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Minetaro Ogawa
Researcher at Kumamoto University
Publications - 106
Citations - 11157
Minetaro Ogawa is an academic researcher from Kumamoto University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cellular differentiation & Endothelial stem cell. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 103 publications receiving 10717 citations. Previous affiliations of Minetaro Ogawa include Kyoto University & University of Helsinki.
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The murine mutation osteopetrosis is in the coding region of the macrophage colony stimulating factor gene
Hisahiro Yoshida,Shin-Ichi Hayashi,Takahiro Kunisada,Minetaro Ogawa,Satomi Nishikawa,Hitoshi Okamura,Tetsuo Sudo,Leonard D. Shultz,Shin Ichi Nishikawa +8 more
TL;DR: It is shown that op/op fibroblasts are defective in production of functional macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), although its messenger RNA (Csfm mRNA) is present at normal levels, and it is concluded that the pathological changes in this mutant result from the absence of M- CSF.
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Flk1-positive cells derived from embryonic stem cells serve as vascular progenitors
Jun K. Yamashita,Hiroshi Itoh,Masanori Hirashima,Minetaro Ogawa,Satomi Nishikawa,Takami Yurugi,Makoto Naito,Kazuwa Nakao,Shin-Ichi Nishikawa +8 more
TL;DR: It is shown that Flk1+ cells derived from embryonic stem cells can differentiate into both endothelial and mural cells and can reproduce the vascular organization process and offer potential for tissue engineering of the vascular system.
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Expression and function of c-kit in hemopoietic progenitor cells
Minetaro Ogawa,Yumi Matsuzaki,Shin Ichi Nishikawa,S Hayashi,Takahiro Kunisada,Tetsuo Sudo,T. Kina,H Nakauchi +7 more
TL;DR: Results provide direct evidence that c-kit is an essential molecule for constitutive intramarrow hemopoiesis, especially for the self-renewal of hemopOietic progenitor cells at various stages of differentiation.
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Redefining the In Vivo Origin of Metanephric Nephron Progenitors Enables Generation of Complex Kidney Structures from Pluripotent Stem Cells
Atsuhiro Taguchi,Yusuke Kaku,Tomoko Ohmori,Sazia Sharmin,Minetaro Ogawa,Hiroshi Sasaki,Ryuichi Nishinakamura +6 more
TL;DR: By reevaluating the developmental origins of metanephric progenitors, this work has provided key insights into kidney specification in vivo and taken important steps toward kidney organogenesis in vitro.
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Role of c-kit in mouse spermatogenesis: identification of spermatogonia as a specific site of c-kit expression and function.
TL;DR: It is indicated that the survival and/or proliferation of the differentiating type A spermatogonia requires c-kit, but the primitive (undifferentiated) type C sperMatogonia or sPermatogenic stem cells are independent from c-Kit.