Name KOBAYAKAWA Yoshitaka
Year of birth 1955

Current appointment

(position and institution)

 Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University
Address Ropponmatsu 4-2-1, Chuoh-ku, Fukuoka, 810-8560 Japan
Phone +81-(0)92-726-4760
Fax +81-(0)92-726-4644
E-mail kbykwrcb@mbox.nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
URL http://rc28092.rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/MacHTTP/default.html
Fields of general research Biology
Fields of specialization Developmental Biology

Subject of research work
and/or titles of lecture and
discussion

 Subject of research work: Morphogenesis in Hydra and Xenopus
Titles of lecture: Developmental Biology, Primary Cell Biology

Research reports (papers
and reviews) within recent
5 years

 - Kobayakawa Y & Kodama R. (2002) Foot formation in Hydra: Commitment of the basal disk cells in the lower peduncle. Develop. Growth Differ 44:517-526

- Nagano T., Ito Y., Tashiro K., Kobayakawa Y. & Sakai M. (2000) Dorsal induction from dorsal vegetal cells in Xenopus occurs after mid-blastula transution. Mechanisms of Development 93:3-14.

- Takahashi T., Koizumi O., Ariura Y., Romanovitch A., Bosch T.C.G., Kobayakawa Y., Mohri S., Bode H.R., Yum S., Hatta M. & Fujisawa T. (2000) A novel neuropeptide, Hym-355, positively regulates neuron differentiation in Hydra. Development 127: 997-1005.

- Hatta M., Sakaguchi M., Kobayakawa Y., Kishimoto Y. & Koizumi O. (1999) Identification of a homolog of actin-binding protein, ABP-280, localized at epithelial cell-cell boundaries in Hydra. Zoological Science 16: 439-443.

- Yum S., Takahashi T., Koizumi O., Ariura Y., Kobayakawa Y., Mohri S. & Fujisawa T. (1998) A novel neuropeptide, Hym-176 induces contraction of the ectodermal muscle in Hydra. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 248:584-590.

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