Kazunobu Kira

Enhanced secretion of glucagon-like peptide 1 by biguanide compounds

Nobuyuki Yasuda, Takashi Inoue, Tadashi Nagakura et al. · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications · 2002 · 138 citations

Life Sciences, Endocrinology, Pharmacology +9

Metformin Causes Reduction of Food Intake and Body Weight Gain and Improvement of Glucose Intolerance in Combination with Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV Inhibitor in Zucker fa/fa Rats

Nobuyuki Yasuda, Takashi Inoue, Tadashi Nagakura et al. · Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · 2004 · 62 citations

Medicine, Endocrinology, Pharmacology +17

<i>syn-trans</i> Fused Bicyclic Ether Formation <i>via</i> Acetylene-biscobalthexacarbonyl Complex

Minoru Isobe, Seijiro Hosokawa, Kazunobu Kira · Chemistry Letters · 1996 · 47 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry +14

Mechanistic studies on the hydrosilylation of an acetylene cobalt complex; trapping an active catalyst Co2(CO)6 causing olefin-isomerization and O-silylation

Kazunobu Kira, Hiromichi Tanda, Akinari Hamajima et al. · Tetrahedron · 2002 · 44 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry +15

Synthesis of the BCDE rings of ciguatoxin 1B via an acetylene biscobalthexacarbonyl–vinylsilane strategy

Kazunobu Kira, Minoru Isobe · Tetrahedron Letters · 2001 · 41 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry +5