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Overview

Masami Niwa is affiliated with Nagasaki University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a particular focus on neurology and cancer research. Their research encompasses a range of topics including barrier structure and function studies, neurological disease mechanisms and treatments, as well as drug transport and resistance mechanisms.

The scientist's recent published works include:

  • "Beyond Lipid-Lowering: Effects of Statins on Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases and Cancer" (2022) in Pharmaceuticals
  • "Effects of fasudil on blood-brain barrier integrity" (2022) in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
  • "Comparison of the rate of dedifferentiation with increasing passages among cell sources for an in vitro model of the blood-brain barrier" (2020) in Journal of Neural Transmission
  • "Characterization of a Primate Blood-Brain Barrier Co-Culture Model Prepared from Primary Brain Endothelial Cells, Pericytes and Astrocytes" (2021) in Pharmaceutics
  • "Pitavastatin Ameliorates Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction" (2021) in Biomedicines

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Masami Niwa include:

  • Shinsuke Nakagawa
  • Yoichi Morofuji
  • Takashi Fujimoto
  • Mária A. Deli
  • Takayuki Matsuo

Publication venues where Niwa's work frequently appears are:

  • Pharmaceutics
  • Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
  • Journal of Neural Transmission

Masami Niwa's research spans several main fields of study:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these areas, their work delves into subfields including:

  • Neurology
  • Cancer Research
  • Oncology
  • Surgery
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The main topics Niwa has explored are:

  • Barrier Structure and Function Studies
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis
  • Ginger and Zingiberaceae research

Best Publications

  • A new blood–brain barrier model using primary rat brain endothelial cells, pericytes and astrocytes

    Shinsuke Nakagawa;Mária A. Deli;Hiroko Kawaguchi;Takeshi Shimizudani

  • Permeability Studies on In Vitro Blood–Brain Barrier Models: Physiology, Pathology, and Pharmacology

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  • Pericytes from brain microvessels strengthen the barrier integrity in primary cultures of rat brain endothelial cells.

    Shinsuke Nakagawa;Mária A. Deli;Mária A. Deli;Shinobu Nakao;Masaru Honda

  • Brain pericytes contribute to the induction and up-regulation of blood–brain barrier functions through transforming growth factor-β production

    Shinya Dohgu;Fuyuko Takata;Atsushi Yamauchi;Shinsuke Nakagawa

  • Comparison of brain capillary endothelial cell-based and epithelial (MDCK-MDR1, Caco-2, and VB-Caco-2) cell-based surrogate blood-brain barrier penetration models

    Éva Hellinger;Szilvia Veszelka;Andrea E. Tóth;Fruzsina Walter

  • Effects of hypoxia on endothelial/pericytic co-culture model of the blood–brain barrier

    Unknown

  • Quantitative determination of angiotensin II binding sites in rat brain and pituitary gland by autoradiography.

    Anita Israel;Fernando M.A. Correa;Masami Niwa;Juan M. Saavedra

  • Microglia with an Endothelin ETB Receptor Aggregate in Rat Hippocampus CA1 Subfields Following Transient Forebrain Ischemia

    Kimihiro Yamashita;Masami Niwa;Yasufumi Kataoka;Kazuto Shigematsu

  • Pentosan polysulfate protects brain endothelial cells against bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced damages

    Szilvia Veszelka;Mária Pásztói;Attila E. Farkas;István Krizbai

  • Adrenomedullin regulates blood-brain barrier functions in vitro.

    Béla Kis;Mária A. Deli;Hideyuki Kobayashi;Csongor S. Ábrahám

  • Adrenomedullin Improves the Blood–Brain Barrier Function Through the Expression of Claudin-5

    Masaru Honda;Shinsuke Nakagawa;Kentaro Hayashi;Naoki Kitagawa

  • Silver nanoparticles induce tight junction disruption and astrocyte neurotoxicity in a rat blood-brain barrier primary triple coculture model.

    Liming Xu;Mo Dan;Anliang Shao;Xiang Cheng

  • Time course of nitric oxide synthase activity in neuronal, glial, and endothelial cells of rat striatum following focal cerebral ischemia.

    Mihoko N. Nakashima;Kimihiro Yamashita;Yasufumi Kataoka;Yasuko S. Yamashita

  • Autotaxin and lysophosphatidic acid1 receptor-mediated demyelination of dorsal root fibers by sciatic nerve injury and intrathecal lysophosphatidylcholine

    Jun Nagai;Hitoshi Uchida;Yosuke Matsushita;Ryo yano

  • Involvement of the dorsal hippocampus in mediation of the antianxiety action of tandospirone, a 5-hydroxytryptamine1A agonistic anxiolytic

    Y. Kataoka;K. Shibata;A. Miyazaki;Y. Inoue

  • Effects of (-)-epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate (green tea tannin) on the life span of stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats.

    S. Uchida;M. Ozaki;T. Akashi;K. Yamashita

  • Upregulation of the Genes Encoding Lysosomal Hydrolases, a Perforin-Like Protein, and Peroxidases in the Brains of Mice Affected with an Experimental Prion Disease

    Juraj Kopacek;Suehiro Sakaguchi;Kazuto Shigematsu;Noriyuki Nishida

  • DJ-1-binding compounds prevent oxidative stress-induced cell death and movement defect in Parkinson's disease model rats.

    Shin Miyazaki;Takashi Yanagida;Kana Nunome;Kana Nunome;Shizuma Ishikawa;Shizuma Ishikawa

  • Increased Production of Endothelins in the Hippocampus of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats Following Transient Forebrain Ischemia: Histochemical Evidence

    Kimihiro Yamashita;Yasufumi Kataoka;Masami Niwa;Kazuto Shigematsu

  • Adenovirus-mediated tumor suppressor p53 gene therapy for anaplastic thyroid carcinoma in vitro and in vivo.

    Yuji Nagayama;Haruhiko Yokoi;Katsuo Takeda;Mamoru Hasegawa

  • Palmitoylation of Human Thyrotropin Receptor: Slower Intracellular Trafficking of the Palmitoylation-Defective Mutant

    Kunihiko Tanaka;Yuji Nagayama;Eijun Nishihara;Hiroyuki Namba

  • Involvement of G Protein-coupled Receptor Kinase 5 in Homologous Desensitization of the Thyrotropin Receptor

    Yuji Nagayama;Kunihiko Tanaka;Takeshi Hara;Hiroyuki Namba

Frequent Co-Authors

Michihiro Fujiwara
Michihiro Fujiwara Fukuoka University
Shigenori Watanabe
Shigenori Watanabe Kyushu University
Kazuhide Inoue
Kazuhide Inoue Kyushu University

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