Hair graying is a representative sign of aging in animals and humans. However, the mechanism for hair graying with aging remains largely unknown. In this study, we found that the microscopic appearance of hair follicles without melanocyte stem cel...
REV7 is a multitasking protein involved in replication past DNA lesions, cell cycle regulation, and gene expression. REV7 is highly expressed in the adult testis and plays an essential role in primordial germ cell maintenance in mice. In this stud...
Kumi Kawai   Masahide Takahashi   
Cell and Tissue Research 382(1) 113-123 2020年10月
Activation of REarranged during Transfection (RET) proto-oncogene is responsible for various human cancers such as papillary and medullary thyroid carcinomas and non-small cell lung carcinomas. RET activation in these tumors is caused by point mut...
Journal of Clinical Oncology 38(15_suppl) 3118-3118 2020年5月
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Background: Tumor immunity is regulated by complex interactions between cancer and immune cells, which also involves other components of the tumor microenvironment (TME). Recently, cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), a major constituent ...
Journal of Pathology 244(4) 469-478 2018年4月 [査読有り]
Autoimmune hypophysitis (AH) is thought to be an autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration of the pituitary gland. Among AH pathologies, lymphocytic infundibulo-neurohypophysitis (LINH) involves infiltration of the neurohypophys...
Pathology International 68(4) 241-245 2018年4月 [査読有り]
Embedding of tissue samples that maintains a desired orientation is critical for preparing sections suitable for diagnosis and study objectives. Methods to prepare tissue sections include: (i) paraffin embedding or snap-freezing followed by microt...
Streptozotocin (STZ) has been widely used to induce diabetes in rodents. Strain-dependent variation in susceptibility to STZ has been reported
however, the gene(s) responsible for STZ susceptibility has not been identified. Here, we utilized the ...
Liang Weng   Yi-Peng Han   Atsushi Enomoto   Yasuyuki Kitaura   Shushi Nagamori   Yoshikatsu Kanai   Naoya Asai   Jian An   Maki Takagishi   Masato Asai   Shinji Mii   Takashi Masuko   Yoshiharu Shimomura   Masahide Takahashi   
PLoS biology 16(3) e2005090 2018年3月
Amino acid signaling mediated by the activation of mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) is fundamental to cell growth and metabolism. However, how cells negatively regulate amino acid signaling remains largely unknown. Here, we show ...