Takahiro Okabe

Repair of articular cartilage defects in the patello-femoral joint with autologous bone marrow mesenchymal cell transplantation: three case reports involving nine defects in five knees

Shigeyuki Wakitani, Masashi Nawata, Keiji Tensho et al. · Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine · 2007 · 364 citations

Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Surgery +17

A distinct cohort of progenitor cells participates in synovial joint and articular cartilage formation during mouse limb skeletogenesis

Eiki Koyama, Yoshihiro Shibukawa, Motohiko Nagayama et al. · Developmental Biology · 2008 · 358 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology +17

Safety of autologous bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell transplantation for cartilage repair in 41 patients with 45 joints followed for up to 11 years and 5 months

Shigeyuki Wakitani, Takahiro Okabe, Shuji Horibe et al. · Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine · 2010 · 324 citations

Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Surgery +15

Low dose fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) enhances bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2)-induced ectopic bone formation in mice

Yukio Nakamura, Keiji Tensho, Hiroyuki Nakaya et al. · Bone · 2005 · 122 citations

Medicine, Molecular Medicine, Bone Metabolism +12

Retinoic acid receptors are required for skeletal growth, matrix homeostasis and growth plate function in postnatal mouse

Julie A. Williams, Naoki Kondo, Takahiro Okabe et al. · Developmental Biology · 2009 · 98 citations

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology +16