Background: Various biomarkers are being developed for the early diagnosis of cancer and for predicting its prognosis. The aim of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic significance of serum CD109 in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)...
The c-RET proto-oncogene encodes a receptor-tyrosine kinase. Loss-of-function mutations of RET have been shown to be associated with Hirschsprung disease and Down's syndrome (HSCR-DS) in humans. DS is known to involve cerebellar hypoplasia, which ...
Stromal invasion is considered an important prognostic factor in patients with lung adenocarcinoma. The mechanisms underlying the formation of tumor stroma and stromal invasion have been studied in the lung; however, they are still unclear. CD109 ...
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 532(3) 406-413 2020年11月
The canonical Wnt signaling pathway plays a crucial role in embryonic development, tissue homeostasis and cancer progression. The binding of Wnt ligands to their cognate receptors, the Frizzled (Fzd) family of proteins, recruits Dishevelled segmen...
Chen Chen   Atsushi Enomoto   Liang Weng   Tetsuro Taki   Yukihiro Shiraki   Shinji Mii   Ryosuke Ichihara   Mitsuro Kanda   Masahiko Koike   Yasuhiro Kodera   Masahide Takahashi   
Cancer Science 111(11) 4303-4317 2020年11月
The actin-binding protein Girdin is a hub protein that interacts with multiple proteins to regulate motility and Akt and trimeric G protein signaling in cancer cells. Girdin expression correlates with poor outcomes in multiple human cancers. Howev...
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 ...