Journal Articles

Publications:

• Sakai, J.A., M.C. Halloran. 2006. Semaphorin 3d guides laterality of retinal ganglion cell projections in zebrafish. Development 133: 1035-1044. [Abstract]
• Sakai, J.A., M. Nagai, M.B. Brennan, C.A. Mora, and S. Jacobson. 2001. In vitro spontaneous lymphoproliferation in patients with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I-associated neurologic disease: Predominant expansion of CD8+ cells. Blood 98: 1506-1511. [PDF | Abstract]
• Nagai, M., M.B. Brennan, J.A. Sakai, C.A. Mora, and S. Jacobson. 2001. CD8+ T cells are an in vivo reservoir for human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I. Blood 98: 1858-1861. [PDF | Abstract]
• Debowy, D.J., K.S. Babu, E.H. Hu, M. Natiello, S. Reitzen, M. Chu, J.A. Sakai, and E.P. Gardner. 2001. New applications of digital video technology for neurophysiological studies of hand function. In R.J. Nelson (ed.), The Somatosensory System: Deciphering the Brain's Own Body Image, CRC Press LLC: Boca Raton, FL.

Meeting abstracts:

• Sakai, J.A., Y. Liu, and M.C. Halloran. 2004. Semaphorin 3D effects on retinal ganglion cell axon behavior at the zebrafish optic chiasm. Axon Guidance and Neural Plasticity meeting, CSHL.
• Liu, Y., J.A. Sakai, M.A. Wolman, and M.C. Halloran. 2003. Semaphorin 3D guides axon pathfinding in the zebrafish: time lapse analysis of living growth cones in vivo. EMBO meeting: Assembly of Neural Circuits.
• Sakai, J.A., Y. Liu, and M.C. Halloran. 2002. A role for Sema3D during formation of the retinotectal projection in zebrafish: Development of the optic chiasm. Axon Guidance and Neural Plasticity, CSHL.
• Liu, Y., J.A. Sakai, W. Shoji, J. Kuwada, and M.C. Halloran. 2002. Semaphorin3D role in retinotectal map formation. Axon Guidance and Neural Plasticity, CSHL.
• Hahn, M.E., J.A. Sakai, D. Greninger, and S.I. Karchner. 2000. Aryl hydrocarbon receptors in early vertebrates: Systems for studying the evolution of dioxin signaling pathways. PAS proteins: Sensors of Environmental and Developmental Signals Conf. Abstr.
• Karchner, S.I., J.A. Sakai, and M.E. Hahn. 1999. Cloning and functional analysis of an aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) from an early diverging vertebrate, the sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus: A potential model for dioxin-independent AHR signaling. Meeting of the New England Membrane Enzyme Group.
• Sakai, J.A. and D.A. Holtzman. 1998. Upregulation and expansion of neuronal precursor division in the regenerating vomeronasal epithelium two and four weeks after vomeronasal lesion. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr.