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Naoki Yoshimura is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio in the field of Medicine, with particular emphasis on Urology.

Their research spans several subfields, including Urology, Rheumatology, Epidemiology, Genetics, and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. The main topics Yoshimura focuses on cover a wide spectrum within medical research, featuring Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research, Pelvic Floor Disorders Treatments, Urological Disorders and Treatments, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Urinary Tract Infections Management, Neuroscience of Respiration and Sleep, and Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.

Yoshimura has published notably in several specialized venues, including:

  • The Journal of Urology
  • Neurourology and Urodynamics
  • Continence
  • American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology
  • Life Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their work include researchers such as Pradeep Tyagi, Daisuke Gotoh, Tetsuichi Saito, Taro Igarashi, and Sergei Karnup, reflecting collaboration across multiple areas of expertise.

Selected recent papers by Naoki Yoshimura illustrate the range of their research interests:

  • AJM300 (carotegrast methyl), an oral antagonist of α4-integrin, as induction therapy for patients with moderately active ulcerative colitis: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 study, 2022, The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology
  • Leucine-rich alpha-2 glycoprotein is a potential biomarker to monitor disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease receiving adalimumab: PLANET study, 2021, Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Current Understanding and Future Perspectives of Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome, 2021, International Neurourology Journal
  • Non-adherence to Medications in Pregnant Ulcerative Colitis Patients Contributes to Disease Flares and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes, 2020, Digestive Diseases and Sciences
  • Current Knowledge and Novel Frontiers in Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction after Spinal Cord Injury, 2022, Urological Science

Best Publications

  • Neural Control of the Lower Urinary Tract

    William C. de Groat;Derek Griffiths;Naoki Yoshimura

  • Increased Excitability of Afferent Neurons Innervating Rat Urinary Bladder after Chronic Bladder Inflammation

    N Yoshimura;W C de Groat

  • Pharmacology of the Lower Urinary Tract

    Naoki Yoshimura;Eiichiro Takaoka;Takahisa Suzuki;Joonbeom Kwon

  • Afferent nerve regulation of bladder function in health and disease.

    William C. de Groat;Naoki Yoshimura

  • Intravesical botulinum toxin a administration produces analgesia against acetic acid induced bladder pain responses in rats.

    Yao-Chi Chuang;Naoki Yoshimura;Chao-Cheng Huang;Po-Hui Chiang

  • COOL (TRPM8) AND HOT (TRPV1) RECEPTORS IN THE BLADDER AND MALE GENITAL TRACT

    Robert J. Stein;Soledad Santos;Jiro Nagatomi;Yukio Hayashi

  • Developmental and injury induced plasticity in the micturition reflex pathway

    William C de Groat;Isao Araki;Margaret A Vizzard;Mitsuharu Yoshiyama

  • Bladder afferent pathway and spinal cord injury: possible mechanisms inducing hyperreflexia of the urinary bladder

    Naoki Yoshimura

  • NEURAL CONTROL OF THE LOWER URINARY TRACT

    N Yoshimura;W C de Groat

  • BOTULINUM TOXIN URETHRAL SPHINCTER INJECTION TO RESTORE BLADDER EMPTYING IN MEN AND WOMEN WITH VOIDING DYSFUNCTION

    Michael W. Phelan;Michael Franks;George T. Somogyi;Teruhiko Yokoyama

  • Immunoneutralization of Nerve Growth Factor in Lumbosacral Spinal Cord Reduces Bladder Hyperreflexia in Spinal Cord Injured Rats.

    Satoshi Seki;Katsumi Sasaki;Matthew O. Fraser;Yasuhiko Igawa

  • Single-institution experience in 110 patients with botulinum toxin A injection into bladder or urethra.

    Christopher P. Smith;Jun Nishiguchi;Jun Nishiguchi;Margie O’Leary;Naoki Yoshimura

  • Preliminary results of myoblast injection into the urethra and bladder wall: a possible method for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence and impaired detrusor contractility.

    Michael B. Chancellor;Teruhiko Yokoyama;Sean Tirney;Carol E. Mattes

  • Current and Future Pharmacological Treatment for Overactive Bladder

    Naoki Yoshimura;Michael B. Chancellor

  • Adalimumab monotherapy and a combination with azathioprine for Crohn’s disease: A prospective, randomized trial

    Takayuki Matsumoto;Satoshi Motoya;Kenji Watanabe;Tadakazu Hisamatsu

  • Bladder Overactivity and Hyperexcitability of Bladder Afferent Neurons after Intrathecal Delivery of Nerve Growth Factor in Rats

    Naoki Yoshimura;Nelson E. Bennett;Yukio Hayashi;Teruyuki Ogawa;Teruyuki Ogawa

  • Recent advances in understanding the biology of diabetes‐associated bladder complications and novel therapy

    Naoki Yoshimura;Michael B. Chancellor;Karl-Erik Andersson;George J. Christ

  • The Involvement of the Tetrodotoxin-Resistant Sodium Channel Nav1.8 (PN3/SNS) in a Rat Model of Visceral Pain

    Naoki Yoshimura;Satoshi Seki;Sanja D. Novakovic;Elda Tzoumaka

  • Changes in afferent activity after spinal cord injury.

    William C. de Groat;Naoki Yoshimura

  • The role of bladder afferent pathways in bladder hyperactivity induced by the intravesical administration of nerve growth factor

    Yao-Chi Chuang;Matthew O. Fraser;Yongbei Yu;Michael B. Chancellor

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael B. Chancellor
Michael B. Chancellor University of Pittsburgh
William C. de Groat
William C. de Groat University of Pittsburgh
Joseph C. Glorioso
Joseph C. Glorioso University of Pittsburgh
William F. Goins
William F. Goins University of Pittsburgh
Johnny Huard
Johnny Huard The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Osamu Ogawa
Osamu Ogawa Kyoto University
Ryosuke Takahashi
Ryosuke Takahashi Kyoto University
Donald B. DeFranco
Donald B. DeFranco University of Pittsburgh
Leaf Huang
Leaf Huang University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David A. Vorp
David A. Vorp University of Pittsburgh

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