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| Masaji OkadaSummaryAffiliation: National Hospital Organization Country: Japan Publications
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Novel recombinant BCG and DNA-vaccination against tuberculosis in a cynomolgus monkey modelYoko Kita
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki-chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone, Sakai, Osaka 591-8555, Japan
Vaccine 23:2132-5. 2005..Most importantly, HSP65+IL-12/HVJ resulted in an increased survival for over a year. This is the first report of successful DNA vaccination and recombinant BCG vaccination against M. tuberculosis in the monkey model...
Evaluation of a novel vaccine (HVJ-liposome/HSP65 DNA+IL-12 DNA) against tuberculosis using the cynomolgus monkey model of TBMasaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone, Kitaku, Sakai, Osaka 591 8555, Japan
Vaccine 25:2990-3. 2007..These data indicate that our novel DNA vaccine might be useful against Mycobacterium tuberculosis for human clinical trials...
[Immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (introduction)]Masaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone cho, Kita ku, Sakai shi, Osaka 591 8555, Japan
Kekkaku 85:501-8. 2010..The development novel vaccine (HSP65+IL-12 DNA vaccine), (5) The mechanism of protection against TB, in this mini-review series...
Development of vaccines and passive immunotherapy against SARS corona virus using SCID-PBL/hu mouse modelsMasaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone, Kitaku, Sakai, Osaka 591 8555, Japan
Vaccine 25:3038-40. 2007..These results show that these vaccines can induce virus-specific immune responses and should provide a useful tool for development of protective and therapeutic vaccines...
Tuberculosis vaccine development: The development of novel (preclinical) DNA vaccineMasaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, Kita ku, Sakai City, Osaka, Japan
Hum Vaccin 6:297-308. 2010....
[Novel vaccines against M. tuberculosis]Masaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone cho, Kita ku, Sakai shi, Osaka 591 8555, Japan
Kekkaku 81:745-51. 2006....
Novel prophylactic vaccine using a prime-boost method and hemagglutinating virus of Japan-envelope against tuberculosisMasaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization, Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, Kitaku, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Clin Dev Immunol 2011:549281. 2011..The only tuberculosis (TB) vaccine currently available is bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), although it has no efficacy in adults. Therefore, the development of a novel vaccine against TB for adults is desired...
[Frontier of mycobacterium research--host vs. mycobacterium]Masaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, Sakai shi, Osaka, Japan
Kekkaku 80:613-29. 2005..In Japan, Dr. Masaji Okada (National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center) has been engaged actively in the development ..
Novel therapeutic vaccine: granulysin and new DNA vaccine against TuberculosisMasaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, Kitaku, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Hum Vaccin 7:60-7. 2011..Conclusion: These data indicate that novel vaccines might be useful against TB including XDR-TB and MDR-TB for human therapeutic clinical trials...
The development of vaccines against SARS corona virus in mice and SCID-PBL/hu miceMasaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone, Sakai, Osaka 591 8555, Japan
Vaccine 23:2269-72. 2005..As expected, virus-specific CTL responses and T cell proliferation were induced from human T cells. SARS-N and SARS-M DNA vaccines and SCID-PBL/hu mouse model will be important in the development of protective vaccines...
Anti-IL-6 receptor antibody causes less promotion of tuberculosis infection than anti-TNF-α antibody in miceMasaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, Osaka 591 8555, Japan
Clin Dev Immunol 2011:404929. 2011..Conclusion. IL-6R blockade promotes the progression of TB infection in mice far less than TNF-α blockade...
Novel prophylactic and therapeutic vaccine against tuberculosisMasaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone, Kitaku, Sakai, Osaka 591 8555, Japan
Vaccine 27:3267-70. 2009..These data indicate that our novel DNA vaccine might be useful against Mycobacterium tuberculosis including XDR-TB and MDR-TB for human therapeutic clinical trials...
[Anti-tuberculosis immunity by cytotoxic T cells * granulysin and the development of novel vaccines (HSP-65 DNA+IL-12 DNA)]Masaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone cho, Kita ku, Sakai shi, Osaka 591 8555, Japan
Kekkaku 85:531-8. 2010....
Development of therapeutic and prophylactic vaccine against Tuberculosis using monkey and transgenic mice modelsYoko Kita
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, Kitaku, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Hum Vaccin 7:108-14. 2011..Therefore, novel TB vaccines were established by using three kinds of animal models (cynomolgus monkey model which is the best animal model of human TB, IL-2R knock out SCID mice as a human immune model, and granulysin transgenic mouse)...
Development of vaccines and passive immunotherapy against SARS coronavirus using mouse and SCID-PBL/hu mouse modelsMasaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki-chuo Chest Medical Center, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Adv Exp Med Biol 581:561-6. 2006..These vaccines are expected to induce immune responses specific for SARS CoV in human and should provide useful tool for development of protective vaccines...
Comparison of rifabutin susceptibility and rpoB mutations in multi-drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains by DNA sequencing and the line probe assayShiomi Yoshida
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization, Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone cho, Sakai, 591 8555, Japan
J Infect Chemother 16:360-3. 2010..Our results indicated that rifabutin continues to remain active against MDR-TB strains harboring certain genetic alterations and also that the LiPA might be useful in identifying MDR-TB strains susceptible to rifabutin...
[Molecular epidemiology of rifampicin mono-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis]Shiomi Yoshida
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone cho, Kita ku, Sakai shi, Osaka 591 8555 Japan
Kekkaku 87:41-5. 2012..We aimed to investigate the prevalence and possible transmission routes of rifampicin (RFP) mono-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains...
[Detection of molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium gordonae isolates]Shiomi Yoshida
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, Osaka, Japan
Kekkaku 85:609-14. 2010..To analyze the molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium gordonae strains from patients and environments in the hospital...
[The development of novel vaccines against tuberculosis]Masaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center
Nihon Rinsho Meneki Gakkai Kaishi 31:356-68. 2008..In contrast, 33% of monkeys from BCG Tokyo alone group were alive (33% survival). These data indicate that our novel DNA vaccine might be useful against Mycobacterium tuberculosis for human clinical trials...
[Recent progress in mycobacteriology]Masaji Okada
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, Japan
Kekkaku 82:783-99. 2007..5. The development of novel vaccines against M. tuberculosis: Masaji OKADA (Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center) We have developed a ..
Neuritogenic effects of T cell-derived IL-3 on mouse splenic sympathetic neurons in vivoYukiko Kannan-Hayashi
Laboratory of Integrative Physiology, Division of Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
J Immunol 180:4227-34. 2008..On the contrary, NK cells may exert an inhibitory effect on the sympathetic innervation...
[Evaluation of the discrepant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains between any ordinary susceptibility testing and rpoB gene analysis by the line probe assay]Shiomi Yoshida
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone cho, Kita ku, Sakai shi, Osaka 591 8555, Japan
Kekkaku 83:577-83. 2008..Evaluation of rifampicin-resistance by the line probe assay, for rifampicin-susceptible Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains which were classified as rifampicin-resistant by the phenotypic drug susceptibility testings...
[Evaluation of the INNO-LiPA MYCOBACTERIA v2 for mycobacterial identification]Shiomi Yoshida
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, Osaka, Japan
Kekkaku 84:15-21. 2009..Evaluation of the INNO-LiPA MYCOBACTERIA v2 (the INNO-LiPA assay) for mycobacterial identification...
[Analysis of the clinical features of pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacterium szulgai]Yumiko Sasaki
Department of Internal Medicine, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, Osaka, Japan
Kekkaku 87:391-6. 2012..In addition, drug susceptibility testing of the causative isolates was performed with several antibiotics, including clarithromycin (CAM) and rifampicin (RFP), using BrothMIC NTM...
[An adolescent case of pulmonary MAC infection, found 3 years later from bone marrow transplantation for myelodysplastic syndrome]Seijiro Minamoto
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone cho, Kita ku, Sakai shi, Osaka 591 8555, Japan
Kekkaku 83:585-90. 2008....
Immunization with dendritic cells retrovirally transduced with mycobacterial antigen 85A gene elicits the specific cellular immunity including cytotoxic T-lymphocyte activity specific to an epitope on antigen 85AHideki Nakano
Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handa-yama, Hamamatsu 431-3192, and Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki-chuo Chest Medical Center, Osaka, Japan
Vaccine 24:2110-9. 2006..This eliciting cellular immunity led to protection against wasting disease due to M. tuberculosis infection and induction of moderate bacterial clearance...
[Molecular epidemiological analysis of Mycobacterium kansasii isolates]Shiomi Yoshida
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone cho, Kita ku, Sakai shi, Osaka 591 8555 Japan
Kekkaku 82:103-10. 2007..To make molecular epidemiological analysis of Mycobacterium kansasii (M. kansasii) isolates...
[Detection of rpoB mutations in rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium kansasii]Shiomi Yoshida
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone cho, Kita ku, Sakai shi, Osaka 591 8555 Japan
Kekkaku 81:475-9. 2006..To detect rifampicin-resistant mutations in Mycobacterium kansasii (M. kansasii)...
[Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis--comparison between multidrug-resistant strains and susceptible strains]Shiomi Yoshida
Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki chuo Chest Medical Center, 1180 Nagasone cho, Kita ku, Sakai shi, Osaka 591 8555, Japan
Kekkaku 82:531-8. 2007..Comparing multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains with susceptible strains by molecular epidemiological methods...
DNA vaccine using hemagglutinating virus of Japan-liposome encapsulating combination encoding mycobacterial heat shock protein 65 and interleukin-12 confers protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis by T cell activationShigeto Yoshida
Division of Medical Zoology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi 329 0498, Japan
Vaccine 24:1191-204. 2006..tuberculosis. These results suggest that Hsp65 + IL-12/HVJ could be a promising candidate for a new tuberculosis DNA vaccine, which is superior to BCG vaccine...
Specific detection of tuberculosis infection: an interferon-gamma-based assay using new antigensToru Mori
Research Institute of Tuberculosis, 3 1 24 Matsuyama, Kiyose, Tokyo 204 8533, Japan
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 170:59-64. 2004..tuberculosis infection was 89.0%. The results demonstrate that the whole blood IFN-gamma assay using CFP-10 and ESAT-6 was highly specific and sensitive for M. tuberculosis infection and was unaffected by BCG vaccination status...
Induction of protective cellular immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis by recombinant attenuated self-destructing Listeria monocytogenes strains harboring eukaryotic expression plasmids for antigen 85 complex and MPB/MPT51Keita Miki
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Handayama, Hamamatsu, Japan
Infect Immun 72:2014-21. 2004..Notably, this is the first report to show that MPB/MPT51 is a major protective antigen in addition to Ag85A and Ag85B, which have been reported to be major mycobacterial protective antigens...
Baculovirus virions displaying Plasmodium berghei circumsporozoite protein protect mice against malaria sporozoite infectionShigeto Yoshida
Division of Medical Zoology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical School, 329 0498, Tochigi, Japan
Virology 316:161-70. 2003..These data demonstrate that AcNPV-CSPsurf displays sporozoite-like PbCSP on the virion surface and possesses dual potentials as a malaria vaccine candidate and a liver-directed gene delivery vehicle...
