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Zhang Q* (Correspondent author), Fujita M (2024). Why Nature Evolved GPI-anchored proteins: Unique Structure Characteristics Enable Versatile Cell Surface Functions. Glycobiology. 2024 Nov12: cwae089. doi: 10.1093/glycob/cwae089.​​

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Zhang Q* (Correspondent author)(2024).The 1st International Symposium on GPI and its Deficiency: Bridging Basic Research to Medical Frontiers in PNH and IGD. Glycobiology. Nov 12: cwae091, https://doi.org/10.1093/glycob/cwae091

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Zhang Q*(Correspondent author), Kandasamy L, Tsukamoto M, Inoue K, Pires M, Shin MS, Tanaka M, Nagasawa Y, Sambuu T, Itohara S, Ogawa S, Young L(2022). Transcriptional lability of brain oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) generates diversity in brain OXTR distribution and social behaviors. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Preprint Biorxiv.  https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.01.518660

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Larry Young, Qi Zhang. (2021) On the origins of social behavior diversity. The Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology. Invited Review. 

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Kandasamy LC, Tsukamoto M, Banov V, Tsetsegee S, Nagasawa Y, Kato M, Matsumoto N, Takeda J, Itohara S, Ogawa S, Young LJ, Zhang Q*(Correspondent author). (2021) Limb-clasping, cognitive deficit and increased vulnerability to kainic acid-induced seizures in neuronal glycosylphosphatidylinositol deficiency mouse models. Human Molecular Genetics. 2021 Feb 19. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddab052

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Masuda A, Sano C, Zhang Q, Goto H, McHugh T, Fujisawa S, Itohara S.(2020) The hippocampus encodes delay and value information during delay-discounting decision making. Elife 2020 Feb 20;9:e52466. doi: 10.7554/eLife.52466.

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Zhang Q*(Correspondent author), Kobayashi Y, Goto H, and Itohara S.(2018) An automated T-Maze based apparatus and protocol for analyzing delay- and effort-based decision making in free moving rodents. J. Vis. Exp., 2018 Aug 2;(138). doi:10.3791/57895. https://www.jove.com/video/57895?status=a59901k

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Prosselkov P, Zhang Q, Goto H, Polygalov D, McHugh TJ, Itohara S. (2018). Behavior variability of a conditional gene knockout mouse as a measure of subtle phenotypic trait expression. The case of mouse brain executive function distortion. BioRxiv, doi: ttps://doi.org/10.1101/229856

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Prosselkov P, Zhang Q, Goto H, Polygalov D, McHugh T, Itohara S. (2017) Molecular correlation of mouse executive function. Top-down and bottom-up complementations by presynaptic vertebrate brain-specific Ntng gene paralogs. Biorxiv, 2017 July; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/139444

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Zhang Q, Sano C, Masuda A, Ando Reiko, Tanaka M, Itohara S.(2016) Netrin-G1 regulates fear-like and anxiety-like behaviors in dissociable neural circuits Scientific Reports June; doi: 10.1038/srep28750

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Zhang Q, Goto H, Akiyoshi-Nishimura S, Prosselkov P, Sano C, Matsukawa H , Yaguchi K, Nakashiba T, and Itohara S.(2016) Diversification of behavior and postsynaptic properties by Netrin-G presynaptic adhesion family proteins. Molecular Brain Jan 8;9(1):6. doi: 10.1186/s13041-016-0187-5

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Prosselkov P, Hashimoto R, Polygalov D, Ohi K, Zhang Q, McHugh T, Takeda M , Itohara S.(2016) Cognitive endophenotypes of modern and extinct hominins associated with Ntng gene paralogs. Biomed Genet Genomics Volume 1(1): 5-13; doi: 10.15761/BGG.1000103

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Matsukawa H, Nishimura S, Zhang Q, Luján R, Goto H, Yaguchi K, Hashikawa T, Shigemoto , Itohara S.(2014)  Netrin-G/NGL complexes encode functional synaptic diversification. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34(47):15779-92

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Ono K, Clvairoly A, Nomura T, Gotoh H, Uno A, Armant O, Zhang Q, Takebayashi H, Shimamura K, Itohara S, Parras CM, Ikenaka K. (2014) Development of the prethalamus is crucial for thalamocortical projection formation and is regulated by Olig2. Development. 141(10):2075-84

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