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Norimitsu Kadowaki

Researcher at Kagawa University

Publications -  185
Citations -  11069

Norimitsu Kadowaki is an academic researcher from Kagawa University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cytotoxic T cell & Dendritic cell. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 167 publications receiving 10385 citations. Previous affiliations of Norimitsu Kadowaki include Teikyo University & Kyoto University.

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The nature of the principal type 1 interferon-producing cells in human blood.

TL;DR: Purified IPCs are here shown to be the CD4(+)CD11c- type 2 dendritic cell precursors (pDC2s), which produce 200 to 1000 times more IFN than other blood cells after microbial challenge and are thus an effector cell type of the immune system, critical for antiviral and antitumor immune responses.
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Subsets of human dendritic cell precursors express different toll-like receptors and respond to different microbial antigens.

TL;DR: The expression of distinct sets of TLRs and the corresponding difference in reactivity to microbial molecules among subsets of pre-DCs and imDCs support the concept that they have developed through distinct evolutionary pathways to recognize different microbial antigens.
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Reciprocal Control of T Helper Cell and Dendritic Cell Differentiation

TL;DR: A negative feedback loop from the mature T helper cells may selectively inhibit prolonged TH1 or TH2 responses by regulating survival of the appropriate dendritic cell subset.
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Natural Interferon α/β–Producing Cells Link Innate and Adaptive Immunity

TL;DR: Virus-activated IPCs may play two master roles in antiviral immune responses: directly inhibiting viral replication by producing large amounts of IFN-α/β, and subsequently triggering adaptive T cell–mediated immunity by differentiating into DCs.
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Distinct CpG DNA and polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid double-stranded RNA, respectively, stimulate CD11c- type 2 dendritic cell precursors and CD11c+ dendritic cells to produce type I IFN.

TL;DR: CpG DNA and polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid stimulate different types of cells to produce type I IFN and that it is important to select oligodeoxynucleotides containing particular CpG motifs to induce pre-DC2 toproduce type IIFN, which may play a key role in the strong adjuvant effects of C pG DNA.