Motoji Kitaura

Medicine · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Asthma and respiratory diseases(6), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology(4), Immune Cell Function and Interaction(4), Chemokine receptors and signaling(4), T-cell and B-cell Immunology(3)

Publications19 total

Involvement of the Peripheral μ-Opioid Receptor in Tramadol-Induced Constipation in Rodents
Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin·2021· 4 citedOpen Access
Autism-associated variants of neuroligin 4X impair synaptogenic activity by various molecular mechanisms
Molecular Autism·2020· 7 citedOpen Access
Autism-associated variants of neuroligin 4X impair synaptogenic activity by various molecular mechanisms
2020Open Access
Development of a new knock-in mouse model and evaluation of pharmacological activities of lusutrombopag, a novel, nonpeptidyl small-molecule agonist of the human thrombopoietin receptor c-Mpl
Experimental Hematology·2017· 13 cited
Prostanoid DP receptor antagonists suppress symptomatic asthma-like manifestation by distinct actions from a glucocorticoid in rats
European Journal of Pharmacology·2011· 11 cited
Chemokine receptors in human basophils: inducible expression of functional CXCR4
Journal of Leukocyte Biology·2001· 94 cited
Chemokines induce eosinophil degranulation through CCR-3
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology·2000· 137 citedOpen Access
Visualization of the Calcitonin Receptor-like Receptor and Its Receptor Activity-modifying Proteins during Internalization and Recycling
Journal of Biological Chemistry·2000· 160 citedOpen Access
Effect of Eotaxin and Platelet-activating Factor on Airway Inflammation and Hyperresponsiveness in Guinea Pigs <i>in Vivo</i>
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine·2000· 17 cited
Molecular cloning of a novel CC chemokine, interleukin‐11 receptor α‐locus chemokine (ILC), which is located on chromosome 9p13 and a potential homologue of a CC chemokine encoded by molluscum contagiosum virus
FEBS Letters·1999· 56 cited
Molecular Cloning of a Novel Human CC Chemokine (Eotaxin-3) That Is a Functional Ligand of CC Chemokine Receptor 3
Journal of Biological Chemistry·1999· 214 citedOpen Access
Development of a sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for eotaxin and measurement of its levels in human blood
Journal of Immunological Methods·1999· 20 cited
Secondary Lymphoid-tissue Chemokine Is a Functional Ligand for the CC Chemokine Receptor CCR7
Journal of Biological Chemistry·1998· 323 citedOpen Access
The Effects of Eotaxin on the Surface Adhesion Molecules of Endothelial Cells and on Eosinophil Adhesion to Microvascular Endothelial Cells
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications·1997· 36 cited
Molecular Cloning of a Novel Human CC Chemokine EBI1-ligand Chemokine That Is a Specific Functional Ligand for EBI1, CCR7
Journal of Biological Chemistry·1997· 402 citedOpen Access
Identification of a Mouse Eosinophil Receptor for the CC Chemokine Eotaxin
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications·1996· 87 cited
Molecular Cloning of Human Eotaxin, an Eosinophil-selective CC Chemokine, and Identification of a Specific Eosinophil Eotaxin Receptor, CC Chemokine Receptor 3
Journal of Biological Chemistry·1996· 414 citedOpen Access
Vitamin D receptor contains multiple dimerization interfaces that are functionally different
Nucleic Acids Research·1995· 36 citedOpen Access
Difference and similarity of DNA sequence recognized by VDR homodimer and VDR/RXR heterodimer
Nucleic Acids Research·1994· 78 citedOpen Access

Frequent Co-authors

Osamu Yoshie(11), Toshio Imai(4), Koichi Hirai(4), Hisayuki Nomiyama(3), Koji Takahashi(3), Philip M. Murphy(2), Ryu Yoshida(2), Kunio Hieshima(2), Masataka Baba(2), Toshiharu Nakajima(2), Jun‐ichi Nishikawa(2), Masayoshi Imagawa(2), Tsutomu Nishihara(2), Minoru Hasegawa(2), Takafumi Yumoto(2), Misaki Kimura(2), Tsukika Sato(2), Shun Utsunomiya(2), Natsue Aoki(2), Hiroshi Takemoto(2)