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Overview

Mitsuo Itakura is affiliated with the University of Tokushima in Japan. Their research spans several areas within medicine, with particular focus on surgery, cell biology, and physiology.

The scientist's work has concentrated on topics related to pancreatic function and diabetes, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, as well as adipose tissue and metabolism.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include Noriko Mizusawa, Nagakatsu Harada, Takeo Iwata, Izumi Ohigashi, and Katsuhiko Yoshimoto.

Mitsuo Itakura has published in several scientific venues. Notable publication venues include:

  • Islets
  • Anesthesia Progress

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Mitsuo Itakura include:

  • Identification of protease serine S1 family member 53 as a mitochondrial protein in murine islet beta cells, published in 2021 in Islets
  • Ambulatory General Anesthesia for Dental Treatment in a Patient With Williams Syndrome and Supravalvular Aortic Restenosis: A Case Report, published in 2025 in Anesthesia Progress

Best Publications

  • Variants in KCNQ1 are associated with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes mellitus.

    Kazuki Yasuda;Kazuaki Miyake;Yukio Horikawa;Kazuo Hara

  • Effects of fructo-oligosaccharides on blood glucose and serum lipids in diabetic subjects

    Kamejiro Yamashita;Koichi Kawai;Mitsuo Itakura

  • High-throughput DNA typing of HLA-A, -B, -C, and -DRB1 loci by a PCR-SSOP-Luminex method in the Japanese population.

    Yoshiki Itoh;Nobuhisa Mizuki;Tsuyako Shimada;Fumihiro Azuma

  • Recessive Mutations in the Putative Calcium-Activated Chloride Channel Anoctamin 5 Cause Proximal LGMD2L and Distal MMD3 Muscular Dystrophies

    Véronique Bolduc;Gareth Marlow;Kym M. Boycott;Khalil Saleki

  • Different promoter usage and multiple transcription initiation sites of the interleukin-1 receptor-related human ST2 gene in UT-7 and TM12 cells

    Hiroyuki Iwahana;Ken Yanagisawa;Akiko Ito-Kosaka;Kenji Kuroiwa

  • Hypoplasia of pancreatic islets in transgenic mice expressing activin receptor mutants.

    T Yamaoka;C Idehara;M Yano;T Matsushita

  • The Novel Gene Encoding a Putative Transmembrane Protein Is Mutated in Gnathodiaphyseal Dysplasia (GDD)

    Satoshi Tsutsumi;Nobuyuki Kamata;Tamara J. Vokes;Yutaka Maruoka

  • Association of STAT4 With Susceptibility to Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the Japanese Population

    Shu Kobayashi;Katsunori Ikari;Hirotaka Kaneko;Yuta Kochi

  • Rare mutations of the Gs alpha subunit gene in human endocrine tumors. Mutation detection by polymerase chain reaction-primer-introduced restriction analysis.

    Katsuhiko Yoshimoto;Hiroyuki Iwahana;Ayumi Fukuda;Toshiaki Sano

  • Prevention of adoptively transferred diabetes in nonobese diabetic mice with IL-10-transduced islet-specific Th1 lymphocytes. A gene therapy model for autoimmune diabetes.

    M Moritani;K Yoshimoto;M Kondo

  • Transgenic expression of IL-10 in pancreatic islet A cells accelerates autoimmune insulitis and diabetes in non-obese diabetic mice.

    Maki Moritani;Katsuhiko Yoshimoto;Fumi Tashiro;Chikara Hashimoto

  • Central role for aldose reductase pathway in myocardial ischemic injury.

    Yuying C. Hwang;Michiyo Kaneko;Soliman Bakr;Hui Liao

  • Overexpression of HMGA2 relates to reduction of the let-7 and its relationship to clinicopathological features in pituitary adenomas

    Zhi Rong Qian;Sylvia L Asa;Haruhiko Siomi;Mikiko C Siomi

  • p53 gene mutations in human skin cancers and precancerous lesions: Comparison with immunohistochemical analysis

    Yoshiaki Kubo;Yoshio Urano;Katsuhiko Yoshimoto;Hiroyuki Iwahana

  • Expression and distribution of Gpr119 in the pancreatic islets of mice and rats: Predominant localization in pancreatic polypeptide-secreting PP-cells

    Yukiko Sakamoto;Hiroshi Inoue;Shuhei Kawakami;Katsuyuki Miyawaki

  • Absence of germ-line mutations of the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) gene in familial pituitary adenoma in contrast to MEN1 in Japanese

    C Tanaka;K Yoshimoto;S Yamada;H Nishioka

  • Role of p53 Mutations in Endocrine Tumorigenesis: Mutation Detection by Polymerase Chain Reaction-Single Strand Conformation Polymorphism

    Katsuhiko Yoshimoto;Hiroyuki Iwahana;Ayumi Fukuda;Toshiaki Sano

  • Molecular characterization of GDD1/TMEM16E, the gene product responsible for autosomal dominant gnathodiaphyseal dysplasia.

    Kuniko Mizuta;Satoshi Tsutsumi;Hiroshi Inoue;Yukiko Sakamoto

  • A missense mutant myostatin causes hyperplasia without hypertrophy in the mouse muscle.

    Masumi Nishi;Akihiro Yasue;Shinichirou Nishimatu;Tsutomu Nohno

  • Osteoactivin upregulates expression of MMP-3 and MMP-9 in fibroblasts infiltrated into denervated skeletal muscle in mice

    Takayuki Ogawa;Takeshi Nikawa;Harumi Furochi;Miki Kosyoji

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshikazu Yoshikawa
Toshikazu Yoshikawa Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Naoyuki Kamatani
Naoyuki Kamatani StaGen (Japan)
Sumihare Noji
Sumihare Noji University of Tokushima
Tsutomu Ogata
Tsutomu Ogata Hamamatsu University
Toshiro Fujita
Toshiro Fujita University of Tokyo
Masatoshi Takeda
Masatoshi Takeda Izumi University
Ryota Hashimoto
Ryota Hashimoto National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
Tsutomu Nohno
Tsutomu Nohno Kawasaki Medical School
Hideyo Ohuchi
Hideyo Ohuchi Okayama University
Kym M. Boycott
Kym M. Boycott Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

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