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Yaojia Ma

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Kojima R, Nakamoto S, Kogure T, Ma Y, Ogawa K, Iwanaga T, et al.
World J Virol . 2023 Jul; 12(3):209-220. PMID: 37396703
Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HBV DNA can get integrated into the hepatocyte genome to promote carcinogenesis. However, the precise mechanism by...
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Qiang N, Ao J, Nakamura M, Chiba T, Kusakabe Y, Kaneko T, et al.
Int Immunopharmacol . 2023 Mar; 118:110068. PMID: 37001386
Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2), a core component of polycomb repressive component 2 is overexpressed in a variety of cancers and recognized as a therapeutic target molecule. However, EZH2...
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Ogawa K, Chiba T, Nakamura M, Arai J, Zhang J, Ma Y, et al.
Anticancer Res . 2023 Feb; 43(3):1043-1052. PMID: 36854524
Background/aim: MHC-class I-related chain A (MICA) functions as a ligand for natural killer group D, an activating receptor on natural killer (NK) cells, and its expression correlates with the carcinogenesis...
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Iwanaga T, Chiba T, Nakamura M, Kaneko T, Ao J, Qiang N, et al.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun . 2022 Dec; 642:192-200. PMID: 36586187
Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β/Smad pathway is implicated in the pathogenesis of liver fibrosis, a condition characterized by excessive deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins such as collagen in response to...
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Ma Y, Nakamoto S, Ao J, Qiang N, Kogure T, Ogawa K, et al.
Int J Mol Sci . 2022 Oct; 23(19). PMID: 36233317
A functional cure of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection or HB antigen loss is rarely achieved by nucleos(t)ide analogs which target viral polymerase. HBx protein is a regulatory protein associated...
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Ogawa K, Kanzaki H, Chiba T, Ao J, Qiang N, Ma Y, et al.
J Cancer . 2022 Jun; 13(8):2656-2661. PMID: 35711837
Atezolizumab plus bevacizumab (ATZ/BV) treatment is a combined immunotherapy consisting of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) and anti-vascular endothelial growth factor monoclonal antibody, which has brought a major paradigm shift in...
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Sakuma T, Nakamura M, Chiba T, Iwanaga T, Kan M, Kojima R, et al.
Lab Invest . 2022 Jun; 102(10):1150-1157. PMID: 35643859
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the leading cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. Patients with NAFLD often suffer steatohepatitis, which can progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. The...
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Ao J, Chiba T, Kanzaki H, Kanayama K, Shibata S, Kurosugi A, et al.
J Cancer . 2021 Apr; 12(9):2694-2701. PMID: 33854629
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is typically accompanied by abundant arterial blood flow. Although angiogenic growth factors such as Angiopoietin 2 (Ang2) play a central role in tumor angiogenesis in HCC, the...
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Ao J, Chiba T, Shibata S, Kurosugi A, Qiang N, Ma Y, et al.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun . 2021 Mar; 549:171-178. PMID: 33676186
Lenvatinib is one of the first-line drugs for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and widely used around the world. However, the mechanisms underlying resistance to lenvatinib remain unclear. In...