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Shizuo Akira

Researcher at Osaka University

Publications -  1330
Citations -  344469

Shizuo Akira is an academic researcher from Osaka University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Innate immune system & Immune system. The author has an hindex of 261, co-authored 1308 publications receiving 320561 citations. Previous affiliations of Shizuo Akira include University of California, Berkeley & Wakayama Medical University.

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Induction of prostaglandin E2 synthesis and microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1 expression in murine microglia by glioma-derived soluble factors. Laboratory investigation.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of microglia in glioma microenvironments in the mouse was investigated, and the authors found that microglias produce prostaglandin (PG)E2, which promotes the growth of tumor cells and possesses immunosuppressive activity.
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Inducible expression of nuclear factor IL-6 increases endogenous gene expression of macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha, osteopontin and CD14 in a monocytic leukemia cell line

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that inducible expression of NF-IL6 is able to increase endogenous gene expression of macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1 alpha, osteopontin and CD14 in M1 cells, and activated murine MIP-1 alpha proximal promoter luciferase construct which contains two NF- IL6 binding sites and a point mutation of either site markedly reduces theLuciferase activity.