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Futoshi Okada

Futoshi Okada

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
46
Citations
7141
World Ranking
18974
National Ranking
1365

Overview

Futoshi Okada is affiliated with Tottori University in Japan and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cancer Research, Reproductive Medicine, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to cancer biology and related physiological processes. Key themes in their research include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism; Cancer Cells and Metastasis; Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer; Extracellular vesicles in disease; Cancer Research and Treatments; Endometriosis Research and Treatment; and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

Frequent publication venues for Okada's work include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Oncology Letters
  • Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Cancers

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Mitsuhiko Osaki
  • Runa Izutsu
  • HeeKyung Seong
  • Ryo Sasaki
  • Fuminori Taniguchi

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Futoshi Okada include:

  • "Loss of the cystine/glutamate antiporter in melanoma abrogates tumor metastasis and markedly increases survival rates of mice" (2020, International Journal of Cancer)
  • "Inflammation-Related Carcinogenesis: Lessons from Animal Models to Clinical Aspects" (2021, Cancers)
  • "Pivotal role for S-nitrosylation of DNA methyltransferase 3B in epigenetic regulation of tumorigenesis" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "AMIGO2 as a novel indicator of liver metastasis in patients with colorectal cancer" (2021, Oncology Letters)
  • "AMIGO2 contained in cancer cell-derived extracellular vesicles enhances the adhesion of liver endothelial cells to cancer cells" (2022, Scientific Reports)

Best Publications

  • Impact of oncogenes in tumor angiogenesis: Mutant K-ras up-regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor is necessary, but not sufficient for tumorigenicity of human colorectal carcinoma cells

    Futoshi Okada;Janusz W. Rak;Brad St. Croix;Blandine Lieubeau

  • Fundamental roles of reactive oxygen species and protective mechanisms in the female reproductive system

    Junichi Fujii;Yoshihito Iuchi;Futoshi Okada

  • Peroxiredoxin 4 knockout results in elevated spermatogenic cell death via oxidative stress.

    Yoshihito Iuchi;Futoshi Okada;Satoshi Tsunoda;Noriko Kibe

  • Establishing a link between oncogenes and tumor angiogenesis.

    Robert S. Kerbel;Alicia Viloria-Petit;Futoshi Okada;Janusz Rak

  • Elevated oxidative stress in erythrocytes due to a SOD1 deficiency causes anaemia and triggers autoantibody production.

    Yoshihito Iuchi;Futoshi Okada;Kunishige Onuma;Tadashi Onoda

  • Thymosin-β4 Regulates Motility and Metastasis of Malignant Mouse Fibrosarcoma Cells

    Tokushige Kobayashi;Futoshi Okada;Nobuyuki Fujii;Naoko Tomita

  • Accelerated impairment of spermatogenic cells in sod1-knockout mice under heat stress

    Tatsuya Ishii;Shingo Matsuki;Yoshihito Iuchi;Futoshi Okada

  • Enhancement of Therapeutic Effects of Recombinant Interleukin 2 on a Transplantable Rat Fibrosarcoma by the Use of a Sustained Release Vehicle, Pluronic Gel

    Kiyoshi Morikawa;Futoshi Okada;Masuo Hosokawa;Hiroshi Kobayashi

  • Serum miR-210 as a potential biomarker of early clear cell renal cell carcinoma

    Hideto Iwamoto;Yusuke Kanda;Takehiro Sejima;Mitsuhiko Osaki

  • Inflammation-Related Carcinogenesis: Current Findings in Epidemiological Trends,Causes and Mechanisms

    Futoshi Okada

  • Exosomes and Their Role in Cancer Progression

    Mitsuhiko Osaki;Futoshi Okada

  • Enhanced Expression of Asparagine Synthetase under Glucose-Deprived Conditions Protects Pancreatic Cancer Cells from Apoptosis Induced by Glucose Deprivation and Cisplatin

    Hongyan Cui;Stephanie Darmanin;Mitsuteru Natsuisaka;Takeshi Kondo

  • Increased pre-therapeutic serum vascular endothelial growth factor in patients with early clinical relapse of osteosarcoma

    M Kaya;T Wada;S Kawaguchi;S Nagoya

  • siRNA gelsolin knockdown induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition with a cadherin switch in human mammary epithelial cells

    Hiroki Tanaka;Reza Shirkoohi;Koji Nakagawa;Hongjiang Qiao

  • Gelsolin functions as a metastasis suppressor in B16-BL6 mouse melanoma cells and requirement of the carboxyl-terminus for its effect

    Hisakazu Fujita;Futoshi Okada;Jun-ichi Hamada;Masuo Hosokawa

  • Proteomic profiling for cancer progression: Differential display analysis for the expression of intracellular proteins between regressive and progressive cancer cell lines.

    Eiko Hayashi;Yasuhiro Kuramitsu;Futoshi Okada;Masanori Fujimoto

  • Overexpression of homeobox gene HOXD3 induces coordinate expression of metastasis-related genes in human lung cancer cells.

    Jun Ichi Hamada;Tokuhiko Omatsu;Futoshi Okada;Keiji Furuuchi

  • Cystathionine Is a Novel Substrate of Cystine/Glutamate Transporter IMPLICATIONS FOR IMMUNE FUNCTION

    Sho Kobayashi;Mami Sato;Takayuki Kasakoshi;Takumi Tsutsui

  • Nano-Scaled Particles of Titanium Dioxide Convert Benign Mouse Fibrosarcoma Cells into Aggressive Tumor Cells

    Kunishige Onuma;Kunishige Onuma;Yu Sato;Yu Sato;Satomi Ogawara;Satomi Ogawara;Nobuyuki Shirasawa

  • Beyond foreign‐body‐induced carcinogenesis: Impact of reactive oxygen species derived from inflammatory cells in tumorigenic conversion and tumor progression

    Futoshi Okada

Frequent Co-Authors

Mitsuhiko Osaki
Mitsuhiko Osaki Tottori University
Junichi Fujii
Junichi Fujii Yamagata University
Masahiro Asaka
Masahiro Asaka Hokkaido University
Takahiro Ochiya
Takahiro Ochiya Tokyo Medical University
Mitsuo Oshimura
Mitsuo Oshimura Tottori University
Ikuo Saiki
Ikuo Saiki University of Toyama
Nobuyoshi Kosaka
Nobuyoshi Kosaka Tokyo Medical University
Tetsuya Mizutani
Tetsuya Mizutani Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Koji Uchida
Koji Uchida University of Tokyo
Marcus Conrad
Marcus Conrad Helmholtz Zentrum München

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