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14793
National Ranking
1049

Overview

Tomoki Nakashima is affiliated with Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan. Their research activity centers predominantly on the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a distinct focus on Molecular Biology, Oncology, Genetics, Immunology, and Rheumatology as subfields.

Their scholarly contributions cover key topics such as Bone Metabolism and Diseases, Bone Health and Treatments, Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions, NF-κB Signaling Pathways, RNA Research and Splicing, Immune Response and Inflammation, and Mesenchymal Stem Cell Research.

Nakashima's recent papers include the following works:

  • RANKL biology: bone metabolism, the immune system, and beyond, 2020, published in Inflammation and Regeneration
  • Osteoblast/osteocyte-derived interleukin-11 regulates osteogenesis and systemic adipogenesis, 2022, published in Nature Communications
  • In silico experiments of bone remodeling explore metabolic diseases and their drug treatment, 2020, published in Science Advances
  • Plasma cells promote osteoclastogenesis and periarticular bone loss in autoimmune arthritis, 2021, published in Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Periosteal stem cells control growth plate stem cells during postnatal skeletal growth, 2022, published in Nature Communications

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Nakashima has coauthored papers with:

  • Mikihito Hayashi
  • T. Ono
  • Hiroshi Takayanagi
  • Masayuki Tsukasaki
  • Warunee Pluemsakunthai

Their publications appear most often in the following venues:

  • Nature Communications (5 publications)
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation (3 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 publications)
  • Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism (2 publications)
  • Inflammation and Regeneration (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Evidence for osteocyte regulation of bone homeostasis through RANKL expression

    Tomoki Nakashima;Mikihito Hayashi;Takanobu Fukunaga;Kosaku Kurata

  • Pathogenic conversion of Foxp3+ T cells into TH17 cells in autoimmune arthritis.

    Noriko Komatsu;Kazuo Okamoto;Shinichiro Sawa;Tomoki Nakashima

  • RANKL–RANK signaling in osteoclastogenesis and bone disease

    Teiji Wada;Tomoki Nakashima;Nishina Hiroshi;Josef M Penninger

  • Regulation of cancer cell migration and bone metastasis by RANKL

    D. Holstead Jones;Tomoki Nakashima;Otto H. Sanchez;Otto H. Sanchez;Ivona Kozieradzki;Ivona Kozieradzki

  • Osteoprotection by semaphorin 3A

    Mikihito Hayashi;Tomoki Nakashima;Masahiko Taniguchi;Tatsuhiko Kodama

  • Protein expression and functional difference of membrane-bound and soluble receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand: modulation of the expression by osteotropic factors and cytokines.

    Tomoki Nakashima;Yasuhiro Kobayashi;Satoshi Yamasaki;Atsushi Kawakami

  • Osteoimmunology: The Conceptual Framework Unifying the Immune and Skeletal Systems

    Kazuo Okamoto;Tomoki Nakashima;Masahiro Shinohara;Takako Negishi-Koga

  • Targeted Deletion of AIF Decreases Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation and Protects from Obesity and Diabetes

    J. Andrew Pospisilik;Claude Knauf;Nicholas Joza;Paule Benit

  • RANKL biology: bone metabolism, the immune system, and beyond

    Takehito Ono;Takehito Ono;Mikihito Hayashi;Mikihito Hayashi;Fumiyuki Sasaki;Fumiyuki Sasaki;Tomoki Nakashima;Tomoki Nakashima

  • Regulation of osteoclast differentiation and function by the CaMK-CREB pathway.

    Kojiro Sato;Ayako Suematsu;Tomoki Nakashima;Sayaka Takemoto-Kimura

  • New insights into osteoclastogenic signaling mechanisms

    Tomoki Nakashima;Mikihito Hayashi;Hiroshi Takayanagi;Hiroshi Takayanagi

  • IL-17-producing γδ T cells enhance bone regeneration

    Takehito Ono;Kazuo Okamoto;Tomoki Nakashima;Takeshi Nitta

  • Recent advances in osteoclast biology

    Takehito Ono;Tomoki Nakashima;Tomoki Nakashima

  • Osteoimmunology: Crosstalk Between the Immune and Bone Systems

    Tomoki Nakashima;Hiroshi Takayanagi

  • Osteocyte control of osteoclastogenesis

    Charles A. O'Brien;Tomoki Nakashima;Hiroshi Takayanagi;Hiroshi Takayanagi

  • Host defense against oral microbiota by bone-damaging T cells

    Masayuki Tsukasaki;Noriko Komatsu;Kazuki Nagashima;Takeshi Nitta

  • Blimp1-mediated repression of negative regulators is required for osteoclast differentiation

    Keizo Nishikawa;Tomoki Nakashima;Mikihito Hayashi;Takanobu Fukunaga

  • RANKL expressed on synovial fibroblasts is primarily responsible for bone erosions during joint inflammation.

    Lynett Danks;Noriko Komatsu;Matteo M Guerrini;Shinichiro Sawa

  • Tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-1β increase the Fas-mediated apoptosis of human osteoblasts

    Masahiko Tsuboi;Atsushi Kawakami;Tomoki Nakashima;Naoki Matsuoka

  • The molecular scaffold Gab2 is a crucial component of RANK signaling and osteoclastogenesis

    Teiji Wada;Tomoki Nakashima;Antonio J Oliveira-dos-Santos;Antonio J Oliveira-dos-Santos;Juerg Gasser

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Takayanagi
Hiroshi Takayanagi University of Tokyo
Atsushi Kawakami
Atsushi Kawakami Nagasaki University
Katsumi Eguchi
Katsumi Eguchi Nagasaki University
Kiyoshi Migita
Kiyoshi Migita Fukushima Medical University
Josef M. Penninger
Josef M. Penninger University of British Columbia
Tatsuhiko Kodama
Tatsuhiko Kodama University of Tokyo
Takehiko Koji
Takehiko Koji Nagasaki University
Sakae Tanaka
Sakae Tanaka University of Tokyo
George Kollias
George Kollias National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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