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Yoshiteru Oshima

Yoshiteru Oshima

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Chemistry

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58
Citations
9481
World Ranking
10853
National Ranking
795

Overview

Yoshiteru Oshima is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of medicine and immunology and microbiology. Their scholarly work spans several subfields including immunology, oncology, molecular biology, pharmacology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main topics of Oshima's research encompass:

  • Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Bioactive Compounds and Antitumor Agents
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis
  • Inflammatory mediators and NSAID effects
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Oshima include:

  • Haruhisa Kikuchi
  • Yuzuru Kubohara
  • Hirotaka Kanoh
  • Shinzo Iwashita
  • Takayuki Kuraishi

Oshima's research has been published in various scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Journal of Pharmacological Sciences
  • iScience
  • Frontiers in Chemistry
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Frontiers in Immunology

Representative recent papers by Oshima include:

  • "cGMP signaling pathway that modulates NF-κB activation in innate immune responses," 2021, iScience
  • "Development of Indole Alkaloid-Type Dual Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Against CTLA-4 and PD-L1 Based on Diversity-Enhanced Extracts," 2021, Frontiers in Chemistry
  • "Dictyostelium Differentiation-Inducing Factor-1 Promotes Glucose Uptake, at Least in Part, via an AMPK-Dependent Pathway in Mouse 3T3-L1 Cells," 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "A Receptor Guanylate Cyclase, Gyc76C, Mediates Humoral, and Cellular Responses in Distinct Ways in Drosophila Immunity," 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Downregulation of PD-L1 via amide analogues of brefelamide: Alternatives to antibody-based cancer immunotherapy," 2020, Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Best Publications

  • Overexpression of a pattern-recognition receptor, peptidoglycan-recognition protein-LE, activates imd/relish-mediated antibacterial defense and the prophenoloxidase cascade in Drosophila larvae

    Aya Takehana;Tomonori Katsuyama;Tamaki Yano;Yoshiteru Oshima

  • Antihepatotoxic principles of Curcuma longa rhizomes.

    Yoshinobu Kiso;Yuriko Suzuki;Noriko Watanabe;Yoshiteru Oshima

  • Specific CYP3A4 inhibitors in grapefruit juice: furocoumarin dimers as components of drug interaction

    Katsuyuki Fukuda;Tomihisa Ohta;Yoshiteru Oshima;Noriko Ohashi

  • Exploration of a new type of antimalarial compounds based on febrifugine.

    Haruhisa Kikuchi;Keisuke Yamamoto;Seiko Horoiwa;Shingo Hirai

  • Structural basis for preferential recognition of diaminopimelic acid-type peptidoglycan by a subset of peptidoglycan recognition proteins.

    Jae Hong Lim;Min Sung Kim;Han Eol Kim;Tamaki Yano

  • New type of febrifugine analogues, bearing a quinolizidine moiety, show potent antimalarial activity against Plasmodium malaria parasite.

    Yoshiaki Takaya;Hidehisa Tasaka;Tomoyuki Chiba;Koji Uwai

  • Halofuginone enhances the chemo-sensitivity of cancer cells by suppressing NRF2 accumulation.

    Kouhei Tsuchida;Tadayuki Tsujita;Makiko Hayashi;Asaka Ojima

  • A newly established in vitro culture using transgenic Drosophila reveals functional coupling between the phospholipase A2-generated fatty acid cascade and lipopolysaccharide-dependent activation of the immune deficiency (imd) pathway in insect immunity

    Masashi Yajima;Masatoshi Takada;Nahoko Takahashi;Haruhisa Kikuchi

  • Isolation and hypoglycemic activity of panaxans Q, R, S, T and U, glycans of Panax ginseng roots.

    Yoshiteru Oshima;Chohachi Konno;Hiroshi Hikino

  • An epigenetic modifier enhances the production of anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory sesquiterpenoids from Aspergillus sydowii.

    Yu Ming Chung;Chien Kei Wei;Da Wei Chuang;Mohamed El-Shazly;Mohamed El-Shazly

  • Structures of antifungal diarylheptenones, gingerenones A, B, C and isogingerenone B, isolated from the rhizomes of Zingiber officinale.

    Katsuya Endo;Emi Kanno;Yoshiteru Oshima

  • Tenuipyrone, a Novel Skeletal Polyketide from the Entomopathogenic Fungus, Isaria tenuipes, Cultivated in the Presence of Epigenetic Modifiers

    Teigo Asai;Yu Ming Chung;Hiroaki Sakurai;Tomoji Ozeki

  • Structure of Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase-Halofuginone Complex Provides Basis for Development of Drugs against Malaria and Toxoplasmosis

    Vitul Jain;Manickam Yogavel;Yoshiteru Oshima;Haruhisa Kikuchi

  • Potent antimalarial febrifugine analogues against the Plasmodium malaria parasite

    Haruhisa Kikuchi;Hidehisa Tasaka;Shingo Hirai;Yoshiaki Takaya

  • Ampelopsins A, B and C, new oligostilbenes of Ampelopsis Brevipedunculata var. Hancei

    Yoshiteru Oshima;Yuji Ueno;Hiroshi Hikino;Yang Ling-Ling

  • Stimulation of neurotrophic factor secretion from 1321N1 human astrocytoma cells by novel diterpenoids, scabronines A and G

    Yutaro Obara;Norimichi Nakahata;Takako Kita;Yoshiaki Takaya

  • Scabronine A, a novel diterpenoid having potent inductive activity of the nerve growth factor synthesis, isolated from the mushroom, Sarcodon scabrosus

    Tomihisa Ohta;Takako Kita;Norihiro Kobayashi;Yutaro Obara

  • Use of a biosynthetic intermediate to explore the chemical diversity of pseudo-natural fungal polyketides

    Teigo Asai;Kento Tsukada;Satomi Ise;Naoki Shirata

  • Metabolites of febrifugine and its synthetic analogue by mouse liver S9 and their antimalarial activity against Plasmodium malaria parasite.

    Shingo Hirai;Haruhisa Kikuchi;Hye Sook Kim;Khurshida Begum

  • Isolation and hypoglycemic activity of quinquefolans A, B, and C, glycans of Panax quinquefolium roots.

    Yoshiteru Oshima;Kuniko Sato;Hiroshi Hikino

  • Isolation and hypoglycemic activity of moran A, a glycoprotein of Morus alba root barks.

    Hiroshi Hikino;Takakazu Mizuno;Yoshiteru Oshima;Chohachi Konno

  • Scabronines B, C, D, E and F, novel diterpenoids showing stimulating activity of nerve growth factor-synthesis, from the mushroom Sarcodon scabrosus

    Takako Kita;Yoshiaki Takaya;Yoshiteru Oshima;Tomihisa Ohta

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Hikino
Hiroshi Hikino Tohoku University
Tomihisa Ohta
Tomihisa Ohta Kanazawa University
Yasushi Ohizumi
Yasushi Ohizumi Tohoku University
Tsutomu Araki
Tsutomu Araki Tohoku University
Fang Rong Chang
Fang Rong Chang Kaohsiung Medical University
Yasuto Itoyama
Yasuto Itoyama Tohoku University
Yang Chang Wu
Yang Chang Wu China Medical University
Pierre Golstein
Pierre Golstein Aix-Marseille University
Mohamed-Ali Hakimi
Mohamed-Ali Hakimi Grenoble Alpes University
William E. Goldman
William E. Goldman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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