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ZIRC
ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-030422-2
Ochi, Haruki
Global COEprogram
Molecular and Developmental Biology
Graduate School of Biological Sciences
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma
Nara 630-0192
Japan
Phone: +81-743-72-5554 Email: harukiochi@bs.naist.jp
FAX: +81-743-72-5559 URL:
Biography and Research Interests:

Publications:
Ochi, H., and Westerfield, M. (2009) Lbx2 regulates formation of myofibrils. BMC Dev. Biol.. 9:13
Sakamoto, K., Onimaru, K., Munakata, K., Suda, N., Tamura, M., Ochi, H., and Tanaka, M. (2009) Heterochronic shift in Hox-mediated activation of sonic hedgehog leads to morphological changes during fin development. PLoS One. 4(4):e5121
Ochi, H., Hans, S., and Westerfield, M. (2008) Smarcd3 regulates the timing of zebrafish myogenesis onset. J. Biol. Chem.. 283(6):3529-3536
Ochi, H., and Westerfield, M. (2007) Signaling networks that regulate muscle development: lessons from zebrafish. Dev. Growth Differ.. 49(1):1-11
Ochi, H., Pearson, B.J., Chuang, P.T., Hammerschmidt, M., and Westerfield, M. (2006) Hhip regulates zebrafish muscle development by both sequestering Hedgehog and modulating localization of Smoothened. Dev. Biol.. 297(1):127-140

Non-Zebrafish Publications:

Haruki Ochi, Kiyo Sakagami, Akiko Ishii, Natuko Morita, Masato Nishiuchi, Hajime Ogino and Kunio Yasuda, Temporal expression of L-Maf and RaxL in developing chicken retina are arranged into mosaic patternm, Gene expression Patterns, 2004, 4(5): 489-494.

Haruki Ochi, Hajime Ogino, Yuji Kageyama, and Kunio Yasuda
The stability of the lens-specific Maf protein is regulated by FGF/ERK signaling in lens fiber differentiation, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2003 Jan 3;(1): 278: 537-544.

Itakura, T., S. C. Mahata, M. Hirano, H. Ochi, and Y. Ogino, Dec 2002: Cytochrome P450 1A1 cDNA from freshwater teleost medaka (Oryzias latipes) and induction of mRNA by 3-methylcholanthrene in various organs. Environmental Sciences, 9(6): 463-473.

Kunio Yasuda, Tomonori Yoshida and Haruki Ochi, 2000,
Molecular mechanisms of lens-specific expression, In Expression from genome (in Japanease), Hiroshi H, Shunsuke I, Masayuki Y and Yoshiaki H (eds.), Springer-Verlag Tokyo, Tokyo, pp.189 - 196