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Akira Miyazaki

Akira Miyazaki

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
9379
World Ranking
16241
National Ranking
1164

Overview

Akira Miyazaki is affiliated with Showa University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work focuses extensively on infectious diseases and animal science, with key subfields including Infectious Diseases, Animal Science and Zoology, Genetics, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's main research topics encompass viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, animal virus infection studies, and the investigation of pathogens such as Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens. Other notable areas include animal disease management and epidemiology, virus-based gene therapy research, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, as well as Escherichia coli research studies.

Miyazaki has contributed to multiple publications in prominent scientific journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Journal of Veterinary Medical Science
  • mSphere
  • PLoS ONE
  • Veterinary Research

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Miyazaki include:

  • "Ligilactobacillus salivarius Strains Isolated From the Porcine Gut Modulate Innate Immune Responses in Epithelial Cells and Improve Protection Against Intestinal Viral-Bacterial Superinfection," 2021, Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 Enhances Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses in a Ciprofloxacin-Treated Defined-Microbiota Piglet Model of Human Rotavirus Infection," 2021, mSphere
  • "Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 administered as a dextranomar microsphere biofilm enhances immune responses against human rotavirus in a neonatal malnourished pig model colonized with human infant fecal microbiota," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Malnutrition Decreases Antibody Secreting Cell Numbers Induced by an Oral Attenuated Human Rotavirus Vaccine in a Human Infant Fecal Microbiota Transplanted Gnotobiotic Pig Model," 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Systemic and intestinal porcine epidemic diarrhea virus-specific antibody response and distribution of antibody-secreting cells in experimentally infected conventional pigs," 2021, Veterinary Research

The scientist collaborates frequently with multiple coauthors, including Francine C. Paim, Stephanie N. Langel, Juliet Chepngeno, Gireesh Rajashekara, and Linda J. Saif, each with a record of multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Roles of acyl-coenzyme A:cholesterol acyltransferase-1 and -2.

    Ta-Yuan Chang;Catherine C.Y. Chang;Song Lin;Chunjiang Yu

  • Intravenous Injection of Rabbit Apolipoprotein A-I Inhibits the Progression of Atherosclerosis in Cholesterol-Fed Rabbits

    Akira Miyazaki;Shin Sakuma;Wataru Morikawa;Takanori Takiue

  • Native incretins prevent the development of atherosclerotic lesions in apolipoprotein E knockout mice.

    M. Nagashima;T. Watanabe;M. Terasaki;M. Tomoyasu

  • Spin-crossover behaviour of the coordination polymer FeII(C5H5N)2NiII(CN)4

    Takafumi Kitazawa;Yuji Gomi;Masashi Takahashi;Masuo Takeda

  • Lysophosphatidylcholine plays an essential role in the mitogenic effect of oxidized low density lipoprotein on murine macrophages.

    M Sakai;A Miyazaki;H Hakamata;T Sasaki

  • Scavenger Receptor Class B Type I-mediated Reverse Cholesterol Transport Is Inhibited by Advanced Glycation End Products

    Nobutaka Ohgami;Ryoji Nagai;Akira Miyazaki;Mamoru Ikemoto

  • TNF-α Drives Human CD14 + Monocytes to Differentiate into CD70 + Dendritic Cells Evoking Th1 and Th17 Responses

    Sanju Iwamoto;Shin-ichi Iwai;Kazuko Tsujiyama;Chika Kurahashi

  • Expression of ACAT-1 Protein in Human Atherosclerotic Lesions and Cultured Human Monocytes-Macrophages

    Akira Miyazaki;Naomi Sakashita;Oneil Lee;Kiyoshi Takahashi

  • CD36, serves as a receptor for advanced glycation endproducts (AGE).

    Nobutaka Ohgami;Ryoji Nagai;Mamoru Ikemoto;Hiroyuki Arai

  • Detection of circulating urothelial cancer cells in the blood using the CellSearch System.

    Michio Naoe;Yoshio Ogawa;Jun Morita;Kei Omori

  • Lectin-like oxidized low density lipoprotein receptor-1 (LOX-1) serves as an endothelial receptor for advanced glycation end products (AGE)

    Tadashi Jono;Akira Miyazaki;Ryoji Nagai;Tatsuya Sawamura

  • Relationship between serum insulin-like growth factor-1 levels and Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.

    Takuya Watanabe;Akira Miyazaki;Takashi Katagiri;Hideki Yamamoto

  • Induction of murine macrophage growth by modified LDLs.

    S Yui;T Sasaki;A Miyazaki;S Horiuchi

  • Impact of Salusin-α and -β on Human Macrophage Foam Cell Formation and Coronary Atherosclerosis

    Takuya Watanabe;Kae Nishio;Tomoko Kanome;Taka-aki Matsuyama

  • Localization of Human Acyl-Coenzyme A:Cholesterol Acyltransferase-1 (ACAT-1) in Macrophages and in Various Tissues

    Naomi Sakashita;Akira Miyazaki;Motohiro Takeya;Seikoh Horiuchi

  • Scavenger receptors that recognize advanced glycation end products.

    Akira Miyazaki;Hitoshi Nakayama;Seikoh Horiuchi

  • Human Urotensin II Accelerates Foam Cell Formation in Human Monocyte-Derived Macrophages

    Takuya Watanabe;Toshiaki Suguro;Tomoko Kanome;Yu-ichiro Sakamoto

  • The Scavenger Receptor Serves as a Route for Internalization of Lysophosphatidylcholine in Oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein-induced Macrophage Proliferation

    Masakazu Sakai;Akira Miyazaki;Hideki Hakamata;Tatsuhiko Kodama

  • CD36-mediated endocytic uptake of advanced glycation end products (AGE) in mouse 3T3-L1 and human subcutaneous adipocytes.

    Akihiko Kuniyasu;Nobutaka Ohgami;Shigeki Hayashi;Akira Miyazaki

  • The role of galectin-3 in endocytosis of advanced glycation end products and modified low density lipoproteins.

    Wenqin Zhu;Hiroyuki Sano;Ryoji Nagai;Kaori Fukuhara

Frequent Co-Authors

Seikoh Horiuchi
Seikoh Horiuchi Kumamoto University
Ta-Yuan Chang
Ta-Yuan Chang Dartmouth College
Catherine C. Y. Chang
Catherine C. Y. Chang Dartmouth College
Kiyoshi Takahashi
Kiyoshi Takahashi Kumamoto University
Yoshimasa Morino
Yoshimasa Morino Kumamoto University
Issei Komuro
Issei Komuro University of Tokyo
Mitsuru Adachi
Mitsuru Adachi Showa University
Hiroyuki Itabe
Hiroyuki Itabe Showa University
Motohiro Takeya
Motohiro Takeya Kumamoto Health Science University
Seiji Shioda
Seiji Shioda Shonan University of Medical Sciences

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