Akira Hara

Research interests

Publications

• Galectin-3 as a Next-Generation Biomarker for Detecting Early Stage of Various Diseases

  Biomolecules · 2020 · 10.3390/biom10030389

• A Review of HPV-Related Head and Neck Cancer

  Journal of Clinical Medicine · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm7090241

• Imaging Characteristics of Malignant Sinonasal Tumors

  Journal of Clinical Medicine · 2017 · 10.3390/jcm6120116

• Current trends in mouse models of glioblastoma

  Journal of Neuro-Oncology · 2017 · 10.1007/s11060-017-2626-2

• M2‐like macrophage polarization in high lactic acid‐producing head and neck cancer

  Cancer Science · 2017 · 10.1111/cas.13244

• Nerve Growth Factor Promotes Gastric Tumorigenesis through Aberrant Cholinergic Signaling

  Cancer Cell · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2016.11.005

• Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1A1 in stem cells and cancer

  Oncotarget · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.6920

• Mist1 Expressing Gastric Stem Cells Maintain the Normal and Neoplastic Gastric Epithelium and Are Supported by a Perivascular Stem Cell Niche

  Cancer Cell · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2015.10.003

• The Evidence of Glioblastoma Heterogeneity

  Scientific Reports · 2015 · 10.1038/srep07979

• Denervation suppresses gastric tumorigenesis

  Science Translational Medicine · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.3009569

• Macroscopic on-site quality evaluation of biopsy specimens to improve the diagnostic accuracy during EUS-guided FNA using a 19-gauge needle for solid lesions: a single-center prospective pilot study (MOSE study)

  Gastrointestinal Endoscopy · 2014 · 10.1016/j.gie.2014.08.040

• Cancer chemoprevention through the induction of apoptosis by natural compounds

  Journal of Biophysical Chemistry · 2012 · 10.4236/jbpc.2012.32018

• High-Intensity Signal on Time-of-Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiography Indicates Carotid Plaques at High Risk for Cerebral Embolism During Stenting

  Stroke · 2011 · 10.1161/strokeaha.111.615708

• Effects of green tea polyphenol on methylation status of RECK gene and cancer cell invasion in oral squamous cell carcinoma cells

  British Journal of Cancer · 2008 · 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604521

• VEGF promotes tumorigenesis and angiogenesis of human glioblastoma stem cells

  Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications · 2007 · 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.06.094

• Multiplicity of Mammalian Reductases for Xenobiotic Carbonyl Compounds

  Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics · 2006 · 10.2133/dmpk.21.1

• Hearing impairment in TRPV4 knockout mice

  Neuroscience Letters · 2005 · 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.03.035

• Alterations of RB1, p53 and Wnt pathways in hepatocellular carcinomas associated with hepatitis C, hepatitis B and alcoholic liver cirrhosis

  International Journal of Cancer · 2003 · 10.1002/ijc.11254

• The inhibitory effects of mangiferin, a naturally occurring glucosylxanthone, in bowel carcinogenesis of male F344 rats

  Cancer Letters · 2001 · 10.1016/s0304-3835(00)00678-9

• Identification of a Principal mRNA Species for Human 3 -Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Isoform (AKR1C3) That Exhibits High Prostaglandin D2 11-Ketoreductase Activity

  The Journal of Biochemistry · 1998 · 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022211

• Crystal structure of the ternary complex of mouse lung carbonyl reductase at 1.8 å resolution: the structural origin of coenzyme specificity in the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase family

  Structure · 1996 · 10.1016/s0969-2126(96)00007-x

• Relationship of human liver dihydrodiol dehydrogenases to hepatic bile-acid-binding protein and an oxidoreductase of human colon cells

  Biochemical Journal · 1996 · 10.1042/bj3130373

• Chemoprevention of rat oral carcinogenesis by naturally occurring xanthophylls, astaxanthin and canthaxanthin.

  PubMed · 1995

• Suppression of azoxymethane-induced rat colon carcinogenesis by dietary administration of naturally occurring xanthophylls astaxanthin and canthaxanthin during the postinitiation phase

  Carcinogenesis · 1995 · 10.1093/carcin/16.12.2957

• Inhibitory effect of sinigrin and indole-3-carbinol on diethytnitrosamine-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in male ACI/N rats

  Carcinogenesis · 1990 · 10.1093/carcin/11.8.1403

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