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Kenji Inaba is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on subfields including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Physiology, and Immunology.

The main topics Kenji Inaba has contributed to involve:

  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Trace Elements in Health
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins

Frequent publication venues for Inaba's work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Science Advances

Kenji Inaba has coauthored several publications with recurring collaborators such as Satoshi Watanabe, Masaki Okumura, Shingo Kanemura, Yuta Amagai, and Masahide Kikkawa.

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Organelle-Level Labile Zn2+ Mapping Based on Targetable Fluorescent Sensors," 2022, ACS Sensors
  • "Quantitative Imaging of Labile Zn2+ in the Golgi Apparatus Using a Localizable Small-Molecule Fluorescent Probe," 2020, Cell chemical biology
  • "Supersulphides provide airway protection in viral and chronic lung diseases," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Characterization of the endoplasmic reticulum-resident peroxidases GPx7 and GPx8 shows the higher oxidative activity of GPx7 and its linkage to oxidative protein folding," 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "Antipsychotic olanzapine-induced misfolding of proinsulin in the endoplasmic reticulum accounts for atypical development of diabetes," 2020, eLife

Best Publications

  • Transfusion of plasma, platelets, and red blood cells in a 1: 1:1 vs a 1:1:2 ratio and mortality in patients with severe trauma: The PROPPR randomized clinical trial

    John B. Holcomb;Barbara C. Tilley;Sarah Baraniuk;Erin E. Fox

  • The association of race and survival from sepsis after injury.

    David S Plurad;Thomas Lustenberger;Patrick Kilday;Jay Zhu

  • Preventable or potentially preventable mortality at a mature trauma center.

    Pedro G. R. Teixeira;Kenji Inaba;Pantelis Hadjizacharia;Chelsea Brown

  • Cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase governs cysteine polysulfidation and mitochondrial bioenergetics

    Takaaki Akaike;Tomoaki Ida;Fan-Yan Wei;Motohiro Nishida;Motohiro Nishida

  • The AAST prospective Aortic Occlusion for Resuscitation in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (AORTA) registry: Data on contemporary utilization and outcomes of aortic occlusion and resuscitative balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA)

    Joseph J DuBose;Thomas M Scalea;Megan Brenner;Dimitra Skiada

  • The management of intra-abdominal infections from a global perspective: 2017 WSES guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections

    Massimo Sartelli;Alain Chichom-Mefire;Francesco M. Labricciosa;Timothy Hardcastle

  • Damage control resuscitation in patients with severe traumatic hemorrhage: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

    Jeremy W. Cannon;Mansoor A. Khan;Ali S. Raja;Mitchell J. Cohen

  • Selective nonoperative management of penetrating abdominal solid organ injuries.

    Demetrios Demetriades;Pantelis Hadjizacharia;Costas Constantinou;Carlos Brown

  • Bologna guidelines for diagnosis and management of adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO): 2017 update of the evidence-based guidelines from the world society of emergency surgery ASBO working group

    Richard P. G. ten Broek;Pepijn Krielen;Salomone Di Saverio;Federico Coccolini

  • Splenic trauma: WSES classification and guidelines for adult and pediatric patients

    Federico Coccolini;Giulia Montori;Fausto Catena;Yoram Kluger

  • Evaluation of rotation thrombelastography for the diagnosis of hyperfibrinolysis in trauma patients.

    A. Levrat;A. Gros;L. Rugeri;K. Inaba

  • Prevention of postoperative peritoneal adhesions: a review of the literature.

    Beat Schnüriger;Galinos Barmparas;Bernardino C. Branco;Thomas Lustenberger

  • Coagulopathy in severe traumatic brain injury: a prospective study.

    Peep Talving;Rodd Benfield;Pantelis Hadjizacharia;Kenji Inaba

  • FIBTEM provides early prediction of massive transfusion in trauma

    Herbert Schöchl;Bryan A Cotton;Kenji Inaba;Ulrike Nienaber

  • Emergency general surgery: definition and estimated burden of disease.

    Shahid Shafi;Michel B. Aboutanos;Suresh Agarwal;Carlos V.R. Brown

  • Impact of Plasma Transfusion in Trauma Patients Who Do Not Require Massive Transfusion

    Kenji Inaba;Bernardino C. Branco;Peter Rhee;Lorne H. Blackbourne

  • Crystal structure of the DsbB-DsbA complex reveals a mechanism of disulfide bond generation.

    Kenji Inaba;Kenji Inaba;Satoshi Murakami;Satoshi Murakami;Mamoru Suzuki;Atsushi Nakagawa

  • 2020 update of the WSES guidelines for the management of acute colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting

    Massimo Sartelli;Dieter G. Weber;Yoram Kluger;Luca Ansaloni

  • The immunomodulatory effects of hypertonic saline resuscitation in patients sustaining traumatic hemorrhagic shock : A randomized, controlled, double-blinded trial

    Sandro B. Rizoli;Shawn G. Rhind;Pang N. Shek;Kenji Inaba

  • The open abdomen in trauma and non-trauma patients: WSES guidelines

    Federico Coccolini;Derek Roberts;Luca Ansaloni;Rao Ivatury

Frequent Co-Authors

Demetrios Demetriades
Demetrios Demetriades University of Southern California
Ali Salim
Ali Salim Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peter Rhee
Peter Rhee New York Medical College
Thomas M. Scalea
Thomas M. Scalea University of Maryland, Baltimore
John B. Holcomb
John B. Holcomb University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ernest E. Moore
Ernest E. Moore University of Colorado Denver
Karen J. Brasel
Karen J. Brasel Medical College of Wisconsin
Martin A. Schreiber
Martin A. Schreiber Oregon Health & Science University
Raul Coimbra
Raul Coimbra Riverside University Health System - Medical Center
Andrew W. Kirkpatrick
Andrew W. Kirkpatrick University of Calgary

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