Kazuwa Nakao

Role of connective tissue growth factor in profibrotic action of transforming growth factor-β: A potential target for preventing renal fibrosis

Hideki Yokoi, Akira Sugawara, Masashi Mukoyama et al. · American Journal of Kidney Diseases · 2001 · 145 citations

Medicine, Nephrology, Pathology +17

Plasma brain natriuretic peptide concentrations in healthy children from birth to adolescence: marked and rapid increase after birth

Muneo Yoshibayashi, Tetsuro Kamiya, Yoshihiko Saito et al. · European Journal of Endocrinology · 1995 · 116 citations

Medicine, Child Health, Pediatrics +5

The effects of the selective ROCK inhibitor, Y27632, on ET‐1‐induced hypertrophic response in neonatal rat cardiac myocytes – possible involvement of Rho/ROCK pathway in cardiac muscle cell hypertrophy

Koichiro Kuwahara, Yoshihiko Saito, Osamu Nakagawa et al. · FEBS Letters · 1999 · 115 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cardiology, Molecular Biology +14

Two Cardiac Natriuretic Peptide Genes (Atrial Natriuretic Peptide and Brain Natriuretic Peptide) are Organized in Tandem in the Mouse and Human Genomes

Naohisa Tamura, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Akihiro Yasoda et al. · Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology · 1996 · 86 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +6

Atrial natriuretic polypeptide is removed by the lungs and released into the left atrium as well as the right atrium in humans

Kenji Obata, Hirofumi Yasue, Ken Okumura et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 1990 · 27 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Physiology +3