Tomohiro Yokota

Assistant Professor-in-residence, Medicine, University of California Los Angeles

Publications

  1. Cho JM, Vu K, Park SK, Zhu E, Li YR, Zhao P, Yokota T, Yang L, Lu R, Xiang YK, Shen YH, Chapleau MW, Hsiai TK. Habitual Exercise Modulates Neuroimmune Interaction to Mitigate Aortic Stiffness.. Circulation research, 2025.
  2. Kelly-Scumpia KM, Archang MM, Purbey PK, Yokota T, Wu R, McCourt J, Li S, Crosbie RH, Scumpia PO, Deb A. Modulating the extracellular matrix to treat wound healing defects in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.. iScience, 2024.
  3. Gao C, Xiong Z, Liu Y, Wang M, Wang M, Liu T, Liu J, Ren S, Cao N, Yan H, Drucker DJ, Rau CD, Yokota T, Huang J, Wang Y. Glucagon Receptor Antagonist for Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction.. Circulation research, 2024.
  4. Cavallero S, Roustaei M, Satta S, Cho JM, Phan H, Baek KI, Blázquez-Medela AM, Gonzalez-Ramos S, Vu K, Park SK, Yokota T, Sumner J, Mack JJ, Sigmund CD, Reddy ST, Li R, Hsiai TK. Exercise mitigates flow recirculation and activates metabolic transducer SCD1 to catalyze vascular protective metabolites.. Science advances, 2024.
  5. Huang J, Lee JZ, Rau CD, Pezhouman A, Yokota T, Miwa H, Feldman M, Kong TK, Yang Z, Tay WT, Pushkarsky I, Kim K, Parikh SS, Udani S, Soh BS, Gao C, Stiles L, Shirihai OS, Knollmann BC, Ardehali R, Di Carlo D, Wang Y. Regulation of Postnatal Cardiomyocyte Maturation by an RNA Splicing Regulator RBFox1.. Circulation, 2023.
  6. Cavallero S, Roustaei M, Satta S, Cho JM, Phan H, Baek KI, Blázquez-Medela AM, Gonzalez-Ramos S, Vu K, Park SK, Yokota T, Sumner JA, Mack JJ, Sigmund CD, Reddy ST, Li R, Hsiai TK. Exercise Mitigates Flow Recirculation and Activates Mechanosensitive Transcriptome to Uncover Endothelial SCD1-Catalyzed Anti-Inflammatory Metabolites.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
  7. Li S, Yokota T, Wang P, Ten Hoeve J, Ma F, Le TM, Abt ER, Zhou Y, Wu R, Nanthavongdouangsy M, Rodriguez A, Wang Y, Lin YJ, Muranaka H, Sharpley M, Braddock DT, MacRae VE, Banerjee U, Chiou PY, Seldin M, Huang D, Teitell M, Gertsman I, Jung M, Bensinger SJ, Damoiseaux R, Faull K, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Graeber TG, Radu CG, Deb A. Cardiomyocytes disrupt pyrimidine biosynthesis in nonmyocytes to regulate heart repair.. The Journal of clinical investigation, 2022.
  8. Yokota T, Wang Y. Damage control in broken heart: DNA damage response as a common path in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.. Cardiovascular research, 2021.
  9. Li S, Ma F, Yokota T, Garcia G, Palermo A, Wang Y, Farrell C, Wang YC, Wu R, Zhou Z, Pan C, Morselli M, Teitell MA, Ryazantsev S, Fishbein GA, Hoeve JT, Arboleda VA, Bloom J, Dillon B, Pellegrini M, Lusis AJ, Graeber TG, Arumugaswami V, Deb A. Metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic changes of vital organs in SARS-CoV-2-induced systemic toxicity.. JCI insight, 2021.
  10. Yokota T, Li J, Huang J, Xiong Z, Zhang Q, Chan T, Ding Y, Rau C, Sung K, Ren S, Kulkarni R, Hsiai T, Xiao X, Touma M, Minamisawa S, Wang Y. p38 Mitogen-activated protein kinase regulates chamber-specific perinatal growth in heart.. The Journal of clinical investigation, 2020.
  11. Yokota T, McCourt J, Ma F, Ren S, Li S, Kim TH, Kurmangaliyev YZ, Nasiri R, Ahadian S, Nguyen T, Tan XHM, Zhou Y, Wu R, Rodriguez A, Cohn W, Wang Y, Whitelegge J, Ryazantsev S, Khademhosseini A, Teitell MA, Chiou PY, Birk DE, Rowat AC, Crosbie RH, Pellegrini M, Seldin M, Lusis AJ, Deb A. Type V Collagen in Scar Tissue Regulates the Size of Scar after Heart Injury.. Cell, 2020.
  12. Steiger D, Yokota T, Li J, Ren S, Minamisawa S, Wang Y. The serine/threonine-protein kinase/endoribonuclease IRE1α protects the heart against pressure overload-induced heart failure.. The Journal of biological chemistry, 2018.
  13. Rose BA, Yokota T, Chintalgattu V, Ren S, Iruela-Arispe L, Khakoo AY, Minamisawa S, Wang Y. Cardiac myocyte p38α kinase regulates angiogenesis via myocyte-endothelial cell cross-talk during stress-induced remodeling in the heart.. The Journal of biological chemistry, 2017.
  14. Cutler TS, Park S, Loh DH, Jordan MC, Yokota T, Roos KP, Ghiani CA, Colwell CS. Neurocardiovascular deficits in the Q175 mouse model of Huntington's disease.. Physiological reports, 2017.
  15. Ding Y, Lee J, Ma J, Sung K, Yokota T, Singh N, Dooraghi M, Abiri P, Wang Y, Kulkarni RP, Nakano A, Nguyen TP, Fei P, Hsiai TK. Light-sheet fluorescence imaging to localize cardiac lineage and protein distribution.. Scientific reports, 2017.
  16. Wang Z, Zhang XJ, Ji YX, Zhang P, Deng KQ, Gong J, Ren S, Wang X, Chen I, Wang H, Gao C, Yokota T, Ang YS, Li S, Cass A, Vondriska TM, Li G, Deb A, Srivastava D, Yang HT, Xiao X, Li H, Wang Y. The long noncoding RNA Chaer defines an epigenetic checkpoint in cardiac hypertrophy.. Nature medicine, 2016.
  17. Shimura D, Kusakari Y, Sasano T, Nakashima Y, Nakai G, Jiao Q, Jin M, Yokota T, Ishikawa Y, Nakano A, Goda N, Minamisawa S. Heterozygous deletion of sarcolipin maintains normal cardiac function.. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2015.
  18. Yokota T, Wang Y. p38 MAP kinases in the heart.. Gene, 2015.
  19. Yokota T, Shiraishi R, Aida T, Iwai K, Liu NM, Yokoyama U, Minamisawa S. Thromboxane A(2) receptor stimulation promotes closure of the rat ductus arteriosus through enhancing neointima formation.. PloS one, 2014.
  20. Hsieh YT, Liu NM, Ohmori E, Yokota T, Kajimura I, Akaike T, Ohshima T, Goda N, Minamisawa S. Transcription profiles of the ductus arteriosus in Brown-Norway rats with irregular elastic fiber formation.. Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society, 2014.
  21. Liu NM, Yokota T, Maekawa S, Lü P, Zheng YW, Tei I, Taniguchi H, Yokoyama U, Kato T, Minamisawa S. Transcription profiles of endothelial cells in the rat ductus arteriosus during a perinatal period.. PloS one, 2013.
  22. Yokota T, Aida T, Ichikawa Y, Fujita T, Yokoyama U, Minamisawa S. Low-dose thromboxane A2 receptor stimulation promotes closure of the rat ductus arteriosus with minimal adverse effects.. Pediatric research, 2012.