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103

Overview

Kusuki Nishioka is affiliated with St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with substantial contributions to the fields of pulmonary and respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, genetics, surgery, and immunology.

The main topics studied by Nishioka include gastrointestinal tumor research and treatment, gastric cancer management and outcomes, inflammatory bowel disease, metastasis and carcinoma case studies, gut microbiota and health, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, as well as esophageal and gastrointestinal pathology.

The scientist has published research in various peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include Endoscopy, Journal of Gastroenterology, World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Scientific Reports, and DEN Open. Their recent papers include:

  • Mucosa-associated gut microbiota reflects clinical course of ulcerative colitis (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Mucosal IL23A expression predicts the response to Ustekinumab in inflammatory bowel disease (2021, Journal of Gastroenterology)
  • Role of the IL-23-T-bet/GATA3 Axis for the Pathogenesis of Ulcerative Colitis (2020, Inflammation)
  • Comparisons of outcomes between ProKnife injection endoscopic submucosal dissection and conventional endoscopic submucosal dissection for large gastric lesions in ex vivo porcine model study: A randomized controlled trial (2022, DEN Open)
  • Auxiliary diagnosis of subepithelial lesions by impedance measurement during EUS-guided fine-needle biopsy (2022, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy)

They frequently collaborate with several coauthors, including Eikichi Ihara, Haruei Ogino, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Yosuke Minoda, and Mitsuru Esaki. These collaborators have partnered on multiple projects contributing to the broad scope of research areas in which Nishioka is involved.

Best Publications

  • CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY ARTHROPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH HTLV-I

    Kusuki Nishioka;Ikuro Maruyama;Kazuto Sato;Isao Kitajima

  • Potential involvement of oxidative stress in cartilage senescence and development of osteoarthritis: oxidative stress induces chondrocyte telomere instability and downregulation of chondrocyte function

    Kazuo Yudoh;Nguyen van Trieu;Hiroshi Nakamura;Kayo Hongo-Masuko

  • Induction of inflammatory arthropathy resembling rheumatoid arthritis in mice transgenic for HTLV-I.

    Yoichiro Iwakura;Mariko Tosu;Emi Yoshida;Masafumi Takiguchi

  • Selective reduction of T cells bearing invariant V alpha 24J alpha Q antigen receptor in patients with systemic sclerosis.

    T Sumida;A Sakamoto;H Murata;Y Makino

  • Augmented interleukin-1 production and HLA-DR expression in the synovium of rheumatoid arthritis patients. Possible involvement in joint destruction.

    Nobuyuki Miyasaka;Kazuto Sato;Makoto Goto;Minoru Sasano

  • Synoviolin/Hrd1, an E3 ubiquitin ligase, as a novel pathogenic factor for arthropathy.

    Tetsuya Amano;Satoshi Yamasaki;Naoko Yagishita;Kaneyuki Tsuchimochi

  • Specificity of antibodies to type II collagen in rheumatoid arthritis.

    Kuniaki Terato;Kuniaki Terato;Yasunori Shimozuru;Kou Katayama;Yoshiharu Takemitsu

  • Accumulation of multiple T cell clonotypes in the synovial lesions of patients with rheumatoid arthritis revealed by a novel clonality analysis

    Kazuhiko Yamamoto;Kazuhiko Yamamoto;Hiroko Sakoda;Toshihiro Nakajima;Tomohiro Kato

  • Activation of transcription factor NF-κB in human synovial cells in response to tumor necrosis factor α

    Koushi Fujisawa;Hiroyuki Aono;Tomoko Hasunuma;Kazuhiko Yamamoto

  • The role of C-C chemokines and their receptors in osteoarthritis.

    Guo-Hua Yuan;Kayo Masuko-Hongo;Masahiro Sakata;Jun-Ichiro Tsuruha

  • Identification of novel citrullinated autoantigens of synovium in rheumatoid arthritis using a proteomic approach

    Kosuke Matsuo;Kosuke Matsuo;Yang Xiang;Hiroshi Nakamura;Kayo Masuko

  • Detection of human T cell lymphotropic virus type I proviral DNA and its gene expression in synovial cells in chronic inflammatory arthropathy.

    I Kitajima;K Yamamoto;K Sato;Y Nakajima

  • Abnormally High Levels of Virus-Infected IFN-γ+CCR4+CD4+CD25+ T Cells in a Retrovirus-Associated Neuroinflammatory Disorder

    Yoshihisa Yamano;Natsumi Araya;Tomoo Sato;Atae Utsunomiya

  • T-cell mediated inflammatory pathway in osteoarthritis

    H Nakamura;H Nakamura;S Yoshino;T Kato;J Tsuruha

  • Spontaneous production of an interleukin 1-like factor by cloned rheumatoid synovial cells in long-term culture.

    M Goto;M Sasano;H Yamanaka;N Miyasaka

  • Direct evidence of high DNA binding activity of transcription factor AP-1 in rheumatoid arthritis synovium

    Hiroshi Asahara;Koushi Fujisawa;Tetsuji Kobata;Tomoko Hasunuma

  • Induction of apoptosis in the rheumatoid synovium by Fas ligand gene transfer.

    K Okamoto;H Asahara;T Kobayashi;H Matsuno

  • Arthritis in patients infected with human T lymphotropic virus type I. Clinical and immunopathologic features

    Kazuto Sato;Ikuro Maruyama;Yoshikazu Maruyama;Isao Kitajima

  • Review: Apoptosis in rheumatoid arthritis: A novel pathway in the regulation of synovial tissue

    Kusuki Nishioka;Tomoko Hasunuma;Tomohiro Kato;Takayuki Sumida

  • HTLV-1 induces a Th1-like state in CD4+CCR4+ T cells

    Natsumi Araya;Tomoo Sato;Hitoshi Ando;Utano Tomaru

  • The role of subchondral bone resorption pits in osteoarthritis: MMP production by cells derived from bone marrow.

    A. Shibakawa;K. Yudoh;K. Masuko-Hongo;T. Kato

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomohiro Kato
Tomohiro Kato St. Marianna University School of Medicine
Naoyuki Kamatani
Naoyuki Kamatani StaGen (Japan)
Takayuki Sumida
Takayuki Sumida University of Tsukuba
Tetsuji Kobata
Tetsuji Kobata Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Nobuyuki Miyasaka
Nobuyuki Miyasaka Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Hisashi Yamanaka
Hisashi Yamanaka International University of Health and Welfare
Ikuro Maruyama
Ikuro Maruyama Kagoshima University
Hiroshi Asahara
Hiroshi Asahara Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Akiyoshi Fukamizu
Akiyoshi Fukamizu University of Tsukuba

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