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Kazunaga Agematsu

Kazunaga Agematsu

D-Index & Metrics

Immunology

D-Index
46
Citations
8571
World Ranking
4611
National Ranking
176

Kazunaga Agematsu publication distribution in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Immunology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kazunaga Agematsu sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 153 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 807 publications or more.

Kazunaga Agematsu D-index placement in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Immunology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kazunaga Agematsu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 157 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kazunaga Agematsu is affiliated with Shinshu University in Japan and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Immunology and Microbiology as well as Medicine. Their publication record includes work related to subfields such as Immunology, Molecular Biology, Surgery, Hematology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their research focuses on multiple interconnected topics including:

  • Inflammasome and immune disorders
  • Interferon and immune responses
  • Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
  • Eosinophilic Esophagitis
  • Kawasaki Disease and Coronary Complications

Agematsu has published in various scientific venues, including:

  • Scientific Reports
  • PubMed
  • Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology
  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Transplant Immunology

Notable recent papers by Agematsu include:

  • "KN3014, a piperidine-containing small compound, inhibits auto-secretion of IL-1β from PBMCs in a patient with Muckle-Wells syndrome," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "[AN ADULT CASE OF PERIODIC FEVER, APHTHOUS STOMATITIS, PHARYNGITIS, AND ADENITIS (PFAPA) SYNDROME DEVELOPED IN CHILDHOOD AND DIAGNOSED AFTER PROGRESS MORE THAN 30 YEARS].," 2020, PubMed
  • "Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease Caused by Mutations in the X-Linked Gene IL2RG," 2020, Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology
  • "SAT0527 COMBINED EFFECT OF COMMON VARIANTS IN EXON 2 OR EXON 3 AND A PATHOGENIC MUTATION IN EXON 10 OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FEVER GENE ON INFLAMMASOME ACTIVATION IN JAPANESE PATIENTS WITH FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER," 2020, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • "Unrelated cord blood transplantation using minimal-intensity conditioning in a 1.5-month-old infant with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency," 2024, Transplant Immunology

Frequent collaborators include researchers such as Tomonari Shigemura, Tomohiro Koga, Atsushi Kawakami, Akihiro Yachie, and Kiyoshi Migita. These coauthor relationships reflect a collaborative approach across overlapping fields related to immune function and inflammatory diseases.

Best Publications

  • Human Tyrosine Kinase 2 Deficiency Reveals Its Requisite Roles in Multiple Cytokine Signals Involved in Innate and Acquired Immunity

    Yoshiyuki Minegishi;Masako Saito;Tomohiro Morio;Ken Watanabe

  • CD27: a memory B-cell marker

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  • B cell subpopulations separated by CD27 and crucial collaboration of CD27+ B cells and helper T cells in immunoglobulin production

    Kazunaga Agematsu;Haruo Nagumo;Fen Chun Yang;Takayuki Nakazawa

  • Molecular explanation for the contradiction between systemic Th17 defect and localized bacterial infection in hyper-IgE syndrome

    Yoshiyuki Minegishi;Masako Saito;Masayuki Nagasawa;Hidetoshi Takada

  • Regulation of Aged Humoral Immune Defense against Pneumococcal Bacteria by IgM Memory B Cell

    Yuhui Shi;Takashi Yamazaki;Yoshio Okubo;Yoshio Uehara

  • Generation of Plasma Cells From Peripheral Blood Memory B Cells: Synergistic Effect of Interleukin-10 and CD27/CD70 Interaction

    Kazunaga Agematsu;Haruo Nagumo;Haruo Nagumo;Haruo Nagumo;Yumiko Oguchi;Yumiko Oguchi;Yumiko Oguchi;Takayuki Nakazawa;Takayuki Nakazawa;Takayuki Nakazawa

  • Absence of IgD-CD27(+) memory B cell population in X-linked hyper-IgM syndrome.

    Kazunaga Agematsu;Haruo Nagumo;Koji Shinozaki;Sho Hokibara

  • CD27-CD70 interactions regulate B-cell activation by T cells.

    Tetsuji Kobata;Serge Jacquot;Stacy Kozlowski;Kazunaga Agematsu

  • Functional analysis of human memory B-cell subpopulations: IgD+CD27+ B cells are crucial in secondary immune response by producing high affinity IgM.

    Yuhui Shi;Kazunaga Agematsu;Hans D Ochs;Kazuo Sugane

  • Mechanism of Hypergammaglobulinemia by HIV Infection: Circulating Memory B-Cell Reduction with Plasmacytosis

    Hisashi Nagase;Kazunaga Agematsu;Kiyoshi Kitano;Masaya Takamoto

  • Absence of memory B cells in patients with common variable immunodeficiency.

    Kazunaga Agematsu;Takeshi Futatani;Sho Hokibara;Norimoto Kobayashi

  • Theophylline accelerates human granulocyte apoptosis not via phosphodiesterase inhibition.

    K. Yasui;B. Hu;T. Nakazawa;K. Agematsu

  • Clinical and laboratory features of fatal rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease associated with juvenile dermatomyositis

    Norimoto Kobayashi;Shunichiro Takezaki;Ichiro Kobayashi;Naomi Iwata

  • Neutrophil-specific granule deficiency: homozygous recessive inheritance of a frameshift mutation in the gene encoding transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer binding protein--epsilon.

    Adrian F. Gombart;Masaaki Shiohara;Scott H. Kwok;Kazunaga Agematsu

  • Defective IL-10 signaling in hyper-IgE syndrome results in impaired generation of tolerogenic dendritic cells and induced regulatory T cells

    Masako Saito;Masayuki Nagasawa;Hidetoshi Takada;Toshiro Hara

  • Novel mutations in a Japanese patient with CD19 deficiency

    H Kanegane;K Agematsu;T Futatani;M M Sira

  • Genetic defect in human X-linked agammaglobulinemia impedes a maturational evolution of pro-B cells into a later stage of pre-B cells in the B-cell differentiation pathway.

    Keiko Nomura;Hirokazu Kanegane;Hajime Karasuyama;Satoshi Tsukada

  • Familial Mediterranean fever: genotype-phenotype correlations in Japanese patients.

    Kiyoshi Migita;Kazunaga Agematsu;Masahide Yazaki;Fumiaki Nonaka

  • Quantification of κ-deleting recombination excision circles in Guthrie cards for the identification of early B-cell maturation defects

    Noriko Nakagawa;Kohsuke Imai;Hirokazu Kanegane;Hiroki Sato

  • CD27/CD70 interaction directly drives B cell IgG and IgM synthesis

    Kazunaga Agematsu;Tetsuji Kobata;Feng‐Chun ‐C Yang;Takayuki Nakazawa

  • Detection of Bruton's tyrosine kinase mutations in hypogammaglobulinaemic males registered as common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) in the Japanese Immunodeficiency Registry

    H Kanegane;S Tsukada;T Iwata;T Futatani

  • CD27/CD70 interaction directly induces natural killer cell killing activity.

    F.C. Yang;K. Agematsu;T. Nakazawa;T. Mori

Frequent Co-Authors

Kiyoshi Migita
Kiyoshi Migita Fukushima Medical University
Akihiro Yachie
Akihiro Yachie Kanazawa University
Atsushi Kawakami
Atsushi Kawakami Nagasaki University
Katsumi Eguchi
Katsumi Eguchi Nagasaki University
Toshio Miyawaki
Toshio Miyawaki University of Toyama
Hirokazu Kanegane
Hirokazu Kanegane Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Chikao Morimoto
Chikao Morimoto Juntendo University
Tetsuji Kobata
Tetsuji Kobata Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Koh-ichiro Yoshiura
Koh-ichiro Yoshiura Nagasaki University
Osamu Ohara
Osamu Ohara Chiba University

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