Department of Infection Microbiology

Staff

Associate Professor

Hitomi Mimuro, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Ryota Otsubo, Ph.D.

Technical Staff

Eisuke Kuroda, Ph.D.

Graduate Student

Shotaro Hirata

Subjects:

1. Characterization of morphological conversions of Helicobacter pylori under anaerobic conditions
2. Novel H. pylori prophylactic vaccine using anaerobiosis-induced H. pylori
3. Analysis of persistent infection mechanism of Helicobacter pylori using hypermutator strain

Papers published in 2017

1. Shigella hijacks the glomulin-cIAPs-inflammasome axis to promote inflammation.

   Shiho Suzuki, Toshihiko Suzuki, Hitomi Mimuro, Tsunehiro Mizushima and Chihiro Sasakawa

   EMBO Rep, 19 (1), 89-101, 2017.
2. Resveratrol strongly enhances the retinoic acid-induced superoxide generating activity via up-regulation of gp91-phox gene expression in U937 cells.

   Hidehiko Kikuchi, Hitomi Mimuro and Futoshi Kuribayashi

   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 495 (1), 1195-1200, 2017.
3. Epidemiological study of gastric Helicobacter spp. in dogs with gastrointestinal disease in Japan and diversity of Helicobacter heilmannii sensu stricto.

   Sanae Kubota-Aizawa, Koichi Ohno, Kenjiro Fukushima, Hideyuki Kanemoto, Ko Nakashima, Kazuyuki Uchida, James K Chambers, Yuko Goto-Koshino, Takayasu Watanabe, Tsutomu Sekizaki, Hitomi Mimuro and Hajime Tsujimoto

   Vet J, 225, 56-62, 2017.
4. Epidemiological study on feline gastric Helicobacter spp. in Japan.

   Sanae Kubota-Aizawa, Koichi Ohno, Hideyuki Kanemoto, Ko Nakashima, Kenjiro Fukushima, Kazuyuki Uchida, James K Chambers, Yuko Goto-Koshino, Hitomi Mimuro, Takayasu Watanabe, Tsutomu Sekizaki and Hajime Tsujimoto

   J Vet Med Sci, 79 (5), 876-880, 2017.

Link

Department of Infection Microbiology

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University