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Kazuhiro Takahashi

Kazuhiro Takahashi

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Medicine

D-Index
83
Citations
21867
World Ranking
15757
National Ranking
488

Overview

Kazuhiro Takahashi is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has contributed extensively to medical research, with a primary focus in the field of Medicine. Their publications cover a range of subfields including Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Surgery, Molecular Biology, and Oncology.

The main topics of Takahashi's research work include Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications, Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments, Urinary and Genital Oncology Studies, Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis, Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research, Renin-Angiotensin System Studies, and Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Takahashi include:

  • Takuo Hirose
  • Takefumi Mori
  • Hiroki Ito
  • Masakazu Mimaki
  • Fumihiko Urabe

Takashi's recent papers illustrate a diverse research scope. Among these are:

  • "Type 1 diabetes mellitus following COVID-19 RNA-based vaccine," published in 2022 in the Journal of Diabetes Investigation
  • "Inhibition of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 suppresses renal stone formation," 2022, Pharmacological Research
  • "68Ga- and 211At-Labeled RGD Peptides for Radiotheranostics with Multiradionuclides," 2021, Molecular Pharmaceutics
  • "Dynamics of AMPA receptors regulate epileptogenesis in patients with epilepsy," 2023, Cell Reports Medicine
  • "Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Developed about Half a Year after Discontinuation of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Combination Therapy with Nivolumab and Ipilimumab: A Case Report," 2021, The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Takashi has frequently published in venues such as The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, Hypertension Research, EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry, Genes to Cells, and Journal of Hypertension.

Best Publications

  • Elevated plasma endothelin in patients with diabetes mellitus.

    K. Takahashi;M. A. Ghatei;H. C. Lam;D. J. O'Halloran

  • Functional Analysis of Microphthalmia-associated Transcription Factor in Pigment Cell-specific Transcription of the Human Tyrosinase Family Genes

    Ken Ichi Yasumoto;Kouji Yokoyama;Kazuhiro Takahashi;Yasushi Tomita

  • Noninvasive monitoring of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma by immunoglobulin high-throughput sequencing

    David M. Kurtz;Michael R. Green;Scott V. Bratman;Florian Scherer

  • Bach1 Functions as a Hypoxia-inducible Repressor for the Heme Oxygenase-1 Gene in Human Cells *

    Tomomi Kitamuro;Kazuhiro Takahashi;Kazuhiro Ogawa;Reiko Udono-Fujimori

  • Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor interacts with LEF-1, a mediator of Wnt signaling.

    Ken ichi Yasumoto;Kazuhisa Takeda;Hideo Saito;Ken ichi Watanabe

  • Role of urotensin II in patients on dialysis

    Kazuhito Totsune;Kazuhiro Takahashi;Zenei Arihara;Masahiko Sone

  • Formation of endothelin by cultured airway epithelial cells

    P.N. Black;M.A. Ghatei;K. Takahashi;D. Bretherton-Watt

  • Distribution, molecular characterization of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide and its precursor encoding messenger RNA in human and rat tissues.

    M. A. Ghatei;K. Takahashi;Y. Suzuki;J. Gardiner

  • Increased plasma urotensin II levels in patients with diabetes mellitus

    Kazuhito Totsune;Kazuhiro Takahashi;Zenei Arihara;Masahiko Sone

  • Orexin-A expression in human peripheral tissues.

    Masao Nakabayashi;Takashi Suzuki;Kazuhiro Takahashi;Kazuhito Totsune

  • Urocortin and corticotropin-releasing factor receptor expression in the human colonic mucosa.

    Yasunari Muramatsu;Kouhei Fukushima;Kazumi Iino;Kazuhito Totsune

  • Adrenomedullin in human brain, adrenal glands and tumor tissues of pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuroblastoma and neuroblastoma

    F Satoh;K Takahashi;O Murakami;K Totsune

  • Microsatellite polymorphism in the human heme oxygenase-1 gene promoter and its application in association studies with Alzheimer and Parkinson disease

    Teiko Kimpara;Atsushi Takeda;Koichi Watanabe;Yasuto Itoyama

  • Binding sites of a novel neuropeptide pituitary-adenylate-cyclase-activating polypeptide in the rat brain and lung.

    Hing-Chung Lam;Kazuhiro Takahashi;Mohammed A. Ghatei;Sandip M. Kanse

  • Endothelin in Human Brain and Pituitary Gland: Presence of Immunoreactive Endothelin, Endothelin Messenger Ribonucleic Acid, and Endothelin Receptors

    Kazuhiro Takahashi;Mohammad A. Ghatei;Philip M. Jones;John K. Murphy

  • Expression of Urocortin and Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Receptor Subtypes in the Human Heart

    Yuichiro Kimura;Kazuhiro Takahashi;Kazuhito Totsune;Yasunari Muramatsu

  • Immunocytochemical localization of adrenomedullin-like immunoreactivity in the human hypothalamus and the adrenal gland.

    Fumitoshi Satoh;Kazuhiro Takahashi;Osamu Murakami;Kazuhito Totsune

  • Regulation of human heme oxygenase-1 gene expression under thermal stress

    Shoji Okinaga;Kazuhiro Takahashi;Kazuhisa Takeda;Miki Yoshizawa

  • Structural organization of the human microphthalmia-associated transcription factor gene containing four alternative promoters.

    Tetsuo Udono;Ken Ichi Yasumoto;Kazuhisa Takeda;Shintaro Amae

  • Aromatase in the human central nervous system.

    Hironobu Sasano;Kazuhiro Takahashi;Fumitoshi Satoh;Hiroshi Nagura

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigeki Shibahara
Shigeki Shibahara Tohoku University
Hironobu Sasano
Hironobu Sasano Tohoku University
Shinji Shimoda
Shinji Shimoda Kyushu University
Jun Hayashi
Jun Hayashi Haradoi Hospital
M. A. Ghatei
M. A. Ghatei Imperial College London
Yutaka Imai
Yutaka Imai Tohoku University
Takashi Suzuki
Takashi Suzuki Tohoku University
Sadayoshi Ito
Sadayoshi Ito Tohoku University
Makoto Tamai
Makoto Tamai Tohoku University
Takayoshi Ohkubo
Takayoshi Ohkubo Teikyo University

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