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Toshihiro Kusaka
Researcher at Kyoto University
Publications - 40
Citations - 1098
Toshihiro Kusaka is an academic researcher from Kyoto University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Endoscopic mucosal resection. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 35 publications receiving 805 citations. Previous affiliations of Toshihiro Kusaka include Dokkyo University.
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Narrow-band imaging (NBI) magnifying endoscopic classification of colorectal tumors proposed by the Japan NBI Expert Team.
Yasushi Sano,Shinji Tanaka,Shin-ei Kudo,Shoichi Saito,Takahisa Matsuda,Yoshiki Wada,Takahiro Fujii,Hiroaki Ikematsu,Toshio Uraoka,Nozomu Kobayashi,Hisashi Nakamura,Kinichi Hotta,Takahiro Horimatsu,Naoto Sakamoto,Kuang-I Fu,Osamu Tsuruta,Hiroshi Kawano,Hiroshi Kashida,Yoji Takeuchi,Hirohisa Machida,Toshihiro Kusaka,Naohisa Yoshida,Ichiro Hirata,Takeshi Terai,Hiro-o Yamano,Kazuhiro Kaneko,Takeshi Nakajima,Taku Sakamoto,Yuichiro Yamaguchi,Naoto Tamai,Naoko Nakano,Nana Hayashi,Shiro Oka,Mineo Iwatate,Hideki Ishikawa,Yoshitaka Murakami,Shigeaki Yoshida,Yutaka Saito +37 more
TL;DR: The Japan NBI Expert Team was constituted with the aim of establishing a universal NBI magnifying endoscopic classification for colorectal tumors (JNET classification) in 2011, and consensus was reached on this classification using the modified Delphi method in June 2014.
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Efficacy of probiotic treatment with Bifidobacterium longum 536 for induction of remission in active ulcerative colitis: A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled multicenter trial.
Hiroyuki Tamaki,Hiroshi Nakase,Satoko Inoue,Chiharu Kawanami,Toshinao Itani,Masaya Ohana,Toshihiro Kusaka,Suguru Uose,Hiroshi Hisatsune,Masahide Tojo,Teruyo Noda,Souichi Arasawa,Masako Izuta,Atsushi Kubo,Chikara Ogawa,Toshihiro Matsunaka,Mitsushige Shibatouge +16 more
TL;DR: A randomized, double‐blinded, placebo‐controlled trial to investigate the efficacy of Bifidobacterium longum 536 (BB536) supplementation for induction of remission in Japanese patients with active ulcerative colitis.
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Comparison of Underwater vs Conventional Endoscopic Mucosal Resection of Intermediate-Size Colorectal Polyps
Takeshi Yamashina,Noriya Uedo,Tomofumi Akasaka,Taro Iwatsubo,Yasuki Nakatani,Takuji Akamatsu,Takuji Kawamura,Yoji Takeuchi,Shigehiko Fujii,Toshihiro Kusaka,Toshio Shimokawa +10 more
TL;DR: It is found that UEMR significantly increased the proportions of R0 resection for 10- to 20-mm sessile colorectal lesions without increasing adverse events or procedure time.
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Validation study for development of the Japan NBI Expert Team classification of colorectal lesions.
Mineo Iwatate,Yasushi Sano,Shinji Tanaka,Shin-ei Kudo,Shoichi Saito,Takahisa Matsuda,Yoshiki Wada,Takahiro Fujii,Hiroaki Ikematsu,Toshio Uraoka,Nozomu Kobayashi,Hisashi Nakamura,Kinichi Hotta,Takahiro Horimatsu,Naoto Sakamoto,Kuang-I Fu,Osamu Tsuruta,Hiroshi Kawano,Hiroshi Kashida,Yoji Takeuchi,Hirohisa Machida,Toshihiro Kusaka,Naohisa Yoshida,Ichiro Hirata,Takeshi Terai,Hiro-o Yamano,Takeshi Nakajima,Taku Sakamoto,Yuichiro Yamaguchi,Naoto Tamai,Naoko Nakano,Nana Hayashi,Shiro Oka,Hideki Ishikawa,Yoshitaka Murakami,Shigeaki Yoshida,Yutaka Saito +36 more
TL;DR: The Japan narrow‐band imaging (NBI) Expert Team (JNET) was organized to unify four previous magnifying NBI classifications and created criteria (referred to as the NBI scale) for evaluation of vessel pattern and surface pattern.
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Possible role of REG Iα protein in ulcerative colitis and colitic cancer
Akira Sekikawa,Hirokazu Fukui,Shigehiko Fujii,Shigehiko Fujii,Apichart Nanakin,Naoki Kanda,Yoshito Uenoyama,Tateo Sawabu,Hiroshi Hisatsune,Toshihiro Kusaka,Satoru Ueno,Hiroshi Nakase,Hiroshi Seno,Takahiro Fujimori,Tsutomu Chiba +14 more
TL;DR: The REG Iα gene is inducible by cytokines and its gene product may function as a mitogenic and/or an antiapoptotic factor in the UC-colitic cancer sequence.