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Overview

Akinori Kimura is affiliated with Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan and has a research focus primarily within the field of Medicine, with a substantial body of work contributing to Infectious Diseases. Their research explores a variety of subfields including Neurology, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Immunology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to COVID-19, including clinical research studies, long-term effects, and diagnostic methods involving artificial intelligence, as well as broader areas such as cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, and healthcare impacts related to the pandemic.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Preliminary Baseline Report of Japan COVID-19 Task Force, a Nationwide Consortium to Investigate Host Genetics of COVID-19 (2021, International Journal of Infectious Diseases)
  • Characteristics of Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 during the First to Fifth Waves of Infection: A Report from the Japan COVID-19 Task Force (2022, BMC Infectious Diseases)
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy-Linked Heat Shock Protein Family D Member 1 Mutations Cause Up-Regulation of Reactive Oxygen Species and Autophagy Through Mitochondrial Dysfunction (2020, Cardiovascular Research)
  • Viral Load of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Is Not High Despite Its High Infectivity (2022, Journal of Medical Virology)
  • Clinical Significance of Prediabetes, Undiagnosed Diabetes and Diagnosed Diabetes on Critical Outcomes in COVID-19: Integrative Analysis from the Japan COVID-19 Task Force (2022, Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kimura include:

  • Ho Namkoong
  • Seiya Imoto
  • Satoru Miyano
  • Yukinori Okada
  • Takanori Kanai

Kimura's works have appeared repeatedly in several publication venues including:

  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Journal of Medical Virology
  • Circulation Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist's research contributions are focused on understanding infectious diseases with a significant emphasis on COVID-19, and they have published 134 works overall in the medical domain. Their interdisciplinary approach leads to insights at the intersection of infectious diseases, cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, and immunology, reflecting a comprehensive engagement with both clinical and molecular aspects of health sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Cardiac Mechanical Stretch Sensor Machinery Involves a Z Disc Complex that Is Defective in a Subset of Human Dilated Cardiomyopathy

    Ralph Knöll;Masahiko Hoshijima;Hal M. Hoffman;Veronika Person

  • Mutations in the cardiac troponin I gene associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    Akinori Kimura;Haruhito Harada;Jeong-Euy Park;Hirofumi Nishi

  • Effect of matching of class I HLA alleles on clinical outcome after transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells from an unrelated donor

    Takehiko Sasazuki;Takeo Juji;Yasuo Morishima;Naoko Kinukawa

  • Polymorphism of the 5'-flanking region of the human tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha gene in Japanese.

    T. Higuchi;N. Seki;S. Kamizono;A. Yamada

  • Structural analysis of the titin gene in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: identification of a novel disease gene.

    Manatsu Satoh;Megumi Takahashi;Tsuguya Sakamoto;Michiaki Hiroe

  • Detailed analysis of the mouse H-2Kb promoter: enhancer-like sequences and their role in the regulation of class I gene expression

    Akinori Kimura;Alain Israël;Odile Le Bail;Philippe Kourilsky

  • Impaired Heart Contractility in Apelin Gene–Deficient Mice Associated With Aging and Pressure Overload

    Keiji Kuba;Liyong Zhang;Yumiko Imai;Sara Arab

  • Tcap gene mutations in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy.

    Takeharu Hayashi;Takuro Arimura;Manatsu Itoh-Satoh;Kazuo Ueda

  • Titin Mutations as the Molecular Basis for Dilated Cardiomyopathy

    Manatsu Itoh-Satoh;Takeharu Hayashi;Hirofumi Nishi;Yoshinori Koga

  • Functional characterization of a trafficking-defective HCN4 mutation, D553N, associated with cardiac arrhythmia

    Kazuo Ueda;Kazufumi Nakamura;Takeharu Hayashi;Natsuko Inagaki;Natsuko Inagaki

  • Interferon response sequence potentiates activity of an enhancer in the promoter region of a mouse H–2 gene

    Alain Israel;Akinori Kimura;Agnès Fournier;Marc Fellous

  • Cytotoxic T lymphocyte-based control of simian immunodeficiency virus replication in a preclinical AIDS vaccine trial.

    Tetsuro Matano;Masahiro Kobayashi;Hiroko Igarashi;Akiko Takeda;Akiko Takeda

  • Laminin-α4 and Integrin-Linked Kinase Mutations Cause Human Cardiomyopathy Via Simultaneous Defects in Cardiomyocytes and Endothelial Cells

    Ralph Knöll;Ruben Postel;Jianming Wang;Ralph Krätzner

  • Polymorphisms in the SOD2 and HLA-DRB1 genes are associated with nonfamilial idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy in Japanese.

    Shitoshi Hiroi;Haruhito Harada;Hirofumi Nishi;Manatsu Satoh

  • A global in vivo Drosophila RNAi screen identifies NOT3 as a conserved regulator of heart function

    G. Gregory Neely;Keiji Kuba;Anthony Cammarato;Kazuya Isobe;Kazuya Isobe

  • Alpha B-crystallin mutation in dilated cardiomyopathy

    Natsuko Inagaki;Takeharu Hayashi;Takuro Arimura;Yoshinori Koga

  • DNA typing of HLA class II genes in B-lymphoblastoid cell lines homozygous for HLA.

    Akinori Kimura;Rui‐Ping ‐P Dong;Haruhito Harada;Takehiko Sasazuki

  • Mutation rate varies among alleles at a microsatellite locus: Phylogenetic evidence

    Li Jin;Claudia Macaubas;Joachim Hallmayer;Akinori Kimura

  • Electrocardiographic Characteristics and SCN5A Mutations in Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation Associated with Early Repolarization

    Hiroshi Watanabe;Akihiko Nogami;Kimie Ohkubo;Hiro Kawata

  • Novel calmodulin mutations associated with congenital arrhythmia susceptibility.

    Naomasa Makita;Nobue Yagihara;Lia Crotti;Christopher N. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Takehiko Sasazuki
Takehiko Sasazuki Kyushu University
Hidetoshi Inoko
Hidetoshi Inoko Tokai University
Yoshifusa Aizawa
Yoshifusa Aizawa Tachikawa Medical Center
Masao Ota
Masao Ota Shinshu University
Josef M. Penninger
Josef M. Penninger University of British Columbia
Yoshihiko Katsuyama
Yoshihiko Katsuyama Shinshu University
Yasuharu Nishimura
Yasuharu Nishimura Kumamoto University
Kyogo Itoh
Kyogo Itoh Kurume University
Hiroshi Watanabe
Hiroshi Watanabe Niigata University

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