Y. Kawakami

Publication List Details

Period

1978 - 2008

Number

135

Co-Authors

A Pilot Study of Human Interferon beta Gene Therapy for Patients with Advanced Melanoma by in vivo Transduction Using Cationic Liposomes (2008)

Matsumoto, K, Kubo, H, Murata, H, Uhara, H, Takata, M, Shibata, S, ...

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Nanoscopic recombination processes in InGaN/GaN quantum wells emitting violet, blue, and green spectra (2008)

Kaneta, A, Funato, M, Kawakami, Y

We investigated correlations between nanoscopic optical and structural properties in violet-emitting, blue-emitting, and green-emitting InxGa1−xN/GaN quantum wells (QWs) by means of scanning...

Emission color tunable light-emitting diodes composed of InGaN multifacet quantum wells (2008)

Funato, M, Kawakami, Y

We demonstrate that the apparent emission colors of InGaN-based light-emitting diodes using microstructured multifacet quantum wells as active layers can externally be controlled over a wide spectral...

Excitonic properties of polar, semipolar, and nonpolar InGaN/GaN strained quantum wells with potential fluctuations (2008)

Funato, M., Kawakami, Y.

Excitonic properties of polar, semipolar, and nonpolar InGaN/GaN strained quantum wells (QWs) were investigated in terms of exciton localization and polarization-induced electric fields. The...

Polarization switching phenomena in semipolar InxGa1-xN/GaN quantum well active layers (2008)

Ueda, M, Funato, M, Kojima, K, Kawakami, Y, Narukawa, Y, Mukai, T

We report the observation of optical polarization switching in InxGa1−xN/GaN quantum well active layers, using semipolar {11[overline 2]2} planes. When the In composition is less than ~30%, the...

Stimulated emission at 474 nm from an InGaN laser diode structure grown on a (11(2)over-bar2) GaN substrate (2007)

Kojima, K., Funato, M., Kawakami, Y., Masui, S., Nagahama, S., Mukai, T.

The stimulated emissions from semipolar InGaN laser diode (LD) structures grown on (11[overline 2]2) GaN substrates are observed at room temperature under photopumped conditions. The measured...

Autoantibody to CD40 ligand in systemic lupus erythematosus: association with thrombocytopenia but not thromboembolism (2006)

Nakamura, M., Tanaka, Y., Satoh, T., Kawai, M., Hirakata, M., Kaburaki, J., ...

Objectives. To examine the prevalence, clinical associations and pathogenic roles of autoantibodies to CD40 ligand (CD40L) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods. Plasma...

Autoantibody to CD40 ligand in systemic lupus erythematosus: association with thrombocytopenia but not thromboembolism (2005)

Nakamura, M., Tanaka, Y., Satoh, T., Kawai, M., Hirakata, M., Kaburaki, J., ...

Objectives. To examine the prevalence, clinical associations and pathogenic roles of autoantibodies to CD40 ligand (CD40L) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods. Plasma...

Lack of circulating autoantibodies to bone morphogenetic protein receptor-II or activin receptor-like kinase 1 in mixed connective tissue disease patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (2005)

Satoh, T., Kimura, K., Okano, Y., Hirakata, M., Kawakami, Y., Kuwana, M.

Objectives. To examine whether autoantibodies against bone morphogenetic protein receptor-II (BMPR-II) or activin receptor-like kinase 1 (ALK-1) are associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension...

Protein kinase C betaII regulates Akt phosphorylation on Ser-473 in a cell type- and stimulus-specific fashion. (2004)

Kawakami, Y., Nishimoto, H., Kitaura, J., Maeda-Yamamoto, M., Kato, R. M., Littman, D. R., ...

Akt (= protein kinase B), a subfamily of the AGC serine/threonine kinases, plays critical roles in survival, proliferation, glucose metabolism, and other cellular functions. Akt activation requires...

Lack of circulating autoantibodies to bone morphogenetic protein receptor-II or activin receptor-like kinase 1 in mixed connective tissue disease patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (2004)

Satoh, T., Kimura, K., Okano, Y., Hirakata, M., Kawakami, Y., Kuwana, M.

Objectives. To examine whether autoantibodies against bone morphogenetic protein receptor-II (BMPR-II) or activin receptor-like kinase 1 (ALK-1) are associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension...

Lack of circulating autoantibodies to bone morphogenetic protein receptor-II or activin receptor-like kinase 1 in mixed connective tissue disease patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (2004)

Satoh, T., Kimura, K., Okano, Y., Hirakata, M., Kawakami, Y., Kuwana, M.

Objectives. To examine whether autoantibodies against bone morphogenetic protein receptor-II (BMPR-II) or activin receptor-like kinase 1 (ALK-1) are associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension...

Recognition of tyrosinase by tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes from a patient responding to immunotherapy (1994)

El-Gamil, M, Kawakami, Y, Yannelli, J R, Rosenberg, S A

The observation that allogeneic melanoma cells matched for particular HLA class I alleles stimulate T-cells isolated from patients suggests that widely shared antigens exist on these tumors. A...

Exciton-related lasing mechanism in ZnSe-(Zn, Cd) Se multiple quantum wells (1993)

Kawakami, Y., Hauksson, I., Stewart, H., Simpson, J., Galbraith, I., Prior, K., ...

The processes involved in the stimulated emission by photo pumping in (Zn,Cd)Se-ZnSe multiple quantum wells (MQWs) have been investigated at 77K for a series of different well widths. It has been...

Exciton-related lasing mechanism in ZnSe-(Zn, Cd) Se multiple quantum wells (1993)

Kawakami, Y., Hauksson, I., Stewart, H., Simpson, J., Galbraith, I., Prior, K., ...

The processes involved in the stimulated emission by photo pumping in (Zn,Cd)Se-ZnSe multiple quantum wells (MQWs) have been investigated at 77K for a series of different well widths. It has been...

Esterolytic activity of imidazole-containing polymers. Synthesis and characterization of copoly[1-alkyl-4- or 5-vinylimidazole/4(5)-vinylimidazole] and its catalytic activity in the hydrolysis of p -nitrophenyl acetate (1978)

Overberger, C. G., Kawakami, Y.

The water-soluble monomers, 1-methyl-4-vinylimidazole, 1-methyl-5-vinylimidazole, 1-ethyl-5-vinylimidazole, and 1-propyl-5-vinylimidazole have been synthesized, polymerized, and copolymerized with...

Esterolytic activity of imidazole-containing polymers. Hydrophobic influences in copoly[1-alkyl-4- or 5-vinylimidazole/4(5)-vinylimidazole]-catalyzed hydrolysis of 3-nitro-4-acyloxybenzoic acids (1978)

Overberger, C. G., Kawakami, Y.

Water-soluble copolymers containing imidazole and N -alkylated imidazole pendant groups have been synthesized in order to investigate the hydrophobic interactions between polymeric catalysts and long...

Retention index of thallium-201 single photon emission computerised tomography (SPECT) as an indicator of metastasis in adenocarcinoma of the lung.

Takekawa, H., Itoh, K., Abe, S., Ogura, S., Isobe, H., Sukou, N., ...

We examined the relationship between the retention of thallium-201 (201Tl) on a delayed scan and the metastatic potential of adenocarcinomas of the lung. We studied 43 patients with adenocarcinoma of...

Human papillomavirus type 18 DNA and E6-E7 mRNA are detected in squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the lung.

Kinoshita, I., Dosaka-Akita, H., Shindoh, M., Fujino, M., Akie, K., Kato, M., ...

To provide an accurate evaluation of the association of human papillomavirus (HPV) with lung cancer, 36 cases of lung cancer were analysed for HPV DNAs by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with...

Predicting chemotherapeutic response to small-cell lung cancer of platinum compounds by thallium-201 single-photon emission computerized tomography.

Tokuchi, Y., Isobe, H., Takekawa, H., Hanada, T., Ishida, T., Ogura, S., ...

Thallium-201 single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) was used to clarify the relationship between 201Tl uptake and the response in chemotherapy to platinum compounds in 21 patients...

Transplantable rat thyroid cancer cell line FRTC transformed with muramyl dipeptide.

Iitaka, M., Fukasawa, N., Kitahama, S., Miura, S., Kawakami, Y., Sato, H., ...

A rat thyroid cancer cell line, FRTC, was established from the normal rat thyroid cell line, FRTL-5. FRTL-5 cells were cultured in vitro with N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine (MDP) for 4 days...

Inflammatory cell-mediated tumour progression and minisatellite mutation correlate with the decrease of antioxidative enzymes in murine fibrosarcoma cells

Okada, F, Nakai, K, Kobayashi, T, Shibata, T, Tagami, S, Kawakami, Y, ...

We isolated six clones of weakly tumorigenic fibrosarcoma (QR) from the tumorigenic clone BMT-11 cl-9. The QR clones were unable to grow in normal C57BL/6 mice when injected s.c. (1 × 105 cells)....

Predictive value of expression of p16INK4A, retinoblastoma and p53 proteins for the prognosis of non-small-cell lung cancers

Hommura, F, Dosaka-Akita, H, Kinoshita, I, Mishina, T, Hiroumi, H, Ogura, S, ...

The predictive value of expression of p16INK4A, retinoblastoma (Rb) and p53 proteins for prognosis was evaluated in 76 patients with non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) that were potentially...