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Masaru Taniguchi

Masaru Taniguchi

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Immunology

D-Index
92
Citations
31982
World Ranking
1004
National Ranking
33

Medicine

D-Index
93
Citations
32989
World Ranking
10861
National Ranking
308

Overview

Masaru Taniguchi was affiliated with RIKEN in Japan and contributed research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work focused on several subfields including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Taniguchi's research covered a range of topics related to plant biology and sleep research. The main topics of their work included:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Sleep and Related Disorders
  • Circadian Rhythm and Melatonin

Their publication record shows involvement with diverse scientific venues. Journals where Taniguchi published multiple papers included:

  • Sleep Medicine
  • Flora
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • Plants

Some representative recent papers authored by Taniguchi or associated with their research group are as follows:

  • Salt tolerance in relation to elemental concentrations in leaf cell vacuoles and chloroplasts of a C4 monocotyledonous halophyte (2022, Plant Cell & Environment)
  • Oveporexton, an Oral Orexin Receptor 2-Selective Agonist, in Narcolepsy Type 1 (2025, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Secretion of Protochlorophyllide in the Cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya boryana (2022, Plants)
  • Relationships between respiratory and oromotor events differ between motor phenotypes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (2023, Frontiers in Neurology)
  • Aggregative movement of mesophyll chloroplasts occurs in a wide variety of C4 plant species (2022, Flora)

Taniguchi frequently collaborated with other researchers including Takao Oi, Yuta Kato, Koji Yamane, Yoshikatsu Sato, and Naohisa Uchimura. Among these, Takao Oi was a prominent co-author with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • CD1d-restricted and TCR-mediated activation of valpha14 NKT cells by glycosylceramides.

    Tetsu Kawano;Junqing Cui;Yasuhiko Koezuka;Isao Toura

  • Requirement for Vα14 NKT Cells in IL-12-Mediated Rejection of Tumors

    Junqing Cui;Tahiro Shin;Tetsu Kawano;Hiroshi Sato

  • Differential tumor surveillance by natural killer (NK) and NKT cells

    Mark J. Smyth;Kevin Y. T. Thia;Shayna E.A. Street;Erika Cretney

  • Tracking the response of natural killer T cells to a glycolipid antigen using CD1d tetramers.

    Jennifer L. Matsuda;Jennifer L. Matsuda;Olga V. Naidenko;Laurent Gapin;Toshinori Nakayama

  • Chimaerischer monoklonaler antikoerper und verfahren zu seiner herstellung.

    Masaru Chiba-Shi Chiba-Ken Jp Taniguchi;Yoshikazu Lions Mansion Showa-Ku Nagoya-Shi Aichi-Ken Jp Kurosawa;Kou-Zou Nagoya-Shi Aichi-Ken Jp Sugita

  • Natural killer-like nonspecific tumor cell lysis mediated by specific ligand-activated Vα14 NKT cells

    Tetsu Kawano;Junqing Cui;Yasuhiko Koezuka;Isao Toura

  • Augmentation of Vα14 Nkt Cell–Mediated Cytotoxicity by Interleukin 4 in an Autocrine Mechanism Resulting in the Development of Concanavalin a–Induced Hepatitis

    Yoshikatsu Kaneko;Michishige Harada;Tetsu Kawano;Masakatsu Yamashita

  • Disruption of the Bcl6 Gene Results in an Impaired Germinal Center Formation

    Tetsuya Fukuda;Takehiko Yoshida;Seiji Okada;Masahiko Hatano

  • Selective ability of mouse CD1 to present glycolipids: alpha-galactosylceramide specifically stimulates V alpha 14+ NK T lymphocytes.

    Nicolas Burdin;Laurent Brossay;Yasuhiko Koezuka;Stephen T. Smiley

  • 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

  • Selective reduction of V alpha 14+ NK T cells associated with disease development in autoimmune-prone mice.

    M A Mieza;T Itoh;J Q Cui;Y Makino

  • Tissue-specific segregation of CD1d-dependent and CD1d-independent NK T cells

    G Eberl;R Lees;S T Smiley;M Taniguchi

  • The Anti-Tumor Activity of IL-12: Mechanisms of Innate Immunity That Are Model and Dose Dependent

    Mark J. Smyth;Masaru Taniguchi;Shayna E. A. Street

  • Cutting edge: inhibition of experimental tumor metastasis by dendritic cells pulsed with alpha-galactosylceramide.

    Isao Toura;Tetsu Kawano;Yasunori Akutsu;Toshinori Nakayama

  • Antitumor Cytotoxicity Mediated by Ligand-activated Human Vα24 NKT Cells

    Tetsu Kawano;Toshinori Nakayama;Noriaki Kamada;Yoshikatsu Kaneko

  • Predominant expression of invariant Vα14+ TCR α chain in NK1.1+ T cell populations

    Yasuhiko Makino;Rieko Kanno;Toshihiro Ito;Kazuko Higashino

  • The NKT cell system: bridging innate and acquired immunity

    Masaru Taniguchi;Ken-Ichiro Seino;Toshinori Nakayama

  • α-Galactosylceramide-activated Vα14 natural killer T cells mediate protection against murine malaria.

    Gloria Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza;Camila de Oliveira;Margaret Tomaska;Seokmann Hong

  • A role for mel-18, a Polycomb group-related vertebrate gene, during theanteroposterior specification of the axial skeleton.

    Takeshi Akasaka;Masamoto Kanno;Rudi Balling;Marco Antonio Mieza

  • NKT cells are phenotypically and functionally diverse.

    Kirsten J. L. Hammond;Sonja B. Pelikan;Nadine Y. Crowe;Elise Randle-Barrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshinori Nakayama
Toshinori Nakayama Chiba University
Haruhiko Koseki
Haruhiko Koseki RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences
Takeshi Tokuhisa
Takeshi Tokuhisa Chiba University
Takayuki Sumida
Takayuki Sumida University of Tsukuba
Kenji Mori
Kenji Mori University of Tokyo
Tomio Tada
Tomio Tada University of Tokyo
Ko Okumura
Ko Okumura Juntendo University
Masakatsu Yamashita
Masakatsu Yamashita Ehime University
Takashi Suzuki
Takashi Suzuki Tohoku University
Takashi Saito
Takashi Saito Nagoya City University

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