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Kazuyoshi Ikuta

Kazuyoshi Ikuta

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Immunology

D-Index
66
Citations
13998
World Ranking
2779
National Ranking
115

Overview

Kazuyoshi Ikuta is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work encompasses several subfields, including Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology.

The scientist's published studies include topics oriented around viral infections and vectors, mosquito-borne diseases and control, virology and viral diseases, transgenic plants and their applications, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, viral infectious diseases and gene expression in insects, and botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Fully Human Monoclonal Antibodies Effectively Neutralizing Botulinum Neurotoxin Serotype B (2020, Toxins)
  • Shedding of rubella virus in postsymptomatic individuals; viral RNA load is a potential indicator to estimate candidate patients excreting infectious rubella virus (2023, Journal of Clinical Virology)
  • Chimeric flavivirus enables evaluation of antibodies against dengue virus envelope protein in vitro and in vivo (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Ongoing rubella epidemic in Osaka, Japan, in 2018-2019 (2020, Western Pacific surveillance response journal)
  • Virus Neutralization by Human Intravenous Immunoglobulin Against Influenza Virus Subtypes A/H5 and A/H7 (2021, Biologics)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated on multiple publications with Kazuyoshi Ikuta include Kazushi Motomura, Tadahiro Sasaki, Ryo Misaki, Kazuhito Fujiyama, and Daiki Kanbayashi.

Publication venues where their work frequently appears include:

  • Toxins
  • Journal of Clinical Virology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Western Pacific surveillance response journal
  • Biologics

Best Publications

  • Endogenous non-retroviral RNA virus elements in mammalian genomes

    Masayuki Horie;Tomoyuki Honda;Tomoyuki Honda;Yoshiyuki Suzuki;Yuki Kobayashi

  • Direct Metagenomic Detection of Viral Pathogens in Nasal and Fecal Specimens Using an Unbiased High-Throughput Sequencing Approach

    Shota Nakamura;Cheng-Song Yang;Naomi Sakon;Mayo Ueda

  • Acquisition of Human-Type Receptor Binding Specificity by New H5N1 Influenza Virus Sublineages during Their Emergence in Birds in Egypt

    Yohei Watanabe;Madiha S. Ibrahim;Madiha S. Ibrahim;Hany F. Ellakany;Norihito Kawashita

  • Lipid rafts play an important role in the early stage of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus life cycle.

    Gui-Mei Li;Yong-Gang Li;Masanobu Yamate;Shu-Ming Li

  • Isolation of Borna Disease Virus from Human Brain Tissue

    Yurie Nakamura;Hirokazu Takahashi;Yuko Shoya;Takaaki Nakaya

  • Molecular and cellular biology of Borna disease virus infection.

    Keizo Tomonaga;Takeshi Kobayashi;Kazuyoshi Ikuta

  • The changing nature of avian influenza A virus (H5N1)

    Yohei Watanabe;Madiha S. Ibrahim;Madiha S. Ibrahim;Yasuo Suzuki;Yasuo Suzuki;Kazuyoshi Ikuta

  • Demonstration of human Borna disease virus RNA in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells

    Masahiko Kishi;Takaaki Nakaya;Yurie Nakamura;Qiu Zhong

  • Interleukin-1 Family Cytokines as Mucosal Vaccine Adjuvants for Induction of Protective Immunity against Influenza Virus

    Hiroyuki Kayamuro;Yasuo Yoshioka;Yasuhiro Abe;Shuhei Arita

  • Secreted complement regulatory protein clusterin interacts with dengue virus nonstructural protein 1.

    Takeshi Kurosu;Panjaporn Chaichana;Masanobu Yamate;Surapee Anantapreecha

  • Amplification of a tandem direct repeat within inverted repeats of Marek's disease virus DNA during serial in vitro passage.

    K Maotani;A Kanamori;K Ikuta;S Ueda

  • Human monoclonal antibodies broadly neutralizing against influenza B virus.

    Mayo Yasugi;Ritsuko Kubota-Koketsu;Ritsuko Kubota-Koketsu;Akifumi Yamashita;Norihito Kawashita

  • Bornavirus Closely Associates and Segregates with Host Chromosomes to Ensure Persistent Intranuclear Infection

    Yusuke Matsumoto;Yohei Hayashi;Yohei Hayashi;Hiroko Omori;Tomoyuki Honda

  • Expression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gag antigens on the surface of a cell line persistently infected with HIV-1 that highly expresses HIV-1 antigens.

    Kazuyoshi Ikuta;Chizuko Morita;Chizuko Morita;Shiro Miyake;Tetsuya Ito

  • Broad neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies against influenza virus from vaccinated healthy donors.

    Ritsuko Kubota-Koketsu;Hiroyuki Mizuta;Masatoshi Oshita;Shoji Ideno

  • H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus Induces Apoptotic Cell Death in Mammalian Airway Epithelial Cells

    Tomo Daidoji;Takaaki Koma;Anariwa Du;Cheng-Song Yang

  • Prevalence of Borna disease virus RNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from blood donors

    Kishi M;Nakaya T;Nakamura Y;Kakinuma M

  • RNA Interference Directed against Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase 1 Efficiently Suppresses Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Replication in Human Cells

    Masanori Kameoka;Souichi Nukuzuma;Asako Itaya;Yasuharu Tanaka

  • Demonstration of Borna disease virus RNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells derived from Japanese patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.

    Takaaki Nakaya;Hirokazu Takahashi;Yurie Nakamura;Sayumi Asahi

  • Molecular cloning of a novel isolate of feline immunodeficiency virus biologically and genetically different from the original U.S. isolate.

    T Miyazawa;M Fukasawa;A Hasegawa;N Maki

  • Photoinactivation of Virus Infectivity by Hypocrellin A

    Junichi Hirayama;Kenji Ikebuchi;Hideki Abe;Kil-Won Kwon

Frequent Co-Authors

Takaaki Nakaya
Takaaki Nakaya Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Keizo Tomonaga
Keizo Tomonaga Kyoto University
Takashi Onodera
Takashi Onodera University of Tokyo
Shota Nakamura
Shota Nakamura Osaka University
Koichi Yamanishi
Koichi Yamanishi Osaka University
Akio Adachi
Akio Adachi Kansai Medical University
Ichiro Azuma
Ichiro Azuma Hokkaido University
Takeshi Kurata
Takeshi Kurata Juntendo University
Yasuo Suzuki
Yasuo Suzuki Chubu University
Takeshi Mikami
Takeshi Mikami University of Tokyo

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