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Takashi Mikawa

Author PubWeight™ 41.30‹?›

Top papers

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1 Development of the coronary vessel system. Circ Res 2002 1.92
2 VEGF family members regulate myocardial tubulogenesis and coronary artery formation in the embryo. Circ Res 2006 1.74
3 A dual role for ErbB2 signaling in cardiac trabeculation. Development 2010 1.59
4 Epicardium is required for the full rate of myocyte proliferation and levels of expression of myocyte mitogenic factors FGF2 and its receptor, FGFR-1, but not for transmural myocardial patterning in the embryonic chick heart. Dev Dyn 2003 1.27
5 A role for Tbx5 in proepicardial cell migration during cardiogenesis. Physiol Genomics 2004 1.21
6 Optic cup morphogenesis requires pre-lens ectoderm but not lens differentiation. Dev Biol 2003 1.19
7 Induction of proepicardial marker gene expression by the liver bud. Development 2007 1.17
8 Hemodynamic-dependent patterning of endothelin converting enzyme 1 expression and differentiation of impulse-conducting Purkinje fibers in the embryonic heart. Development 2004 1.16
9 Negative regulation of midline vascular development by the notochord. Dev Cell 2004 1.15
10 BMP signals promote proepicardial protrusion necessary for recruitment of coronary vessel and epicardial progenitors to the heart. Dev Cell 2010 1.15
11 Early mesodermal cues assign avian cardiac pacemaker fate potential in a tertiary heart field. Science 2013 1.12
12 Fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-4 can induce proliferation of cardiac cushion mesenchymal cells during early valve leaflet formation. Dev Biol 2003 1.08
13 FGFR-1 is required by epicardium-derived cells for myocardial invasion and correct coronary vascular lineage differentiation. Dev Biol 2009 1.06
14 Evidence for an extracellular matrix bridge guiding proepicardial cell migration to the myocardium of chick embryos. Dev Dyn 2003 1.05
15 Bone marrow Oct3/4+ cells differentiate into cardiac myocytes via age-dependent paracrine mechanisms. Circ Res 2006 1.03
16 Induction and patterning of the cardiac conduction system. Int J Dev Biol 2002 1.03
17 Notochord-derived BMP antagonists inhibit endothelial cell generation and network formation. Dev Biol 2008 1.00
18 Enhanced sensitivity and stability in two-color in situ hybridization by means of a novel chromagenic substrate combination. Dev Dyn 2006 0.95
19 Developmental transitions in electrical activation patterns in chick embryonic heart. Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol 2004 0.93
20 Endothelial cell lineages of the heart. Cell Tissue Res 2008 0.92
21 His-Purkinje lineages and development. Novartis Found Symp 2003 0.92
22 Platelet-derived growth factor-AB promotes the generation of adult bone marrow-derived cardiac myocytes. Circ Res 2004 0.90
23 An anteroposterior wave of vascular inhibitor downregulation signals aortae fusion along the embryonic midline axis. Development 2010 0.90
24 FGF-mediated induction of ciliary body tissue in the chick eye. Dev Biol 2006 0.88
25 Normal patterning of the coronary capillary plexus is dependent on the correct transmural gradient of FGF expression in the myocardium. Dev Biol 2005 0.86
26 Morphogenesis and cytodifferentiation of the avian retinal pigmented epithelium require downregulation of Group B1 Sox genes. Development 2009 0.86
27 Somatic transgenesis using retroviral vectors in the chicken embryo. Dev Dyn 2004 0.85
28 Competency of embryonic cardiomyocytes to undergo Purkinje fiber differentiation is regulated by endothelin receptor expression. Development 2002 0.83
29 TrkB/BDNF signaling regulates photoreceptor progenitor cell fate decisions. Dev Biol 2006 0.82
30 Eph regulates dorsoventral asymmetry of the notochord plate and convergent extension-mediated notochord formation. PLoS One 2010 0.81
31 Somatic transgenesis in the avian model system. Birth Defects Res C Embryo Today 2005 0.81
32 Constitutive expression of preproendothelin in the cardiac neural crest selectively promotes expansion of the adventitia of the great vessels in vivo. Dev Biol 2002 0.79
33 MK7924, a novel metabolite with nematocidal activity from Coronophora gregaria. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2003 0.79
34 Cell death along the embryo midline regulates left-right sidedness. Dev Dyn 2002 0.78
35 Folding of the tectal cortex by local remodeling of neural differentiation. Dev Dyn 2004 0.78
36 Induction of the Proepicardium. J Dev Biol 2013 0.77
37 Microtubules coordinate VEGFR2 signaling and sorting. PLoS One 2013 0.77
38 Central and peripheral retina arise through distinct developmental paths. PLoS One 2013 0.76
39 Antifungal activity of micafungin against Candida and Aspergillus spp. isolated from pediatric patients in Japan. Med Mycol 2008 0.76
40 Early divergence of central and peripheral neural retina precursors during vertebrate eye development. Dev Dyn 2014 0.75
41 Avians as a model system of vascular development. Methods Mol Biol 2015 0.75
42 Early arterial differentiation and patterning in the avian embryo model. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2011 0.75
43 [In vitro antifungal activity of ravuconazole against isolates of dermatophytes and Candida species from patients with dermatomycoses]. Med Mycol J 2014 0.75
44 Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on the nuclear rRNA genes and the intron-exon structures of the nuSSU rRNA gene in Dictyocatenulata alba (anamorphic Ascomycota). Fungal Biol 2012 0.75