Sakari Sekine

The roles of the C-terminal domain and type III domains of chitinase A1 from Bacillus circulans WL-12 in chitin degradation

Takeshi Watanabe, Yukishige Ito, Takao Yamada et al. · Journal of Bacteriology · 1994 · 279 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +13

Urinary podocalyxin is an early marker for podocyte injury in patients with diabetes: establishment of a highly sensitive ELISA to detect urinary podocalyxin

Masanori Hara, Kunihiro Yamagata, Yasuhiko Tomino et al. · Diabetologia · 2012 · 168 citations · Full text

Medicine, Endocrinology, Nephrology +14

Relationships between Levels of Urinary Podocalyxin, Number of Urinary Podocytes, and Histologic Injury in Adult Patients with IgA Nephropathy

Rin Asao, Katsuhiko Asanuma, Fumiko Kodama et al. · Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · 2012 · 90 citations · Full text

Medicine, Nephrology, Pathology +17

Podocyte membrane vesicles in urine originate from tip vesiculation of podocyte microvilli

Masanori Hara, Toshio Yanagihara, Yoshiaki Hirayama et al. · Human Pathology · 2010 · 75 citations

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Nephrology +14

Significance of Urinary Full-Length and Ectodomain Forms of Megalin in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Shinya Ogasawara, Michihiro Hosojima, Ryohei Kaseda et al. · Diabetes Care · 2012 · 65 citations · Full text

Medicine, Endocrinology, Nephrology +12