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Kazuhiro Sogawa

Kazuhiro Sogawa

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
59
Citations
14480
World Ranking
2008
National Ranking
160

Overview

Kazuhiro Sogawa is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has contributed to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their research focuses notably on Molecular Biology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Virology, Cell Biology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their scientific work covers various topics, including RNA Interference and Gene Delivery, Cell death mechanisms and regulation, HIV Research and Treatment, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease, Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies, Epilepsy research and treatment, and Schizophrenia research and treatment.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kazuhiro Sogawa include Shuya Kasai, Ken-ichi Yasumoto, Hideaki Kato, Masahiko Funada, and Xianyu Li.

The main venues where Sogawa has published research articles are:

  • Cell Death Discovery
  • Epilepsy Research
  • Medicinal Chemistry Research

Sogawa's recent papers include the following:

  • "Attenuation of inhibitory PAS domain protein-induced cell death by synthetic peptides derived from Mcl-1 transmenbrane domain," 2021, published in Cell Death Discovery
  • "Direct protein-protein interaction between Npas4 and IPAS mutually inhibits their critical roles in neuronal cell survival and death," 2021, published in Cell Death Discovery
  • "Principal component analysis of antiseizure medication-induced hostility/aggression and factor analysis of levetiracetam using the food and drug administration adverse event reporting system," 2025, published in Epilepsy Research
  • "Indirubin derivatives bearing an oxirane moiety are promising chemosensitizers for combination treatment in pancreatic cancer," 2025, published in Medicinal Chemistry Research

Best Publications

  • A novel bHLH-PAS factor with close sequence similarity to hypoxia-inducible factor 1α regulates the VEGF expression and is potentially involved in lung and vascular development

    Masatsugu Ema;Shinichiro Taya;Noboru Yokotani;Kazuhiro Sogawa

  • Loss of teratogenic response to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo- p-dioxin (TCDD) in mice lacking the Ah (dioxin) receptor

    Junsei Mimura;Keisuke Yamashita;Kenji Nakamura;Masanobu Morita

  • Molecular mechanisms of transcription activation by HLF and HIF1alpha in response to hypoxia: their stabilization and redox signal-induced interaction with CBP/p300.

    Masatsugu Ema;Kiichi Hirota;Junsei Mimura;Hisaku Abe

  • Identification of a novel mechanism of regulation of Ah (dioxin) receptor function

    Junsei Mimura;Masatsugu Ema;Kazuhiro Sogawa;Yoshiaki Fujii-Kuriyama

  • cDNA cloning and structure of mouse putative Ah receptor

    M. Ema;K. Sogawa;N. Watanabe;Y. Chujoh

  • Two regulatory proteins that bind to the basic transcription element (BTE), a GC box sequence in the promoter region of the rat P-4501A1 gene.

    H. Imataka;K. Sogawa;K.-I. Yasumoto;Y. Kikuchi

  • Dioxin binding activities of polymorphic forms of mouse and human arylhydrocarbon receptors.

    Masatsugu Ema;Norihisa Ohe;Michiko Suzuki;Junsei Mimura

  • cDNA cloning and tissue-specific expression of a novel basic helix-loop-helix/PAS factor (Arnt2) with close sequence similarity to the aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator (Arnt).

    Ken Hirose;Masanobu Morita;Masatsugu Ema;Junsei Mimura

  • Primary structure of a cytochrome P-450: coding nucleotide sequence of phenobarbital-inducible cytochrome P-450 cDNA from rat liver

    Y Fujii-Kuriyama;Y Mizukami;K Kawajiri;K Sogawa

  • Inhibition of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 activity by nitric oxide donors in hypoxia

    Kazuhiro Sogawa;Keiko Numayama-Tsuruta;Masatsugu Ema;Manabu Abe

  • HLF/HIF‐2α is a key factor in retinopathy of prematurity in association with erythropoietin

    Masanobu Morita;Osamu Ohneda;Toshiharu Yamashita;Toshiharu Yamashita;Satoru Takahashi

  • Gene Structure of Human Cytochrome P-450(SCC), Cholesterol Desmolase

    Ken ichirou Morohashi;Kazuhiro Sogawa;Tsuneo Omura;Yoshiaki Fujii-kuriyama

  • CBP/p300 functions as a possible transcriptional coactivator of Ah receptor nuclear translocator (Arnt)

    Akira Kobayashi;Keiko Numayama-Tsuruta;Kazuhiro Sogawa;Yoshiaki Fujii-Kuriyama

  • cDNA cloning and transcriptional properties of a novel GC box-binding protein, BTEB2

    Kazuhiro Sogawa;Hiroaki Imataka;Yuichi Yamasaki;Hiroshi Kusume

  • Possible function of Ah receptor nuclear translocator (Arnt) homodimer in transcriptional regulation.

    Kazuhiro Sogawa;Ryosuke Nakano;Akira Kobayashi;Yasuo Kikuchi

  • Structure and expression of the Ah receptor repressor gene.

    Takashi Baba;Junsei Mimura;Katarina Gradin;Asato Kuroiwa

  • Krüppel-like factor 5 Is Essential for Blastocyst Development and the Normal Self-Renewal of Mouse ESCs

    Masatsugu Ema;Daisuke Mori;Hitoshi Niwa;Yoshikazu Hasegawa

  • Transcriptionally Active Heterodimer Formation of an Arnt-like PAS Protein, Arnt3, with HIF-1a, HLF, and Clock

    Sho Takahata;Kazuhiro Sogawa;Akira Kobayashi;Masatsugu Ema

  • Distinct organization of methylcholanthrene- and phenobarbital-inducible cytochrome P-450 genes in the rat.

    Kazuhiro Sogawa;Osamu Gotoh;Kaname Kawajiri;Yoshiaki Fujii-Kuriyama

  • Coding nucleotide sequence of 3-methylcholanthrene-inducible cytochrome P-450d cDNA from rat liver.

    Kaname Kawajiri;Osamu Gotoh;Kazuhiro Sogawa;Yusaku Tagashira

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshiaki Fujii-Kuriyama
Yoshiaki Fujii-Kuriyama Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Masatsugu Ema
Masatsugu Ema Shiga University of Medical Science
Osamu Gotoh
Osamu Gotoh Japanese Foundation For Cancer Research
Junsei Mimura
Junsei Mimura Hirosaki University
Akira Kobayashi
Akira Kobayashi Doshisha University
Hiroyuki Isobe
Hiroyuki Isobe University of Tokyo
Tsuneo Omura
Tsuneo Omura Kyushu University
Satoru Takahashi
Satoru Takahashi University of Tsukuba
Kazuhiko Igarashi
Kazuhiko Igarashi Tohoku University
Johji Inazawa
Johji Inazawa Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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