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Koichi Tanaka

Koichi Tanaka

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Medicine

D-Index
90
Citations
28980
World Ranking
12227
National Ranking
361

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Koichi Tanaka is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has made contributions primarily in the fields of medicine and chemistry. Their work focuses extensively on several subfields, including spectroscopy, physiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, and surgery. Tanaka's research addresses a variety of topics such as Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, advanced proteomics techniques and applications, mass spectrometry techniques and applications, analytical chemistry and chromatography, organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, liver disease and transplantation, as well as amyloidosis diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes.

Their recent papers include:

  • Acyltransferase that catalyses the condensation of polyketide and peptide moieties of goadvionin hybrid lipopeptides, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Highly Efficient Light Helicity Detection of Enantiomers by Chiral Metal-Organic Framework Thin Films, 2023, Nano Letters
  • Gas-Phase Peptide Fragmentation Induced by Hydrogen Attachment, from Principle to Sequencing of Amide Nitrogen-Methylated Peptides, 2020, Analytical Chemistry
  • Hot Hydrogen Atom Irradiation of Protonated/Deprotonated Peptide in an Ion Trap Facilitates Fragmentation through Heated Radical Formation, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Discrimination of Aspartic and Isoaspartic Acid Residues in Peptides by Tandem Mass Spectrometry with Hydrogen Attachment Dissociation, 2024, Analytical Chemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tanaka include:

  • Shinichi Iwamoto (12 publications)
  • Naoki Kaneko (8 publications)
  • Sadanori Sekiya (6 publications)
  • Hidenori Takahashi (5 publications)
  • Daiki Asakawa (5 publications)

Tanaka has published in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia (8 publications)
  • Analytical Chemistry (2 publications)
  • Journal of Liver Transplantation (2 publications)
  • Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (2 publications)
  • Nano Letters (1 publication)

Tanaka has been recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Monolayered mesenchymal stem cells repair scarred myocardium after myocardial infarction.

    Yoshinori Miyahara;Noritoshi Nagaya;Masaharu Kataoka;Bobby Yanagawa

  • Impact of graft size mismatching on graft prognosis in liver transplantation from living donors.

    Tetsuya Kiuchi;Mureo Kasahara;Kenji Uryuhara;Yukihiro Inomata

  • The utility of marginal donors in liver transplantation.

    Ronald W. Busuttil;Koichi Tanaka

  • Surgical techniques and innovations in living related liver transplantation.

    K Tanaka;S Uemoto;Y Tokunaga;S Fujita

  • Right lobe graft in living donor liver transplantation

    Yukihiro Inomata;Shinji Uemoto;Katsuhiro Asonuma;Hiroto Egawa

  • Weaning of immunosuppression in living donor liver transplant recipients.

    Mitsuhisa Takatsuki;Shinji Uemoto;Yukihiro Inomata;Hiroto Egawa

  • A new cell-permeable peptide allows successful allogeneic islet transplantation in mice

    Hirofumi Noguchi;Masayuki Matsushita;Teru Okitsu;Teru Okitsu;Akiyoshi Moriwaki

  • Anatomical variations and surgical strategies in right lobe living donor liver transplantation: lessons from 120 cases.

    Taro Nakamura;Koichi Tanaka;Tetsuya Kiuchi;Mureo Kasahara

  • Operative morbidity of living liver donors in Japan.

    Koji Umeshita;Kenji Fujiwara;Kendo Kiyosawa;Masatoshi Makuuchi

  • Liver transplantation using a right lobe graft from a living related donor.

    Yoshio Yamaoka;Masanobu Washida;Kazuo Honda;Koichi Tanaka

  • Latent hepatitis B virus infection in healthy individuals with antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen.

    Hiroyuki Marusawa;Shinji Uemoto;Makoto Hijikata;Yoshihide Ueda

  • Transmission of hepatitis B virus from hepatitis B core antibody- positive donors in living related liver transplants

    Shinji Uemoto;Kohachiro Sugiyama;Hiroyuki Marusawa;Yukihiro Inomata

  • Small-for-size graft in living donor liver transplantation: How far should we go?

    Tetsuya Kiuchi;Koichi Tanaka;Takashi Ito;Fumitaka Oike

  • Insulin independence after living-donor distal pancreatectomy and islet allotransplantation

    Shinichi Matsumoto;Teru Okitsu;Yasuhiro Iwanaga;Hirofumi Noguchi

  • Analyses of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in operational tolerance after pediatric living donor liver transplantation.

    Ying Li;Takaaki Koshiba;Atsushi Yoshizawa;Yukihide Yonekawa

  • Pharmacokinetics, safety, and endocrine and appetite effects of ghrelin administration in young healthy subjects

    Takashi Akamizu;Kazuhiko Takaya;Taiga Irako;Hiroshi Hosoda

  • Induction of antigen-specific immunologic tolerance by in vivo and in vitro antigen-specific expansion of naturally arising Foxp3+CD25+CD4+ regulatory T cells.

    Eiji Nishimura;Toshiko Sakihama;Ruka Setoguchi;Koichi Tanaka

  • C3435T polymorphism in the MDR1 gene affects the enterocyte expression level of CYP3A4 rather than Pgp in recipients of living-donor liver transplantation.

    Maki Goto;Satohiro Masuda;Hideyuki Saito;Shinji Uemoto

  • Biliary Reconstruction in Right Lobe Living-Donor Liver Transplantation: Comparison of Different Techniques in 321 Recipients

    Mureo Kasahara;Hiroto Egawa;Yasutsugu Takada;Fumitaka Oike

  • Expansion of selection criteria for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in living donor liver transplantation.

    Takashi Ito;Yasutsugu Takada;Mikiko Ueda;Hironori Haga

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinji Uemoto
Shinji Uemoto Kyoto University
Hiroto Egawa
Hiroto Egawa Kyoto University
Ken-ichi Inui
Ken-ichi Inui Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
Tsutomu Chiba
Tsutomu Chiba Kyoto University
Satohiro Masuda
Satohiro Masuda Himeji Dokkyo University
Hiroyuki Marusawa
Hiroyuki Marusawa Kyoto University
Junji Konishi
Junji Konishi Kyoto University
Yoshizo Asano
Yoshizo Asano Fujita Health University
Yoshio Yamaoka
Yoshio Yamaoka Oita University

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