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Kenji Kadomatsu

Kenji Kadomatsu

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
21252
World Ranking
3937
National Ranking
257

Overview

Kenji Kadomatsu is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has contributed significantly to research in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine. Their work spans various subfields including molecular biology, cell biology, oncology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and neurology.

The primary topics of research focus on proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans, nerve injury and regeneration, glycosylation and glycoproteins, neuroblastoma research and treatments, signaling pathways in disease, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, and skin and cellular biology.

Kenji Kadomatsu has published extensively in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Journal of Biochemistry
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Experimental Neurology
  • Cancer Science
  • Glycobiology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kadomatsu include:

  • "CD147 Is Essential for the Development of Psoriasis via the Induction of Th17 Cell Differentiation" (2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • "Spatial and single-cell colocalisation analysis reveals MDK-mediated immunosuppressive environment with regulatory T cells in colorectal carcinogenesis" (2024, EBioMedicine)
  • "Chondroitin 6-sulfate represses keratinocyte proliferation in mouse skin, which is associated with psoriasis" (2021, Communications Biology)
  • "Systematic characterization of seed overlap microRNA cotargeting associated with lupus pathogenesis" (2022, BMC Biology)
  • "Type IIa RPTPs and Glycans: Roles in Axon Regeneration and Synaptogenesis" (2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)

Frequent collaborators in research include:

  • Kazuma Sakamoto
  • Shoma Tsubota
  • Tomoya Ozaki
  • Tomoki Kosugi
  • Shoichi Maruyama

The scope of their work demonstrates a multidisciplinary approach integrating molecular mechanisms with clinical and pathological contexts across skin biology, neurobiology, and oncology domains.

Best Publications

  • cDNA cloning and sequencing of a new gene intensely expressed in early differentiation stages of embryonal carcinoma cells and in mid-gestation period of mouse embryogenesis.

    Kenji Kadomatsu;Mineko Tomomura;Takashi Muramatsu

  • Minocycline selectively inhibits M1 polarization of microglia

    K Kobayashi;S Imagama;T Ohgomori;K Hirano

  • Human dental pulp-derived stem cells promote locomotor recovery after complete transection of the rat spinal cord by multiple neuro-regenerative mechanisms

    Kiyoshi Sakai;Akihito Yamamoto;Kohki Matsubara;Shoko Nakamura

  • A Small Interfering RNA Targeting Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor as Cancer Therapeutics

    Yoshifumi Takei;Kenji Kadomatsu;Yukio Yuzawa;Seiichi Matsuo

  • A receptor-like protein-tyrosine phosphatase PTPzeta/RPTPbeta binds a heparin-binding growth factor midkine. Involvement of arginine 78 of midkine in the high affinity binding to PTPzeta.

    Nobuaki Maeda;Keiko Ichihara-Tanaka;Terutoshi Kimura;Kenji Kadomatsu

  • Midkine and pleiotrophin in neural development and cancer

    Kenji Kadomatsu;Takashi Muramatsu

  • A New Family of Heparin-binding Growth/Differentiation Factors: Increased Midkine Expression in Wilms' Tumor and Other Human Carcinomas

    Jun-ichiro Tsutsui;Kenji Kadomatsu;Shyuichiro Matsubara;Akira Nakagawara

  • A retinoic acid responsive gene MK found in the teratocarcinoma system is expressed in spatially and temporally controlled manner during mouse embryogenesis.

    K. Kadomatsu;Ruo-Pan Huang;T. Suganuma;F. Murata

  • A Null Mutation in Basigin, an Immunoglobulin Superfamily Member, Indicates Its Important Roles in Peri-implantation Development and Spermatogenesis

    Tadahiko Igakura;Kenji Kadomatsu;Tadashi Kaname;Tadashi Kaname;Hisako Muramatsu

  • Complete antithrombin deficiency in mice results in embryonic lethality

    Kazuhiro Ishiguro;Tetsuhito Kojima;Kenji Kadomatsu;Yukiko Nakayama

  • Serum midkine levels are increased in patients with various types of carcinomas

    S Ikematsu;A Yano;K Aridome;M Kikuchi

  • Neointima formation in a restenosis model is suppressed in midkine-deficient mice.

    Mitsuru Horiba;Kenji Kadomatsu;Eishin Nakamura;Hisako Muramatsu

  • Midkine is involved in neutrophil infiltration into the tubulointerstitium in ischemic renal injury.

    Waichi Sato;Kenji Kadomatsu;Yukio Yuzawa;Hisako Muramatsu

  • A retinoic acid-responsive gene, MK, found in the teratocarcinoma system. Heterogeneity of the transcript and the nature of the translation product.

    M Tomomura;K Kadomatsu;S Matsubara;T Muramatsu

  • Increased midkine gene expression in human gastrointestinal cancers

    Kuniaki Aridome;Jun-ichiro Tsutsui;Sonshin Takao;Kenji Kadomatsu;Kenji Kadomatsu

  • N-acetylglucosamine-6-O-sulfotransferases 1 and 2 cooperatively control lymphocyte homing through L-selectin ligand biosynthesis in high endothelial venules.

    Hiroto Kawashima;Bronislawa Petryniak;Nobuyoshi Hiraoka;Junya Mitoma

  • Haptotactic migration induced by midkine. Involvement of protein-tyrosine phosphatase zeta. Mitogen-activated protein kinase, and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase.

    Maosong Qi;Shinya Ikematsu;Nobuaki Maeda;Keiko Ichihara-Tanaka

  • Molecular cloning and characterization of an N-acetylglucosamine-6-O-sulfotransferase.

    Kenji Uchimura;Hideki Muramatsu;Kenji Kadomatsu;Qi-Wen Fan

  • Nuclear targeting by the growth factor midkine.

    Yoshihisa Shibata;Takashi Muramatsu;Makoto Hirai;Tatsuya Inui

  • Antisense oligodeoxynucleotide targeted to Midkine, a heparin-binding growth factor, suppresses tumorigenicity of mouse rectal carcinoma cells.

    Yoshifumi Takei;Kenji Kadomatsu;Seiichi Matsuo;Hiroshi Itoh

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Muramatsu
Takashi Muramatsu Nagoya University
Seiichi Matsuo
Seiichi Matsuo Nagoya University
Naoki Ishiguro
Naoki Ishiguro Nagoya University
Akimasa Nakao
Akimasa Nakao Nagoya University
Tetsuhito Kojima
Tetsuhito Kojima Nagoya University
Toyoaki Murohara
Toyoaki Murohara Nagoya University
Kazuhiro Ikenaka
Kazuhiro Ikenaka National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Hidehiko Saito
Hidehiko Saito Nagoya Medical Center
Reiji Kannagi
Reiji Kannagi Academia Sinica

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