Jin D, Muramatsu SI, Shimizu N, Yokoyama S, Hirai H, Yamada K, Liu HX, Higashida C, Hashii M, Higashida A, Asano M, Ohkuma S, Higashida H.
Dopamine release via the vacuolar ATPase V0 sector c-subunit, confirmed in N18 neuroblastoma cells, results in behavioral recovery in hemiparkinsonian mice.
Neurochemistry International 2012 Nov;61(6):907-12

Yoshihara SI, Takahashi H, Nishimura N, Naritsuka H, Shirao T, Hirai H, Yoshihara Y, Mori K, Stern PL, Tsuboi A.
5T4 Glycoprotein Regulates the SensoryInput-Dependent Development of a Specific Subtype of Newborn Interneurons inthe Mouse Olfactory Bulb.
Journal of Neuroscience 2012 Feb 8;32(6):2217-2226.

Hirai H.
Basic research on cerebellar gene therapy using lentiviral vectors.
The Cerebellum 2012 Jun 11(2): 443-5

Uesaka N. Mikuni T. Hashimoto K. Hirai H. Sakimura K. Kano M.
Organotypic Coculture Preparation for the Study of Developmental SynapseElimination in Mammalian Brain.
Journal of Neuroscience 2012 Aug 22; 32(34): 11657-11670

Goenawan H. Hirai H.
Modulation of lentiviral vector tropism in cerebellar Purkinje cells in vivo by a lysosomal cysteine protease cathepsin K.
Journal of NeuroVirology 2012 Dec;18(6):521-31

Oue M, Handa H, Matsuzaki Y, Suzue K, Murakami H, Hirai H.
The murine stem cell virus promoter drives correlated transgene expression in the leukocytes and cerebellar Purkinje cells of transgenic mice.
PLoS One 2012;7(11):e51015.