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Yuzuru Kanakura

Yuzuru Kanakura

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
32077
World Ranking
4004
National Ranking
261

Overview

Yuzuru Kanakura is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and immunology and microbiology, with a significant body of work in hematology, immunology, and oncology.

Their published work covers various subfields, including hematology, immunology, oncology, genetics, and molecular biology. Key research topics addressed by Kanakura include complement system in diseases, renal diseases and glomerulopathies, acute myeloid leukemia research, multiple myeloma research and treatments, immune cell function and interaction, peptidase inhibition and analysis, and blood groups and transfusion.

Kanakura's frequent publication venues reflect these interests, with repeated contributions to the International Journal of Hematology, Blood, British Journal of Haematology, Annals of Hematology, and European Journal of Haematology.

They have collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Hirohiko Shibayama, Itaru Matsumura, Takafumi Yokota, Akifumi Takaori-Kondo, and Hirokazu Tanaka.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kanakura include:

  • Baseline clinical characteristics and disease burden in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH): updated analysis from the International PNH Registry, 2020, Annals of Hematology
  • Group 2 innate lymphoid cells support hematopoietic recovery under stress conditions, 2021, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Identification of CXCL12-abundant reticular cells in human adult bone marrow, 2021, British Journal of Haematology
  • Enterococcus: A Predictor of Ravaged Microbiota and Poor Prognosis after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, 2020, Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
  • Chlorpromazine eliminates acute myeloid leukemia cells by perturbing subcellular localization of FLT3-ITD and KIT-D816V, 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

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

    Seiichi Hirota;Koji Isozaki;Yasuhiro Moriyama;Koji Hashimoto

  • A new protein containing an SH2 domain that inhibits JAK kinases

    Takaho A. Endo;Masaaki Masuhara;Masahiro Yokouchi;Ritsu Suzuki

  • Humanized anti–interleukin-6 receptor antibody treatment of multicentric Castleman disease

    Norihiro Nishimoto;Yuzuru Kanakura;Katsuyuki Aozasa;Takeshi Johkoh

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

    Toshirou Nishida;Seiichi Hirota;Masahiko Taniguchi;Koji Hashimoto

  • Anti-CCR4 mAb selectively depletes effector-type FoxP3+CD4+ regulatory T cells, evoking antitumor immune responses in humans

    Daisuke Sugiyama;Hiroyoshi Nishikawa;Yuka Maeda;Megumi Nishioka

  • Transcriptional regulation of the cyclin D1 promoter by STAT5: its involvement in cytokine-dependent growth of hematopoietic cells.

    Itaru Matsumura;Toshio Kitamura;Hiroshi Wakao;Hirokazu Tanaka

  • Genetic Variants in C5 and Poor Response to Eculizumab

    Jun-ichi Nishimura;Masaki Yamamoto;Shin Hayashi;Kazuma Ohyashiki

  • 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

  • E2F1 and c-Myc Potentiate Apoptosis through Inhibition of NF-κB Activity that Facilitates MnSOD-Mediated ROS Elimination

    Hirokazu Tanaka;Hirokazu Tanaka;Itaru Matsumura;Sachiko Ezoe;Yusuke Satoh

  • Expression and functional role of the proto-oncogene c-kit in acute myeloblastic leukemia cells

    Hirokazu Ikeda;Yuzuru Kanakura;Toshiharu Tamaki;Akira Kuriu

  • Clinical course and flow cytometric analysis of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria in the United States and Japan.

    Jun-Ichi Nishimura;Yuzuru Kanakura;Russell E. Ware;Tsutomu Shichishima

  • Interleukin 4 as an essential factor for in vitro clonal growth of murine connective tissue-type mast cells.

    Yasushi Hamaguchi;Yasushi Hamaguchi;Yuzuru Kanakura;Jun Fujita;Shun Ichi Takeda

  • Suppression of myeloid transcription factors and induction of STAT response genes by AML-specific Flt3 mutations

    Masao Mizuki;Joachim Schwäble;Joachim Schwäble;Joachim Schwäble;Claudia Steur;Claudia Steur;Claudia Steur;Chunaram Choudhary;Chunaram Choudhary;Chunaram Choudhary

  • Ligand-independent activation of c-kit receptor tyrosine kinase in a murine mastocytoma cell line P-815 generated by a point mutation

    Tohru Tsujimura;Takuma Furitsu;Masahiro Morimoto;Koji Isozaki

  • cdc2 gene expression at the G1 to S transition in human T lymphocytes

    Yusuke Furukawa;Helen Piwnica-Worms;Timothy J. Ernst;Yuzuru Kanakura

  • Adiponectin Acts as an Endogenous Antithrombotic Factor

    Hisashi Kato;Hirokazu Kashiwagi;Masamichi Shiraga;Seiji Tadokoro

  • Baseline characteristics and disease burden in patients in the International Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria Registry

    Hubert Schrezenmeier;Petra Muus;Gérard Socié;Jeffrey Szer

  • Retrospective nationwide survey of Japanese patients with transfusion-dependent MDS and aplastic anemia highlights the negative impact of iron overload on morbidity/mortality.

    Masaaki Takatoku;Takashi Uchiyama;Shinichiro Okamoto;Yuzuru Kanakura

  • Circulating thrombopoietin level in chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura

    Satoru Kosugi;Yoshiyuki Kurata;Yoshiaki Tomiyama;Tomoyuki Tahara

  • Markedly Reduced Expression of Platelet c-mpl Receptor in Essential Thrombocythemia

    Yoko Horikawa;Itaru Matsumura;Koji Hashimoto;Masamichi Shiraga

Frequent Co-Authors

Yukihiko Kitamura
Yukihiko Kitamura Osaka University
Yuji Matsuzawa
Yuji Matsuzawa Sumitomo Hospital
Taroh Kinoshita
Taroh Kinoshita Osaka University
Eiichi Morii
Eiichi Morii Osaka University
Katsuyuki Aozasa
Katsuyuki Aozasa Osaka University
Shinji Nakao
Shinji Nakao Kanazawa University
Shosaku Nomura
Shosaku Nomura Kansai Medical University
Toru Nakano
Toru Nakano Osaka University
Haruo Sugiyama
Haruo Sugiyama Osaka University
Koji Hashimoto
Koji Hashimoto Ehime University

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