JAPANESE 
MATSUHANA, Saori, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Division of Biosignal Transduction, Gene Expression
Research Focus
Gene regulatory mechanism of cell fate specification in cardiac neural crest
Recent Publication
- Tani-Matsuhana, S.*, Unozu, Y., Inoue, K. (2025)
Role of CXCR4/SDF1 signaling in the initial migration of cardiac neural crest cells
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 767, 151914 - Tani-Matsuhana, S.*, Kawata, Y., Inoue, K. (2023)
The cardiac neural crest gene MafB ectopically directs CXCR4 expression in the trunk neural crest.
Dev. Biol. 495 1-7. - Tani-Matsuhana, S.* and Inoue, K. (2021)
Identification of regulatory elements for MafB expression in the cardiac neural crest.
Cells and Development 167, 203725. - Tani-Matsuhana, S., Vieceli, F. M., Gandhi, S., Inoue, K., Bronner, M. E. (2018)
Transcriptome profiling of the cardiac neural crest reveals a critical role for MafB.
Dev. Biol. 444, S209-S218. (The Neural Crest: 150 years after His' discovery) - Tani-Matsuhana, S.*, Kusakabe, R., Inoue, K. (2018)
Developmental mechanisms of migratory muscle precursors in medaka pectoral fin formation.
Dev. Genes Evol. 228, 189-196. - Kobayashi, M., Tani-Matsuhana, S., Ohkawa, Y., Sakamoto, H., and Inoue, K. (2017)
DND protein functions as a translation repressor during zebrafish embryogenesis.
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 484, 235-240 - Tani, S., Kuraku, S., Sakamoto, H., Inoue, K., and Kusakabe, R. (2013)
Developmental expression and evolution of muscle-specific microRNAs conserved in vertebrates.
Evolution & Development 15, 293-304. - Kusakabe, R., Tani, S., Nishitsuji, K., Shindo, M., Okamura, K., Miyamoto, Y., Nakai, K., Suzuki, Y., Kusakabe, T. G., and Inoue, K. (2013)
Characterization of the compact bicistronic microRNA precursor, miR-1/miR-133, expressed specifically in Ciona muscle tissues.
Gene Exp. Patterns 13, 43-50. - Tani, S., Kusakabe, R., Naruse, K., Sakamoto, H., & Inoue, K. (2010)
Genomic organization and embryonic expression of miR-430 in medaka (Oryzias latipes): insights into the post-transcriptional gene regulation in early development.
Gene 449, 41-49.
Contact
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E-mail: tmsaori@port.kobe-u.ac.jp