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Masayuki Miyasaka

Masayuki Miyasaka

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Immunology

D-Index
101
Citations
30444
World Ranking
710
National Ranking
23

Medicine

D-Index
100
Citations
30234
World Ranking
8364
National Ranking
217

Overview

Masayuki Miyasaka is a researcher affiliated with Osaka University in Japan. Their work spans several fields, primarily focusing on medicine, immunology and microbiology, as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their research covers a range of topics including lymphatic system and diseases, immune responses and vaccinations, COVID-19 clinical research studies, phagocytosis and immune regulation, immune cells in cancer, adenosine and purinergic signaling, and mechanical circulatory support devices.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Is BCG vaccination causally related to reduced COVID-19 mortality? (2020, EMBO Molecular Medicine)
  • Selective SIRPα blockade reverses tumor T cell exclusion and overcomes cancer immunotherapy resistance (2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation)
  • CXCL12 promotes CCR7 ligand-mediated breast cancer cell invasion and migration toward lymphatic vessels (2022, Cancer Science)
  • Infection with the enteric pathogen C. rodentium promotes islet-specific autoimmunity by activating a lymphatic route from the gut to pancreatic lymph node (2022, Mucosal Immunology)
  • Anticancer efficacy of monotherapy with antibodies to SIRPα/SIRPβ1 mediated by induction of antitumorigenic macrophages (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent co-authors in Miyasaka's work include Haruko Hayasaka, Daichi Kobayashi, Vanessa Gauttier, Sabrina Pengam, and Caroline Mary.

Miyasaka's research has been published in prominent venues such as Frontiers in Immunology, Inflammation and Regeneration, EMBO Molecular Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Cancer Science.

Best Publications

  • Interleukin-2 receptor beta chain gene: generation of three receptor forms by cloned human alpha and beta chain cDNA's.

    Masanori Hatakeyama;Mitsuru Tsudo;Seijiro Minamoto;Takeshi Kono

  • Regulation of humoral and cellular gut immunity by lamina propria dendritic cells expressing Toll-like receptor 5

    Satoshi Uematsu;Kosuke Fujimoto;Myoung Ho Jang;Bo Gie Yang

  • Lymphocyte trafficking across high endothelial venules: dogmas and enigmas

    Masayuki Miyasaka;Toshiyuki Tanaka

  • Detection of pathogenic intestinal bacteria by Toll-like receptor 5 on intestinal CD11c+ lamina propria cells.

    Satoshi Uematsu;Myoung Ho Jang;Nicolas Chevrier;Zijin Guo

  • CCR7 is critically important for migration of dendritic cells in intestinal lamina propria to mesenteric lymph nodes.

    Myoung Ho Jang;Nagako Sougawa;Toshiyuki Tanaka;Takako Hirata

  • Anti‐ICAM‐1 antibody reduces ischemic cell damage after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion in the rat

    R. L. Zhang;Michael Chopp;Michael Chopp;Y. Li;C. Zaloga

  • Molecular determinants of reperfusion-induced leukocyte adhesion and vascular protein leakage.

    I Kurose;D C Anderson;M Miyasaka;T Tamatani

  • Inhibition of nitric oxide production. Mechanisms of vascular albumin leakage.

    I Kurose;P Kubes;R Wolf;D C Anderson

  • Intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1) expression and its role in neutrophil-induced ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat liver.

    Anwar Farhood;G. M. Mcguire;A. M. Manning;M. Miyasaka

  • Role of cell adhesion molecules in brain injury after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion in the rat

    Yoshiyuki Matsuo;Hiroshi Onodera;Yusei Shiga;Hidetaka Shozuhara

  • ADAMTS-1 cleaves a cartilage proteoglycan, aggrecan.

    Kouji Kuno;Yasunori Okada;Hiroto Kawashima;Hiroyuki Nakamura

  • Regional differences in constitutive and induced ICAM-1 expression in vivo

    J. Panes;M. A. Perry;D. C. Anderson;A. Manning

  • Muscle-specific calpain, p94, is degraded by autolysis immediately after translation, resulting in disappearance from muscle.

    H. Sorimachi;N. Toyama-Sorimachi;T. C. Saido;H. Kawasaki

  • Characterization of the interleukin 2 receptor beta chain using three distinct monoclonal antibodies.

    Mitsuru Tsudo;Fujiko Kitamura;Masayuki Miyasaka

  • Requirement and role of C5a in acute lung inflammatory injury in rats.

    Michael S. Mulligan;Elisabeth Schmid;Elisabeth Schmid;Beatrice Beck-Schimmer;Beatrice Beck-Schimmer;Gerd O. Till

  • Effects of nasal continuous positive airway pressure on soluble cell adhesion molecules in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

    Kazuo Chin;Takaya Nakamura;Kouichi Shimizu;Michiaki Mishima

  • Characterization of the rat leukocyte integrin, CD11/CD18, by the use of LFA-1 subunit-specific monoclonal antibodies.

    Takuya Tamatani;Masaharu Kotani;Masayuki Miyasaka

  • Tumor necrosis factor α regulates in vivo intrapulmonary expression of ICAM-1

    Michael S. Mulligan;Ara A. Vaporciyan;Masayuki Miyasaka;Takuya Tamatani

  • Chemokines in tumor progression and metastasis

    Toshiyuki Tanaka;Zhongbin Bai;Yuttana Srinoulprasert;BoGi Yang

  • A novel ligand for CD44 is serglycin, a hematopoietic cell lineage-specific proteoglycan. Possible involvement in lymphoid cell adherence and activation.

    Noriko Toyama-Sorimachi;Hiroyuki Sorimachi;Yoshimi Tobita;Fujiko Kitamura

  • Shear stress inhibits adhesion of cultured mouse endothelial cells to lymphocytes by downregulating VCAM-1 expression

    J Ando;H Tsuboi;R Korenaga;Y Takada

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshiyuki Tanaka
Toshiyuki Tanaka Hyogo University of Health Sciences
Takuya Tamatani
Takuya Tamatani Japan Tobacco (United States)
Peter A. Ward
Peter A. Ward University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ko Okumura
Ko Okumura Juntendo University
Hideo Yagita
Hideo Yagita Juntendo University
Morito Monden
Morito Monden Osaka University
Makoto Suematsu
Makoto Suematsu Keio University
Sirpa Jalkanen
Sirpa Jalkanen University of Turku
Junken Aoki
Junken Aoki Tohoku University
Tadatsugu Taniguchi
Tadatsugu Taniguchi University of Tokyo

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