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Masahiro Iwamoto is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Their research spans several subfields including surgery, immunology, physiology, and hematology.

Their work primarily addresses topics related to diabetes treatment and management, diabetes management and research, pancreatic function and diabetes, nutrition and health in aging, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders research, immune cell function and interaction, and the intersection of metabolism, diabetes, and cancer.

Masahiro Iwamoto has been involved in publications across various respected journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Modern Rheumatology
  • Journal of Diabetes Investigation
  • Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism
  • Internal Medicine
  • Geriatrics and gerontology international/Geriatrics & gerontology international

A selection of recent papers by Masahiro Iwamoto includes:

  • Impact of sarcopenia on glycemic control and atherosclerosis in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes: Cross-sectional study using outpatient clinical data, 2020, Geriatrics and gerontology international/Geriatrics & gerontology international
  • Clinical features of elderly-onset Adult-onset Still's disease, 2020, Modern Rheumatology
  • Significance of body mass index for diagnosing sarcopenia is equivalent to slow gait speed in Japanese individuals with type 2 diabetes: Cross-sectional study using outpatient clinical data, 2020, Journal of Diabetes Investigation
  • Applications of physical performance measures to routine diabetes care for frailty prevention concept: fundamental data with grip strength, gait speed, timed chair stand speed, standing balance, and knee extension strength, 2020, BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care
  • Droperidol Reduces Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting and Supports the Continuation of Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia with Fentanyl, 2020, Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Masahiro Iwamoto frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field, including:

  • Hideaki Kaneto
  • Shuhei Nakanishi
  • Hideyuki Iwamoto
  • Kohei Kaku
  • Masashi Shimoda

Best Publications

  • Cbfa1 is a positive regulatory factor in chondrocyte maturation.

    Hirayuki Enomoto;Motomi Enomoto-Iwamoto;Masahiro Iwamoto;Shintaro Nomura

  • Skeletal Malformations Caused by Overexpression of Cbfa1 or Its Dominant Negative Form in Chondrocytes

    Chisato Ueta;Masahiro Iwamoto;Naoko Kanatani;Carolina Yoshida

  • Developmental Regulation of Wnt/β-Catenin Signals Is Required for Growth Plate Assembly, Cartilage Integrity, and Endochondral Ossification

    Yoshihiro Tamamura;Tomohiro Otani;Naoko Kanatani;Eiki Koyama

  • Terminal differentiation and calcification in rabbit chondrocyte cultures grown in centrifuge tubes: regulation by transforming growth factor beta and serum factors.

    Yukio Kato;Masahiro Iwamoto;Tatsuya Koike;Fujio Suzuki

  • Potent inhibition of heterotopic ossification by nuclear retinoic acid receptor-γ agonists

    Kengo Shimono;Wei En Tung;Wei En Tung;Christine MacOlino;Amber Hsu Tsai Chi

  • A distinct cohort of progenitor cells participates in synovial joint and articular cartilage formation during mouse limb skeletogenesis.

    Eiki Koyama;Yoshihiro Shibukawa;Motohiko Nagayama;Hiroki Sugito

  • Mechanisms of synovial joint and articular cartilage formation: recent advances, but many lingering mysteries

    Maurizio Pacifici;Eiki Koyama;Masahiro Iwamoto

  • Induction of Osteogenic Differentiation by Hedgehog Proteins

    Takashi Nakamura;Tomonao Aikawa;Motomi Iwamoto-Enomoto;Masahiro Iwamoto

  • Fibroblast growth factor is an inhibitor of chondrocyte terminal differentiation.

    Y Kato;M Iwamoto

  • Wnt/ β -catenin signaling stimulates matrix catabolic genes and activity in articular chondrocytes: its possible role in joint degeneration

    Takahito Yuasa;Tomohiro Otani;Tatsuya Koike;Masahiro Iwamoto

  • DX-9065a, a new synthetic, potent anticoagulant and selective inhibitor for factor Xa.

    Tsuyoshi Hara;Asako Yokoyama;Hiroaki Ishihara;Yukio Yokoyama

  • BMP SIGNALING DURING BONE PATTERN DETERMINATION IN THE DEVELOPING LIMB

    Y. Kawakami;T. Ishikawa;M. Shimabara;N. Tanda

  • The Wnt antagonist Frzb-1 regulates chondrocyte maturation and long bone development during limb skeletogenesis.

    Motomi Enomoto-Iwamoto;Jirouta Kitagaki;Eiki Koyama;Yoshihiro Tamamura

  • Matrix GLA protein is a developmental regulator of chondrocyte mineralization and, when constitutively expressed, blocks endochondral and intramembranous ossification in the limb.

    Kimitoshi Yagami;Jo-Young Suh;Motomi Enomoto-Iwamoto;Eiki Koyama

  • Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling Is Required for Maintenance of Differentiated Phenotype, Control of Proliferation, and Hypertrophy in Chondrocytes

    Motomi Enomoto-Iwamoto;Masahiro Iwamoto;Yoshiki Mukudai;Yasuhiko Kawakami

  • Increased levels of interleukin 33 in sera and synovial fluid from patients with active rheumatoid arthritis.

    Yasushi Matsuyama;Hitoaki Okazaki;Hiroyuki Tamemoto;Hirotaka Kimura

  • Runx2 deficiency in chondrocytes causes adipogenic changes in vitro.

    Hirayuki Enomoto;Tatsuya Furuichi;Akira Zanma;Kei Yamana

  • Wnt signaling in cartilage development and diseases: lessons from animal studies.

    Yu Usami;Aruni T Gunawardena;Masahiro Iwamoto;Motomi Enomoto-Iwamoto

  • Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synovial joint and articular cartilage formation.

    Maurizio Pacifici;Eiki Koyama;Yoshihiro Shibukawa;Changshan Wu

  • Palovarotene Inhibits Heterotopic Ossification and Maintains Limb Mobility and Growth in Mice With the Human ACVR1(R206H) Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) Mutation.

    Salin A Chakkalakal;Kenta Uchibe;Michael R Convente;Deyu Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Motomi Enomoto-Iwamoto
Motomi Enomoto-Iwamoto University of Maryland, Baltimore
Maurizio Pacifici
Maurizio Pacifici Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Fujio Suzuki
Fujio Suzuki Osaka University
Sumihare Noji
Sumihare Noji University of Tokushima
Kazuyuki Yoshizaki
Kazuyuki Yoshizaki Osaka University
Norihiro Nishimoto
Norihiro Nishimoto Osaka University
Yukio Kato
Yukio Kato Hiroshima University
Toshihisa Komori
Toshihisa Komori Nagasaki University
Toshikazu Nakamura
Toshikazu Nakamura Osaka University
Kinichi Nakashima
Kinichi Nakashima Kyushu University

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