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Shinya Tanaka

Shinya Tanaka

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Biology and Biochemistry

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82
Citations
24526
World Ranking
3693
National Ranking
235

Overview

Shinya Tanaka is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and has a substantial body of research primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Infectious Diseases, Surgery, Molecular Biology, Oncology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The main topics of Shinya Tanaka's research include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Hip disorders and treatments
  • Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty

Tanaka has published extensively on the virological characteristics and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Recent notable papers include:

  • "Attenuated fusogenicity and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant" (2022, Nature)
  • "Enhanced fusogenicity and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Delta P681R mutation" (2021, Nature)
  • "Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 spike" (2022, Cell)
  • "Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant derived from recombination of two Omicron subvariants" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 subvariants, including BA.4 and BA.5" (2022, Cell)

Frequent co-authors in Tanaka's work include Masumi Tsuda, Yoshitaka Oda, Takasuke Fukuhara, Zen-ichi Tanei, and Tomokazu Tamura. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers primarily focused on infectious disease and molecular biology research.

Tanaka's publications appear frequently in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pathology International
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • Cardiology Journal

This publication record demonstrates a consistent contribution to high-impact journals and preprint repositories that focus on pathology, infectious diseases, and related medical fields.

Best Publications

  • Bcl6 Mediates the Development of T Follicular Helper Cells

    Roza I. Nurieva;Yeonseok Chung;Gustavo J. Martinez;Xuexian O. Yang

  • Follicular regulatory T cells expressing Foxp3 and Bcl-6 suppress germinal center reactions

    Yeonseok Chung;Yeonseok Chung;Shinya Tanaka;Fuliang Chu;Roza I. Nurieva

  • Transgenic expression of Helicobacter pylori CagA induces gastrointestinal and hematopoietic neoplasms in mouse

    Naomi Ohnishi;Hitomi Yuasa;Shinya Tanaka;Hirofumi Sawa

  • Circadian variation of exercise capacity in patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina: role of exercise-induced coronary arterial spasm.

    H Yasue;S Omote;A Takizawa;M Nagao

  • Enhanced fusogenicity and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Delta P681R mutation

    Akatsuki Saito;Takashi Irie;Rigel Suzuki;Tadashi Maemura;Tadashi Maemura

  • C3G, a guanine nucleotide-releasing protein expressed ubiquitously, binds to the Src homology 3 domains of CRK and GRB2/ASH proteins.

    Shinya Tanaka;Takashi Morishita;Yuko Hashimoto;Seisuke Hattori

  • DOCK180, a major CRK-binding protein, alters cell morphology upon translocation to the cell membrane.

    Hideki Hasegawa;Etsuko Kiyokawa;Shinya Tanaka;Kazuo Nagashima

  • Interplay of SOX and POU factors in regulation of the Nestin gene in neural primordial cells.

    Shinya Tanaka;Yusuke Kamachi;Aki Tanouchi;Hiroshi Hamada

  • PILRα Is a Herpes Simplex Virus-1 Entry Coreceptor That Associates with Glycoprotein B

    Takeshi Satoh;Jun Arii;Tadahiro Suenaga;Jing Wang

  • Helicobacter pylori CagA induces Ras-independent morphogenetic response through SHP-2 recruitment and activation.

    Hideaki Higashi;Akihiro Nakaya;Ryouhei Tsutsumi;Kazuyuki Yokoyama

  • Crk and CrkL adaptor proteins: networks for physiological and pathological signaling

    Raymond B Birge;Charalampos Kalodimos;Fuyuhiko Inagaki;Shinya Tanaka

  • Two species of human CRK cDNA encode proteins with distinct biological activities.

    Michiyuki Matsuda;Shinya Tanaka;Satoshi Nagata;Asato Kojima

  • The JAK inhibitor tofacitinib regulates synovitis through inhibition of interferon‐γ and interleukin‐17 production by human CD4+ T cells

    Keisuke Maeshima;Kunihiro Yamaoka;Satoshi Kubo;Kazuhisa Nakano

  • Toll-like receptor 3 signaling converts tumor-supporting myeloid cells to tumoricidal effectors

    Hiroaki Shime;Misako Matsumoto;Hiroyuki Oshiumi;Shinya Tanaka

  • Natural killer T cells accelerate atherogenesis in mice.

    Yukihito Nakai;Kazuya Iwabuchi;Satoshi Fujii;Naoki Ishimori

  • CRK protein binds to two guanine nucleotide-releasing proteins for the Ras family and modulates nerve growth factor-induced activation of Ras in PC12 cells.

    Michiyuki Matsuda;Yuko Hashimoto;Kenkoh Muroya;Hideki Hasegawa

  • Azathioprine suppresses ezrin-radixin-moesin-dependent T cell-APC conjugation through inhibition of Vav guanosine exchange activity on Rac proteins

    Daniela Poppe;Imke Tiede;Gerhard Fritz;Christoph Becker

  • Triggering neural differentiation of ES cells by subtype switching of importin-alpha.

    Noriko Yasuhara;Noriko Shibazaki;Shinya Tanaka;Masahiro Nagai

  • Analysis of transforming activity of human synovial sarcoma-associated chimeric protein SYT-SSX1 bound to chromatin remodeling factor hBRM/hSNF2α

    Makoto Nagai;Shinya Tanaka;Masumi Tsuda;Shuichi Endo

  • Erratum to The Methylcytosine Dioxygenase Tet2 Promotes DNA Demethylation and Activation of Cytokine Gene Expression in T Cells (Immunity 42, 613-626, 2015)

    Kenji Ichiyama;Tingting Chen;Xiaohu Wang;Xiaowei Yan

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuo Nagashima
Kazuo Nagashima Hokkaido University
Hirofumi Sawa
Hirofumi Sawa Hokkaido University
Yasuko Orba
Yasuko Orba Hokkaido University
Hiroshi Nishihara
Hiroshi Nishihara Tokyo University of Science
Yusuke Ohba
Yusuke Ohba Hokkaido University
Tadaki Suzuki
Tadaki Suzuki National Institutes of Health
Kiyohiro Houkin
Kiyohiro Houkin Hokkaido University
Shigetsugu Hatakeyama
Shigetsugu Hatakeyama Hokkaido University
Jian Ping Gong
Jian Ping Gong Hokkaido University

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