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• Treatment of diabetes and atherosclerosis by inhibiting fatty-acid-binding protein aP2.

  Adipocyte fatty-acid-binding protein, aP2 (FABP4) is expressed in adipocytes and macrophages, and integrates inflammatory and metabolic responses. Stu…

  Authors: Masato Furuhashi, Gürol Tuncman, Cem Z Görgün, Liza Makowski, Genichi Atsumi, Eric Vaillancourt, Keita Kono, Vladimir R Babaev, Sergio Fazio, MacRae F Linton,…

  Source: Nature. 2007 Jun 21

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• Coordinated regulation of nutrient and inflammatory responses by STAMP2 is essential for metabolic homeostasis.

  Metabolic and inflammatory pathways crosstalk at many levels, and, while required for homeostasis, interaction between these pathways can also lead to…

  Authors: Kathryn E Wellen, Raquel Fucho, Margaret F Gregor, Masato Furuhashi, Carlos Morgan, Torstein Lindstad, Eric Vaillancourt, Cem Z Gorgun, Fahri Saatcioglu, Gökhan S Hotamisligil

  Source: Cell. 2007 May 4

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• Insulin sensitivity and lipid metabolism in human CD36 deficiency.

  OBJECTIVE: CD36 has been proposed as a fatty acid translocase and a receptor for HDL and oxidized LDL. The association between CD36 deficiency and ins…

  Authors: Masato Furuhashi, Nobuyuki Ura, Tomoaki Nakata, Kazuaki Shimamoto

  Source: Diabetes care. 2003 Feb

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• Possible impairment of transcardiac utilization of adiponectin in patients with type 2 diabetes.

  OBJECTIVE: Adiponectin, an adipocyte-derived protein, has been suggested to enhance insulin sensitivity and prevent atherosclerosis. Circulating adipo…

  Authors: Masato Furuhashi, Nobuyuki Ura, Norihito Moniwa, Yasuyuki Shinshi, Hidemichi Kouzu, Masahiro Nishihara, Nobuaki Kokubu, Toru Takahashi, Ken-Ichi Sakamoto, Manabu Hayashi,…

  Source: Diabetes care. 2004 Sep

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• Blockade of the renin-angiotensin system increases adiponectin concentrations in patients with essential hypertension.

  Adiponectin, an adipocyte-derived protein, has been suggested to play an important role in insulin sensitivity. We examined the association between in…

  Authors: Masato Furuhashi, Nobuyuki Ura, Katsuhiro Higashiura, Hideyuki Murakami, Marenao Tanaka, Norihito Moniwa, Daisuke Yoshida, Kazuaki Shimamoto

  Source: Hypertension. 2003 Jul

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• Blockade of the renin-angiotensin system decreases adipocyte size with improvement in insulin sensitivity.

  OBJECTIVE: Based on results of in vitro studies, it has been hypothesized that blockade of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) promotes the recruitment…

  Authors: Masato Furuhashi, Nobuyuki Ura, Hideki Takizawa, Daisuke Yoshida, Norihito Moniwa, Hideyuki Murakami, Katsuhiro Higashiura, Kazuaki Shimamoto

  Source: Journal of hypertension. 2004 Oct

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• Fatty acid-binding proteins: role in metabolic diseases and potential as drug targets.

  Lipids are vital components of many biological processes and crucial in the pathogenesis of numerous common diseases, but the specific mechanisms coup…

  Authors: Masato Furuhashi, Gökhan S Hotamisligil

  Source: Nature reviews. Drug discovery. 2008 Jun

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• Circulating resistin levels in essential hypertension.

  OBJECTIVE: Resistin, a novel cysteine-rich protein secreted by adipocytes, has been proposed to serve as a link between obesity and insulin resistance…

  Authors: Masato Furuhashi, Nobuyuki Ura, Katsuhiro Higashiura, Hideyuki Murakami, Kazuaki Shimamoto

  Source: Clinical endocrinology. 2003 Oct

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• Myocardial iodine-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine (123I-MIBG) imaging in Brugada syndrome.

  Authors: Masato Furuhashi, Kikuya Uno, Kazufumi Tsuchihashi

  Source: Circulation. 2002 Sep 24

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• Erratum.

  This corrects the article on p. e3151 in vol. 3, PMID: 18773087.].

  Authors: Sara N Vallerie, Masato Furuhashi, Raquel Fucho, Gökhan S Hotamisligil

  Source: PLoS ONE. 2009

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