Y. Kita

Publication List Details

Period

1993 - 2006

Number

49

Co-Authors

The impact of cardiovascular risk factors on the age-related excess risk of coronary heart disease (2006)

Huxley, R, Barzi, F, Lam, TH, Lawes, CMM, Wong, JW, Woodward, M, ...

Purpose Differences in cardiovascular risk factor levels have been suggested to contribute to the age-related excess risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). The aim of this study was to reliably...

The impact of cardiovascular risk factors on the age-related excess risk of coronary heart disease (2006)

Huxley, R, Barzi, F, Lam, TH, Lawes, CMM, Wong, JW, Woodward, M, ...

Purpose Differences in cardiovascular risk factor levels have been suggested to contribute to the age-related excess risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). The aim of this study was to reliably...

Smoking, quitting, and the risk of cardiovascular disease among women and men in the Asia-Pacific region (2005)

Woodward, M., Lam, T. H., Barzi, Federica, Patel, Ashvin K., Gu, D. F., Rodgers, A., ...

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

Smoking, quitting, and the risk of cardiovascular disease among women and men in the Asia-Pacific region (2005)

Woodward, M., Lam, T. H., Barzi, Federica, Patel, Ashvin K., Gu, D. F., Rodgers, A., ...

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

Body mass index and cardiovascular disease in the Asia-Pacific Region: an overview of 33 cohorts involving 310 000 participants (2004)

Mhurchu, CN, Rodgers, A, Pan, WH, Gu, DF, Woodward, M, Parag, V, ...

Background Few prospective data from the Asia-Pacific region are available relating body mass index (BMI) to the risks of stroke and ischaemic heart disease (IHD). Our objective was to assess the...

Blood glucose and risk of cardiovascular disease in the Asia Pacific region (2004)

Lawes, CMM, Parag, V, Bennett, DA, Suh, I, Lam, TH, Whitlock, G, ...

OBJECTIVE - To assess the shape and strength of the association between usual blood glucose and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Asian and Australasian cohorts and to determine the impact of adjusting...

Body mass index and cardiovascular disease in the Asia-Pacific Region: an overview of 33 cohorts involving 310 000 participants (2004)

Mhurchu, CN, Rodgers, A, Pan, WH, Gu, DF, Parag, V, Lin, R, ...

Background Few prospective data from the Asia-Pacific region are available relating body mass index (BMI) to the risks of stroke and ischaemic heart disease (IHD). Our objective was to assess the...

Blood glucose and risk of cardiovascular disease in the Asia Pacific region (2004)

Lawes, CMM, Parag, V, Bennett, DA, Suh, I, Whitlock, G, Barzi, F, ...

OBJECTIVE - To assess the shape and strength of the association between usual blood glucose and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Asian and Australasian cohorts and to determine the impact of adjusting...

T-CELL RECEPTOR REPERTOIRE OF INFILTRATING T CELLS IN LACHRYMAL GLANDS, SALIVARY GLANDS AND KIDNEYS FROM ALYMPHOPLASIA (ALY) MUTANT MICE: A NEW MODEL FOR SJOGREN'S SYNDROME (1996)

FURUKAWA, M., SAKAMOTO, A., KITA, Y., OHISHI, Y., MATSUMURA, R., TSUBATA, R., ...

Alymphoplasia (aly) mice are thought to provide a new model for systemic Sjögren's syndrome (SS), since they reveal remarkable infiltration of mononuclear cells into salivary glands, lachrymal...

Adhesion of immature thymocytes to thymic stromal cells through fibronectin molecules and its significance for the induction of thymocyte differentiation.

Utsumi, K, Sawada, M, Narumiya, S, Nagamine, J, Sakata, T, Iwagami, S, ...

Only 10-15% of unseparated thymocytes adhered to culture plates precoated with fibronectin (FN), but 60-70% of the CD4-8- (double-negative) thymocyte population did. This population bound to FN but...

Mechanism of renal excretion of carumonam in rats, rabbits, dogs, and monkeys.

Kita, Y, Imada, A

The mechanism of the renal excretion of carumonam (CRMN) was investigated in rats, rabbits, dogs, and monkeys. Stop-flow analysis in dogs demonstrated that CRMN is exclusively excreted by glomerular...

Comparative pharmacokinetics of carumonam and aztreonam in mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, and cynomolgus monkeys.

Kita, Y, Fugono, T, Imada, A

The pharmacokinetic properties of carumonam (AMA-1080, Ro 17-2301) were studied in mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, and cynomolgus monkeys and compared with those of aztreonam. Carumonam administered...

Comparative pharmacokinetics of SCE-2787 and related antibiotics in experimental animals.

Kita, Y, Yamazaki, T, Imada, A

The pharmacokinetic properties of SCE-2787 administered intravenously at a dose of 20 mg/kg of body weight were studied with mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, and monkeys and were compared with those of...

Common T cell receptor clonotype in lacrimal glands and labial salivary glands from patients with Sjögren's syndrome.

Matsumoto, I, Tsubota, K, Satake, Y, Kita, Y, Matsumura, R, Murata, H, ...

Sjogren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration into lacrimal and salivary glands leading to symptomatic dry eyes and mouth. Immunohistological studies have...

Adhesion of immature thymocytes to thymic stromal cells through fibronectin molecules and its significance for the induction of thymocyte differentiation.

Utsumi, K, Sawada, M, Narumiya, S, Nagamine, J, Sakata, T, Iwagami, S, ...

Only 10-15% of unseparated thymocytes adhered to culture plates precoated with fibronectin (FN), but 60-70% of the CD4-8- (double-negative) thymocyte population did. This population bound to FN but...

Mechanism of renal excretion of carumonam in rats, rabbits, dogs, and monkeys.

Kita, Y, Imada, A

The mechanism of the renal excretion of carumonam (CRMN) was investigated in rats, rabbits, dogs, and monkeys. Stop-flow analysis in dogs demonstrated that CRMN is exclusively excreted by glomerular...

Comparative pharmacokinetics of carumonam and aztreonam in mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, and cynomolgus monkeys.

Kita, Y, Fugono, T, Imada, A

The pharmacokinetic properties of carumonam (AMA-1080, Ro 17-2301) were studied in mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, and cynomolgus monkeys and compared with those of aztreonam. Carumonam administered...

Comparative pharmacokinetics of SCE-2787 and related antibiotics in experimental animals.

Kita, Y, Yamazaki, T, Imada, A

The pharmacokinetic properties of SCE-2787 administered intravenously at a dose of 20 mg/kg of body weight were studied with mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, and monkeys and were compared with those of...

Common T cell receptor clonotype in lacrimal glands and labial salivary glands from patients with Sjögren's syndrome.

Matsumoto, I, Tsubota, K, Satake, Y, Kita, Y, Matsumura, R, Murata, H, ...

Sjogren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration into lacrimal and salivary glands leading to symptomatic dry eyes and mouth. Immunohistological studies have...

V gene analysis of anti-cardiolipin antibodies from (NZW x BXSB) F1 mice.

Kita, Y, Sumida, T, Iwamoto, I, Yoshida, S, Koike, T

In (NZW x BXSB) F1 (W/B F1) male mice, systemic lupus-like disease, thrombocytopenia and coronary vascular disease with myocardial infarction occur, due to the presence of platelet-associated...

A comparison of lipid variables as predictors of cardiovascular disease in the Asia Pacific Region

Barzi, F, Patel, A, Woodward, M, Lawes, CMM, Ohkubo, T, Gu, D, ...

PURPOSE: Many guidelines advocate measurement of total or low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), and triglycerides (TG) to determine treatment...

Smoking, quitting, and the risk of cardiovascular disease among women and men in the Asia-Pacific region

Woodward, M, Lam, TH, Barzi, F, Patel, A, Gu, D, Rodgers, A, ...

Background Although smoking is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, it has been suggested that Asians may be less susceptible to the adverse effects of smoking than Caucasians. This may...

Does sex matter in the associations between classic risk factors and fatal coronary heart disease in populations from the Asia-Pacific region?

Huxley, R, Woodward, M, Barzi, F, Wong, JW, Pan, WH, Patel, A, ...

Background: There is much interest in promoting healthy heart awareness among women. However, little is known about the reasons behind the lower rates of heart disease among women compared with men,...

Coronary risk prediction for those with and without diabetes

Woodward, M, Barzi, E, Lam, TH, Jamrozik, K, Ueshima, H, Patel, A, ...

Background Coronary risk prediction 'engines' are now in common use, and their worth is well proven. There remains the question of how to deal with a prior diagnosis of diabetes. Design An individual...

Body mass index and risk of diabetes mellitus in the Asia-Pacific region

Mhurchu, CN, Parag, V, Nakamura, M, Patel, A, Rodgers, A, Lam, TH, ...

Few prospective data from the Asia Pacific region are available relating body mass index to the risk of diabetes. Our objective was to provide reliable age, sex and region specific estimates of the...

A novel case with germline p53 gene mutation having concurrent multiple primary colon tumours

Miyaki, M, Iijima, T, Ohue, M, Kita, Y, Hishima, T, Kuroki, T, ...

During a search for causative genes in patients with concurrent multiple primary colon tumours, we found a novel case with a germline mutation of the p53 gene, from GCC (Ala) to GTC (Val) at codon...

Long-term course and cardiac sympathetic nerve activity in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Shimizu, M, Sugihara, N, Kita, Y, Shimizu, K, Horita, Y, Nakajima, K, ...

OBJECTIVE--To investigate the relation between regional myocardial sympathetic nerve activity and the electrocardiographic and cardiac functional changes in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. DESIGN--A...

Clonal expansion of T cells infiltrating in the airways of non-atopic asthmatics

Umibe, T, Kita, Y, Nakao, A, Nakajima, H, Fukuda, T, Yoshida, S, ...

CD4+ T cells are thought to play an important role in airway inflammation in both atopic and non-atopic asthma. However, the mechanism by which T cells are activated in non-atopic asthma, where there...

Activation of pulmonary T cells in corticosteroid-resistant and -sensitive interstitial pneumonitis in dermatomyositis/polymyositis

Kurasawa, K, Nawata, Y, Takabayashi, K, Kumano, K, Kita, Y, Takiguchi, Y, ...

To study the activation states and cytokine profiles of pulmonary T cells in corticosteroid-resistant and corticosteroid-sensitive interstitial pneumonitis (IP) in dermatomyositis (DM)/polymyositis...

Close correlation of the cardioprotective effect of FK409, a spontaneous NO releaser, with an increase in plasma cyclic GMP level.

Kita, Y, Sugimoto, T, Hirasawa, Y, Yoshida, K, Maeda, K

FK409 ((+/-)-(E)-ethyl-2-[(E)-hydroxyimino]-5-nitro-3-hexeneamide) , which has been reported by us to be a new spontaneous nitric oxide (NO) releaser, prevented myocardial infarction following...

Antiplatelet activities of FK409, a new spontaneous NO releaser.

Kita, Y, Hirasawa, Y, Yoshida, K, Maeda, K

1. We reported that (+/-)-(E)-ethyl-2-[(E)-hydroxyimino]-5-nitro-3-hexeneamide (FK409) released nitric oxide (NO) spontaneously with a chemiluminescence analyzer. The aim of this study was to compare...

Antianginal effects of FK409, a new spontaneous NO releaser.

Kita, Y, Ozaki, R, Sakai, S, Sugimoto, T, Hirasawa, Y, Ohtsuka, M, ...

1. The aim of this study was to compare antianginal effects of (+/-)-(E)-ethyl-2-[(E)-hydroxyimino]-5-nitro-3-hexeneamide (FK409), a new spontaneous nitric oxide releaser, with those of isosorbide...

Expression of Osteopontin in oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Kita, Y, Natsugoe, S, Okumura, H, Matsumoto, M, Uchikado, Y, Setoyama, T, ...

Osteopontin is a multifunctional 34 kDa extracellular matrix protein with a cell-binding domain. It is involved cell adhesion and cell migration and is therefore considered to influence...

Clinical significance of the reduced expression of G protein gamma 7 (GNG7) in oesophageal cancer

Ohta, M, Mimori, K, Fukuyoshi, Y, Kita, Y, Motoyama, K, Yamashita, K, ...

We previously cloned human G protein gamma 7 (GNG7) and demonstrated that it was downregulated in gastrointestinal cancer. The significance of GNG7 expression in oesophageal cancer is unknown. TaqMan...

EML4–ALK fusion transcript is not found in gastrointestinal and breast cancers

Fukuyoshi, Y, Inoue, H, Kita, Y, Utsunomiya, T, Ishida, T, Mori, M

Fusion genes have been identified as chromosomal rearrangements in certain cancers, such as leukaemia, lymphoma, and sarcoma. The EML4–ALK (EML4: echinoderm microtubule-associated-protein-like 4;...