Kawaguchi A., Miyata T., Sawamoto K., Takashita N., Murayama A., Akamatsu W., Ogawa M., Okabe M., Tano Y., Goldman S.A., Okano H.: Nestin-EGFP transgenic mice: visualization of self-renewal and multipotency of the CNS stem cells.
Mol. Cell. Neurosci. 17, 259-273, 2001.

Oishi I., Iwai K., Kagohashi Y., Fujimoto H., Kariya K., Kataoka T., Sawa H., Okano H., Otani H., Yamamura H., Minami Y.: Critical role of a C.elegans CDS1-related kinase in meiotic recombination.
Mol. Cell. Biol. 21, 1329-1335, 2001.

Hisahara S., Yuan J., Momoi T., Okano H., Miura M.: Caspase-11mediatesoligodendrocyte cell death and pathogenesis of auto-immune mediated demyelination.
Journal of Experimental Medicine 193, 111-122, 2001.

Kishi N., Tang J., Maeda Y., Ito M., Suzuki S., Kinoshita T., Kadesch T., Hui C-C., Atravanis-Tsakonas S., Okano H., Matsuno K.: Murine homologs of deltex define a novel gene family which is involved in vertebrate Notch signaling and neurogenesis.
International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience 19, 21-35, 2001. (*H. Okano is the corresponding author in this paper)

Toda M., Iizuka Y., Yu W-J., Ikeda E., Yoshida K., Imai T., Kawase T., Kawakami Y., Okano H.: Expression of the neural RNA-binding protein Musashi1 in human gliomas.
Glia 34, C1-7, 2001.

Mori H., Sakakibara S., Imai T., Nakamura Y., Iijima T., Suzuki A., Yuasa Y., Takeda M.,Okano H.: Expression of mouse igf2 mRNA-binding protein 3 and its implication in the developing central nervous system.
Journal of Neuroscience Research 64, 132-143, 2001. (*H. Okano is the corresponding author in this paper)

Murata T., Nagaso H., Watanabe S., Okano H., Yokoyama K.: The hiiragi gene encodes a poly(A) polymerase, which controls the formation of the wing margin in Drosophila melanogaster.
Developmental Biology 233: 137-147, 2001.

Okabe M., Imai T., Kurusu M., Hiromi Y., Okano H.: Translational repression determines a neuronal potential in Drosophila asymmetric cell division.
Nature 411, 94-98, 2001

Sawamoto K., Yamamoto A., Kawaguchi A., Yamaguchi M., Mori K., Goldman S.A., Okano H.: Visualization and direct isolation of neuronal progenitor cells by dual-color flow cytometric detection of fluorescent proteins.
Journal of Neuroscience Research 65, 220-227, 2001.

Sawamoto K., Nakao N., Kakishita K., Ogawa Y., Toyama Y., Yamamoto A., Yamaguchi M., Mori K., Goldman S.A., Itakura T., Okano H.: Generation of dopaminergic neurons in the adult brain from mesencephalic precursor cells labeled with a nestin-GFP transgene.
Journal of Neuroscience 21, 3895-3903, 2001.

Imai T., Tokunaga A., Yoshida T., Hashimoto M., Weinmaster G., Mikoshiba K., Nakafuku M., Okano H.: The neural RNA-binding protein Musashi1 translationally regulaties the m-numb gene expression by interacting with its mRNA.
Molecular and Cellular Biology 21, 3888-39000, 2001.

Sawamoto K., Nakao N., Kobayashi K., Matsushita N., Takahashi H., Kakishita K., Yamamoto A., Yoshizaki T., Terashima T., Murakami F., Itakura T., Okano H.: Visualization and direct isolation of midbrain dopaminergic neurons expressing GFP.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98, 6423-6428, 2001.

Uchida M., Hanai S., Uematsu N., Sawamoto K., Okano H., Miwa M., Uchida K.: Genetic and functional analysis of PARP, a DNA strand break-binding enzyme.
Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis 477, 89-96, 2001.

Ishida Y., Nakamoto H., Imai H., Suzuki S., Okano H., Suzuki H.: Heme oxygenase-1 regulates vascular tone of the peritoneum undergoing peritoneal dialysis.
Advances in Peritoneal Dialysis 17, 15-19, 2001.

Li R-Y, Baba S., Kosugi I., Arai Y., Kawasaki H., Shinmura Y., Sakakibara S. Okano, H., Tsusui, Y.: Activation of murine cytomegalovirus immediate-early promoter in cerebral ventricular zone and glial progenitor cells in transgenic mice.
Glia 35, 41-52, 2001.

Yagita Y., Kitagawa K., Otsuki T., Kuwabara K., Mabuchi T., Miyata T., Okano H., Hori M., Matsumoto M.: Neurogenesis by progenitor cells in the ischemic adult rat hippocampus.
Stroke 32, 1890-1896, 2001.

Miyata T., Kawaguchi A., Okano H., Ogawa M.: Asymmetric inheritance of radial glial fibers to neurons during corticogensis in mice.
Neuron 31, 727-741, 2001.

Kohyama J., Abe H., Shimazaki T., Koizumi A., Nakashima K., Taga T., Okano H., Hata J., Umezawa A.: Brain from Bone: Efficient “meta-differentiation” of marrow stromal-derived mature osteoblasts to neurons with Noggin or a demethylating agant.
Differentiation 68, 235-244, 2001.

Keyoung H.M., Roy N.S., Benraiss A., Louissaint A. Jr., Suzuki A., Hashimoto K., Rashbaum W.K., Okano H., Goldman S.A.: High-yield selection and extraction of two promoter-defined phenotypes of neural stem cells from the fetal human brain.
Nature Biotechnology 19, 843-850, 2001.

Kanemura Y., Mori K., Sakakibara S., Ohnishi T., Fujikawa H., Hayashi H., Matsumoto T., Imai T., Ohnishi T., Fushiki S., Nakamura Y., Yamasaki M., Okano H., Arita N.: Musashi1, an evolutionarily conserved neural RNA-binding protein is a versatile marker of human glioma cells in determining their cellluar origin, malignancy and proliferative activity.
Differentiation 68, 141-152, 2001.

Sakakibara S., Nakamura Y., Satoh H., Okano H.: RNA-binding protein Musashi2: developmentally regulated expression in neural precursor cells and subpopulation of neurons in mammalian CNS.
Journal of Neuroscience 21, 8091-8107, 2001.

Yamamoto N., Matsunaga E., Yamamoto S., Kobayashi D., Torii M., Kawaichi M., Kishi N., Matsuno K., Okano H., Nakafuku M.: Deltex as a nuclear signal transducer downstream of the Notch receptor.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 276, 45031-45940, 2001.