Coronary Atherosclerosis Is Associated With Macrophage Polarization in Epicardial Adipose Tissue

Yoichiro Hirata, Minoru Tabata, Hirotsugu Kurobe, +10

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

InflammationMetabolic SyndromeVascular DiseaseCardiovascular DiseaseMacrophage Polarization +13

Enhanced Inflammation in Epicardial Fat in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

Yoichiro Hirata, Hirotsugu Kurobe, Masashi Akaike, +7

International Heart Journal

Vascular DiseaseImmunologyPathologyCoronary Artery DiseaseInflammation +20

Estrogen Enhances Depolarization-Induced Glutamate Release through Activation of Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase and Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons

Daisaku Yokomaku, Tadahiro Numakawa, Yumiko Numakawa, +6

Molecular Endocrinology

Synaptic TransmissionSocial SciencesNeuroendocrine MechanismNeurochemistryCultured Hippocampal Neurons +14

Multiple species of myeloperoxidase messenger RNAs produced by alternative splicing and differential polyadenylation

Kazuya Hashinaka, Chika Nishio, Sook Jin Hur, +3

Biochemistry

Involvement of cystatin C in oxidative stress-induced apoptosis of cultured rat CNS neurons

Chika Nishio, Kiyomi Yoshida, Keiji Nishiyama, +2

Brain Research

Molecular NeuroscienceMedicineApoptosisPhysiologyCell Death +9

Cultured basal forebrain cholinergic neurons from postnatal rats show both overlapping and non-overlapping responses to the neurotrophins

Takeshi Nonomura, Chika Nishio, Ronald M. Lindsay, +1

Brain Research

Developmental BiologyPostnatal RatsNeuroanatomyMedicineNon-overlapping Responses +6

Expression of cystatin C prevents oxidative stress-induced death in PC12 cells

Keiji Nishiyama, Akio Konishi, Chika Nishio, +6

Brain Research Bulletin

InflammationRedox SignalingPc12 CellsCell RegulationApoptosis +8

Exendin-4, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, attenuates neointimal hyperplasia after vascular injury

Yoichiro Hirata, Hirotsugu Kurobe, Chika Nishio, +11

European Journal of Pharmacology

AngiogenesisVascular PharmacologyImmunologyNeointimal HyperplasiaPathology +7

Isolation and characterization of a cDNA coding for human myeloperoxidase

Michiyuki Yamada, Sook-Jin Hur, Kazuya Hashinaka, +5

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

BiochemistryHeme HomeostasisNatural SciencesHeme DegradationBioanalysis +8

Peptide antibiotic subtilin is synthesized via precursor proteins

Chika Nishio, Sadaaki KOMURA, Kiyoshi Kurahashi

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

BiochemistryPeptide LibraryPeptide TherapeuticSynthetic BiologyPeptide Synthesis +1