Atsushi Kawakami
Nagasaki University
717 Papers
3.8K Citations
Atsushi Kawakami is an academic researcher from Nagasaki University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Rheumatoid arthritis. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 663 publications. Previous affiliations of Atsushi Kawakami include RMIT University.
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Papers
Proinflammatory Cytokines Synergistically Enhance the Production of Chemokine Ligand 20 (CCL20) from Rheumatoid Fibroblast-like Synovial Cells in vitro and Serum CCL20 Is Reduced in vivo by Biologic Disease-modifying Antirheumatic Drugs
Shin-ya Kawashiri,Atsushi Kawakami,Naoki Iwamoto,Keita Fujikawa,Toshiyuki Aramaki,Mami Tamai,Kazuhiko Arima,Makoto Kamachi,Satoshi Yamasaki,Hideki Nakamura,Toshiyuki Tsurumoto,Masafumi Kono,Hiroyuki Shindo,Hiroaki Ida,Tomoki Origuchi,Katsumi Eguchi +15 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that therapeutic efficacy of biologic DMARD may result from the inhibition of CCL20 production in rheumatoid synovium, which is synergistically augmented by a combination of IL-1ß, TNF-α, and IL-17.
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Drug retention rates and relevant risk factors for drug discontinuation due to adverse events in rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving anticytokine therapy with different target molecules
Ryoko Sakai,Michi Tanaka,Toshihiro Nanki,Kaori Watanabe,Hayato Yamazaki,Ryuji Koike,Hayato Nagasawa,Koichi Amano,Kazuyoshi Saito,Yoshiya Tanaka,Satoshi Ito,Takayuki Sumida,Atsushi Ihata,Yoshiaki Ishigatsubo,Tatsuya Atsumi,Takao Koike,Atsuo Nakajima,Naoto Tamura,Takao Fujii,Hiroaki Dobashi,Shigeto Tohma,Takahiko Sugihara,Yukitaka Ueki,Akira Hashiramoto,Atsushi Kawakami,Noboru Hagino,Nobuyuki Miyasaka,Masayoshi Harigai +27 more
TL;DR: The use of infliximab and tocilizumab was significantly associated with treatment discontinuation due to AE compared with etanercept, and the authors found significant differences among the three therapeutic groups in demography, clinical status, comorbidities and usage of concomitant drugs.
Musculoskeletal ultrasonography assists the diagnostic performance of the 2010 classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis
Shin-ya Kawashiri,Takahisa Suzuki,Akitomo Okada,Satoshi Yamasaki,Mami Tamai,Hideki Nakamura,Tomoki Origuchi,Akinari Mizokami,Masataka Uetani,Kiyoshi Aoyagi,Katsumi Eguchi,Atsushi Kawakami +11 more
TL;DR: Musculoskeletal ultrasonography, especially with a strong PD signal, is very useful to assist the diagnostic performance of the 2010 RA classification criteria in the early recognition of RA.
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Combined classification system based on ACR/EULAR and ultrasonographic scores for improving the diagnosis of Sjögren's syndrome.
Yukinori Takagi,Hideki Nakamura,Misa Sumi,Toshimasa Shimizu,Yasuko Hirai,Yoshiro Horai,Ayuko Takatani,Atsushi Kawakami,Sato Eida,Miho Sasaki,Takashi Nakamura +10 more
TL;DR: The diagnostic accuracy of various combinations of the ACR/EULAR and US classifications for diagnosing SS is compared, using the clinical diagnosis of SS by rheumatologists as the gold standard.
Tofacitinib inhibits granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor-induced NLRP3 inflammasome activation in human neutrophils.
Makiko Yashiro Furuya,Tomoyuki Asano,Yuya Sumichika,Shuzo Sato,Hiroko Kobayashi,Hiroshi Watanabe,Eiji Suzuki,Hideko Kozuru,Hiroshi Yatsuhashi,Tomohiro Koga,Hiromasa Ohira,Hideharu Sekine,Atsushi Kawakami,Kiyoshi Migita +13 more
TL;DR: Results indicate that GM-CSF signaling induces NLRP3 expression and subsequent IL-1β production by affecting neutrophils, which may cause the activation of innate immunity.