Atsushi Morita

Summary

Affiliation: Shionogi and Co
Country: Japan

Publications

  1. ncbi Development of a sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for eotaxin and measurement of its levels in human blood
    A Morita
    Diagnostic Science Division, Shionogi and Company, Settsu, Osaka, Japan
    J Immunol Methods 226:159-67. 1999
  2. ncbi Evaluation of human thymus and activation-regulated chemokine concentrations in blood using a new sandwich ELISA based on monoclonal antibodies
    Atsushi Morita
    Diagnostics Department, Shionogi and Co, Ltd, 2 5 1 Mishima, Settsu shi, Osaka 566 0022, Japan
    Clin Chim Acta 322:67-75. 2002
  3. ncbi IFN-gamma-inducible expression of thymus and activation-regulated chemokine/CCL17 and macrophage-derived chemokine/CCL22 in epidermal keratinocytes and their roles in atopic dermatitis
    Tatsuya Horikawa
    Division of Dermatology, Department of Clinical Molecular Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan
    Int Immunol 14:767-73. 2002
  4. ncbi Presence of high contents of thymus and activation-regulated chemokine in platelets and elevated plasma levels of thymus and activation-regulated chemokine and macrophage-derived chemokine in patients with atopic dermatitis
    Takao Fujisawa
    Department of Pediatrics and Allergy, National Mie Hospital, Tsu, Japan
    J Allergy Clin Immunol 110:139-46. 2002
  5. ncbi Infiltrating eosinophils and eotaxin: their association with idiopathic eosinophilic esophagitis
    Hiroshi Fujiwara
    Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
    Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 89:429-32. 2002
  6. ncbi Variations in the human Th2-specific chemokine TARC gene
    Takashi Sekiya
    Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    Immunogenetics 54:742-5. 2003

Collaborators

  • Toshinori Bito
  • Y Tsunemi
  • H Saeki
  • Takao Fujisawa
  • Takashi Sekiya
  • Osamu Yoshie
  • Koichi Hirai
  • Hiroshi Fujiwara
  • Tatsuya Horikawa
  • Kunihiko Tamaki
  • Kazuhiko Yamamoto
  • Ken Ohta
  • Masao Yamaguchi
  • Misato Miyamasu
  • Naoyuki Tsuchiya
  • Kouji Matsushima
  • David Chantry
  • Yoshiyuki Fujiwara
  • Susumu Harada
  • Takashi Nakayama
  • Yukihiko Saeki
  • Patrick W Gray
  • Masahiko Yano
  • Tadashi Tezuka
  • Hideyuki Kobayashi
  • Ryuji Suzuki
  • Ryuichi Fujisawa
  • Ichiro Hikita
  • Hidekazu Yamada
  • Katsura Hamano
  • Tetsuji Naka
  • Masamitsu Ichihashi
  • Atsushi Fukunaga

Detail Information

Publications6

  1. ncbi Development of a sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for eotaxin and measurement of its levels in human blood
    A Morita
    Diagnostic Science Division, Shionogi and Company, Settsu, Osaka, Japan
    J Immunol Methods 226:159-67. 1999
    ..Our new ELISA is an accurate and useful method for quantifying human eotaxin in blood and demonstrates that the process of preparing blood samples affects the measurement of the eotaxin levels...
  2. ncbi Evaluation of human thymus and activation-regulated chemokine concentrations in blood using a new sandwich ELISA based on monoclonal antibodies
    Atsushi Morita
    Diagnostics Department, Shionogi and Co, Ltd, 2 5 1 Mishima, Settsu shi, Osaka 566 0022, Japan
    Clin Chim Acta 322:67-75. 2002
    ..We developed a new sensitive enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA) for human TARC (hTARC) to accurately measure and evaluate its concentrations in blood...
  3. ncbi IFN-gamma-inducible expression of thymus and activation-regulated chemokine/CCL17 and macrophage-derived chemokine/CCL22 in epidermal keratinocytes and their roles in atopic dermatitis
    Tatsuya Horikawa
    Division of Dermatology, Department of Clinical Molecular Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan
    Int Immunol 14:767-73. 2002
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  4. ncbi Presence of high contents of thymus and activation-regulated chemokine in platelets and elevated plasma levels of thymus and activation-regulated chemokine and macrophage-derived chemokine in patients with atopic dermatitis
    Takao Fujisawa
    Department of Pediatrics and Allergy, National Mie Hospital, Tsu, Japan
    J Allergy Clin Immunol 110:139-46. 2002
    ..Thus platelets might play an important role in AD pathogenesis by releasing T(H)2-attracting TARC on activation. Furthermore, circulating levels of TARC and MDC, but not those of eotaxin, correlate well with the disease activity of AD...
  5. ncbi Infiltrating eosinophils and eotaxin: their association with idiopathic eosinophilic esophagitis
    Hiroshi Fujiwara
    Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
    Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 89:429-32. 2002
    ..The most potent chemotactic factor for eosinophils is eotaxin, and its pathophysiologic significance in IEE needs to be elucidated...
  6. ncbi Variations in the human Th2-specific chemokine TARC gene
    Takashi Sekiya
    Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    Immunogenetics 54:742-5. 2003
    ..However, when the genotypes at the SNP site were determined for 158 healthy individuals, 105 patients with BA and 148 patients with AD, we observed no significant association of the SNP with susceptibility to BA or AD...