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Yoshio Kuroki

Researcher at Sapporo Medical University

Publications -  177
Citations -  10921

Yoshio Kuroki is an academic researcher from Sapporo Medical University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Surfactant protein A & Collectin. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 177 publications receiving 10439 citations. Previous affiliations of Yoshio Kuroki include Sapporo University & RMIT University.

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Serial Changes in Surfactant-associated Proteins in Lung and Serum before and after Onset of ARDS

TL;DR: The BAL SP-A and SP-D measurements can be used to classify patients as high or low risk for progression to ARDS and/or death after the onset of ARDS, and strategies to increase these surfactant proteins in the lungs of patients with ARDS could be useful to modify the onset or the course of AR DS.
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Comparative sequence analysis of leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) within vertebrate toll-like receptors

TL;DR: The super-repeat in the TLR7 family suggests strongly that "bacterial" and "typical" LRRs evolved from a common precursor and is inferred to play a key role in the structure and/or function of their TLRs.
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Direct binding of toll-like receptor 2 to zymosan, and zymosan-induced NF-κB activation and TNF-α secretion are down-regulated by lung collectin surfactant protein A

TL;DR: An important role of SP-A is supported in controlling pulmonary inflammation caused by microbial pathogens as it down-regulates TLR2-mediated signaling and TNF-α secretion stimulated by zymosan.
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Serum surfactant proteins‐A and ‐D as biomarkers in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

TL;DR: The authors found that serum SP‐A and SP‐D levels were significantly elevated in patients with IPF and systemic sclerosis compared to sarcoidosis, beryllium disease and normal controls, and thatSP‐D correlated with radiographic abnormalities in patientswith IPF.
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Pulmonary surfactant protein D in sera and bronchoalveolar lavage fluids.

TL;DR: Measurement of SP-D in sera can provide an easily identifiable and useful clinical marker for the diagnosis of IPF, IPCD, and PAP, and can predict the disease activity of IPf and IPCd and the disease severity of PAP.