Hitoshi Watanabe

Corneal Reconstruction with Tissue-Engineered Cell Sheets Composed of Autologous Oral Mucosal Epithelium

Kohji Nishida, Masayuki Yamato, Yasutaka Hayashida et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2004 · 1.5K citations · Full text

Medicine, Ophthalmology, Surgery +16

The DNA sequence of human chromosome 21

Masahira Hattori, Asao Fujiyama, Todd D. Taylor et al. · Nature · 2000 · 1.5K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +12

Functional bioengineered corneal epithelial sheet grafts from corneal stem cells expanded ex vivo on a temperature-responsive cell culture surface

Kohji Nishida, Masayuki Yamato, Yasutaka Hayashida et al. · Transplantation · 2004 · 559 citations

Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering +17

Macular corneal dystrophy type I and type II are caused by distinct mutations in a new sulphotransferase gene

Tomoya O. Akama, Kohji Nishida, Jun Nakayama et al. · Nature Genetics · 2000 · 297 citations

Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +16

Wavefront aberrations measured with Hartmann-Shack sensor in patients with keratoconus

Naoyuki Maeda, Takashi Fujikado, Teruhito Kuroda et al. · Ophthalmology · 2002 · 244 citations

Medicine, Ophthalmology, Vision Science +13