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Silencing mutant ataxin-3 rescues motor deficits and neuropathology in Machado-Joseph disease transgenic mice.
PLoS One 2013;8(1):e52396.

Takechi Y, Mieda T, Iizuka A, Toya S, Suto N, Takagishi K, Nakazato Y, Nakamura K, Hirai H.
Impairment of spinal motor neurons in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1-knock-in mice.
Neuroscience Letters 2013 Feb 22;535:67-72.

Liu HX, Lopatina O, Higashida C, Fujimoto H, Akther S, Inzhutova A, Liang M, Zhong J, Tsuji T, Yoshihara T, Sumi K, Ishiyama M, Ma WJ, Ozaki M, Yagitani S, Yokoyama S, Mukaida N, Sakurai T, Hori O, Yoshioka K, Hirao A, Kato Y, Ishihara K, Kato I, Okamoto H, Cherepanov SM, Salmina AB, Hirai H, Asano M, Brown DA, Nagano I, Higashida H
Displays of paternal mouse pup retrieval following communicative interaction with maternal mates.
Nature Communications 2013;4:1346.

Yamaura H. Hirai H, Yanagihara D.
Postural dysfunction in a transgenic mouse model of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3.
Neuroscience 2013 Jul 23;243:126-35.

Mikuni T, Uesaka N, Okuno H, Hirai H, Deisseroth K, Bito H, Kano M.
Arc/Arg3.1 is a postsynaptic mediator of activity-dependent synapse elimination in the developing cerebellum.
Neuron 2013 Jun 19;78(6):1024-35.

Nascimento-Ferreira I, Nóbrega C, Vasconcelos-Ferreira A, Onofre I, Albuquerque D, Aveleira C, Hirai H, Déglon N, Pereira de Almeida L.
Beclin 1 mitigates motor and neuropathological deficits in genetic mouse models of Machado-Joseph disease.
Brain 2013 Jul;136(Pt 7):2173-88.

Akther S, Korshnova N, Zhong J, Liang M, Cherepanov SM, Lopatina O, Komleva YK, Salmina AB, Nishimura T, Fakhrul AA, Hirai H, Kato I, Yamamoto Y, Takasawa S, Okamoto H, Higashida H.
CD38 in the nucleus accumbens and oxytocin are related to paternal behavior in mice.
Molecular Brain 2013 Sep 23;6(1):41.

Miki T, Hirai H, Takahashi T.
Activity-dependent neurotrophin signaling underlies developmental switch of Ca2+ channel subtypes mediating neurotransmitter release.
The Journal of Neuroscience 2013 Nov 27;33(48):18755-63.