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1995
1. Oxidative and nonoxidative mechanism of site-specific DNA
cleavage induced by copper-containing metallothioneins. Shinji
Oikawa, Masaaki Kurasaki, Yutaka Kojima and Shosuke Kawanishi.
Biochemistry
34, 8763-8770, 1995.
2. Expression of human metallothionein in Escherichia coli:
Cadmium tolerance on transformed cells. Fumitomo Odawara, Masaaki
Kurasaki, Mika Suzuki-Kurasaki, Shinji Oikawa, Tadasu Emoto,
Futoshi Yamasaki, Ana Rosa Linde Arias and Yutaka Kojima. Journal
of Biochemistry 118, 1131-1137, 1995.
1996
1. Metallothionein in the ovaries of laying hens exposed to cadmium. Shin Sato, Masashi Okabe, Masaaki Kurasaki and Yutaka Kojima. Life Sciences 58, 1561-1567, 1996.
2. Copper replacement of cadmium-binding a-fragment of metallothionein expressed in Escherichia coli. Masaaki Kurasaki, Futoshi Yamasaki, Mika Suzuki-Kurasaki and Yutaka Kojima. Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology 92, 225-232, 1996.
3. Low molecular weight copper-binding proteins in copper-loaded rat liver. Mika Suzuki-Kurasaki, Masaaki Kurasaki and Yutaka Kojima. Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology 92, 299-314, 1996.
4. Gold replacement of cadmium-zinc-binding metallothionein. Shigeru Saito and Masaaki Kurasaki. Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology 93, 101-107, 1996.
5. Roles of the conserved serines of metallothionein in cadmium-binding. Tadasu Emoto, Masaaki Kurasaki, Shinji Oikawa, Mika Suzuki-Kurasaki, Masashi Okabe, Futoshi Yamasaki and Yutaka Kojima. Biochemical Genetics 34, 239-251, 1996.
6. Direct visualization of copper-metallothionein in kidney of LEC rat: Application of auto-fluorescence signal of copper-thiolate cluster. Masashi Okabe, Kenji Nakayama, Masaaki Kurasaki, Futoshi Yamasaki, Kazuhiko Aoyagi, Osamu Yamanoshita, Shin Sato, Toyo Okui, Tohru Ohyama and Noriyuki Kasai. Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry 44, 865-873, 1996.
7. Copper-binding metallothionein expressed in Escherichia coli grown in medium containing copper and cadmium. Takehito Miura, Futoshi Yamasaki and Masaaki Kurasaki. International Journal of Bio-Chromatography 2, 67-76, 1996.
8. Independent self-assembly of cadmium-binding a-fragment of metallothionein in Escherichia coli without participation of b-fragment. Masaaki Kurasaki, Tadasu Emoto, Ana Rosa Linde Arias, Masashi Okabe, Futoshi Yamasaki, Shinji Oikawa and Yutaka Kojima. Protein Engineering 9, 1173-1180, 1996.
1997
1. Oxidation of cysteine residues of metallothionein by oxidized 2'-azino-bis(3-ethyl benzthiazoline-6-sulfonic acid)(ABTS). Takahiro Sekiwa, Masaaki Kurasaki and Yutaka Kojima. Journal of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics 1, 39-46, 1997.
2. A mutant metallothionein which has inverse fragment composition exhibits high cadmium-binding ability. Rie Yamaguchi, Masaaki Kurasaki and Yutaka Kojima. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology International 41, 49-56, 1997.
3. Effects of amino acid replacements on cadmium binding of metallothionein a-fragment. Futoshi Yamasaki, Masaaki Kurasaki, Shinji Oikawa, Tadasu Emoto Masashi Okabe and Yutaka Kojima. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 53, 459-465, 1997.
4. Restriction of cadmium transfer to eggs from laying hens exposed to cadmium. Shin Sato, Masashi Okabe, Tadasu Emoto, Masaaki Kurasaki and Yutaka Kojima. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health 51, 15-22, 1997.
5. Significance of a-fragment of metallothionein in cadmium-binding.
Masaaki Kurasaki, Rie Yamaguchi, Ana Rosa Linde Arias,
Masashi Okabe and Yutaka Kojima. Protein
Engineering 10, 413-416, 1997.
6. Localization of renal Cu-binding metallothionein induced by
gold injection to rat. Shigeru Saito, Masashi Okabe and Masaaki
Kurasaki. Biochimica
et Biophysica Acta 1135, 353-358, 1997.
7. Copper metallothionein in the kidney of macular mice; a model for Menkes' disease. Mika Suzuki-Kurasaki, Masashi Okabe and Masaaki Kurasaki. Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry 45, 1493-1501, 1997.
1998
1. Role of metallothionein on Zn, Cu, and Cd accumulation in rat liver after heavy metal injection. Shigeru Saito, Masashi Okabe, Masaaki Kurasaki, Takeshi Saito and Kazuo Saito. Trace Elements and Electrolytes 15, 58-64, 1998.
2. Copper metabolism in the kidney of rats administered copper and copper-metallothionein. Masaaki Kurasaki, Masashi Okabe, Shigeru Saito and Mika Suzuki-Kurasaki. American Journal of Physiology 274, F783-790, 1998.
3. Histochemical localization of superoxide dismutase in rat brain. Masashi Okabe, Shigeru Saito, Takeshi Saito, Keizo Ito, Shinzo Kimura, Tadashi Niioka and Masaaki Kurasaki. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 24, 1470-1476, 1998.
4. A new method for quantification of metallothionein using immobilized antibody on blotting membrane. Tomomi Nagashima, Masashi Okabe, Shigeru Saito, Takeshi Saito, Masaaki Kurasaki, Toshio Hirauchi, Shinzo Kimura and Tadashi Niioka. Trace Elements and Electrolytes 15, 127-131, 1998.
1999
1. Histochemical studies on renal copper-metallothionein using confocal laser microscopy Masashi Okabe, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Shigeru Saito, Takeshi Saito and Masaaki Kurasaki. Trace Elements and Electrolytes 16, 61-66, 1999.
2. Effect of heavy metal-induced metallothionein on Zn, Cu and Cd accumulation in rat kidneys. Shigeru Saito, Masashi Okabe, Katsumi Yoshida and Masaaki Kurasaki. Pharmacology and Toxicology 84, 255-260, 1999.
3. Immunohistochemical determination of the Wilson copper-transporting P-type ATPase in the brain tissues of the rat. Takeshi Saito, Masashi Okabe, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masaaki Kurasaki, Akira Hata, Fumio Endo, Koji Nagano, Ichiro Matsuda, Ken-ichi Urakami and Kazuo Saito. Neuroscience Letters 266, 13-16, 1999.
4. Role of metallothionein on Ag accumulation in hepatic and
renal cytosol after Ag injection to rats. Shigeru Saito, Masashi
Okabe, Katsumi Yoshida and Masaaki Kurasaki. Pharmacology
and Toxicology 85, 22-28, 1999.
2000
1. Histochemical characterization of silver-induced metallothionein
in kidney of rat. Masaaki Kurasaki, Masashi Okabe, Shigeru
Saito Toshiyuki Hosokawa and Takeshi Saito. Journal
of Inorganic Biochemistry 78, 275-281, 2000.
2. Protect role of metallothionein on DNA damage in rat kidney
by cis-diamminedichloroplatinum. Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masashi Okabe,
Shigeru Saito, Takeshi Saito and Masaaki Kurasaki. Pharmacology
and Toxicology 86, 276-282, 2000.
3. Diverse effect of tributyltin on apoptosis in PC12 cells. Osamu Yamanoshita, Masaaki Kurasaki, Takeshi Saito, Kyoko Takahashi, Hiroko Sasaki, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masashi Okabe, Junko Mochida and Toshio Iwakuma. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 272, 557-562, 2000.
4. Metals in water in the Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Masaaki Kurasaki, Dede Irving Hartoto, Takeshi Saito, Mika Suzuki-Kurasaki and Toshio Iwakuma. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 65, 591-597, 2000.
5. Distribution of zinc-binding metallothionein in cirrhotic liver of rats administered zinc. Shin Sato, Motohiro Shimizu, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Takeshi Saito, Masashi Okabe, Tadashi Niioka and Masaaki Kurasaki. Pharmacology and Toxicology 87, 292-296, 2000.
6. Deficiencies of hippocampal Zn and ZnT3 accelation brain aging of rat. Takeshi Saito, Kyoko Takahashi, Noriko Nakagawa, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masaaki Kurasaki, Osamu Yamanoshita, Yuwako Yamamoto, Hiroko Sasaki, Kazuo Nagashima and Hiroyoshi Fujita. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 279, 505-511, 2000.
7. Apoptosis and endcrine disrupters (Review). Takeshi Saito and Masaaki Kurasaki. Biomedical Research 21, 353-359, 2000.
2001
1. Changes in middle latency auditory-evoked potentials of the rat exposed to styrene. Yu-Ping Wang, Takeshi Saito, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masaaki Kurasaki and Kazuo Saito. Journal of Health Sciences 47, 175-183, 2001.
2. Induction and distribution of metallothionein in liver of experimental cirrhotic rats administered copper. Shin Sato, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Takeshi Saito, Masashi Okabe and Masaaki Kurasaki. Trace Elements and Electrolytes 18, 73-79, 2001.
3. Combined effects of working environmental conditions in VDT work. Kyoko Takahashi, Hiroko Sasaki, Takeshi Saito, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masaaki Kurasaki and Kazuo Saito. Ergonomics 44, 562-570, 2001.
4. 2, 4, 5-trichlorophenoxy acetic acid inhibits apoptosis in PC12 cells. Osamu Yamanoshita, Takeshi Saito, Kyoko Takahashi, Hiroko Sasaki, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masashi Okabe, Keizo Ito and Masaaki Kurasaki. Life Sciences 69, 403-408, 2001.
5. The effect of silver on zinc and copper in liver and metallothionein. Shigeru Saito, Masaaki Kurasaki, Takeshi Saito, and Katsumi Yoshida. Trace Elements and Electrolytes 18, 152-155, 2001.
6. The effect of trichloethylene on spatio-temporal pattern of LTP in mouse hippocampal slices. Masaki Ohta, Takeshi Saito, Kazuo Saito, Masaaki Kurasaki and Toshiyuki Hosokawa. International Journal of Neuroscience 111, 257-271, 2001.
7. The effect of synthetic dopamine-melanins on oxygen radical formation induced by metal ions with dopamine. Shinzo Kimura, Masaaki Kurasaki, Takeshi Saito, Keizo Ito, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masashi Okabe, Kunio Shiraishi and Tadashi Niioka. Neuroscience Research Communications 29, 31-40, 2001.
８. Zinc and functional impairments of the brain associated with aging (Review). Takeshi Saito, Masaaki Kurasaki, Takuya Numata and Hiroyoshi Fujita. Biomedical Research on Trace Elements 12, 179-187, 2001.
９. Development of bulk separation method of neuronal and glial cells in the rat brain for trace element analysis. Takeshi Saito, Masaaki Kurasaki, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masashi Okabe and Hiroyoshi Fujita. Analytical Sciences 17 Supple., i1527-i1530, 2001.
10. New method to analyze the electrophysiological pathway in the mouse brain. Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masaaki Kurasaki and Takeshi Saito. Analytical Sciences 17 Supple., i1531-i1534, 2001.
11. A developed method of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase system for quantification of DNA damage caused by apoptosis. Masaaki Kurasaki, Miho Aoki, Tomoe Miura, Sayaka Seki, Shigeru Toriumi, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masashi Okabe, Takuya Numata, Shigeru Saito and Takeshi Saito. Analytical Sciences 17 Supple., i1547-i1550, 2001.
2002
1. Protective effect of taurine against renal interstitial fibrosis of rats induced by cisplatin. Shin Sato, Jyoji Yamate, Takeshi Saito, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Shigeru Saito and Masaaki Kurasaki. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology 365, 277-283, 2002.
2. Localization of the induced metallothionein and DNA damage in rat kidney after gold injection. Shigeru Saito, Masaaki Kurasaki, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masashi Okabe, Takeshi Saito, Yukiko Fujii, Kazuo Nagashima and Katsumi Yoshida. Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry 50, 1263-1271, 2002.
3. The effect of Au injection on the ceruloplasmin, metallothionein
and 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine of rat serum, kidney and liver. Shigeru
Saito, Shuichi Hiyamuta, Masaaki Kurasaki, Toshiyuki Hosokawa,
Takeshi Saito, Hiroyoshi Fujita and Katsumi Yoshida.Chemico-Biological
Interactions, 140, 265-278, 2002.
4. Bcl-2 linked apoptosis due to increase in NO synthase in brain
of SAMP10. Takuya Numata, Takeshi Saito, Kazuyo Maekawa, Yasumitsu
Takahashi, Hiroshi Saitoh, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Hiroyoshi Fujita
and Masaaki Kurasaki. Biochemistry
and Biophysics Research Communications, 297, 517-522, 2002.
5. Influence of dietary methionine level on the liver metallothionein
mRNA level in rats. Komang Ayu Nocianitri, Shoji Sakakibara, Takashi
Kanno, Hiroto Kikuchi, Masaaki Kurasaki and Yoritaka Aoyama.
Bioscience,
Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 66, 2465-2470, 2002.
2003
1. Immunohistochemical study of macrophage migration inhibitory
factor in rat liver fibrosis induced by thioacetamide. Yuuka Hori,
Shin Sato, Jyoji Yamate, Masaaki Kurasaki, Jyun Nishihira,
Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Hiroyoshi Fujita and Takeshi Saito. European
Journal of Histochemistry, 47, 317-324, 2003.
2004
1. Synthetic dopamine-melanin, a model for neuromelanin, shows
superoxide dismutase like activity. Shinzo Kimura, Masaaki
Kurasaki, Takeshi Saito, Keizo Ito, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Masashi
Okabe, Kunio Shiraishi and Tadashi Niioka. Trace Elements and
Electrolytes, 21, 55-59, 2004.
2. Nonylphenol enhances apoptosis induced by serum deprivation
in PC12 cells. Miho Aoki, Masaaki Kurasaki, Takeshi Saito,
Sayaka Seki, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yasumitsu Takahashi, Hiroyoshi
Fujita and Toshio Iwakuma. Life
Sciences, 74, 2301-2312, 2004.
2005
1. Protective effect of dietary azuki bean Vigna angularis
seed coats against renal interstitial fibrosis of rats induced
by cisplatin. Shin Sato, Yoko Hori, Jyoji Yamate, Takeshi Saito,
Masaaki Kurasaki. and Akiko Hatai. Nutrition,
21, 504-511, 2005.
2. Metal Binding Ability of Metallothionein-3 expressed in Escherichia
coli. Shigeru Toriumi, Takeshi Saito, Toshiyuki Hosokawa，Yasumitsu
Takahashi, Takuya Numata and Masaaki Kurasaki. Basic
& Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, 96, 295-301, 2005.