Tomohiro Yokota

Email: tyokota@mednet.ucla.edu

Publications:

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. Circ Res. 2025 Apr 30. view on PubMed

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 Sep 20; 27(9):110676. view on PubMed

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. Circ Res. 2024 Aug 16; 135(5):614-628. view on PubMed

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. Sci Adv. 2024 Feb 16; 10(7):eadj7481. view on PubMed

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 10 17; 148(16):1263-1266. view on PubMed

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. 2023 May 03. view on PubMed

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. J Clin Invest. 2022 01 18; 132(2). view on PubMed

Yokota T, Wang Y. Damage control in broken heart: DNA damage response as a common path in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Cardiovasc Res. 2021 09 28; 117(11):2297-2298. view on PubMed

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 01 25; 6(2). view on PubMed

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. J Clin Invest. 2020 10 01; 130(10):5287-5301. view on PubMed

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 08 06; 182(3):545-562.e23. view on PubMed

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. J Biol Chem. 2018 06 22; 293(25):9652-9661. view on PubMed

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. J Biol Chem. 2017 08 04; 292(31):12787-12800. view on PubMed

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. Physiol Rep. 2017 Jun; 5(11). view on PubMed

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. Sci Rep. 2017 02 06; 7:42209. view on PubMed

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. Nat Med. 2016 10; 22(10):1131-1139. view on PubMed

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. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2016 Jan 01; 310(1):H92-103. view on PubMed

Yokota T, Wang Y. p38 MAP kinases in the heart. Gene. 2016 Jan 10; 575(2 Pt 2):369-376. view on PubMed

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; 9(4):e94895. view on PubMed

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. Circ J. 2014; 78(5):1224-33. view on PubMed

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; 8(9):e73685. view on PubMed

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. Pediatr Res. 2012 Aug; 72(2):129-36. view on PubMed