Norimasa Sawada

Overview

Best Publications

• Transmembrane proteins of tight junctions.

  Hideki Chiba;Makoto Osanai;Masaki Murata;Takashi Kojima

  586
  Citations

• Use of a low-speed, iso-density percoll centrifugation method to increase the viability of isolated rat hepatocyte preparations.

  B. L. Kreamer;J. L. Staecker;N. Sawada;G. L. Sattler

  572
  Citations

• Tight junctions and human diseases.

  Norimasa Sawada;Masaki Murata;Keisuke Kikuchi;Makoto Osanai

  470
  Citations

• Tight junction proteins claudin-2 and -12 are critical for vitamin D-dependent Ca2+ absorption between enterocytes.

  Hiroki Fujita;Kotaro Sugimoto;Shuichiro Inatomi;Toshihiro Maeda

  465
  Citations

• Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor induces barrier function of endothelial cells forming the blood-brain barrier.

  Yo Igarashi;Hiroyuki Utsumi;Hideki Chiba;Yumiko Yamada-Sasamori

  327
  Citations

• Possible involvement of gap junctions in the barrier function of tight junctions of brain and lung endothelial cells

  Kunihiko Nagasawa;Hideki Chiba;Hiroki Fujita;Takashi Kojima

  321
  Citations

• Differential Expression and Subcellular Localization of Claudin-7, −8, −12, −13, and −15 Along the Mouse Intestine

  Hiroki Fujita;Hideki Chiba;Hiroshi Yokozaki;Naoyuki Sakai

  277
  Citations

• Cyclic AMP induces phosphorylation of claudin-5 immunoprecipitates and expression of claudin-5 gene in blood–brain-barrier endothelial cells via protein kinase A-dependent and -independent pathways

  Tsutomu Ishizaki;Hideki Chiba;Takashi Kojima;Masato Fujibe

  262
  Citations

• Tight junction-related human diseases.

  Norimasa Sawada

  210
  Citations

• Type-III interferon, not type-I, is the predominant interferon induced by respiratory viruses in nasal epithelial cells.

  Tamaki Okabayashi;Takashi Kojima;Tomoyuki Masaki;Shin-ichi Yokota

  207
  Citations

• Hepatic iron deprivation prevents spontaneous development of fulminant hepatitis and liver cancer in Long-Evans Cinnamon rats.

  Junji Kato;Masayoshi Kobune;Yutaka Kohgo;Naoki Sugawara

  200
  Citations

• Reduced expression of claudin-7 correlates with invasion and metastasis in squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.

  Yu Usami;Hideki Chiba;Fumihito Nakayama;Junya Ueda

  199
  Citations

• HLA-DR- and CD11c-positive dendritic cells penetrate beyond well-developed epithelial tight junctions in human nasal mucosa of allergic rhinitis.

  Ken-ichi Takano;Takashi Kojima;Mitsuru Go;Masaki Murata

  191
  Citations

• Thr203 of claudin-1, a putative phosphorylation site for MAP kinase, is required to promote the barrier function of tight junctions.

  Masato Fujibe;Hideki Chiba;Takashi Kojima;Tamotsu Soma

  181
  Citations

• The role of IL‐33 and its receptor ST2 in human nasal epithelium with allergic rhinitis

  R. Kamekura;T. Kojima;K. Takano;M. Go

  177
  Citations

• Occludin expression decreases with the progression of human endometrial carcinoma.

  Hirotoshi Tobioka;Hiroshi Isomura;Yasuo Kokai;Yuichi Tokunaga

  173
  Citations

• Thr207 of claudin-5 is involved in size-selective loosening of the endothelial barrier by cyclic AMP

  Tamotsu Soma;Hideki Chiba;Yuko Kato-Mori;Takuro Wada

  171
  Citations

• Regulation of Tight Junctions in Upper Airway Epithelium

  Takashi Kojima;Mitsuru Go;Ken-ichi Takano;Makoto Kurose

  167
  Citations

• ErbB2 expression is correlated with increased survival of patients with osteosarcoma.

  Tomohiro Akatsuka;Takuro Wada M.D.;Yasuo Kokai M.D.;Satoshi Kawaguchi M.D.

  154
  Citations

• Epigenetic Silencing of Occludin Promotes Tumorigenic and Metastatic Properties of Cancer Cells via Modulations of Unique Sets of Apoptosis-Associated Genes

  Makoto Osanai;Masaki Murata;Nami Nishikiori;Hideki Chiba

  151
  Citations