Kenichi Toma, PhD
Associate Specialist
Ophthalmology
School of Medicine

Publications (14)

Top publication keywords:
SynapsesRetinal Ganglion CellsSuperior ColliculiNeurogenesisModels, BiologicalNeural Stem CellsCadherinsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalNeocortexPhysical ExertionRetinal NeuronsOptic Nerve DiseasesReceptor, Melanocortin, Type 4Nervous SystemForkhead Transcription Factors

• Cadherin-13 Maintains Retinotectal Synapses via Transneuronal Interactions.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2024 Matcham AC, Toma K, Tsai NY, Sze CJ, Lin PY, Stewart IF, Duan X
• Osteopontin drives retinal ganglion cell resiliency in glaucomatous optic neuropathy.
  Cell reports 2023 Zhao M, Toma K, Kinde B, Li L, Patel AK, Wu KY, Lum MR, Tan C, Hooper JE, Kriegstein AR, La Torre A, Liao YJ, Welsbie DS, Hu Y, Han Y, Duan X
• Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin.
  Nature neuroscience 2022 Tsai NY, Wang F, Toma K, Yin C, Takatoh J, Pai EL, Wu K, Matcham AC, Yin L, Dang EJ, Marciano DK, Rubenstein JL, Wang F, Ullian EM, Duan X
• Oestrogen engages brain MC4R signalling to drive physical activity in female mice.
  Nature 2021 Krause WC, Rodriguez R, Gegenhuber B, Matharu N, Rodriguez AN, Padilla-Roger AM, Toma K, Herber CB, Correa SM, Duan X, Ahituv N, Tollkuhn J, Ingraham HA
• Cadherin Combinations Recruit Dendrites of Distinct Retinal Neurons to a Shared Interneuronal Scaffold.
  Neuron 2018 Duan X, Krishnaswamy A, Laboulaye MA, Liu J, Peng YR, Yamagata M, Toma K, Sanes JR

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• Encoding and decoding time in neural development.
  Development, growth & differentiation 2016 Toma K, Wang TC, Hanashima C
• Switching modes in corticogenesis: mechanisms of neuronal subtype transitions and integration in the cerebral cortex.
  Frontiers in neuroscience 2015 Toma K, Hanashima C
• The timing of upper-layer neurogenesis is conferred by sequential derepression and negative feedback from deep-layer neurons.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2014 Toma K, Kumamoto T, Hanashima C
• Importin alpha subtypes determine differential transcription factor localization in embryonic stem cells maintenance.
  Developmental cell 2013 Yasuhara N, Yamagishi R, Arai Y, Mehmood R, Kimoto C, Fujita T, Touma K, Kaneko A, Kamikawa Y, Moriyama T, Yanagida T, Kaneko H, Yoneda Y
• Foxg1 coordinates the switch from nonradially to radially migrating glutamatergic subtypes in the neocortex through spatiotemporal repression.
  Cell reports 2013 Kumamoto T, Toma K, McKenna WL, Kasukawa T, Katzman S, Chen B, Hanashima C
• Foxg1 coordinates the early transition of temporal cell identity in the cerebral cortex.
  International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience 2012 Takuma Kumamoto, Ken-ichi Toma, Gunadi, Bin Chen, Carina Hanashima
• Molecular mechanisms of upper-layer neuron specification in mouse neocortex.
  Neuroscience Research 2011 Ken-ichi Toma, Yuko Gonda, Ken-ichi Mizutani, Carina Hanashima
• Molecular identity of temporal neuronal precursors in the mouse neocortex.
  Neuroscience Research 2010 Ken-ichi Toma, Ken-ichi Mizutani, Yuko Gonda, Carina Hanashima
• Identification of sam4 as a rad24 allele in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
  Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry 2009 Oowatari Y, Toma K, Ozoe F, Kawamukai M