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Toshiaki Ohteki is affiliated with Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on immunology and microbiology, with 34 publications in this field. They also have contributions in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Ohteki's work spans several subfields, including immunology, molecular biology, hematology, oncology, and genetics. Their research explores topics such as immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, immune cells in cancer, immunotherapy and immune responses, and cancer cells and metastasis.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ohteki include:

  • Reclassifying plasmacytoid dendritic cells as innate lymphocytes, 2022, Nature Reviews Immunology
  • A circulating subset of iNKT cells mediates antitumor and antiviral immunity, 2022, Science Immunology
  • CD86-based analysis enables observation of bona fide hematopoietic responses, 2020, Blood
  • Regulated IFN signalling preserves the stemness of intestinal stem cells by restricting differentiation into secretory-cell lineages, 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • Characterization of radioresistant epithelial stem cell heterogeneity in the damaged mouse intestine, 2020, Scientific Reports

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as Nature Reviews Immunology, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Immunology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and Science Immunology.

Ohteki collaborates with several co-authors with whom they have multiple joint publications. Notable frequent collaborators include Taku Sato, Masashi Kanayama, Yuta Izumi, Mihoko Kajita, and Jumpei Asano.

Best Publications

  • Cloning of adiponectin receptors that mediate antidiabetic metabolic effects

    Toshimasa Yamauchi;Junji Kamon;Yusuke Ito;Atsushi Tsuchida

  • Identification of clonogenic common Flt3 + M-CSFR + plasmacytoid and conventional dendritic cell progenitors in mouse bone marrow

    Nobuyuki Onai;Aya Obata-Onai;Michael A Schmid;Toshiaki Ohteki

  • T Cell-Specific Loss of Pten Leads to Defects in Central and Peripheral Tolerance

    Akira Suzuki;Manae Tsukio Yamaguchi;Toshiaki Ohteki;Takehiko Sasaki

  • SELECTION OF THE T CELL REPERTOIRE

    Eric Sebzda;Sanjeev Mariathasan;Toshiaki Ohteki;Russell Jones

  • Interleukin 12-dependent interferon gamma production by CD8alpha+ lymphoid dendritic cells.

    Toshiaki Ohteki;Taro Fukao;Kazutomo Suzue;Chikako Maki

  • Synergistic effect of Nod1 and Nod2 agonists with Toll-like receptor agonists on human dendritic cells to generate interleukin-12 and T helper type 1 cells

    Hiroyuki Tada;Setsuya Aiba;Ken Ichiro Shibata;Toshiaki Ohteki

  • Regulation of IgA production by naturally occurring TNF/iNOS-producing dendritic cells

    Hiroyuki Tezuka;Yukiko Abe;Makoto Iwata;Hajime Takeuchi

  • Interferon regulatory factor-2 protects quiescent hematopoietic stem cells from type I interferon― dependent exhaustion

    Taku Sato;Nobuyuki Onai;Hiroki Yoshihara;Fumio Arai

  • Selective contribution of IFN-α/β signaling to the maturation of dendritic cells induced by double-stranded RNA or viral infection

    Kenya Honda;Shinya Sakaguchi;Chigusa Nakajima;Ai Watanabe

  • The Transcription Factor NF-ATc1 Regulates Lymphocyte Proliferation and Th2 Cytokine Production

    Hiroki Yoshida;Hiroshi Nishina;Hiroshi Nishina;Hiroaki Takimoto;Hiroaki Takimoto;Luc E.M Marengère;Luc E.M Marengère

  • Major histocompatibility complex class I related molecules control the development of CD4+8- and CD4-8- subsets of natural killer 1.1+ T cell receptor-alpha/beta+ cells in the liver of mice.

    T Ohteki;H R MacDonald

  • A Single Strain of Clostridium butyricum Induces Intestinal IL-10-Producing Macrophages to Suppress Acute Experimental Colitis in Mice

    Atsushi Hayashi;Toshiro Sato;Nobuhiko Kamada;Yohei Mikami

  • CXCL10-CXCR3 Enhances the Development of Neutrophil-mediated Fulminant Lung Injury of Viral and Nonviral Origin

    Akihiko Ichikawa;Keiji Kuba;Masayuki Morita;Shinsuke Chida

  • The Transcription Factor Interferon Regulatory Factor 1 (IRF-1) Is Important during the Maturation of Natural Killer 1.1+ T Cell Receptor–α/β+ (NK1+ T) Cells, Natural Killer Cells, and Intestinal Intraepithelial T Cells

    Toshiaki Ohteki;Hiroki Yoshida;Toshifumi Matsuyama;Gordon S. Duncan

  • In susceptible mice, Leishmania major induce very rapid interleukin-4 production by CD4+ T cells which are NK1.1-.

    Launois P;Ohteki T;Swihart K;MacDonald Hr

  • Critical role of IL-15–IL-15R for antigen-presenting cell functions in the innate immune response

    Toshiaki Ohteki;Kazutomo Suzue;Chikako Maki;Takayuki Ota

  • Details of an isolation method for hepatic lymphocytes in mice

    Hisami Watanabe;Kazuo Ohtsuka;Motohiko Kimura;Yoshinori Ikarashi

  • A clonogenic progenitor with prominent plasmacytoid dendritic cell developmental potential.

    Nobuyuki Onai;Kazutaka Kurabayashi;Mayuka Hosoi-Amaike;Noriko Toyama-Sorimachi

  • Prominent Role for Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Mucosal T Cell-Independent IgA Induction

    Hiroyuki Tezuka;Yukiko Abe;Jumpei Asano;Taku Sato

  • Negative regulation of T cell proliferation and interleukin 2 production by the serine threonine kinase GSK-3.

    Toshiaki Ohteki;Michael Parsons;Arsen Zakarian;Russell G. Jones

  • Role for IL-15/IL-15 receptor beta-chain in natural killer 1.1+ T cell receptor-alpha beta+ cell development.

    T Ohteki;S Ho;H Suzuki;T W Mak

Frequent Co-Authors

Pamela S. Ohashi
Pamela S. Ohashi Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Martin F. Bachmann
Martin F. Bachmann University of Bern
Tak W. Mak
Tak W. Mak Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Akira Suzuki
Akira Suzuki Kobe University
Josef M. Penninger
Josef M. Penninger University of British Columbia
Toshio Suda
Toshio Suda National University of Singapore
Hideo Yagita
Hideo Yagita Juntendo University
Takehiko Sasaki
Takehiko Sasaki Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Tak W. Mak
Tak W. Mak Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

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