Toshitaka Kawarai
Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine
University of Tokushima
Japan
Biography
Toshitaka Kawarai has done his PhD from University of Hiroshima School of Medicine. Currently he is working as Associate Professor in Faculty of Medicine in Tokushima University. His research interests are Neurogenetics, Clinical Neurology. Several papers of his work were published in reputed international journals. He is the member of Societas Neurologica Japonica, The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, The Japanese Society of Neurology, The Japanese Society of Neuroscience.
Research Interest
Neurogenetics, Clinical Neurology. Identification of gene for neurological disorders (sequence analyses, linkage study, bioinformatics).
Publications
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Takashi Abe, Toshitaka Kawarai, Koji Fujita, Wataru Sako, Yuka Terasawa, Tsuyoshi Matsuda, Waka Sakai, Ai Tsukamoto-Miyashiro, Naoko Matsui, Yuishin Izumi, Ryuji Kaji and Masafumi Harada. MR Spectroscopy in Patients with Hereditary Diffuse Leukoencephalopathy with Spheroids and Asymptomatic Carriers of Colony-stimulating Factor 1 Receptor Mutation. Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences. 2016, 16(4): 297-303.
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Nagahisa Murakami, Keiko Imamura, Yuishin Izumi, Naohiro Egawa, Kayoko Tsukita, Takako Enami, Takuya Yamamoto, Toshitaka Kawarai, Ryuji Kaji and Haruhisa Inoue. Proteasome impairment in neural cells derived from HMSN-P patient iPSCs. Molecular Brain. 2017, 10(1).
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Toshitaka Kawarai, Ryoma Morigaki, Ryuji Kaji and Satoshi Goto. Clinicopathological Phenotype and Genetics of X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP; DYT3; Lubag). Brain Sciences. 2017, 7(7).