Akira Sawaguchi

Ghrelin, a Novel Growth Hormone-Releasing Acylated Peptide, Is Synthesized in a Distinct Endocrine Cell Type in the Gastrointestinal Tracts of Rats and Humans¹

Yukari Date, Masayasu Kojima, Hiroshi Hosoda et al. · Endocrinology · 2000 · 1.8K citations

Life Sciences, Endocrinology, Physiology +17

Transient activation of <i>c-MYC</i> expression is critical for efficient platelet generation from human induced pluripotent stem cells

Naoya Takayama, Satoshi Nishimura, Sou Nakamura et al. · The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 2010 · 347 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Hematology +17

Expandable Megakaryocyte Cell Lines Enable Clinically Applicable Generation of Platelets from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Sou Nakamura, Naoya Takayama, Shinji Hirata et al. · Cell stem cell · 2014 · 331 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cell Biology, Hematology +12

Generation of functional platelets from human embryonic stem cells in vitro via ES-sacs, VEGF-promoted structures that concentrate hematopoietic progenitors

Naoya Takayama, Hidekazu Nishikii, Joichi Usui et al. · Blood · 2008 · 317 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology +16

Turbulence Activates Platelet Biogenesis to Enable Clinical Scale Ex Vivo Production

Yukitaka Ito, Sou Nakamura, Naoshi Sugimoto et al. · Cell · 2018 · 307 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cell Biology, Physiology +11