Kenji Oritani

Adiponectin, a new member of the family of soluble defense collagens, negatively regulates the growth of myelomonocytic progenitors and the functions of macrophages

Takafumi Yokota, Kenji Oritani, Isao Takahashi et al. · Blood · 2000 · 1.3K citations

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Immunology +10

Constitutively activating mutations of c-kit receptor tyrosine kinase confer factor-independent growth and tumorigenicity of factor-dependent hematopoietic cell lines

H Kitayama, Yuzuru Kanakura, T Furitsu et al. · Blood · 1995 · 287 citations

Medicine, Molecular Biology, Oncology +16

Glycosylation of CD44 negatively regulates its recognition of hyaluronan.

Shigeki Katoh, Ze‐Yi Zheng, Kenji Oritani et al. · The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 1995 · 256 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +17

Molecular cloning and chromosomal mapping of a bone marrow stromal cell surface gene, BST2, that may be involved in pre-B-cell growth

Jun Ishikawa, Tsuneyasu Kaisho, Hitoshi Tomizawa et al. · Genomics · 1995 · 213 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +9

Thrombopoietin-Induced Differentiation of a Human Megakaryoblastic Leukemia Cell Line, CMK, Involves Transcriptional Activation of p21 ^{<i>WAF1/Cip1</i>} by STAT5

Itaru Matsumura, Jun Ishikawa, Koichi Nakajima et al. · Molecular and Cellular Biology · 1997 · 199 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +12