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Hajime Fujisawa

Hajime Fujisawa

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Biology and Biochemistry

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63
Citations
17712
World Ranking
10064
National Ranking
672

Overview

Hajime Fujisawa is a researcher affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan, with a primary focus on medicine and related subfields. Their work spans nephrology, emergency medical services, immunology, transplantation, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist has contributed to the study of renal diseases and glomerulopathies, dialysis and renal disease management, central venous catheters and hemodialysis, acute kidney injury research, the complement system in diseases, renal transplantation outcomes and treatments, and lymphoma diagnosis and treatment.

Frequent publication venues for their work include BMJ Case Reports, Peritoneal Dialysis International, Glomerular Diseases, and CEN Case Reports.

Hajime Fujisawa's notable papers include:

  • A case of ramucirumab-induced renal failure with nephrotic-range proteinuria and its pathological findings, 2021, BMJ Case Reports
  • A multi-institutional, observational study of outcomes after catheter placement for peritoneal dialysis in Japan, 2023, Peritoneal Dialysis International
  • Prostate Cancer Associated with Minimal Change Disease: A Case Report, 2022, Glomerular Diseases
  • New-onset minimal change disease following the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, 2023, BMJ Case Reports
  • Cervical cancer of the uterus complicated by renal AA amyloidosis, 2020, CEN Case Reports

The researcher frequently collaborates with colleagues including Yuta Nakano, Jiro Kumagai, Kiyotaka Nagahama, Naohiro Muraki, and Kouhei Sugita.

Best Publications

  • Deletion of the hypoxia-response element in the vascular endothelial growth factor promoter causes motor neuron degeneration

    B. Oosthuyse;L. Moons;E. Storkebaum;H. Beck

  • Spatially restricted patterning cues provided by heparin-binding VEGF-A control blood vessel branching morphogenesis

    Christiana Ruhrberg;Holger Gerhardt;Matthew Golding;Rose Watson

  • A requirement for neuropilin-1 in embryonic vessel formation

    Takahiko Kawasaki;Takashi Kitsukawa;Yoko Bekku;Yoichi Matsuda

  • Plexin-neuropilin-1 complexes form functional semaphorin-3A receptors.

    Takuya Takahashi;Alyson Fournier;Fumio Nakamura;Li Hsien Wang

  • Neuropilin-semaphorin III/D-mediated chemorepulsive signals play a crucial role in peripheral nerve projection in mice.

    Takashi Kitsukawa;Masayuki Shimizu;Makoto Sanbo;Tatsumi Hirata

  • Disruption of semaphorin III/D gene causes severe abnormality in peripheral nerve projection.

    Masahiko Taniguchi;Shigeki Yuasa;Hajime Fujisawa;Ichiro Naruse

  • Spatial and temporal expression pattern of N-cadherin cell adhesion molecules correlated with morphogenetic processes of chicken embryos☆

    Kohei Hatta;Shin Takagi;Hajime Fujisawa;Masatoshi Takeichi

  • Arteriolar and venular patterning in retinas of mice selectively expressing VEGF isoforms

    Ingeborg Stalmans;Yin-Shan Ng;Richard Rohan;Marcus Fruttiger

  • Overexpression of a membrane protein, neuropilin, in chimeric mice causes anomalies in the cardiovascular system, nervous system and limbs.

    T. Kitsukawa;A. Shimono;A. Kawakami;H. Kondoh

  • Targeting of both mouse neuropilin-1 and neuropilin-2 genes severely impairs developmental yolk sac and embryonic angiogenesis

    Seiji Takashima;Masafumi Kitakaze;Masanori Asakura;Hiroshi Asanuma

  • Dual roles of Sema6D in cardiac morphogenesis through region-specific association of its receptor, Plexin-A1, with off-track and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor type 2

    Toshihiko Toyofuku;Hong Zhang;Atsushi Kumanogoh;Noriko Takegahara

  • Cdc42 and Rac1 Regulate the Interaction of IQGAP1 with β-Catenin

    Masaki Fukata;Shinya Kuroda;Shinya Kuroda;Masato Nakagawa;Aie Kawajiri

  • Neuropilin-1 is required for endothelial tip cell guidance in the developing central nervous system.

    Holger Gerhardt;Christiana Ruhrberg;Alexandra Abramsson;Hajime Fujisawa

  • The A5 antigen, a candidate for the neuronal recognition molecule, has homologies to complement components and coagulation factors

    Shin Takagi;Tatsumi Hirata;Kiyokazu Agata;Makoto Mochii

  • Plexin-a4 mediates axon-repulsive activities of both secreted and transmembrane semaphorins and plays roles in nerve fiber guidance.

    Fumikazu Suto;Keisuke Ito;Masato Uemura;Masayuki Shimizu

  • Discovery of semaphorin receptors, neuropilin and plexin, and their functions in neural development

    Hajime Fujisawa

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor controls neuronal migration and cooperates with Sema3A to pattern distinct compartments of the facial nerve.

    Quenten Schwarz;Chenghua Gu;Hajime Fujisawa;Kimberly Sabelko

  • Interactions between Plexin-A2, Plexin-A4, and Semaphorin 6A Control Lamina-Restricted Projection of Hippocampal Mossy Fibers

    Fumikazu Suto;Miu Tsuboi;Haruyuki Kamiya;Hidenobu Mizuno

  • Plexin: A novel neuronal cell surface molecule that mediates cell adhesion via a homophilic binding mechanism in the presence of calcium ions

    Kunimasa Ohta;Akihito Mizutani;Atsushi Kawakami;Yasunori Murakami

  • Distributions of PAX6 and PAX7 proteins suggest their involvement in both early and late phases of chick brain development

    Atsushi Kawakami;Mina Kimura-Kawakami;Tadashi Nomura;Hajime Fujisawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Takeshi Yagi
Takeshi Yagi Osaka University
Alain Chédotal
Alain Chédotal Institut de la Vision
Hisao Ogawa
Hisao Ogawa Kumamoto University
Christiana Ruhrberg
Christiana Ruhrberg University College London
Nobuyuki Takakura
Nobuyuki Takakura Osaka University
Atsushi Kumanogoh
Atsushi Kumanogoh Osaka University
Toshio Suda
Toshio Suda National University of Singapore
Yoshio Goshima
Yoshio Goshima Yokohama City University
Noriko Osumi
Noriko Osumi Tohoku University

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