Department of Immunochemistry

Subjects:

1. Role of paired receptors on host defense.
2. Mechanism of virus entry into cells.
3. Analysis of molecules involved in host-pathogen interaction.

Papers published in 2012

1. Inhibitory roles of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 in antitumor immunity during carcinogen-induced lung tumorigenesis.

   Shoichi Ihara, Hiroshi Kida, Hisashi Arase, Lokesh P Tripathi, Yi-An Chen, Tetsuya Kimura, Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Yozo Kashiwa, Haruhiko Hirata, Reiko Fukamizu, Ruriko Inoue, Kana Hasegawa, Sho Goya, Ryo Takahashi, Toshiyuki Minami, Kazuyuki Tsujino, Mayumi Suzuki, Satoshi Kohmo, Koji Inoue, Izumi Nagatomo, Yoshito Takeda, Takashi Kijima, Kenji Mizuguchi, Isao Tachibana and Atsushi Kumanogoh

   Cancer Res, 72 (12), 2990-2999, 2012.
2. Significant Association of KIR2DL3-HLA-C1 Combination with Cerebral Malaria and Implications for Co-evolution of KIR and HLA.

   Kouyuki Hirayasu, Jun Ohashi, Koichi Kashiwase, Hathairad Hananantachai, Izumi Naka, Atsuko Ogawa, Minoko Takanashi, Masahiro Satake, Kazunori Nakajima, Peter Parham, Hisashi Arase, Katsushi Tokunaga, Jintana Patarapotikul and Toshio Yabe

   PLoS Pathog, 8 (3), e1002565, 2012.
3. The Development of Colitogenic CD4+ T Cells Is Regulated by IL-7 in Collaboration with NK Cell Function in a Murine Model of Colitis.

   Osamu Yamaji, Takashi Nagaishi, Teruji Totsuka, Michio Onizawa, Masahiro Suzuki, Naoto Tsuge, Atsuhiko Hasegawa, Ryuichi Okamoto, Kiichiro Tsuchiya, Tetsuya Nakamura, Hisashi Arase, Takanori Kanai and Mamoru Watanabe

   J Immunol, 188 (6), 2524-2536, 2012.

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