Department of Molecular Immunology

Subjects:

1. Molecular mechanisms involved in regulation of immune responses.
2. Mechanism of development of autoimmune diseases.
3. Molecular mechanism by which Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) causes B cell growth transformation and the modification of the differentiation.

Published Papers

1. Deleterious effects of lymphocytes at the early stage of neurodegeneration in an animal model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

   Satoru Tada, Tatsusada Okuno, Teruhito Yasui, Yuji Nakatsuji, Tomoyuki Sugimoto, Hitoshi Kikutani and Saburo Sakoda

   J Neuroinflammation, 8 (1), 19, 2011.
2. Semaphorin 4C and 4G are ligands of Plexin-B2 required in cerebellar development.

   Viola Maier, Christine Jolicoeur, Helen Rayburn, Noriko Takegahara, Atsushi Kumanogoh, Hitoshi Kikutani, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Wolfgang Wurst and Roland H Friedel

   Mol Cell Neurosci, 46 (2), 419-431, 2011.

Link

http://www.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/