs) can improve the function of infarcted hearts 1 , 2 , 3 , but two …

[HTML][HTML] Arf GAPs: gatekeepers of vesicle generation

A Spang, Y Shiba, PA Randazzo - FEBS letters, 2010 - Elsevier
Arf GAP proteins are a versatile and diverse group of proteins. They control the activity of the
GTP-binding proteins of the ARF family by inducing the hydrolysis of GTP that is bound to …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophage as a target of quercetin glucuronides in human atherosclerotic arteries: implication in the anti-atherosclerotic mechanism of dietary flavonoids

Y Kawai, T Nishikawa, Y Shiba, S Saito… - Journal of Biological …, 2008 - ASBMB
Epidemiological studies suggest that the consumption of flavonoid-rich diets decreases the
risk of cardiovascular diseases. However, the target sites of flavonoids underlying the …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond the medial regions of prefrontal cortex in the regulation of fear and anxiety

Y Shiba, AM Santangelo, AC Roberts - Frontiers in systems …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Fear and anxiety are adaptive responses but if left unregulated, or inappropriately regulated,
they become biologically and socially maladaptive. Dysregulated emotions are manifest in …

Engineering of the pyruvate dehydrogenase bypass in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for high-level production of isoprenoids

Y Shiba, EM Paradise, J Kirby, DK Ro… - Metabolic engineering, 2007 - Elsevier
Amorphadiene, a sesquiterpene precursor to the anti-malarial drug artemisinin, is synthesized
by the cyclization of farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP). Saccharomyces cerevisiae produces …

Sympathetic nervous activity and myocardial damage immediately after subarachnoid hemorrhage in a unique animal model

…, T Shimohama, A Matsunaga, S Obuchi, Y Shiba… - Stroke, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose— Obvious cardiac dysfunction, including ECG abnormalities and
left ventricular asynergy, is known to develop after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). To …

Creation of human cardiac cell sheets using pluripotent stem cells

…, F Sato, K Sugiyama, K Konishi, Y Shiba… - Biochemical and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Although we previously reported the development of cell-dense thickened cardiac tissue by
repeated transplantation-based vascularization of neonatal rat cardiac cell sheets, the cell …