Yukihiko Kitamura

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Gain-of-function mutations of c-kit in human gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

  Seiichi Hirota;Koji Isozaki;Yasuhiro Moriyama;Koji Hashimoto

  6589
  Citations

• Targeted Disruption of Cbfa1 Results in a Complete Lack of Bone Formation owing to Maturational Arrest of Osteoblasts

  T Komori;H Yagi;S Nomura;A Yamaguchi

  5336
  Citations

• Defects of B-cell lymphopoiesis and bone-marrow myelopoiesis in mice lacking the CXC chemokine PBSF/SDF-1

  Takashi Nagasawa;Seiichi Hirota;Kazunobu Tachibana;Nobuyuki Takakura

  3666
  Citations

• Lethal effect of the anti-Fas antibody in mice

  Jun Ogasawara;Rie Watanabe-Fukunaga;Masashi Adachi;Akio Matsuzawa

  2408
  Citations

• The chemokine receptor CXCR4 is essential for vascularization of the gastrointestinal tract.

  Kazunobu Tachibana;Seiichi Hirota;Hisashi Iizasa;Hisahiro Yoshida

  1936
  Citations

• Decrease of mast cells in w/wv mice and their increase by bone marrow transplantation.

  Y Kitamura;S Go;K Hatanaka

  1263
  Citations

• Gain-of-function mutations of platelet-derived growth factor receptor α gene in gastrointestinal stromal tumors

  Seiichi Hirota;Akiko Ohashi;Toshirou Nishida;Koji Isozaki

  958
  Citations

• Maturational disturbance of chondrocytes in Cbfa1-deficient mice.

  Masahiko Inada;Takahiro Yasui;Takahiro Yasui;Shintaro Nomura;Seigou Miyake

  810
  Citations

• Effect of c-kit mutation on prognosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

  Masahiko Taniguchi;Toshirou Nishida;Seiichi Hirota;Koji Isozaki

  789
  Citations

• FAMILIAL GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOURS WITH GERMLINE MUTATION OF THE KIT GENE

  Toshirou Nishida;Seiichi Hirota;Masahiko Taniguchi;Koji Hashimoto

  788
  Citations

• Fate of bone marrow-derived cultured mast cells after intracutaneous, intraperitoneal, and intravenous transfer into genetically mast cell-deficient W/Wv mice. Evidence that cultured mast cells can give rise to both connective tissue type and mucosal mast cells.

  T Nakano;T Sonoda;C Hayashi;A Yamatodani

  706
  Citations

• Heterogeneity of Mast Cells and Phenotypic Change Between Subpopulations

  Y Kitamura

  681
  Citations

• Cbfa1 is a positive regulatory factor in chondrocyte maturation.

  Hirayuki Enomoto;Motomi Enomoto-Iwamoto;Masahiro Iwamoto;Shintaro Nomura

  521
  Citations

• Decreased production of mast cells in S1/S1d anemic mice

  Y Kitamura;S Go

  505
  Citations

• Transient and localized expression of bone morphogenetic protein 4 messenger RNA during fracture healing

  Takanobu Nakase;Shintaro Nomura;Hideki Yoshikawa;Jun Hashimoto

  497
  Citations

• Targeting of both mouse neuropilin-1 and neuropilin-2 genes severely impairs developmental yolk sac and embryonic angiogenesis

  Seiji Takashima;Masafumi Kitakaze;Masanori Asakura;Hiroshi Asanuma

  463
  Citations

• Constitutively activating mutations of c-kit receptor tyrosine kinase confer factor-independent growth and tumorigenicity of factor-dependent hematopoietic cell lines.

  H Kitayama;Y Kanakura;T Furitsu;T Tsujimura

  414
  Citations

• Development of mast cells from grafted bone marrow cells in irradiated mice.

  Y Kitamura;M Shimada;K Hatanaka;Y Miyano

  410
  Citations

• Transcriptional regulation of osteopontin gene in vivo by PEBP2alphaA/CBFA1 and ETS1 in the skeletal tissues

  Motohiko Sato;Eiichi Morii;Toshihisa Komori;Hirohisa Kawahata

  375
  Citations

• Mechanical Tension-Stress Induces Expression of Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP)-2 and BMP-4, but Not BMP-6, BMP-7, and GDF-5 mRNA, During Distraction Osteogenesis

  Motohiko Sato;Takahiro Ochi;Takanobu Nakase;Seiichi Hirota

  368
  Citations