Koichiro Kawashima

Best Publications

• The lymphocytic cholinergic system and its contribution to the regulation of immune activity.

  Koichiro Kawashima;Takeshi Fujii

  434
  Citations

• Diversity of mRNA expression for muscarinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes and neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits in human mononuclear leukocytes and leukemic cell lines.

  Kazuo Z. Sato;Takeshi Fujii;Yoshihiro Watanabe;Shin Yamada

  382
  Citations

• Expression of non-neuronal acetylcholine in lymphocytes and its contribution to the regulation of immune function.

  Koichiro Kawashima;Takeshi Fujii

  337
  Citations

• Expression and Function of the Cholinergic System in Immune Cells.

  Takeshi Fujii;Masato Mashimo;Yasuhiro Moriwaki;Hidemi Misawa

  322
  Citations

• Expression and function of genes encoding cholinergic components in murine immune cells

  Koichiro Kawashima;Ken Yoshikawa;Yoshihito X. Fujii;Yasuhiro Moriwaki

  255
  Citations

• Evolutional study on acetylcholine expression.

  Yoko Horiuchi;Reika Kimura;Noriko Kato;Takeshi Fujii

  251
  Citations

• Basic and Clinical Aspects of Non-neuronal Acetylcholine: Overview of Non-neuronal Cholinergic Systems and Their Biological Significance

  Koichiro Kawashima;Takeshi Fujii

  237
  Citations

• The non-neuronal cholinergic system of human skin.

  H Kurzen;I Wessler;C J Kirkpatrick;K Kawashima

  234
  Citations

• The lymphocytic cholinergic system and its biological function.

  Koichiro Kawashima;Takeshi Fujii

  221
  Citations

• Critical roles of acetylcholine and the muscarinic and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the regulation of immune function

  Koichiro Kawashima;Takeshi Fujii;Yasuhiro Moriwaki;Hidemi Misawa

  207
  Citations

• Physiological functions of the cholinergic system in immune cells.

  Takeshi Fujii;Masato Mashimo;Yasuhiro Moriwaki;Hidemi Misawa

  192
  Citations

• Rat lymphocytes produce and secrete acetylcholine in dependence of differentiation and activation

  Ingo Rinner;Koichiro Kawashima;Konrad Schauenstein

  176
  Citations

• Radioimmunoassay for acetylcholine in the rat brain

  Koichiro Kawashima;Hiromichi Ishikawa;Masataka Mochizuki

  154
  Citations

• Basic and Clinical Aspects of Non-neuronal Acetylcholine: Expression of an Independent, Non-neuronal Cholinergic System in Lymphocytes and Its Clinical Significance in Immunotherapy

  Takeshi Fujii;Yuki Takada-Takatori;Koichiro Kawashima

  150
  Citations

• Stereospecific radioimmunoassay for propranolol isomers.

  K Kawashima;A Levy;S Spector

  143
  Citations

• LOCALIZATION AND SYNTHESIS OF ACETYLCHOLINE IN HUMAN LEUKEMIC T CELL LINES

  T. Fujii;T. Tsuchiya;S. Yamada;K. Fujimoto

  137
  Citations

• Acetylcholine synthesis and muscarinic receptor subtype mRNA expression in T-lymphocytes.

  K. Kawashima;T. Fujii;Y. Watanabe;H. Misawa

  130
  Citations

• Ubiquitous expression of acetylcholine and its biological functions in life forms without nervous systems.

  Koichiro Kawashima;Hidemi Misawa;Yasuhiro Moriwaki;Yoshihito X. Fujii

  129
  Citations

• Synthesis and release of acetylcholine by cultured bovine arterial endothelial cells.

  Koichiro Kawashima;Naomi Watanabe;Hisayo Oohata;Kazuko Fujimoto

  127
  Citations

• INDUCTION OF CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE MRNA IN HUMAN MONONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTES STIMULATED BY PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ, A T-CELL ACTIVATOR

  Takeshi Fujii;Shin Yamada;Yoshihiro Watanabe;Hidemi Misawa

  125
  Citations