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Yutaka Yatomi

Yutaka Yatomi

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
26748
World Ranking
3839
National Ranking
249

Overview

Yutaka Yatomi is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including molecular biology, infectious diseases, surgery, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and oncology.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on several main topics, such as sphingolipid metabolism and signaling, COVID-19 clinical research studies, platelet disorders and treatments, inflammatory biomarkers in disease prognosis, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis, and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing.

Yatomi's frequent co-authors include:

  • Makoto Kurano (82 co-authored papers)
  • Masako Nishikawa (38 co-authored papers)
  • Keisuke Goda (27 co-authored papers)
  • Yuqi Zhou (26 co-authored papers)
  • Ting-Hui Xiao (23 co-authored papers)

The researcher has published in various scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 12 publications
  • Scientific Reports - 11 publications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 7 publications
  • International Journal of Hematology - 5 publications
  • Clinica Chimica Acta - 4 publications

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Yatomi are:

  • "Lysophosphatidylcholine mediates fast decline in kidney function in diabetic kidney disease," 2021, Kidney International
  • "Intelligent classification of platelet aggregates by agonist type," 2020, eLife
  • "Massive image-based single-cell profiling reveals high levels of circulating platelet aggregates in patients with COVID-19," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Protection Against Insulin Resistance by Apolipoprotein M/Sphingosine-1-Phosphate," 2020, Diabetes
  • "Time course of the sensitivity and specificity of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgM and IgG antibodies for symptomatic COVID-19 in Japan," 2021, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • International clinical harmonization of glycated hemoglobin in Japan: From Japan Diabetes Society to National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Program values.

    Atsunori Kashiwagi;Masato Kasuga;Eiichi Araki;Yoshitomo Oka

  • Sphingosine 1-Phosphate, a Bioactive Sphingolipid Abundantly Stored in Platelets, Is a Normal Constituent of Human Plasma and Serum

    Yutaka Yatomi;Yasuyuki Igarashi;Libo Yang;Nobuo Hisano

  • Sphingosine-1-phosphate: a platelet-activating sphingolipid released from agonist-stimulated human platelets

    Yutaka Yatomi;Fuqiang Ruan;Sen-itiroh Hakomori;Yasuyuki Igarashi

  • Involvement of the snake toxin receptor CLEC-2, in podoplanin-mediated platelet activation, by cancer cells.

    Katsue Suzuki-Inoue;Yukinari Kato;Osamu Inoue;Mika Kato Kaneko

  • Intelligent Image-Activated Cell Sorting

    Nao Nitta;Takeaki Sugimura;Akihiro Isozaki;Hideharu Mikami

  • Autotaxin Stabilizes Blood Vessels and Is Required for Embryonic Vasculature by Producing Lysophosphatidic Acid

    Masayuki Tanaka;Shinichi Okudaira;Yasuhiro Kishi;Ryunosuke Ohkawa

  • EDG1 is a functional sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor that is linked via a Gi/o to multiple signaling pathways, including phospholipase C activation, Ca2+ mobilization, Ras-mitogen-activated protein kinase activation, and adenylate cyclase inhibition.

    Hiroyuki Okamoto;Noriko Takuwa;Koichi Gonda;Hiroshi Okazaki

  • Multiple renal cysts, urinary concentration defects, and pulmonary emphysematous changes in mice lacking TAZ

    Ryosuke Makita;Yasunobu Uchijima;Koichi Nishiyama;Tomokazu Amano

  • Essential in vivo roles of the c-type lectin receptor CLEC-2: Embryonic/neonatal lethality of CLEC-2-deficient mice by blood/lymphatic misconnections and impaired thrombus formation of CLEC-2-deficient platelets

    Katsue Suzuki-Inoue;Osamu Inoue;Guo Ding;Satoshi Nishimura

  • Multiple mechanisms linked to platelet activation result in lysophosphatidic acid and sphingosine 1-phosphate generation in blood.

    Takamitsu Sano;Daniel L. Baker;Tamas Virag;Atsushi Wada

  • Sphingosine-1-phosphate inhibits PDGF-induced chemotaxis of human arterial smooth muscle cells: spatial and temporal modulation of PDGF chemotactic signal transduction.

    K E Bornfeldt;L M Graves;E W Raines;Y Igarashi

  • The novel sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor AGR16 is coupled via pertussis toxin-sensitive and -insensitive G-proteins to multiple signalling pathways

    Koichi Gonda;Hiroyuki Okamoto;Noriko Takuwa;Yutaka Yatomi

  • Induction of Apoptosis by Sphingosine in Human Leukemic HL-60 Cells: A Possible Endogenous Modulator of Apoptotic DNA Fragmentation Occurring during Phorbol Ester-induced Differentiation

    Hideki Ohta;Elizabeth A. Sweeney;Atsushi Masamune;Yutaka Yatomi

  • Sphingosine 1-phosphate induces platelet activation through an extracellular action and shares a platelet surface receptor with lysophosphatidic acid.

    Yutaka Yatomi;Soichiro Yamamura;Fuqiang Ruan;Yasuyuki Igarashi

  • Both plasma lysophosphatidic acid and serum autotaxin levels are increased in chronic hepatitis C

    Naoko Watanabe;Hitoshi Ikeda;Kazuhiro Nakamura;Ryunosuke Ohkawa

  • Essential roles of sphingosine 1-phosphate/S1P1 receptor axis in the migration of neural stem cells toward a site of spinal cord injury.

    Atsushi Kimura;Tsukasa Ohmori;Ryunosuke Ohkawa;Seiji Madoiwa

  • Sphingosine 1-phosphate: synthesis and release.

    Yatomi Y;Ozaki Y;Ohmori T;Igarashi Y

  • Epigenetic modulation of the renal β-adrenergic-WNK4 pathway in salt-sensitive hypertension.

    ShengYu Mu;Tatsuo Shimosawa;Sayoko Ogura;Hong Wang

  • Enhancement of sphingosine 1-phosphate-induced migration of vascular endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells by an EDG-5 antagonist

    Makoto Osada;Yutaka Yatomi;Tsukasa Ohmori;Hitoshi Ikeda

  • Sphingosine 1-phosphate as a major bioactive lysophospholipid that is released from platelets and interacts with endothelial cells.

    Yutaka Yatomi;Tsukasa Ohmori;Tsukasa Ohmori;Ge Rile;Ge Rile;Fuminori Kazama;Fuminori Kazama

Frequent Co-Authors

Yukio Ozaki
Yukio Ozaki University of Yamanashi
Junken Aoki
Junken Aoki Tohoku University
Kazuhiko Koike
Kazuhiko Koike University of Tokyo
Yasuyuki Igarashi
Yasuyuki Igarashi Hokkaido University
Issei Komuro
Issei Komuro University of Tokyo
Mineo Kurokawa
Mineo Kurokawa University of Tokyo
Masashi Fukayama
Masashi Fukayama University of Tokyo
Toshiro Fujita
Toshiro Fujita University of Tokyo
Hiroyuki Arai
Hiroyuki Arai University of Tokyo
Haruhiko Yoshida
Haruhiko Yoshida University of Tokyo

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