Yasuhisa Kanematsu

Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar

UCSF Center for Cerebrovascular Research
1001 Potrero Avenue, Room 3C-38
San Francisco, CA 94110
phone: 415-206-5667
fax: 415-206-8907
email: kanematsuy@anesthesia.ucsf.edu

Education and Training

• MD, School of Medecine, Tokushima University, Japan
• Ph. D, Institute of Health Biosciences, Tokushima Graduate School, Japan

Societies

• Japan Neurosurgical Society (Board certified of Japan Neurosurgical Society)
• The Japan Stroke Society
• The Japanese Congress of Neurological Surgeons
• The Japanese Pharmacological Society
• European Neurological Society

Research Interests

• Cerebrovascular biology
• Vascular pharmacology

Publications

• Yasuhisa Kanematsu, Koichiro Tsuchiya, Hideki Ohnishi, Yuki Motobayashi, Yuki Izawa, Manabu Ishihara, Keisuke Ishizawa, Shinji Abe, Kazuyoshi Kawazoe and Toshiaki Tamaki. Effects of angiotensin II type 1 receptor blockade on the systemic blood nitric oxide dynamics in Nomega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester-treated rats. Hypertens Res. May;29(5):369-74, 2006

• Koichiro Tsuchiya, Yasuhisa Kanematsu, Masanori Yoshizumi, Hideki Ohnishi, Kazuyoshi Kirima, Yuki Izawa, Michiyo Shikishima, Tatsuhiro Ishida, Shuji Kondo, Shoji Kagami, Yoshiharu Takiguchi, and Toshiaki Tamaki. Nitrite is an alternative source of NO in vivo. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. May;288(5):H2163-70, 2005

• Okamoto M, Tsuchiya K, Kanematsu Y, Izawa Y, Yoshizumi M, Kagawa S, Tamaki T. Nitrite-derived nitric oxide formation following ischemia-reperfusion injury in kidney. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. Jan;288(1):F182-7,2005

• Keisuke Ishizawa, Yuki Izawa, Hiroyuki Ito, Chieko Miki, Kayoko Miyata, Yoshiko Fujita, Yasuhisa Kanematsu, Koichiro Tsuchiya, Toshiaki Tamaki, Akira Nishiyama, Masanori Yoshizumi. Aldosterone Stimulates Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation Via Big Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1 Activation. Hypertension. Oct;46(4):1046-52, 2005

• Yuki Izawa, Masanori Yoshizumi, Yoshiko Fujita, Nermin Ali, Yasuhisa Kanematsu, Keisuke Ishizawa, Koichiro Tsuchiya, Toshiyuki Obata, Yousuke Ebina, Shuhei Tomita and Toshiaki Tamaki. ERK1/2 activation by angiotensin II inhibits insulin-induced glucose uptake in vascular smooth muscle cells. Exp Cell Res. 2005 Aug 15;308(2):291-9.

• Koichiro Tsuchiya, Yoshiharu Takiguchi, Masumi Okamoto, Yuki Izawa, Yasuhisa Kanematsu, Masanori Yoshizumi and Toshiaki Tamaki Malfunction of Vascular Control in Lifestyle-Related Diseases: Formation of Systemic Hemoglobin-Nitric Oxide Complex (HbNO) From Dietary Nitrite J Pharmacol Sci. Dec;96(4):395-400, 2004