Germ Cell Group

Staff:

Associate Professor

Masami Nozaki, Ph. D.

Graduate Student

Hiroki Yasui

Subjects:

1. Epigenetical regulation of sex determination.
2. Analysis of epigenetical regulation in male germ cells.
3. Induction of cranal neural crest stem cells from ES cells.
4. Molecular characteristics in cancer stem cell.

Papers published in 2014

1. The apoptotic initiator caspase-8: its functional ubiquity and genetic diversity during animal evolution.

   Kazuhiro Sakamaki, Kouhei Shimizu, Hiroaki Iwata, Kenichiro Imai, Yutaka Satou, Noriko Funayama, Masami Nozaki, Mamiko Yajima, Osamu Nishimura, Mayura Higuchi, Kumiko Chiba, Michi Yoshimoto, Haruna Kimura, Andrew Y Gracey, Takashi Shimizu, Kentaro Tomii, Osamu Gotoh, Koji Akasaka, Tatsuya Sawasaki and David J Miller

   Mol Biol Evol, 31 (12), 3282-3301, 2014.
2. NANOG expression correlates with differentiation, metastasis and resistance to preoperative adjuvant therapy in oral squamous cell carcinoma.

   Masahiro Watanabe, Yuichi Ohnishi, Hiroshi Inoue, Masahiro Wato, Akio Tanaka, Kenji Kakudo and Masami Nozaki

   Oncol Lett, 7 (1), 35-40, 2014.
3. Cyclin D1 expression is correlated with cell differentiation and cell proliferation in oral squamous cell carcinomas.

   Yuichi Ohnishi, Masahiro Watanabe, Masahiro Wato, Akio Tanaka, Kenji Kakudo and Masami Nozaki

   Oncol Lett, 7 (4), 1123-1127, 2014.
4. Resistance of oral squamous cell carcinoma cells to cetuximab is associated with EGFR insensitivity and enhanced stem cell-like potency.

   Yuichi Ohnishi, Yuki Minamino, Kenji Kakudo and Masami Nozaki

   Oncol Rep, 32 (2), 780-786, 2014.

Germ Cell Group

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University