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Nobuyoshi Kosaka

Nobuyoshi Kosaka

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
18238
World Ranking
13568
National Ranking
949

Overview

Nobuyoshi Kosaka is affiliated with Tokyo Medical University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Immunology and Microbiology.

The scientist's work spans subfields including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, and Immunology. Their main research topics focus on extracellular vesicles in disease, microRNA in disease regulation, and galectins in cancer biology.

Among Nobuyoshi Kosaka's recent publications is the paper titled "Altered biodistribution of deglycosylated extracellular vesicles through enhanced cellular uptake", published in 2020 in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. This paper has received 78 citations.

Frequent collaborators of Nobuyoshi Kosaka include:

  • Nao Nishida-Aoki
  • Naoomi Tominaga
  • Takahiro Ochiya

The scientist's research is predominantly published in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles.

Nobuyoshi Kosaka's work covers significant topics in disease mechanisms linked to extracellular vesicles and microRNA regulation, as well as molecular pathways involving galectins in cancer biology. The integration of biochemistry and immunology perspectives is reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of their studies.

Best Publications

  • Secretory Mechanisms and Intercellular Transfer of MicroRNAs in Living Cells

    Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Haruhisa Iguchi;Yusuke Yoshioka;Fumitaka Takeshita

  • Circulating microRNA in body fluid: a new potential biomarker for cancer diagnosis and prognosis.

    Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Haruhisa Iguchi;Takahiro Ochiya

  • Neutral sphingomyelinase 2 (nSMase2)-dependent exosomal transfer of angiogenic microRNAs regulate cancer cell metastasis.

    Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Haruhisa Iguchi;Keitaro Hagiwara;Yusuke Yoshioka

  • Brain metastatic cancer cells release microRNA-181c-containing extracellular vesicles capable of destructing blood–brain barrier

    Naoomi Tominaga;Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Makiko Ono;Takeshi Katsuda

  • Exosomes from bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells contain a microRNA that promotes dormancy in metastatic breast cancer cells

    Makiko Ono;Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Naoomi Tominaga;Yusuke Yoshioka

  • microRNA as a new immune-regulatory agent in breast milk

    Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Hirohisa Izumi;Kazunori Sekine;Takahiro Ochiya

  • Ultra-sensitive liquid biopsy of circulating extracellular vesicles using ExoScreen

    Yusuke Yoshioka;Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Yuki Konishi;Hideki Ohta

  • Human adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells secrete functional neprilysin-bound exosomes

    Takeshi Katsuda;Reiko Tsuchiya;Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Yusuke Yoshioka

  • Systemic Delivery of Synthetic MicroRNA-16 Inhibits the Growth of Metastatic Prostate Tumors via Downregulation of Multiple Cell-cycle Genes

    Fumitaka Takeshita;Lubna Patrawala;Mitsuhiko Osaki;Ryou U. Takahashi

  • The therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cell‐derived extracellular vesicles

    Takeshi Katsuda;Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Fumitaka Takeshita;Takahiro Ochiya

  • Comparative marker analysis of extracellular vesicles in different human cancer types

    Yusuke Yoshioka;Yuki Konishi;Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Takeshi Katsuda

  • Atelocollagen-mediated synthetic small interfering RNA delivery for effective gene silencing in vitro and in vivo.

    Yoshiko Minakuchi;Fumitaka Takeshita;Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Hideo Sasaki

  • Bovine milk contains microRNA and messenger RNA that are stable under degradative conditions.

    H. Izumi;N. Kosaka;T. Shimizu;K. Sekine

  • The progression of liver fibrosis is related with overexpression of the miR-199 and 200 families

    Yoshiki Murakami;Hidenori Toyoda;Masami Tanaka;Masahiko Kuroda

  • Bovine milk exosomes contain microRNA and mRNA and are taken up by human macrophages

    Hirohisa Izumi;Muneya Tsuda;Yohei Sato;Nobuyoshi Kosaka

  • Versatile roles of extracellular vesicles in cancer

    Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Yusuke Yoshioka;Yu Fujita;Takahiro Ochiya

  • Competitive Interactions of Cancer Cells and Normal Cells via Secretory MicroRNAs

    Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Haruhisa Iguchi;Yusuke Yoshioka;Keitaro Hagiwara

  • MicroRNA-143 regulates human osteosarcoma metastasis by regulating matrix metalloprotease-13 expression

    Mitsuhiko Osaki;Fumitaka Takeshita;Yui Sugimoto;Nobuyoshi Kosaka

  • MicroRNA-500 as a potential diagnostic marker for hepatocellular carcinoma

    Yusuke Yamamoto;Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Minoru Tanaka;Fumiaki Koizumi

  • Suppression of autophagy by extracellular vesicles promotes myofibroblast differentiation in COPD pathogenesis

    Yu Fujita;Jun Araya;Saburo Ito;Kenji Kobayashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Takahiro Ochiya
Takahiro Ochiya Tokyo Medical University
Takashi Kato
Takashi Kato Waseda University
Mitsuhiko Osaki
Mitsuhiko Osaki Tottori University
Masahiko Kuroda
Masahiko Kuroda Tokyo Medical University
Takashi Shimizu
Takashi Shimizu Nagoya University
Masaaki Terada
Masaaki Terada National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Hiromi Sakamoto
Hiromi Sakamoto National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Atsushi Miyajima
Atsushi Miyajima University of Tokyo
Futoshi Okada
Futoshi Okada Tottori University
Masakazu Yashiro
Masakazu Yashiro Osaka Metropolitan University

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