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Masao Seto is affiliated with Kurume University in Japan and has contributed research primarily in the fields of Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Immunology, Oncology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

The main topics of their scientific inquiry are focused on:

  • T-cell and Retrovirus Studies
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation
  • CAR-T cell therapy research

Seto has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Hematological Oncology
  • Cancer Science
  • Modern Pathology
  • Annals of Hematology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Key recent publications by Masao Seto include:

  • Differences in the immunosurveillance pattern associated with DNA mismatch repair status between right-sided and left-sided colorectal cancer, 2020, Cancer Science
  • Combination of CD47 and signal-regulatory protein-α constituting the "don't eat me signal" is a prognostic factor in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, 2020, Cancer Science
  • Human T-cell lymphotropic virus HBZ and tax mRNA expression are associated with specific clinicopathological features in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, 2020, Modern Pathology
  • Clinicopathological analysis of immunohistochemical expression of CD47 and SIRPα in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, 2020, Hematological Oncology
  • Comprehensive immunohistochemical analysis of immune checkpoint molecules in adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma, 2020, Annals of Hematology

Frequent coauthors working with Seto include:

  • Hiroaki Miyoshi
  • Koichi Ohshima
  • Kazutaka Nakashima
  • Mai Takeuchi
  • Noriaki Yoshida

Best Publications

  • Identification and characterization of a novel gene, C13orf25, as a target for 13q31-q32 amplification in malignant lymphoma.

    Akinobu Ota;Hiroyuki Tagawa;Sivasundaram Karnan;Shinobu Tsuzuki

  • Bcl10 and MALT1, Independent Targets of Chromosomal Translocation in MALT Lymphoma, Cooperate in a Novel NF-κB Signaling Pathway

    Peter C. Lucas;Masakatsu Yonezumi;Naohiro Inohara;Linda M. McAllister-Lucas

  • Gene expression signatures delineate biological and prognostic subgroups in peripheral T-cell lymphoma.

    Javeed Iqbal;George Wright;Chao Wang;Andreas Rosenwald

  • MicroRNA-375 Is Downregulated in Gastric Carcinomas and Regulates Cell Survival by Targeting PDK1 and 14-3-3ζ

    Yoshiyuki Tsukamoto;Chisato Nakada;Tsuyoshi Noguchi;Masato Tanigawa

  • A novel gene, MALT1 at 18q21, is involved in t(11;18) (q21;q21) found in low-grade B-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue.

    Tomoaki Akagi;Mutsuhito Motegi;Akiko Tamura;Ritsuro Suzuki

  • Molecular signatures to improve diagnosis in peripheral T-cell lymphoma and prognostication in angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma

    Javeed Iqbal;Dennis D. Weisenburger;Timothy C. Greiner;Julie M. Vose

  • De novo CD5+ diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a clinicopathologic study of 109 patients

    Motoko Yamaguchi;Masao Seto;Masataka Okamoto;Ryo Ichinohasama

  • TNFAIP3/A20 functions as a novel tumor suppressor gene in several subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphomas

    Keiichiro Honma;Shinobu Tsuzuki;Masao Nakagawa;Hiroyuki Tagawa

  • Genome-wide array-based CGH for mantle cell lymphoma: identification of homozygous deletions of the proapoptotic gene BIM.

    Hiroyuki Tagawa;Sivasundaram Karnan;Ritsuro Suzuki;Keitaro Matsuo

  • Mammalian Trithorax and Polycomb-group homologues are antagonistic regulators of homeotic development

    Robin D. Hanson;Jay L. Hess;Benjamin D. Yu;Patricia Ernst;Patricia Ernst

  • Genome-wide microRNA expression profiling in renal cell carcinoma: significant down-regulation of miR-141 and miR-200c.

    C Nakada;K Matsuura;Y Tsukamoto;M Tanigawa

  • Significance of cyclin D1 overexpression for the diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma: a clinicopathologic comparison of cyclin D1-positive MCL and cyclin D1-negative MCL-like B-cell lymphoma

    Yasushi Yatabe;Ritsuro Suzuki;Kensei Tobinai;Yoshihiro Matsuno

  • Comparison of genome profiles for identification of distinct subgroups of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

    Hiroyuki Tagawa;Miyuki Suguro;Shinobu Tsuzuki;Keitaro Matsuo

  • A microRNA cluster as a target of genomic amplification in malignant lymphoma.

    H Tagawa;M Seto

  • Analysis of Genetic Polymorphism in NQO1, GST-M1, GST-T1, and CYP3A4 in 469 Japanese Patients with Therapy-related Leukemia/Myelodysplastic Syndrome and de novo Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Tomoki Naoe;Kunihiko Takeyama;Toshiya Yokozawa;Hitoshi Kiyoi

  • Association between polymorphisms of folate- and methionine-metabolizing enzymes and susceptibility to malignant lymphoma

    Keitaro Matsuo;Ritsuro Suzuki;Nobuyuki Hamajima;Michinori Ogura

  • Expression of the c-kit Protein in Human Solid Tumors and in Corresponding Fetal and Adult Normal Tissues

    R Matsuda;T Takahashi;S Nakamura;Y Sekido

  • Prognostic significance of CD56 expression for ALK-positive and ALK-negative anaplastic large-cell lymphoma of T/null cell phenotype

    Ritsuro Suzuki;Yoshitoyo Kagami;Kengo Takeuchi;Masahiro Kami

  • CD7+ and CD56+ myeloid/natural killer cell precursor acute leukemia: a distinct hematolymphoid disease entity.

    Ritsuro Suzuki;Kazuhito Yamamoto;Masao Seto;Yoshitoyo Kagami

  • Gene rearrangement and overexpression of PRAD1 in lymphoid malignancy with t(11;14)(q13;q32) translocation.

    Seto M;Yamamoto K;Iida S;Akao Y

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigeo Nakamura
Shigeo Nakamura Nagoya University
Koichi Ohshima
Koichi Ohshima Kurume University
Yasuo Morishima
Yasuo Morishima Aichi Medical University
Ritsuro Suzuki
Ritsuro Suzuki Shimane University
Ryuzo Ueda
Ryuzo Ueda Nagoya University
Yasushi Yatabe
Yasushi Yatabe Nagoya University
Toshitada Takahashi
Toshitada Takahashi Nagoya University
Atae Utsunomiya
Atae Utsunomiya Kagoshima University
Keitaro Matsuo
Keitaro Matsuo Nagoya University
Nobuyuki Hamajima
Nobuyuki Hamajima Nagoya University

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