Irie T, Matsuzaki Y, Sekino Y, Hirai H.
Kv3.3 channels harboring a mutation of spinocerebellar ataxia type 13 alterexcitability and induce cell death in cultured cerebellar Purkinje cells.
The Journal of Physiology 2014 Jan 1;592(Pt 1):229-47.

Konno A, Shuvaev AN, Miyake N, Miyake K, Iizuka A, Matsuura S, Huda F, Nakamura K, Yanagi S, Shimada T, Hirai H.
Mutant Ataxin-3 with an Abnormally Expanded Polyglutamine Chain Disrupts Dendritic Development and Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Signaling in Mouse Cerebellar Purkinje Cells.
The Cerebellum 2014 Feb;13(1):29-41.

Matsuzaki Y, Oue M, Hirai H.
Generation of a neurodegenerative disease mouse model using lentiviral vectors carrying an enhanced synapsin I promoter.
The Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2014 Feb 15;223:133-43.

Matsuura S, Shuvaev AN, Iizuka A, Nakamura K, Hirai H.
Mesenchymal Stem Cells Ameliorate Cerebellar Pathology in a Mouse Model of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1.
The Cerebellum 2014 Jun;13(3):323-30.

Okonogi N, Nakamura K, Suzuki Y. Suto N. Suzue K. Kaminama T. Nakano T. Hirai H.
Cranial irradiation induces bone marrow-derived microglia in adult mouse brain tissue.
Journal of Radiation Research 2014 Jul;55(4):713-9.

Uesaka N, Uchigashima M, Mikuni T, Nakazawa T, Nakao H, Hirai H, Aiba A, Watanabe M, Kano M.
Retrograde semaphorin signaling regulates synapse elimination in the developing mouse brain.
Science 2014 May 30;344(6187):1020-3.

Huda F, Konno A. Matsuzaki Y. Goenawan H. Miyake K. Shimada T and Hirai H.
Distinct transduction profiles in the CNS via three injection routes of AAV9 and the application to generation of a neurodegenerative mouse model.
Molecular Therapy-Methods & Clinical Development 2014 Aug 6.

Saida H, Matsuzaki Y, Takayama K, Iizuka A, Konno A, Yanagi S, Hirai H.
One-year follow-up of transgene expression by integrase-defective lentiviral vectors and their therapeutic potential in spinocerebellar ataxia model mice.
Gene Therapy 2014 Sep;21(9):820-7.

Yoshihara S, Takahashi H, Nishimura N, Kinoshita M, Asahina R, Kitsuki M. Tatsumi K, Furukawa-Hibi Y, Hirai H, Nagai T, Yamada K, Tsuboi A.
Npas4 regulates Mdm2 and thus Dcx in experience-dependent dendritic spine development of newborn olfactory bulb interneurons.
Cell Reports 2014 Aug 7;8(3):843-57.