Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 212(7) 1221-1231 2024年4月
Pulmonary fibrosis is a fatal condition characterized by fibroblast and myofibroblast proliferation and collagen deposition. TGF-β plays a pivotal role in the development of pulmonary fibrosis. Therefore, modulation of TGF-β signaling is a promisi...
Pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) are stromal cells in the pancreas that play an important role in pancreatic pathology. In chronic pancreatitis (CP) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), PSCs are known to get activated to form myofibroblast...
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 68(2) 201-212 2022年10月 [査読有り]
Asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease characterized by airway hyperreactivity (AHR) and eosinophilic airway inflammation. Dendritic cells (DCs) are essential for the development of asthma via presenting allergens, causing Th2 skewing and...
Life Science Alliance 5(6) e202101230-e202101230 2022年6月
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are an integral component of the tumor microenvironment (TME). Most CAFs shape the TME toward an immunosuppressive milieu and attenuate the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy. However, the det...
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 ...