Kozo Nakamura

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Best Publications

• T-cell-mediated regulation of osteoclastogenesis by signalling cross-talk between RANKL and IFN-gamma.

  Hiroshi Takayanagi;Kouetsu Ogasawara;Shigeaki Hida;Tomoki Chiba

  1564
  Citations

• PPAR γ insufficiency enhances osteogenesis through osteoblast formation from bone marrow progenitors

  Toru Akune;Shinsuke Ohba;Satoru Kamekura;Masayuki Yamaguchi

  1041
  Citations

• Prevalence of knee osteoarthritis, lumbar spondylosis, and osteoporosis in Japanese men and women: the research on osteoarthritis/osteoporosis against disability study.

  Noriko Yoshimura;Shigeyuki Muraki;Hiroyuki Oka;Akihiko Mabuchi

  947
  Citations

• Involvement of receptor activator of nuclear factor κB ligand/osteoclast differentiation factor in osteoclastogenesis from synoviocytes in rheumatoid arthritis

  Hiroshi Takayanagi;Hideharu Iizuka;Takuo Juji;Takumi Nakagawa

  856
  Citations

• RANKL maintains bone homeostasis through c-Fos-dependent induction of interferon - β

  Hiroshi Takayanagi;Sunhwa Kim;Koichi Matsuo;Hiroshi Suzuki

  818
  Citations

• Surface grafting of artificial joints with a biocompatible polymer for preventing periprosthetic osteolysis

  Toru Moro;Yoshio Takatori;Kazuhiko Ishihara;Tomohiro Konno

  654
  Citations

• An aspartic acid repeat polymorphism in asporin inhibits chondrogenesis and increases susceptibility to osteoarthritis.

  Hideki Kizawa;Ikuyo Kou;Aritoshi Iida;Akihiro Sudo

  650
  Citations

• Osteoarthritis development in novel experimental mouse models induced by knee joint instability.

  S. Kamekura;K. Hoshi;T. Shimoaka;U. Chung

  624
  Citations

• Transcriptional regulation of endochondral ossification by HIF-2α during skeletal growth and osteoarthritis development

  Taku Saito;Atsushi Fukai;Akihiko Mabuchi;Toshiyuki Ikeda

  591
  Citations

• Long-term results of double-door laminoplasty for cervical stenotic myelopathy.

  Atsushi Seichi;Katsushi Takeshita;Isao Ohishi;Hiroshi Kawaguchi

  500
  Citations

• Prevalence of radiographic knee osteoarthritis and its association with knee pain in the elderly of Japanese population-based cohorts: The ROAD study

  S. Muraki;H. Oka;T. Akune;A. Mabuchi

  480
  Citations

• Prevalence and distribution of intervertebral disc degeneration over the entire spine in a population-based cohort: the Wakayama Spine Study

  M. Teraguchi;N. Yoshimura;H. Hashizume;S. Muraki

  461
  Citations

• Trunk muscle weakness as a risk factor for low back pain: A 5-year prospective study

  Joon-Hee Lee;Yuichi Hoshino;Kozo Nakamura;Yusei Kariya

  434
  Citations

• Reciprocal Role of ERK and Nf-κb Pathways in Survival and Activation of Osteoclasts

  Tsuyoshi Miyazaki;Hideki Katagiri;Yumi Kanegae;Hiroshi Takayanagi

  434
  Citations

• The combination of SOX5, SOX6, and SOX9 (the SOX trio) provides signals sufficient for induction of permanent cartilage

  Toshiyuki Ikeda;Satoru Kamekura;Akihiko Mabuchi;Ikuyo Kou

  430
  Citations

• Role of RANKL in physiological and pathological bone resorption and therapeutics targeting the RANKL–RANK signaling system

  Sakae Tanaka;Kozo Nakamura;Naoyuki Takahasi;Tatsuo Suda

  430
  Citations

• A "super-aged" society and the "locomotive syndrome"

  Kozo Nakamura

  392
  Citations

• Insulin receptor substrate-1 in osteoblast is indispensable for maintaining bone turnover.

  Naoshi Ogata;Daichi Chikazu;Naoto Kubota;Yasuo Terauchi

  386
  Citations

• Accumulation of metabolic risk factors such as overweight, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and impaired glucose tolerance raises the risk of occurrence and progression of knee osteoarthritis: a 3-year follow-up of the ROAD study.

  N. Yoshimura;S. Muraki;H. Oka;S. Tanaka

  385
  Citations

• Regulation of bone formation by adiponectin through autocrine/paracrine and endocrine pathways.

  Yusuke Shinoda;Masayuki Yamaguchi;Naoshi Ogata;Toru Akune

  377
  Citations