Akira Mitsui

Strategy by which nitrogen-fixing unicellular cyanobacteria grow photoautotrophically

Akira Mitsui, Shuzo Kumazawa, Akira Takahashi et al. · Nature · 1986 · 422 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +12

Overexpression of thioredoxin in transgenic mice attenuates focal ischemic brain damage

Yasushi Takagi, Akira Mitsui, Akira Nishiyama et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 339 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

Expression of survivin in esophageal cancer: Correlation with the prognosis and response to chemotherapy

Joji Kato, Yoshiyuki Kuwabara, Masami Mitani et al. · International Journal of Cancer · 2001 · 331 citations

Medicine, Cancer Biology, Oncology +11

Overexpression of Human Thioredoxin in Transgenic Mice Controls Oxidative Stress and Life Span

Akira Mitsui, Junji Hamuro, Hajime Nakamura et al. · Antioxidants and Redox Signaling · 2002 · 292 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +17

Adult T-cell leukemia-derived factor/thioredoxin, produced by both human T-lymphotropic virus type I- and Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphocytes, acts as an autocrine growth factor and synergizes with interleukin 1 and interleukin 2.

Naomi Wakasugi, Y Tagaya, Hiro Wakasugi et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1990 · 283 citations

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +13