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Toshiyuki Shinji

Researcher at Okayama University

Publications -  41
Citations -  1436

Toshiyuki Shinji is an academic researcher from Okayama University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hepatic stellate cell & Hepatitis C virus. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 41 publications receiving 1410 citations.

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Formation of multicellular spheroids composed of adult rat hepatocytes in dishes with positively charged surfaces and under other nonadherent environments.

TL;DR: Two distinct, mutually exclusive features of primary culture of adult hepatocytes apparently exist; monolayer culture with proliferative activity in an adherent environment and spheroid culture with poor proliferationative activity and high albumin-producing ability in a nonadherent environment.
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Continued high albumin production by multicellular spheroids of adult rat hepatocytes formed in the presence of liver-derived proteoglycans.

TL;DR: The spheroid culture appears to be more suitable than the monolayer in studying differentiated functions of adult hepatocytes, when they were cultured with proteoglycan fraction isolated from rat liver reticulin fibers.
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Hepatitis C virus genotype distribution in Myanmar: Predominance of genotype 6 and existence of new genotype 6 subtype.

TL;DR: This study was performed to determine the prevalence and distribution of hepatitis C virus genotypes in Myanmar and found that HCV genotypes related to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C are more common than other viruses in Myanmar.
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Analysis of HCV genotypes from blood donors shows three new HCV type 6 subgroups exist in Myanmar.

TL;DR: Serum samples were obtained from 201 HCV antibody-positive volunteer blood donors in and around the Myanmar city of Yangon and phylogenetic analysis of these type 6 variants revealed that 3 new type 6 subgroups exist in Myanmar, which may be useful for analyzing how and when these subgroups were formed.
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Expression of the midkine gene in human hepatocellular carcinomas.

TL;DR: The results suggest that MK is expressed in the majority of HCC tissues and rarely in surrounding tissues in chronic liver diseases.