- A limitation of projected frontal area as an indicator of active drag in swimming: Focusing on tibial and femoral segments - Sohei Washino; Akihiko Murai; Tomoya Kadi; Kenzo Narita; Hirotoshi Mankyu; Yasuhide Yoshitake - Journal of Biomechanics, 192, 112972-112972,  Nov. 2025   
- Association between correlated effective neural drive and electromechanical fluctuations during co-contraction: insights from MU discharges and interference EMG - Moeka Samoto; Minoru Shinohara; Kohei Watanabe; Yasuhide Yoshitake - Journal of Neurophysiology, 134(4), 1273-1283,  Oct. 2025   
- The differential response in fascicle behaviors of the individual plantarflexors to the post-activation potentiation - Kazuharu Kato; Sohei Washino; Patricio A. Pincheira; Kosuke Hirata; Yasuhide Yoshitake - Journal of Biomechanics, 188, 112759-112759,  Jul. 2025   
- Lung Volume–Dependent Decrease in Projected Frontal Area Contributes to Reducing Active Drag in Front Crawl - Sohei Washino; AKIHIKO MURAI; HIROTOSHI MANKYU; HIROAKI KANEHISA; Yasuhide Yoshitake - Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 57(7), 1463-1471,  Feb. 2025   
- Stroke phase differences in the linear relationship between swimming velocity and vertical body position during front crawl - Sohei Washino; Akihiko Murai; Tomoya Kadi; Hirotoshi Mankyu; Yasuhide Yoshitake - Sports Biomechanics, 1-14,  Jan. 2025   
- Instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization in healthy adults acutely changes the tissue stiffness - Ryoichi Ema; Yuta Iino; Yuta Nomura; Tomoki Furusawa; Kosuke Hirata; Yasuhide Yoshitake; Ryota Akagi - International Journal of Sports Medicine,  Nov. 2024   
- Interpreting the Projected Frontal Area in Front Crawl: Determining the Projected Frontal Area of Each Body Segment. - Sohei Washino; Akihiko Murai; Tomoya Kadi; Kenzo Narita; Hirotoshi Mankyu; Yasuhide Yoshitake - Medicine and science in sports and exercise,  Oct. 2024   
- Manual Inter-Structural Release Procedure Can Alter Muscle Shear Modulus - Tomoko Yamashita; Yasuhide Yoshitake; Hironori Watanabe; Sohei Washino; Kazuyoshi Gamada; Minoru Shinohara - Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise,  Aug. 2024   
- Observing an expert’s action swapped with an observer’s face increases corticospinal excitability during combined action observation and motor imagery
 Watanabe H; Washino S; Ogoh S; Miyamoto N; Kanehisa H; Kato H; Yoshitake Y
 Eur J Neurosci,  Dec. 2023, Refereed
 Corresponding
 
- Determination of subset models for predicting vertical centre of mass position during front crawl in male swimmers. - Sohei Washino; Akihiko Murai; Hirotoshi Mankyu; Yasuhide Yoshitake - Journal of sports sciences, 1-9,  May 2023   
- Greater task difficulty during unilateral motor tasks changes intracortical inhibition and facilitation in the ipsilateral primary motor cortex in young men - Hironori Watanabe; Shigehiko Ogoh; Naokazu Miyamoto; Hiroaki Kanehisa; Yasuhide Yoshitake - Neuroscience Letters, 137293-137293,  May 2023   
- The projected frontal area and its components during front crawl depend on lung volume. - Sohei Washino; Akihiko Murai; Hirotoshi Mankyu; Futoshi Ogita; Hiroaki Kanehisa; Yasuhide Yoshitake - Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports, 32(12), 1724-1737,  Sep. 2022   
- Vertical body position during front crawl increases linearly with swimming velocity and the rate of its increase depends on individual swimmers - Sohei Washino; Yasuhide Yoshitake; Hirotoshi Mankyu; Akihiko Murai - Sports Biomechanics, 1-13,  May 2022   
- Lower lung-volume level induces lower vertical center of mass position and alters swimming kinematics during front-crawl swimming - Washino S; Murai A; Mankyu H; Ogita F; Kanehisa H; Yoshitake Y - Journal of Biomechanics, 121, 110428-110428,  Apr. 2021, Refereed   
- Reconstruction of net force fluctuations from surface EMGs of multiple muscles in steady isometric plantarflexion - Suzuki R; Kanehisa H; Washino S; Watanabe H; Shinohara M; Yoshitake Y - Experimental Brain Research, 239(2), 601-612,  Feb. 2021, Refereed, Not invited - Corresponding   
- Association between Changes in Swimming Velocity, Vertical Center of Mass Position, and Projected Frontal Area during Maximal 200-m Front Crawl
 Sohei Washino; Akihiko Murai; Hirotoshi Mankyu; Yasuhide Yoshitake
 49(1),  Jun. 2020, Refereed
 Corresponding
 
- Fine-wire recordings of flexor hallucis brevis motor units up to maximal voluntary contraction reveal a flexible, non-rigid mechanism for force control
 Aeles J, Kelly L.A, Yoshitake Y, 1 Cresswell A.G.
 Journal of Neurophysiology, -in press,  Apr. 2020, Refereed, Not invited
 
- Swimming performance is reduced by reflective markers intended for the analysis of swimming kinematics. - Washino S; Mayfield DL; Lichtwark GA; Mankyu H; Yoshitake Y - 91, 109-113,  Jun. 2019, Refereed, Not invited   
- Repeated sit-to-stand exercise enhances muscle strength and reduces lower body muscular demands in physically frail elders.
 Fujita E; Taaffe DR; Yoshitake Y; Kanehisa H
 Exp Gerontol,  Jan. 2019, Refereed, Not invited
 
- Effects of inspiratory muscle strength and inspiratory resistance on neck inspiratory muscle activation during controlled inspirations
 Washino S; Mankyu H; Kanehisa H; Mayfield DL; Cresswell AG; Yoshitake Y
 Experimental Physiology, in press,  2019, Refereed, Not invited
 
- Corticospinal Excitability During Actual and Imaginary Motor Tasks of Varied Difficulty - Watanabe H; Mizuguchi N; Mayfield DL; Yoshitake Y - Neuroscience, 391(1), 81-90,  Nov. 2018, Refereed, Not invited   
- Mechanical interaction between neighboring muscles in human upper limb: Evidence for epimuscular myofascial force transmission in humans - Yasuhide Yoshitake; Daiki Uchida; Kosuke Hirata; Dean L. Mayfield; Hiroaki Kanehisa - Journal of Biomechanics, 74(74), 150-155,  Jun. 2018, Refereed, Not invited   
- Robotic finger perturbation training improves finger postural steadiness and hand dexterity. - Yasuhide Yoshitake; Atsutoshi Ikeda; Minoru Shinohara - Journal of electromyography and kinesiology : official journal of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, 38, 208-214,  Feb. 2018, Refereed, Not invited   
- Estimation of vertical COG position by underwater motion-capture system with small number of markers during swimming
 Sohei Washino; Hirotoshi Mankyu; Yasuhide Yoshitake
 The XIIIth International Symposium on Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming, 182-186,  2018, Refereed
 Corresponding
 
- Automatic analysis of ultrasound shear-wave elastography in skeletal muscle without non-contractile tissue contamination. International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications.
 Brown E; Yoshitake Y; Shinohara M; Ueda J
 International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications., 2, 209-225,  2018, Refereed, Not invited
 
- Unintended activity in homologous muscle during intended unilateral contractions increases with greater task difficulty - Hironori Watanabe; Hiroaki Kanehisa; Yasuhide Yoshitake - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY, 117(10), 2009-2019,  Oct. 2017, Refereed, Not invited    
- Neck inspiratory muscle activation patterns during well-controlled inspiration - Sohei Washino; Hiroaki Kanehisa; Yasuhide Yoshitake - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY, 117(10), 2085-2097,  Oct. 2017, Refereed, Not invited    
- Correlated EMG Oscillations between Antagonists during Cocontraction in Men - Yasuhide Yoshitake; Hiroaki Kanehisa; Minoru Shinohara - MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE, 49(3), 538-548,  Mar. 2017, Refereed, Not invited    
- Robotic Arm Training System for Mitigation of Upper Limb Tremor - Kitamura Yuki; Yoshitake Yasuhide; Shinohara Minoru; Ikeda Atsutoshi - The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec), 2017(0), 2A2-D03,  2017, Refereed, Not invited   
- THE SKIN ACTS TO MAINTAIN MUSCLE SHEAR MODULUS - Yasuhide Yoshitake; Naokazu Miyamoto; Keigo Taniguchi; Masaki Katayose; Hiroaki Kanehisa - ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, 42(3), 674-682,  Mar. 2016, Refereed, Not invited    
- Unilateral horizontal and lateral jump performances are associated with the competitive level of collegiate soccer players.
 Aoki T; Takai Y; Yoshitake Y; Kanehisa H
 Gazz Med Ital, 175(12), 528-535,  2016, Refereed, Not invited
 
- Validity of Measurement of Shear Modulus by Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography in Human Pennate Muscle - Naokazu Miyamoto; Kosuke Hirata; Hiroaki Kanehisa; Yasuhide Yoshitake - PLOS ONE, 10(4), e0124311,  Apr. 2015, Refereed, Not invited    
- Muscle shear modulus measured with ultrasound shear-wave elastography across a wide range of contraction intensity. - Yasuhide Yoshitake; Yohei Takai; Hiroaki Kanehisa; Minoru Shinohara - Muscle & nerve, 50(1), 103-13,  Jul. 2014, Refereed, Not invited   
- Neuromuscular adaptations following 12-week maximal voluntary co-contraction training. - Sumiaki Maeo; Yasuhide Yoshitake; Yohei Takai; Tetsuo Fukunaga; Hiroaki Kanehisa - European journal of applied physiology, 114(4), 663-73,  Apr. 2014, Refereed, Not invited   
- Effect of Short-term Maximal Voluntary Co-contraction Training on Neuromuscular Function - S. Maeo; Y. Yoshitake; Y. Takai; T. Fukunaga; H. Kanehisa - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE, 35(2), 125-134,  Feb. 2014, Refereed, Not invited    
- Relation between motor unit / muscle activity and fine motor performance - Yoshitake Yasuhide - JPFSM, 3(3), 283-290,  2014   
- Oscillations in motor unit discharge are reflected in the low-frequency component of rectified surface EMG and the rate of change in force - Yasuhide Yoshitake; Minoru Shinohara - EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH, 231(3), 267-276,  Nov. 2013, Refereed, Not invited    
- Low-frequency component of rectified EMG is temporally correlated with force and instantaneous rate of force fluctuations during steady contractions - Yasuhide Yoshitake; Minoru Shinohara - MUSCLE & NERVE, 47(4), 577-584,  Apr. 2013, Refereed, Not invited    
- 04生-30-ポ-66 肩関節外旋エクササイズによるチューブトレーニングが棘下筋の最大筋力および筋持久力にもたらす効果(04 運動生理学,一般研究発表抄録) - 藤田 英二; 吉武 康栄; 金久 博昭 - 日本体育学会大会予稿集, 64, 185-185,  2013   
- COMPARISON OF ULTRASOUND MUSCLE STIFFNESS MEASUREMENT AND ELECTROMYOGRAPHY TOWARDS VALIDATION OF AN ALGORITHM FOR INDIVIDUAL MUSCLE CONTROL - Ellenor Brown; Kazuya Aomoto; Atsutoshi Ikeda; Tsukasa Ogasawara; Yasuhide Yoshitake; Minoru Shinohara; Jun Ueda - ASME 2013 DYNAMIC SYSTEMS AND CONTROL CONFERENCE, VOL 2,  2013, Refereed, Not invited    
- 04生-30-ポ-70 随意的共収縮中における拮抗筋間の活動パターン(04 運動生理学,一般研究発表抄録) - 吉武 康栄; 高井 洋平; 金久 博昭 - 日本体育学会大会予稿集, 64(0), 187-187,  2013, Refereed, Not invited   
- Knee extensor strength is associated with Mini-Mental State Examination scores in elderly men. - Hiroki Nakamoto; Yasuhide Yoshitake; Yohei Takai; Hiroaki Kanehisa; Takahiro Kitamura; Masashi Kawanishi; Shiro Mori - European journal of applied physiology, 112(5), 1945-53,  May 2012, Refereed, Not invited   
- Subthreshold electrical stimulation reduces motor unit discharge variability and decreases the force fluctuations of plantar flexion - Motoki Kouzaki; Tetsuya Kimura; Yasuhide Yoshitake; Tatsuya Hayashi; Toshio Moritani - Neuroscience Letters, 513(2), 146-150,  Apr. 2012, Refereed, Not invited   
- 04生-24-ポ-24 体幹部筋群の最大随意同時収縮中の筋活動水準(運動生理学,ポスター発表,一般研究発表抄録) - 前大 純朗; 高橋 拓巳; 高井 洋平; 吉武 康栄; 福永 哲夫; 金久 博昭 - 日本体育学会大会予稿集, 63(0), 148-148,  2012, Refereed, Not invited   
- 08測-23-ポ-20 大学男子サッカー選手の走方向事前指示有り条件と無し条件の方向転換走と全身反応時間との関係(測定評価,ポスター発表,一般研究発表抄録) - 青木 竜; 高井 洋平; 塩川 勝行; 吉武 康栄; 金久 博昭 - 日本体育学会大会予稿集, 63(0), 211-211,  2012, Refereed, Not invited   
- Body Mass-Based Exercise in Middle-Aged and Older Women - Y. Yoshitake; Y. Takai; T. Kitamura; M. Kawanishi; H. Kanehisa - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE, 32(12), 924-928,  Dec. 2011, Refereed, Not invited    
- Association between Knee Extensor Strength and EMG Activities during Squat Movement - Eiji Fujita; Hiroaki Kanehisa; Yasuhide Yoshitake; Tetsuo Fukunaga; Hidetsugu Nishizono - MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE, 43(12), 2328-2334,  Dec. 2011, Refereed, Not invited    
- 04生-27-ポ-46 拮抗する筋群の随意的同時収縮(VSC)によるトレーニングが筋厚および筋力に及ぼす影響 : VSCによるトレーニングは、筋厚および筋力を増加させる(04.運動生理学,一般研究発表抄録) - 前大 純朗; 吉武 康栄; 高井 洋平; 金久 博昭 - 日本体育学会大会予稿集, 62(0), 134-134,  2011, Refereed, Not invited   
- Muscle Deoxygenation during Sustained and Intermittent Isometric Exercise in Hypoxia - Keisho Katayama; Yasuhide Yoshitake; Kohei Watanabe; Hiroshi Akima; Koji Ishida - MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE, 42(7), 1269-1278,  Jul. 2010, Refereed, Not invited    
- 04生-3P-P22 低酸素環境における持続的および間欠的運動時の筋酸素動態(04.運動生理学,一般研究発表抄録) - 片山 敬章; 吉武 康栄; 渡邊 航平; 秋間 広; 石田 浩司 - 日本体育学会大会予稿集, 61, 144-144,  2010   
- Alterations in Synergistic Muscle Activation Impact Fluctuations in Net Force - Minoru Shinohara; Yasuhide Yoshitake; Motoki Kouzaki - MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE, 41(1), 191-197,  Jan. 2009, Refereed, Not invited    
- Laser-detected lateral muscle displacement is correlated with force fluctuations during voluntary contractions in humans - Yasuhide Yoshitake; Kei Masani; Minoru Shinohara - JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS, 173(2), 271-278,  Aug. 2008, Not invited    
- Modulation of muscle activity and force fluctuations in the plantarflexors after bedrest depends on knee position - Yasuhide Yoshitake; Motoki Kouzaki; Hideoki Fukuoka; Tetsuo Fukunaga; Minoru Shinohara - MUSCLE & NERVE, 35(6), 745-755,  Jun. 2007, Not invited    
- The medial gastrocnemius muscle attenuates force fluctuations during plantar flexion - M Shinohara; Y Yoshitake; M Kouzaki; T Fukunaga - EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH, 169(1), 15-23,  Feb. 2006, Not invited    
- Surface Mechanomyogram reflects the length changes in the fascicles of human skeletal muscles. - Yoshitake Y; Kawakami Y; Kanehisa H; Fukunaga T - International Journal of Sport and Health Science., 3(2005), 280-285,  2005, Not invited   
- Fluctuations in plantar flexion force are reduced after prolonged tendon vibration - Y Yoshitake; M Shinohara; M Kouzaki; T Fukunaga - JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY, 97(6), 2090-2097,  Dec. 2004, Refereed, Not invited    
- Strength training counteracts motor performance losses during bed rest. - Shinohara M; Yoshitake Y; Kouzaki M; Fukuoka H; Fukunaga T - Journal of Applied Physiology, 95(4), 1485-1492,  2003, Not invited  
- Characteristics of surface mechanomyogram are dependent on development of fusion of motor units in humans. - Yoshitake Y; Shinohara M; Ue H; Moritani T - Journal of Applied Physiology, 93(5), 1744-1752,  2002, Not invited  
- Assessment of lower-back muscle fatigue using electromyography, mechanomyography, and near-infrared spectroscopy - Y. Yoshitake; H. Ue; M. Miyazaki; T. Moritani - European Journal of Applied Physiology, 84(3), 174-179,  2001, Not invited   
- The muscle sound properties of different muscle fiber types during voluntary and electrically induced contractions - Yasuhide Yoshitake; Toshio Moritani - Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 9(3), 209-217,  Apr. 1999, Not invited   
- The use of electromyography in applied physiology. - Moritani T; Yoshitake Y - J Electromyogr Kinesiol., 8, 363-381,  1998, Not invited   
- 有酸素運動における脳波・血中β-エンドルフィンの動態 - 見正 富美子; 林達 也; 柴田 真志; 吉武 康栄; 西嶋 泰史; 森谷 敏夫 - 体力科学, 45(5), 519-526,  1996, Refereed, Not invited   
- Unintended activity in homologous muscle during intended unilateral contractions increases with greater task difficulty
 Hironori Watanabe; Hiroaki Kanehisa; Yasuhide Yoshitake
 
- Neck inspiratory muscle activation patterns during well-controlled inspiration
 Sohei Washino; Hiroaki Kanehisa; Yasuhide Yoshitake
 
- The muscle sound properties of different muscle fiber types during voluntary and electrically induced contractions
 Yasuhide Yoshitake; Toshio Moritani