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Moritaka Suga
Researcher at Kumamoto University
Publications - 183
Citations - 10375
Moritaka Suga is an academic researcher from Kumamoto University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bronchoalveolar lavage & Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 181 publications receiving 9635 citations. Previous affiliations of Moritaka Suga include Osaka University.
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Double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of pirfenidone in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Arata Azuma,Toshihiro Nukiwa,Eiyasu Tsuboi,Moritaka Suga,Shosaku Abe,Koichiro Nakata,Yoshio Taguchi,Sonoko Nagai,Harumi Itoh,Motoharu Ohi,Atsuhiko Sato,Shoji Kudoh +11 more
TL;DR: Treatment with pirfenidone improved VC and prevented acute exacerbation of IPF during the 9 months of follow-up, and adherence to treatment regimen was similar between pirfenidsone and placebo groups.
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Pirfenidone in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Hiroyuki Taniguchi,Masahito Ebina,Yasuhiro Kondoh,Takashi Ogura,Arata Azuma,Moritaka Suga,Yoshio Taguchi,Hiroki Takahashi,Koichiro Nakata,Atsuyasu Sato,Masahiro Takeuchi,Ganesh Raghu,Shouji Kudoh,Toshihiro Nukiwa +13 more
TL;DR: Although photosensitivity, a well-established side-effect of pirfenidone, was the major adverse event in this study, it was mild in severity in most of the patients and relatively well tolerated in patients with IPF.
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Pathogenesis of influenza virus-induced pneumonia: involvement of both nitric oxide and oxygen radicals
Takaaki Akaike,Yoichiro Noguchi,Sumiko Ijiri,Keisuke Setoguchi,Moritaka Suga,Yong Mu Zheng,Bernhard Dietzschold,Hiroshi Maeda +7 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that NO together with O2- which forms more reactive peroxynitrite may be the most important pathogenic factors in influenza virus-induced pneumonia in mice.
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Interstitial lung disease in Japanese patients with lung cancer: a cohort and nested case-control study.
Shoji Kudoh,Harubumi Kato,Yutaka Nishiwaki,Masahiro Fukuoka,Nakata K,Yukito Ichinose,Masahiro Tsuboi,Soichiro Yokota,Kazuhiko Nakagawa,Moritaka Suga,Haiyi Jiang,Yohji Itoh,Alison Armour,Claire Watkins,Tim Higenbottam,Fredrik Nyberg +15 more
TL;DR: ILD was relatively common in these Japanese patients with NSCLC during therapy with gefitinib or chemotherapy, being higher in the older, smoking patient with preexisting ILD or poor performance status, mainly in the first 4 weeks.
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Quantitative analysis of mycobacterial and propionibacterial DNA in lymph nodes of Japanese and European patients with sarcoidosis.
Yoshinobu Eishi,Moritaka Suga,Ikuo Ishige,Daisuke Kobayashi,Tetsuo Yamada,Tamiko Takemura,Touichiro Takizawa,Morio Koike,Shoji Kudoh,Ulrich Costabel,Josune Guzman,Gianfranco Rizzato,Marcello Gambacorta,Ronald M. du Bois,Andrew G. Nicholson,Om P. Sharma,Masayuki Ando +16 more
TL;DR: Propionibacterium spp.