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Nobuyo Maeda is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a significant focus on molecular biology, immunology, physiology, cancer research, and biochemistry as subfields.

Their work covers several main topics including:

  • Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Biochemical Acid Research Studies
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
  • Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms

Nobuyo Maeda's recent publications reflect a range of biomedical topics and include the following:

  • New insights into immunomodulation via overexpressing lipoic acid synthase as a therapeutic potential to reduce atherosclerosis, 2020, Vascular Pharmacology
  • Absolute Winding Number Differentiates Mouse Spatial Navigation Strategies With Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease, 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • The Role of Neutrophils in the Induction of Glomerulonephritis by Anti-Myeloperoxidase Antibodies, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • TIMP3 promotes the maintenance of neural stem-progenitor cells in the mouse subventricular zone, 2023, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Relationship between hemodynamics and atherosclerosis in aortic arches of apolipoprotein E-null mice on 129S6/SvEvTac and C57BL/6J genetic backgrounds, 2020, UNC Libraries

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Maeda include:

  • Sylvia Hiller
  • Xianwen Yi
  • Hyungsuk Kim
  • Oliver Smithies
  • Yukako Kayashima

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with the most active publication platforms being UNC Libraries, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and Vascular Pharmacology. Other venues include Gene and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Spontaneous Hypercholesterolemia and Arterial Lesions in Mice Lacking Apolipoprotein E

    Sunny H. Zhang;Robert L. Reddick;Jorge A. Piedrahita;Nobuyo Maeda

  • A role for macrophage scavenger receptors in atherosclerosis and susceptibility to infection

    Hiroshi Suzuki;Hiroshi Suzuki;Yukiko Kurihara;Motohiro Takeya;Nobuo Kamada

  • Antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies specific for myeloperoxidase cause glomerulonephritis and vasculitis in mice

    Hong Xiao;Peter Heeringa;Peiqi Hu;Zhi Liu

  • Generation of mice carrying a mutant apolipoprotein E gene inactivated by gene targeting in embryonic stem cells.

    Jorge A. Piedrahita;Sunny H. Zhang;John R. Hagaman;Paula M. Oliver

  • Targetted correction of a mutant HPRT gene in mouse embryonic stem cells

    Thomas Doetschman;Ronald G. Gregg;Nobuyo Maeda;Martin L. Hooper

  • Elevated blood pressures in mice lacking endothelial nitric oxide synthase

    Edward G. Shesely;Nobuyo Maeda;H.-S. Kim;Kaushik M. Desai

  • Direct evidence for the importance of endothelium-derived nitric oxide in vascular remodeling.

    Radu Daniel Rudic;Edward G. Shesely;Nobuyo Maeda;Oliver Smithies

  • Atherosclerosis in mice lacking apo E. Evaluation of lesional development and progression.

    Robert L. Reddick;Sunny H. Zhang;Nobuyo Maeda

  • Severe reduction in leukocyte adhesion and monocyte extravasation in mice deficient in CC chemokine receptor 2

    William A. Kuziel;Sharon J. Morgan;Tracey C. Dawson;Stephanie Griffin

  • Regulation of blood pressure by the type 1A angiotensin II receptor gene.

    Masaki Ito;Michael I. Oliverio;Peter J. Mannon;Christopher F. Best

  • Homocysteine-induced endoplasmic reticulum stress causes dysregulation of the cholesterol and triglyceride biosynthetic pathways

    Geoff H. Werstuck;Steven R. Lentz;Sanjana Dayal;Gazi S. Hossain

  • Targeted Replacement of the Mouse Apolipoprotein E Gene with the Common Human APOE3 Allele Enhances Diet-induced Hypercholesterolemia and Atherosclerosis

    Patrick M. Sullivan;Hafid Mezdour;Yasuaki Aratani;Chris Knouff

  • Genetic control of blood pressure and the angiotensinogen locus.

    Hyung S Kim;John H. Krege;Kimberly D. Kluckman;John R. Hagaman

  • Hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy, and sudden death in mice lacking natriuretic peptide receptor A

    Paula M. Oliver;Jennifer E. Fox;Ron Kim;Howard A. Rockman

  • MICE DEFICIENT IN CYSTATHIONINE BETA -SYNTHASE : ANIMAL MODELS FOR MILD AND SEVERE HOMOCYST(E)INEMIA

    M Watanabe;J Osada;Y Aratani;K Kluckman

  • The role of natriuretic peptides in cardioprotection.

    Toshio Nishikimi;Nobuyo Maeda;Hiroaki Matsuoka

  • The two-receptor model of lipoprotein clearance: tests of the hypothesis in "knockout" mice lacking the low density lipoprotein receptor, apolipoprotein E, or both proteins

    Shun Ishibashi;Joachim Herz;Nobuyo Maeda;Joseph L. Goldstein

  • Targeted inactivation of hepatic Abca1 causes profound hypoalphalipoproteinemia and kidney hypercatabolism of apoA-I

    Jenelle M. Timmins;Ji Young Lee;Elena Boudyguina;Kimberly D. Kluckman

  • Dietary cholesterol, rather than liver steatosis, leads to hepatic inflammation in hyperlipidemic mouse models of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

    Kristiaan Wouters;Patrick J. van Gorp;Veerle Bieghs;Marion J. Gijbels

  • Genetic control of blood pressure and the angiotensinogen locus (essential hypertension/quantitative genetic trait/gene targeting/gene disruption/gene duplication)

    Hyung-Suk Kim;John H. Krege;Kimberly D. Kluckman;John R. Hagaman

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William A. Kuziel
William A. Kuziel The University of Texas at Austin
John S. Parks
John S. Parks Wake Forest University
J. Charles Jennette
J. Charles Jennette University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Frank M. Faraci
Frank M. Faraci University of Iowa
Kazuo Suzuki
Kazuo Suzuki Teikyo University
Brian Popko
Brian Popko Northwestern University
Curt D. Sigmund
Curt D. Sigmund Medical College of Wisconsin
Thomas M. Coffman
Thomas M. Coffman Duke University
Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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