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Yasushi Fujio

Yasushi Fujio

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
62
Citations
18295
World Ranking
10599
National Ranking
719

Overview

Yasushi Fujio is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and specializes primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research spans several subfields, including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Nephrology, Immunology, and Physiology. The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, focusing heavily on cardiac fibrosis and remodeling, chronic kidney disease and diabetes, cardiovascular function and risk factors, signaling pathways in disease, viral infections and immunology research, as well as renal diseases and glomerulopathies.

Notable recent publications include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 disrupts respiratory vascular barriers by suppressing Claudin-5 expression, 2022, Science Advances
  • Effects of ipragliflozin on left ventricular diastolic function in patients with type 2 diabetes and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: The EXCEED randomized controlled multicenter study, 2022, Geriatrics and gerontology international/Geriatrics & gerontology international
  • β2-adrenergic stimulation induces interleukin-6 by increasing Arid5a, a stabilizer of mRNA, through cAMP/PKA/CREB pathway in cardiac fibroblasts, 2020, Pharmacology Research & Perspectives
  • Progesterone receptor membrane component 1 leads to erlotinib resistance, initiating crosstalk of Wnt/β-catenin and NF-κB pathways, in lung adenocarcinoma cells, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Transcription factor old astrocyte specifically induced substance is a novel regulator of kidney fibrosis, 2020, The FASEB Journal

The scientist has frequently published in several venues, including:

  • Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society
  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports

Yasushi Fujio has collaborated extensively with a number of coauthors, notably:

  • Masanori Obana
  • Shota Tanaka
  • Makiko Maeda
  • Yoshiaki Okada
  • Ayaha Yamamoto

Best Publications

  • Regulation of endothelium-derived nitric oxide production by the protein kinase Akt.

    David Fulton;Jean Philippe Gratton;Timothy J. McCabe;Jason Fontana

  • Cardiomyocyte grafting for cardiac repair: graft cell death and anti-death strategies.

    Ming Zhang;Danielle Methot;Veronica Poppa;Yasushi Fujio

  • Akt Promotes Survival of Cardiomyocytes In Vitro and Protects Against Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Mouse Heart

    Yasushi Fujio;Thao Nguyen;Detlef Wencker;Richard N. Kitsis

  • Akt Mediates Cytoprotection of Endothelial Cells by Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in an Anchorage-dependent Manner

    Yasushi Fujio;Kenneth Walsh

  • Reactive Oxygen Species Mediate the Activation of Akt/Protein Kinase B by Angiotensin II in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

    Masuko Ushio-Fukai;R. Wayne Alexander;Marjorie Akers;Qi Qin Yin

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor-stimulated actin reorganization and migration of endothelial cells is regulated via the serine/threonine kinase Akt

    Manuel Morales-Ruiz;David Fulton;Grzegorz Sowa;Lucia R. Languino

  • Activation of gp130 Transduces Hypertrophic Signals via STAT3 in Cardiac Myocytes

    Keita Kunisada;Eiroh Tone;Yasushi Fujio;Hideo Matsui

  • Activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 protects cardiomyocytes from hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced oxidative stress through the upregulation of manganese superoxide dismutase.

    Shinji Negoro;Keita Kunisada;Yasushi Fujio;Masanobu Funamoto

  • Cell cycle withdrawal promotes myogenic induction of Akt, a positive modulator of myocyte survival.

    Yasushi Fujio;Kun Guo;Kun Guo;Toshiaki Mano;Yasuhiro Mitsuuchi

  • Erratum: Regulation of endothelium-derived nitric oxide production by the protein kinase Akt (Nature (1999) 399 (597-601))

    D. Fulton;J. P. Gratton;T. J. McCabe;J. Fontana

  • Signals through gp130 upregulate bcl-x gene expression via STAT1-binding cis-element in cardiac myocytes.

    Yasushi Fujio;Keita Kunisada;Hisao Hirota;Keiko Yamauchi-Takihara

  • Acute modulation of endothelial Akt/PKB activity alters nitric oxide–dependent vasomotor activity in vivo

    Zhengyu Luo;Yasushi Fujio;Yasuko Kureishi;Radu Daniel Rudic

  • Pharmacokinetics/genotype associations for major cytochrome P450 enzymes in native and first- and third-generation Japanese populations: comparison with Korean, Chinese, and Caucasian populations.

    SP Myrand;K Sekiguchi;MZ Man;X Lin

  • NAT2 genotype guided regimen reduces isoniazid-induced liver injury and early treatment failure in the 6-month four-drug standard treatment of tuberculosis: A randomized controlled trial for pharmacogenetics-based therapy

    Junichi Azuma;Masako Ohno;Masako Ohno;Ryuji Kubota;Soichiro Yokota

  • Constitutive Activation of JAK3/STAT3 in Colon Carcinoma Tumors and Cell Lines: Inhibition of JAK3/STAT3 Signaling Induces Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Arrest of Colon Carcinoma Cells

    Quan Lin;Raymond Lai;Lucian R. Chirieac;Changping Li

  • Glycoprotein 130 Regulates Cardiac Myocyte Survival in Doxorubicin-Induced Apoptosis Through Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/Akt Phosphorylation and Bcl-xL/Caspase-3 Interaction

    Shinji Negoro;Hidemasa Oh;Eiroh Tone;Keita Kunisada

  • Activation of JAK-STAT and MAP Kinases by Leukemia Inhibitory Factor Through gp130 in Cardiac Myocytes

    Keita Kunisada;Hisao Hirota;Yasushi Fujio;Hideo Matsui

  • ACTIVATION OF PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE THROUGH GLYCOPROTEIN 130 INDUCES PROTEIN KINASE B AND P70 S6 KINASE PHOSPHORYLATION IN CARDIAC MYOCYTES

    Hidemasa Oh;Yasushi Fujio;Keita Kunisada;Hisao Hirota

  • Taurine depletion caused by knocking out the taurine transporter gene leads to cardiomyopathy with cardiac atrophy

    Takashi Ito;Yasushi Kimura;Yoriko Uozumi;Mika Takai

  • Selective inhibition of STAT3 induces apoptosis and G(1) cell cycle arrest in ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma.

    Hesham M Amin;Timothy J McDonnell;Yupo Ma;Quan Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Junichi Azuma
Junichi Azuma Osaka University
Tadamitsu Kishimoto
Tadamitsu Kishimoto Osaka University
Kenneth Walsh
Kenneth Walsh University of Virginia
Naoki Mochizuki
Naoki Mochizuki National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
Masatsugu Hori
Masatsugu Hori Osaka University
Issei Komuro
Issei Komuro University of Tokyo
Toshio Hirano
Toshio Hirano National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
Yoshiki Sawa
Yoshiki Sawa Osaka University
Stephen W. Schaffer
Stephen W. Schaffer University of South Alabama
Junichi Yoshikawa
Junichi Yoshikawa Osaka Metropolitan University

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