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Book Chapters, Reviews, and Other Publications

Youvan D, Watanabe M, Holmquist R (1975) Morphology of extreme-heat resistant spores from Bacillus SP.ATCC 27380 by scanning and transmission electron microscopy.  In Holmquist R, Stickland C (eds) Life Sciences and Space Research XV. Oxford: Pergamon Press.


Watanabe M, Zahka KG (1997, 2001) Cardiac Embryology. In: “Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine: Diseases of the Fetus and Infant.” 6th and 7th Editions. Volume 2. Part One. AA Fanaroff and J Martin (eds.) St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book Inc. 8th Edition in preparation.

Watanabe M. (1998) The role of NCAM in heart development. Basic and Applied Myology 8(4), 277-292 (review)

Watanabe M. (1999) Opportunities and challenges for young anatomist researchers in the USA. (Invited Essay) Acta Anatomica Nipponica. 74 (4).

Watanabe M (2000) Cardiac Embryology. In: “Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine: Diseases of the Fetus and Infant.” 6th Edition. Volume 2. Part One. AA Fanaroff and J Martin (eds.) St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book Inc., 1112-1119. (2000 Revision in Press)

Watanabe M and Fisher SA (2000). Adenoviral gene delivery system reveals mechanisms of cardiac outflow tract mophogenesis.  Invited chapter in “Etiology and Morphogenesis of Congenital Heart Disease: Twenty Years of Progress in Genetics and Developmental Biology.” EB Clark, M Nakazawa, and A Takao (eds.) Armonk, NY:Futura Publishing Company, Inc., p. 211-214.

Watanabe M, Rosenbaum DS, Libbus I, Chuck ET (2000) The Form and Function of the Developing Cardiac Conduction System. Invited Chapter 43 in “Etiology and Morphogenesis of Congenital Heart Disease: Twenty Years of Progress in Genetics and Developmental Biology.” EB Clark, M Nakazawa, and A Takao (eds.) Armonk, NY: Futura Publishing Company, Inc., p.257-260.

Watanabe M, Hitomi M, Sallee D, Jafri A, Rothenberg F, van der Wee K, Fisher SA (2001) Cardiomyocyte apoptosis in the outflow tract in normal and abnormal cardiogenesis.  Microsc. Microanal. 7 (Suppl 2: Proceedings: Microscopy and Microanalysis 2001) Springer.

Watanabe M, ET Chuck, F Rothenberg, DS Rosenbaum (2002) Developmental transitions in cardiac conduction.  In "Development of the Cardiac Conduction System," Novartis Foundation Symposium 250.  London UK.

Watanabe M, Hitomi, M, van der Wee K, Rothenberg F, Fisher SA, Zucker R, Svoboda KKH, Goldsmith ED, Heiskanen KM, Nieminen,A-L (2002) The pros and cons of apoptosis assays for use in the study of cells, tissues and organs. Microscopy and Microanalysis 8(5), 375-391 (Review)

Rothenberg F., Fisher SA Watanabe M (2003) Sculpting the cardiac outflow tract. Birth Defects Research Part C: Embryo Today: Reviews --69, 38-45.

Watanabe M (2004) The birth and growth of blood vessels - A fast read for a rapidly growing field. Dev Dyn 230(4), 809-810.

Schaefer K, Watanabe M (2004) Visualizing cell death in the developing heart. Anat Rec B New Anat 279 (1):2-3.

Rothenberg F., Efimov I, Watanabe M (2004) Functional imaging of the embryonic pacemaking and cardiac conduction system over the past 150 years: Technologies to overcome the challenges. Anatomical Record 280A (2), 980-989.

Sugishita Y, Watanabe M, Fisher SA (2004) The development of the embryonic outflow tract provides novel insights into cardiac differentiation and remodeling. Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine 14(6), 235-241.

Watanabe M, Gourdie RG (2004) Record Notable: Choreography of the heart beat: A special issue of the Anatomical Record on the cardiac pacemaking and conduction system.  Anat Rec (Part B: New Anat.) 280B (1) 3.

Shimada T, Miyamoto T, Sueda K, Watanabe M. (2004) Cytoarchitecture of the cardiac conduction system, with special reference to Tawara’s sketches. Proceedings of a meeting. 3rd Aschoff-Tawara Symposium on the Cardiac Conduction System 2004 in press.

Watanabe M, Schaefer KS (2006) Cardiac Embryology. In: “Fanaroff and Martin’s Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine: Diseases of the Fetus and Infant.” 8th Edition. Volume 2. Part One. AA Fanaroff, RJ Martin, Walsh MC (eds.) Philadelphia, PA: Mosby Elsevier, 1195-1202.

Sedmera D, Watanabe M (2006) Growing the coronary tree. Anat Rec (Part B: New Anat.) 9, 989-999. 

 Vickerman MB, Keith PA, McKay TL, Gedeon DJ, Watanabe M, Montano M, Karunamuni G, Kaiser PK, Sears JE, Ebrahem Q, Ribita D, Hylton AG, Parsons-Wingerter P. (2009) VESGEN 2D: Automated, User-Interactive Software for Quantification and Image Mapping of Angiogenic and Lymphangiogenic Trees and Networks. Anat Rec . 292(3):320-32. PMID: 19248164. PMCID:PMC288015.

Watanabe M, Schaefer KS, Wikenheiser J, Rothenberg F, Karunamuni G (2010) Cardiac Embryology. In: “Fanaroff and Martin’s Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine: Diseases of the Fetus and Infant.” 9th Edition. 45:45. Part 1. AA Fanaroff, RJ Martin, Walsh MC (eds.) Philadelphia, PA: Mosby Elsevier.

Gu S, Jenkins MW, Watanabe M, Rollins AM, “High-Speed Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging of the Beating Avian Embryonic Heart” Chapter 44 in Imaging in Developmental Biology: A Laboratory Manual, (2011) R. Wong and J. Sharpe eds., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, ISBN  978-0-879699-40-6.

Watanabe M, Wikenheiser J, Ramirez-Bergeron D, Flores S, Dangol A, Karunamuni G, Thomas A, Montano M, Ashwath R. Chapter Title: Cardiac vasculature; development, and pathology.  In “Vasculogenesis", ISBN 978-953-307-882-3. InTech. Open Access Publisher. University Campus STeP Ri, Slavka Krautzeka 83/A, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.

M. W. Jenkins, M. Watanabe, A. M. Rollins, “Longitudinal Imaging of Heart Development with Optical Coherence Tomography,” accepted IEEE JSTQE. Jenkins MW, et al., Longitudinal Imaging of Heart Development with Optical Coherence Tomography," to the IEEE Photonics Society (IPS) Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.  Assigned JSTQE-INV-BIO1-04208-2011.R1, received 19-Aug-2011.

Watanabe M. (2012) Editorial Comment. “Coronary branching patterns linked to polymorphisms in the Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1a gene. Cardiology 2012;121:261-262 (DOI: 10.1159/000338164) 
http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.aspDOI=10.1159/000338164

Watanabe M, Wikenheiser J (2013) Cardiac Embryology. In: “Martin, Fanaroff, Walsh: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine: Diseases of the Fetus and Infant.” 10th Edition. Part 1. RJ Martin, AA Fanaroff, Walsh MC (eds.) Philadelphia, PA: Mosby Elsevier. In revision


Karunamuni G, Gu S, Jenkins MW, Peterson L, Ma P, Wang Y, Rollins AM, Watanabe M. (2014) “Capturing structure and function in an embryonic heart with biophotonic tools.” in Frontiers Research Topics Physiology: Frontiers in Biophysics “Mechanotransduction and development of cardiovascular form and function” 5, 351-.PMCID: PMC 4173643.

Karunamuni GH, Ma P, Gu S, Rollins AM, Jenkins MW, Watanabe M.  Connecting teratogen-induced congenital heart defects to neural crest cells and their effect on cardiac function. Birth Defects Research Part C, 102 (3), 227-250. PMCID: PMC 4238913.



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