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Shinichi Oka

Researcher at Kumamoto University

Publications -  467
Citations -  12464

Shinichi Oka is an academic researcher from Kumamoto University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Epitope & Cytotoxic T cell. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 436 publications receiving 11219 citations.

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Circulating microRNAs in sera correlate with soluble biomarkers of immune activation but do not predict mortality in ART treated individuals with HIV-1 infection : a case control study

Daniel D Murray, +1489 more
- 14 Oct 2015 - 
TL;DR: No associations with mortality were found with any circulating miRNAs studied and these results cast doubt onto the effectiveness of circulating miRNA as early predictors of mortality or the major underlying diseases that contribute to mortality in participants treated for HIV-1 infection.
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Adaptation of HIV-1 to human leukocyte antigen class I

TL;DR: This process of viral adaptation may dismantle the well-established HLA associations with control of HIV infection that are linked to the availability of key epitopes, and highlights the challenge for a vaccine to keep pace with the changing immunological landscape presented by HIV.
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Homozygous CYP2B6 *6 (Q172H and K262R) correlates with high plasma efavirenz concentrations in HIV-1 patients treated with standard efavirenz-containing regimens.

TL;DR: EFV dose could be decreased in those patients harboring the genotype of CYP2B6 to reduce toxicity with compromising potency, representing the first step of the Tailor-Made therapy of HIV-1 infection.
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Successful Efavirenz Dose Reduction in HIV Type 1-Infected Individuals with Cytochrome P450 2B6 *6 and *26

TL;DR: Genotype-based EFV dose reduction is feasible in CYP2B6 *6 /*6 and *6/*26 carriers, which can reduce EFV-associated CNS symptoms, and CNS-related symptoms improved with dose reduction in 10 of the 14 patients, although some had not been aware of the symptoms at initial dosage.