Regulation of mammalian tooth cusp patterning by ectodin

Y Kassai, P Munne, Y Hotta, E Penttilä, K Kavanagh… - Science, 2005 - science.org
Mammalian tooth crowns have precise functional requirements but cannot be substantially
remodeled after eruption. In developing teeth, epithelial signaling centers, the enamel knots, …

[HTML][HTML] A clinically applicable and scalable method to regenerate T-cells from iPSCs for off-the-shelf T-cell immunotherapy

…, T Nakatsura, M Yasukawa, Y Kassai… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Clinical successes demonstrated by chimeric antigen receptor T-cell immunotherapy have
facilitated further development of T-cell immunotherapy against wide variety of diseases. One …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of a secreted BMP antagonist, ectodin, integrating BMP, FGF, and SHH signals from the tooth enamel knot

J Laurikkala, Y Kassai, L Pakkasjärvi, I Thesleff… - Developmental …, 2003 - Elsevier
We have identified mouse and human cDNAs encoding a novel secreted BMP inhibitor, which
we have named ectodin. It is most homologous (∼37% amino acid identity) to sclerostin …

Brief Report: Number of Circulating Follicular Helper 2 T Cells Correlates With IgG4 and Interleukin‐4 Levels and Plasmablast Numbers in IgG4‐Related Disease

…, Y Kaneko, H Kondo, Y Kassai… - Arthritis & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To elucidate the pathologic role of follicular helper T (Tfh) cells and their subsets
in active, untreated IgG4‐related disease. Methods Fifteen patients with active, untreated, …

Non‐contrast‐enhanced MR angiography using 3D ECG‐synchronized half‐Fourier fast spin echo

…, F Tateishi, H Wada, Y Kassai… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
A non‐contrast‐enhanced three‐dimensional (3D) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA)
technique, which acquires images in a reasonably short scanning time and requires no …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced IgG4 production by follicular helper 2 T cells and the involvement of follicular helper 1 T cells in the pathogenesis of IgG4-related disease

…, K Suzuki, Y Kaneko, H Kondo, Y Kassai… - Arthritis Research & …, 2016 - Springer
Background The aim of this study was to elucidate the function of circulating follicular helper
T (Tfh) cell subsets in helping B cells in patients with active, untreated IgG4-related disease (…

[HTML][HTML] Multi-omics monitoring of drug response in rheumatoid arthritis in pursuit of molecular remission

…, Y Kassai, M Takeshita, A Murota, Y Kondo… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… omics measurement, Y is an outcome vector of length n, T is an n × l matrix of orthogonal
scores, P is an m × l matrix of loading, B is a loading vector of length l, ε X and ε Y are the error …

[PDF][PDF] Enhancing T cell receptor stability in rejuvenated iPSC-derived T cells improves their use in cancer immunotherapy

…, M Takiguchi, Y Kassai, E Imai, Y Yasui, Y Kawai… - Cell Stem Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Limited T cell availability and proliferative exhaustion present major barriers to successful T
cell-based immunotherapies and may potentially be overcome through the use of "…

[HTML][HTML] Notch-mediated conversion of activated T cells into stem cell memory-like T cells for adoptive immunotherapy

…, M Kubo, K Koga, T Miyazaki, Y Kassai… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Adoptive T-cell immunotherapy is a promising approach to cancer therapy. Stem cell memory
T (T SCM ) cells have been proposed as a class of long-lived and highly proliferative …

Multiomic disease signatures converge to cytotoxic CD8 T cells in primary Sjögren's syndrome

…, Y Kassai, M Takiguchi, R Kurisu, Y Okuzono… - Annals of the …, 2017 - ard.bmj.com
Objectives Multiomics study was conducted to elucidate the crucial molecular mechanisms of
primary Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) pathology. Methods We generated multiple data set from …