Kouji Okamoto

High Prevalence of Occult Coronary Artery Stenosis in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease at the Initiation of Renal Replacement Therapy

Takayasu Ohtake, Shuzo Kobayashi, Hidekazu Moriya et al. · Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · 2005 · 284 citations

The protein import motor of mitochondria: a targeted molecular ratchet driving unfolding and translocation

Kouji Okamoto · The EMBO Journal · 2002 · 135 citations · Full text

Protein Import Motor, Targeted Molecular Ratchet, Mitochondrial Function +7

Synthetic, crosslinked polypentapeptide of tropoelastin: an anisotropic, fibrillar elastomer

Dan W. Urry, Kouji Okamoto, R. D. Harris et al. · Biochemistry · 1976 · 95 citations

Tissue Engineering, Synthetic Macromolecule, Bioorganic Chemistry +15

Modulation by elastin peptide VGVAPG of cell proliferation and elastin expression in human skin fibroblasts

Shingo Tajima, Hiroshi Wachi, Yuko Uemura et al. · Archives of Dermatological Research · 1997 · 71 citations

Cell Signaling, Medicine, Cutaneous Biology +13

Stimulation of cell proliferation and autoregulation of elastin expression by elastin peptide VPGVG in cultured chick vascular smooth muscle cells

Hiroshi Wachi, Yoshiyuki Seyama, Sabrou Yamashita et al. · FEBS Letters · 1995 · 51 citations · Full text

Synthetic Elastin Peptides, Cell Proliferation, Cytoskeleton +24