A novel tool for detecting amyloid deposits in systemic amyloidosis in vitro and in vivo.

Lab. Invest 83: 1751-1759, 2003.

Ando, Y., Haraoka, K., Terazaki, H., Tanoue, Y., Ishikawa, K., Katsuragi, S., Nakamura, M., Sun, X., Nakagawa, K., Sasamoto, K., Takesako, K., Ishizaki, T., Sasaki, Y., and Doh-ura, K.

Inhibition of angiotensin II activity enhanced the antitumor effect of cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors via insulin-like growth factor I receptor pathway.

Cancer Res 63: 6726-34, 2003.

Yasumaru, M., Tsuji, S., Tsujii, M., Irie T., Komori, M., Kimura, A., Nishida T., Kakiuchi, Y, Kawai, N., Murata H., Horimoto M., Sasaki, Y., Hayashi, N., Kawano, S., and Hori, M.:

CD1d-mediated stimulation of natural killer T cells selectively activates hepatic natural killer cells to eliminate experimentally disseminated hepatoma cells in murine liver.

Int. J. Cancer 106: 81-89, 2003.

Miyagi, T., Takehara, T., Tatsumi, T., Kanto, T., Suzuki, T., Jinushi, M., Sugimoto, K., Sasaki, Y. Hori, M. and Hayashi N.

Hepatitis C virus core protein differently regulates the JAK-STAT signaling pathway under interleukin-6 and interferon-gamma stimuli.

J. Biol. Chem 278: 28562-28571, 2003.

Housui, A., Ohkawa, K., Ishida, H., Sato, A., Nakanishi, F., Ueda, K., Takahara, T., kasahara, A., Sasaki, Y., Hori, M. and Hayashi, N.

Involvement of the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade in human hepatocellular carcinoma.

Cancer 97: 3017-3026, 2003

Iyoda, K., Sasaki, Y., Horimoto, M., Toyama, T., Yakushijin, T., Sakakibara, M., Takehara, T., Fujimoto, J., Hori, M., Wands, JR. and Hayashi, N.

Molecular pathogenesis of viral hepatitis.

Inter. Med 42: 290-291, 2003

Hayashi, N., Kanto, T., Housui, A., Sugimoto, K., Ohkawa, K., Takehara, T.and Sasaki, Y.

Development of colitis in signal transducers and activators of transcription 6-deficient T cell recedptor α-deficient mice; A potential role of signal transducers and activators of transcription 6-independent interleukin-4 signaling for the generation of Th2-biased pathological CD4+ ββT cells.

Am. J. Pathology 162: 263-271, 2003

Okuda, Y., Takahashi, I., Kim, J.K., Ohta, N., Iwatani, Iijima, H., Kai, Y., Tamagawa, H., Hiroi, T., Kweon, M.N., Kawano, S., Takeda, K., Akira, S., Sasaki, Y., Hori, M. and Kiyono, H.

Changes in gene expression profile by HCV core protein in cultures liver cells: analysis by DNA array assay.

Hepatol. Res 25: 396-408, 2003

Ohkawa, K., Ishida, H., Nakanishi, F., Housui, A., Sato, A., Ueda, K., Takehara, T., Kasahara, A., Sasaki, Y., Hori, M and Hayashi, N.

Expression and role of MICA and MICB in human hepatocellular carcinomas and their regulation by retinoic acid.

Int. J. Cancer 104: 354-361, 2003

Jinushi, M., Takehara, T., Tatsumi, T., Kanto, T., Groh, V., Spies, T., Kimura, R., Miyagi, T., Mochizuki, K., Sasaki, Y. and Hayashi N.

Intravenous injection of naked plasmid DNA encoding hepatitis B virus (HBV) produces HBV and induces humoral immune response in mice.

Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun 300: 784-788, 2003

Suzuki, T., Takehara, T., Ohkawa, K., Ishida, H., Jinushi, M., Miyagi, T., Sasaki, Y. and Hayashi, N.

Impaired expression of proteasome subunits and human leukocyte antigens class I in human colon cancer cells.

J. Gastroenterol. Hepatol 18: 32-40, 2003

Miyagi, T., Tatsumi, T., Takehara, T., Kanto, T., Kuzushita, N., Sugimoto, K., Jinushi, M., Kasahara, A., Sasaki, Y. Hori, M. and Hayashi, N.

Critical role of MICA/B expression on interferon α-stimutaled dendritic cells in NK cell activation: Impairment in chronic hepatitis C virus infection.

J. Immunol 170: 1249-1256, 2003

Jinushi, M., Takehara, T., Kanto, T., Tatsumi, T., Groh, V., Spies, T., Miyagi, T., Suzuki, T., Sasaki, Y. and Hayashi N.