Akira Watanabe

Tumour-mediated upregulation of chemoattractants and recruitment of myeloid cells predetermines lung metastasis

Sachie Hiratsuka, Akira Watanabe, Hiroyuki Aburatani et al. · Nature Cell Biology · 2006 · 997 citations

Medicine, Cancer Biology, Oncology +14

An Efficient Nonviral Method to Generate Integration-Free Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Cord Blood and Peripheral Blood Cells

Keisuke Okita, Tatsuya Yamakawa, Yasuko Matsumura et al. · Stem Cells · 2012 · 753 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Biotechnology +14

Modeling Alzheimer’s Disease with iPSCs Reveals Stress Phenotypes Associated with Intracellular Aβ and Differential Drug Responsiveness

Takayuki Kondo, Masashi Asai, Kayoko Tsukita et al. · Cell stem cell · 2013 · 752 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

The S100A8–serum amyloid A3–TLR4 paracrine cascade establishes a pre-metastatic phase

Sachie Hiratsuka, Akira Watanabe, Yoshiko Sakurai et al. · Nature Cell Biology · 2008 · 645 citations

Life Sciences, Immunology, Molecular Biology +6

Drug Screening for ALS Using Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Naohiro Egawa, Shiho Kitaoka, Kayoko Tsukita et al. · Science Translational Medicine · 2012 · 562 citations

Life Sciences, Neurology, Neuroscience +12