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Tadao Orii

Tadao Orii

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
73
Citations
17294
World Ranking
1288
National Ranking
105

Overview

Tadao Orii is affiliated with Gifu University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with an additional focus on medicine. Their work encompasses several subfields, including molecular biology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, physiology, genetics, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics. Key areas of focus include:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals

Orii has published research in several notable scientific journals, demonstrating active engagement with multiple fields. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Toxicon
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Chemosphere
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Molecular Medicine

Among the recent papers associated with Orii's work are:

  • Lysosomal storage diseases: current therapies and future alternatives, 2020, Journal of Molecular Medicine
  • Role of Connexins 30, 36, and 43 in Brain Tumors, Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Neuroprotection, 2020, Cells
  • Pre-differentiation exposure to low-dose of atrazine results in persistent phenotypic changes in human neuronal cell lines, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Pre-differentiation GenX exposure induced neurotoxicity in human dopaminergic-like neurons, 2023, Chemosphere
  • Low dose lead exposure induces alterations on heterochromatin hallmarks persisting through SH-SY5Y cell differentiation, 2020, Chemosphere

Orii's frequent collaborators include:

  • Chongli Yuan
  • Junkai Xie
  • Jennifer L. Freeman
  • Han Zhao
  • Li Lin

Best Publications

  • Epidemiology of mucopolysaccharidoses

    Shaukat A. Khan;Hira Peracha;Diana Ballhausen;Alfred Wiesbauer

  • A human gene responsible for Zellweger syndrome that affects peroxisome assembly.

    Nobuyuki Shimozawa;Toshiro Tsukamoto;Yasuyuki Suzuki;Tadao Orii

  • Novel fatty acid beta-oxidation enzymes in rat liver mitochondria. II. Purification and properties of enoyl-coenzyme A (CoA) hydratase/3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase/3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase trifunctional protein.

    Y Uchida;K Izai;T Orii;T Hashimoto

  • Inherited complete deficiency of 20-kilodalton homologous restriction factor (CD59) as a cause of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

    M Yamashina;E Ueda;T Kinoshita;T Takami

  • International Morquio A Registry: Clinical manifestation and natural course of Morquio A disease

    A. M. Montaño;S. Tomatsu;G. S. Gottesman;M. Smith

  • Novel fatty acid beta-oxidation enzymes in rat liver mitochondria. I. Purification and properties of very-long-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase.

    K Izai;Y Uchida;T Orii;S Yamamoto

  • Mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA (Morquio A disease): clinical review and current treatment

    S Tomatsu;A M Montaño;H Oikawa;M Smith

  • MOLECULAR CLONING OF CDNA ENCODING RAT VERY LONG-CHAIN ACYL-COA SYNTHETASE

    Atsushi Uchiyama;Toshifumi Aoyama;Keiju Kamijo;Yasushi Uchida

  • Enzymes of ketone body utilization in human tissues: protein and messenger RNA levels of succinyl-coenzyme A (CoA):3-ketoacid CoA transferase and mitochondrial and cytosolic acetoacetyl-CoA thiolases.

    Fukao T;Song Xq;Mitchell Ga;Yamaguchi S

  • Japan Elaprase Treatment (JET) study: idursulfase enzyme replacement therapy in adult patients with attenuated Hunter syndrome (Mucopolysaccharidosis II, MPS II).

    Torayuki Okuyama;Akemi Tanaka;Yasuyuki Suzuki;Hiroyuki Ida

  • Review of clinical presentation and diagnosis of mucopolysaccharidosis IVA

    C.J. Hendriksz;P. Harmatz;M. Beck;S. Jones

  • Mutation and polymorphism spectrum of the GALNS gene in mucopolysaccharidosis IVA (Morquio A).

    Shunji Tomatsu;Adriana M. Montaño;Tatsuo Nishioka;Monica A. Gutierrez

  • Morquio disease: isolation, characterization and expression of full-length cDNA for human N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase.

    Shunji Tomatsu;Seiji Fukuda;Michiya Masue;Kazuko Sukegawa

  • Newborn screening and diagnosis of mucopolysaccharidoses

    Shunji Tomatsu;Tadashi Fujii;Masaru Fukushi;Toshihiro Oguma

  • Growth charts for patients affected with Morquio A disease

    Adriana M. Montaño;Shunji Tomatsu;Ana Brusius;Mary Smith

  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Mucopolysaccharidoses: Past, Present, and Future

    Madeleine Taylor;Madeleine Taylor;Shaukat Khan;Molly Stapleton;Molly Stapleton;Jianmin Wang

  • d-3-Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydratase/d-3-Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Bifunctional Protein Deficiency: A Newly Identified Peroxisomal Disorder

    Yasuyuki Suzuki;Ling Ling Jiang;Masayoshi Souri;Shoko Miyazawa

  • Standardization of complementation grouping of peroxisome-deficient disorders and the second Zellweger patient with peroxisomal assembly factor-1 (PAF-1) defect.

    N. Shimozawa;Y. Suzuki;T. Orii;A. Moser

  • Treatment of MPS VII (Sly disease) by allogeneic BMT in a female with homozygous A619V mutation

    Y Yamada;K Kato;K Sukegawa;S Tomatsu;S Tomatsu

  • Peroxisome assembly factor-2, a putative ATPase cloned by functional complementation on a peroxisome-deficient mammalian cell mutant.

    Toshiro Tsukamoto;Satoshi Miura;Toshiki Nakai;Sadaki Yokota

Frequent Co-Authors

Shunji Tomatsu
Shunji Tomatsu Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
Naomi Kondo
Naomi Kondo Gifu University
Yasuyuki Suzuki
Yasuyuki Suzuki Gifu University
Seiji Yamaguchi
Seiji Yamaguchi Shimane University
Nobuyuki Shimozawa
Nobuyuki Shimozawa Gifu University
Toshiyuki Fukao
Toshiyuki Fukao Gifu University
Takashi Hashimoto
Takashi Hashimoto Shinshu University
Takashi Osumi
Takashi Osumi University of Hyogo
Yukio Fujiki
Yukio Fujiki Kyushu University
William S. Sly
William S. Sly Saint Louis University

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