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Yutaka Shimada

Yutaka Shimada

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Medicine

D-Index
74
Citations
21852
World Ranking
19365
National Ranking
620

Overview

Yutaka Shimada is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and pharmacology. Their research spans various subfields, particularly pharmacology, complementary and alternative medicine, oncology, physiology, and surgery.

The scientist's work notably focuses on plant-based medicinal research and traditional Chinese medicine studies. Other prominent topics include the pathogenesis and treatment of hiccups, cancer cells and metastasis, cancer research and treatments, pharmacological effects of natural compounds, and studies relating to cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism.

Yutaka Shimada has published in multiple academic venues, with frequent contributions to the following journals:

  • Kampo Medicine
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • Traditional & Kampo Medicine
  • Journal of Personalized Medicine
  • Internal Medicine

Recent notable papers authored by Shimada include:

  • "Cell Lines of Circulating Tumor Cells: What Is Known and What Needs to Be Resolved," 2022, Journal of Personalized Medicine
  • "Adverse Effects of Kampo Medicines," 2021, Internal Medicine
  • "Discrimination of prediction models between cold-heat and deficiency-excess patterns," 2020, Complementary Therapies in Medicine
  • "Kampo Formula-Pattern Models: The Development of 13 New Clinically Useful Standard Abdominal Pattern Models in the Fukushin Simulator," 2022, Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • "Solution Proposal for 5 Challenges to be Resolved in Formalizing the Logical Format of Kampo-Based Diagnosis by Building Consensus Among 6 Medical Institutions Specialized in Kampo Herbal Medicine," 2020, Kampo Medicine

Frequent collaborators of Shimada include Takao Namiki, Shin-ichi Muramatsu, Naotoshi Shibahara, Makoto Fujimoto, and Ayako Maeda-Minami.

Best Publications

  • Widespread requirement for Hedgehog ligand stimulation in growth of digestive tract tumours

    David M. Berman;Sunil S. Karhadkar;Anirban Maitra;Rocio Montes De Oca

  • Identification of Gastric Cancer Stem Cells Using the Cell Surface Marker CD44

    Shigeo Takaishi;Tomoyuki Okumura;Tomoyuki Okumura;Shuiping Tu;Sophie S.W. Wang;Sophie S.W. Wang

  • Constitutive activation of the 41-/43-kDa mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway in human tumors

    Rika Hoshino;Yuji Chatani;Takao Yamori;Takashi Tsuruo;Takashi Tsuruo

  • Surgery plus chemotherapy compared with surgery alone for localized squamous cell carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus: a Japan Clinical Oncology Group Study--JCOG9204.

    Nobutoshi Ando;Toshifumi Iizuka;Hiroko Ide;Kaoru Ishida

  • Characterization of 21 newly established esophageal cancer cell lines

    Yutaka Shimada;Masayuki Imamura;Takashi Wagata;Nozomi Yamaguchi

  • The oncoprotein gankyrin binds to MDM2/HDM2, enhancing ubiquitylation and degradation of p53

    Hiroaki Higashitsuji;Hisako Higashitsuji;Katsuhiko Itoh;Toshiharu Sakurai

  • Association of CC chemokine receptor 7 with lymph node metastasis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

    Yongzeng Ding;Yutaka Shimada;Masato Maeda;Atsushi Kawabe

  • YAP is a candidate oncogene for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

    Tomoki Muramatsu;Issei Imoto;Issei Imoto;Takeshi Matsui;Ken Ichi Kozaki

  • MicroRNA-210 regulates cancer cell proliferation through targeting fibroblast growth factor receptor-like 1 (FGFRL1)

    Soken Tsuchiya;Takeshi Fujiwara;Fumiaki Sato;Yutaka Shimada

  • Usefulness of selective arterial secretin injection test for localization of gastrinoma in the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.

    Masayuki Imamura;Kiyoyuki Takahashi;Hideki Adachi;Souhei Minematsu

  • Suppression of N-nitrosomethylbenzylamine (NMBA)-induced esophageal tumorigenesis in F344 rats by resveratrol.

    Zhi Gang Li;Tao Hong;Yutaka Shimada;Izumi Komoto

  • Evaluation of the protective effects of alkaloids isolated from the hooks and stems of Uncaria sinensis on glutamate-induced neuronal death in cultured cerebellar granule cells from rats

    Yutaka Shimada;Hirozo Goto;Takashi Itoh;Iwao Sakakibara

  • The Prognostic Relevance of Fascin Expression in Human Gastric Carcinoma

    Yosuke Hashimoto;Yutaka Shimada;Junichiro Kawamura;Seiji Yamasaki

  • Methylation of the 5' CpG island of the FHIT gene is closely associated with transcriptional inactivation in esophageal squamous cell carcinomas

    Hisashi Tanaka;Yutaka Shimada;Hideki Harada;Masayuki Shinoda

  • Prognostic significance of fascin overexpression in human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

    Yosuke Hashimoto;Tetsuo Ito;Harutaka Inoue;Tomoyuki Okumura

  • Overexpression of SMYD2 relates to tumor cell proliferation and malignant outcome of esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma

    Shuhei Komatsu;Issei Imoto;Hitoshi Tsuda;Hitoshi Tsuda;Ken Ich Kozaki

  • Neurotrophin receptor p75(NTR) characterizes human esophageal keratinocyte stem cells in vitro.

    Tomoyuki Okumura;Yutaka Shimada;Masayuki Imamura;Shigeru Yasumoto

  • In oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma vascular endothelial growth factor is associated with p53 mutation, advanced stage and poor prognosis.

    S. Uchida;Y. Shimada;G. Watanabe;H. Tanaka

  • Inhibitory effect of cinnamaldehyde, derived from Cinnamomi cortex, on the growth of influenza A/PR/8 virus in vitro and in vivo

    K Hayashi;N Imanishi;Y Kashiwayama;A Kawano

  • Prognostic factors of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma from the perspective of molecular biology.

    Y Shimada;M Imamura;G Watanabe;S Uchida

Frequent Co-Authors

Masayuki Imamura
Masayuki Imamura Kyoto University
Johji Inazawa
Johji Inazawa Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Issei Imoto
Issei Imoto University of Tokushima
Ikuo Saiki
Ikuo Saiki University of Toyama
Stephen J. Meltzer
Stephen J. Meltzer Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hiroaki Sakurai
Hiroaki Sakurai University of Toyama
Yoshiharu Sakai
Yoshiharu Sakai Kyoto University
Koichi Tsuneyama
Koichi Tsuneyama University of Tokushima
Eiji Tanaka
Eiji Tanaka Shinshu University
Gozoh Tsujimoto
Gozoh Tsujimoto Kyoto University

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