Administration of prosaposin-derived neurotrophic factor to neural tube defects facilitates regeneration and restores neurological functions.

Khan S, Takeuchi A, Nabeka H, Khan F, Shimokawa T, Takanezawa S, Saitou T, Imamura T, Tachibana T, Nishizono A, Hamada F, Matsuda S.

iScience 2023, 26(4): 106277. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106277

DATE: 2023.03.17

Evaluation of a real-time mobile PCR device (PCR 1100) for the detection of the rabies gene in field samples

Catalino Demetria, Kazunori Kimitsuki, Takaaki Yahiro, Nobuo Saito, Takehiro Hashimoto, Sakirul Khan, Maria Yna Joyce Chu, Daria Manalo, Milagros Mananggit, Beatriz Quiambao, Akira Nishizono
Trop Med Health. 2023 Mar 17;51(1):17. doi: 10.1186/s41182-023-00501-3.

DATE: 2023.02.22

Academic paper

Molecular Analysis of Rabies Virus Using RNA Extracted from Used Lateral Flow Devices

Jaira D Mauhay, Nobuo Saito, Kazunori Kimitsuki, Milagros R Mananggit, Jeffrey L Cruz,
Maria G Lagayan, Alyssa M Garcia, Patricia M Lacanilao, Kentaro Yamada, Mariko Saito-Obata,
Daria L Manalo, Catalino S Demetria, Beatriz P Quiambao, Akira Nishizono
J Clin Microbiol. 2023 Feb 22;e0154322.

DATE: 2023.01.31

Academic paper

Mutations Related to Antibiotics Resistance in Helicobacter pylori Clinical Isolates from Bangladesh

Kartika Afrida Fauzia, Hafeza Aftab, Evariste Tshibangu-Kabamba, Ricky Indra Alfaray, Batsaikhan Saruuljavkhlan, Alain Cimuanga-Mukanya, Takashi Matsumoto, Phawinee Subsomwong, Junko Akada, Muhammad Miftahussurur, Yoshio Yamaoka

Antibiotics (Basel). 2023 Jan 31;12(2):279. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics12020279.

DATE: 2023.01.30

Research results (academic paper)

Toxoplasma IWS1 Determines Fitness in Interferon-γ-Activated Host Cells and Mice by Indirectly Regulating ROP18 mRNA Expression

Emi Hashizaki, Miwa Sasai, Daisuke Okuzaki, Tsubasa Nishi, Takashi Kobayashi, Shiroh Iwanaga, Masahiro Yamamoto
mBio. 2023 Jan 30;e0325622. doi: 10.1128/mbio.03256-22. Online ahead of print.

DATE: 2023.01.22

Research results (academic paper)

Analysis of Genetic Relatedness between Gastric and Oral Helicobacter pylori in Patients with Early Gastric Cancer Using Multilocus Sequence Typing

Ryoko Nagata, Hiroki Sato, Shoji Takenaka*, Junji Yokoyama, Shuji Terai, Hitomi Mimuro and Yuichiro Noiri
International Journal of Molecular Sciences

DATE: 2022.12.13

Academic paper

5,6,7,8,4′-Pentamethoxyflavone (tangeretin) suppresses not only cell growth but also all-trans retinoic acid-induced superoxide-generating ability of human monoblastic U937 cells

Hidehiko Kikuchi, Kaori Harata, Sumiko Akiyoshi, Takefumi Sagara, Harishkumar Madhyastha, Hitomi Mimuro, Futoshi Kuribayashi
Fundam. Toxicol. Sci., Vol. 9 (5), pp.151-157, 2022

DATE: 2022.10.06

Academic paper

Histopathologically TMA-like distribution of multiple organ thromboses following the initial dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine (Comirnaty, Pfizer/BioNTech): an autopsy case report

Ryo Kaimori, Haruto Nishida, Tomohisa Uchida, Mari Tamura, Kohji Kuroki, Kumi Murata, Kinta Hatakeyama , Yoshihiko Ikeda, Kisaki Amemiya, Akira Nishizono, Tsutomu Daa, Shinjiro Mori
Thromb J. 2022 Oct 6;20(1):61. doi: 10.1186/s12959-022-00418-7.

DATE: 2022.09.28

The Amino Acid at Position 95 in the Matrix Protein of Rabies Virus Is Involved in Antiviral Stress Granule Formation in Infected Cells

Isshu Kojima, Koji Onomoto, Wenjie Zuo, Makoto Ozawa, Kosuke Okuya, Kiyotada Naitou, Fumiki Izumi, Misuzu Okajima, Takuro Fujiwara, Naoto Ito, Mitsutoshi Yoneyama, Kentaro Yamada, Akira Nishizono, Makoto Sugiyama, Takashi Fujita, Tatsunori Masatani

J Virol. 2022 Sep 28;96(18):e0081022. doi: 10.1128/jvi.00810-22. Epub 2022 Sep 7.

DATE: 2022.09.04

Academic paper

Co-existence of a pandemic (SARS-CoV-2) and an epidemic (Dengue virus) at some focal points in Southeast Asia: Pathogenic importance, preparedness, and strategy of tackling. The LANCET Regional Health – Southeast Asia.

Khan S, Akbar SMF, Nishizono A.
2022. 100046. DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2022.100046