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Yasufumi Sato

Yasufumi Sato

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
17443
World Ranking
6347
National Ranking
411

Overview

Yasufumi Sato is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. Their research primarily spans molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, oncology, nephrology, and cancer research.

Their work covers a variety of topics in biomedical science, with a strong focus on angiogenesis and VEGF in cancer, platelet disorders and treatments, renal diseases and glomerulopathies, cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism, PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer, cell adhesion molecules research, and monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research.

Yasufumi Sato has published articles in several scientific journals, including multiple papers in The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine and Annals of Surgical Oncology. Other publication venues include Nature Reviews Nephrology, Esophagus, and BMJ Open.

  • Targeting angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis in kidney disease, 2020, Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • Plasma vasohibin-1 and vasohibin-2 are useful biomarkers in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, 2020, Esophagus
  • Tubulin carboxypeptidase activity of vasohibin-1 inhibits angiogenesis by interfering with endocytosis and trafficking of pro-angiogenic factor receptors, 2020, Angiogenesis
  • Vasohibin-1 expression as a biomarker of aggressive nature in ductal adenocarcinoma of the prostate: a retrospective cohort study at two centres in Japan, 2021, BMJ Open
  • Vasohibin-1 rescues erectile function through up-regulation of angiogenic factors in the diabetic mice, 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yasufumi Sato include:

  • Katsuyuki Tanabe
  • Jun Wada
  • Yoshiaki Sota
  • Tomonori Tanei
  • Yasuhiro Suzuki

Best Publications

  • Inhibition of endothelial cell movement by pericytes and smooth muscle cells: activation of a latent transforming growth factor-beta 1-like molecule by plasmin during co-culture.

    Y Sato;D B Rifkin

  • Autocrine activities of basic fibroblast growth factor: regulation of endothelial cell movement, plasminogen activator synthesis, and DNA synthesis.

    Y Sato;D B Rifkin

  • Characterization of the activation of latent TGF-beta by co-cultures of endothelial cells and pericytes or smooth muscle cells: a self-regulating system.

    Y Sato;R Tsuboi;R Lyons;H Moses

  • CaM kinase Iα–induced phosphorylation of Drp1 regulates mitochondrial morphology

    Xiao Jian Han;Yun Fei Lu;Shun Ai Li;Taku Kaitsuka

  • A selective Sema3A inhibitor enhances regenerative responses and functional recovery of the injured spinal cord

    Shinjiro Kaneko;Akio Iwanami;Masaya Nakamura;Akiyoshi Kishino

  • Roles of two VEGF receptors, Flt-1 and KDR, in the signal transduction of VEGF effects in human vascular endothelial cells.

    Shinichi Kanno;Nobuyuki Oda;Mayumi Abe;Yoshito Terai

  • Ets-1 regulates angiogenesis by inducing the expression of urokinase-type plasminogen activator and matrix metalloproteinase-1 and the migration of vascular endothelial cells.

    Chika Iwasaka;Katsuhiro Tanaka;Mayumi Abe;Yasufumi Sato

  • Vasohibin as an endothelium-derived negative feedback regulator of angiogenesis

    Kazuhide Watanabe;Yasuhiro Hasegawa;Hiroshi Yamashita;Kazue Shimizu

  • Monospecific antibodies implicate basic fibroblast growth factor in normal wound repair.

    K N Broadley;A M Aquino;S C Woodward;A Buckley-Sturrock

  • Role of the latent TGF-beta binding protein in the activation of latent TGF-beta by co-cultures of endothelial and smooth muscle cells.

    R Flaumenhaft;M Abe;Y Sato;K Miyazono

  • ETS-1 converts endothelial cells to the angiogenic phenotype by inducing the expression of matrix metalloproteinases and integrin β3

    Nobuyuki Oda;Mayumi Abe;Yasufumi Sato

  • Correlation of cell migration, cell invasion, receptor number, proteinase production, and basic fibroblast growth factor levels in endothelial cells

    Ryoji Tsuboi;Yasufumi Sato;Daniel B. Rifkin

  • Establishment of a Simple and Practical Procedure Applicable to Therapeutic Angiogenesis

    Shinichi Kanno;Nobuyuki Oda;Mayumi Abe;Sachiko Saito

  • Urokinase-type plasminogen activator mediates basic fibroblast growth factor-induced bovine endothelial cell migration independent of its proteolytic activity.

    Lale E. Odekon;Yasufumi Sato;Daniel B. Rifkin

  • Processing, secretion, and biological properties of a novel growth factor of the fibroblast growth factor family with oncogenic potential.

    P Delli-Bovi;A M Curatola;K M Newman;Y Sato

  • Immunohistochemical Localization of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor in Astrocytomas

    David Zagzag;Douglas C. Miller;Yasufumi Sato;Daniel B. Rifkin

  • Hypoxia induces transcription factor ETS-1 via the activity of hypoxia-inducible factor-1.

    Manami Oikawa;Mayumi Abe;Hajime Kurosawa;Wataru Hida

  • Role of ETS family transcription factors in vascular development and angiogenesis.

    Yasufumi Sato

  • Roles of Extracellular Signal‐regulated Kinase 1/2 and p38 Mitogen‐activated Protein Kinase in the Signal Transduction of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor in Endothelial Cells during Angiogenesis

    Katsuhiro Tanaka;Mayumi Abe;Yasufumi Sato

  • Regulators of angiogenesis

    Yasufumi Sato

Frequent Co-Authors

Michihiko Kuwano
Michihiko Kuwano Kyushu University
Daniel B. Rifkin
Daniel B. Rifkin New York University
Mayumi Ono
Mayumi Ono Kyushu University
Hirofumi Makino
Hirofumi Makino Okayama University
Hironobu Sasano
Hironobu Sasano Tohoku University
Kimitoshi Kohno
Kimitoshi Kohno University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan
Nobuo Yaegashi
Nobuo Yaegashi Tohoku University
Masabumi Shibuya
Masabumi Shibuya Jobu University
Yasunori Okada
Yasunori Okada Juntendo University
Toshihiro Nukiwa
Toshihiro Nukiwa Tohoku University

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