Ko Chiba
Nagasaki University
63 Papers
146 Citations
Ko Chiba is an academic researcher from Nagasaki University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Quantitative computed tomography. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 50 publications. Previous affiliations of Ko Chiba include University of California, San Francisco & University of California, Berkeley.
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Papers
Tibial condylar valgus osteotomy (TCVO) for osteoarthritis of the knee: 5-year clinical and radiological results.
TL;DR: Improvements in pain and activities of daily living were observed by TCVO along with valgus correction of the lower extremity and stabilization of the femorotibial joint.
Osteogenic differentiation of fibroblast-like synovial cells in rheumatoid arthritis is induced by microRNA-218 through a ROBO/Slit pathway
Naoki Iwamoto,Shoichi Fukui,Ayuko Takatani,Toshimasa Shimizu,Masataka Umeda,Ayako Nishino,Takashi Igawa,Tomohiro Koga,Shin-ya Kawashiri,Kunihiro Ichinose,Mami Tmai,Hideki Nakamura,Tomoki Origuchi,Ko Chiba,Makoto Osaki,Astrid Jüngel,Atsushi Kawakami +16 more
TL;DR: MiR-218 modulates the osteogenic differentiation of RA-FLS through the ROBO1/DKK-1 axis and might thus become a therapeutic strategy for RA.
Relationship between microstructure and degree of mineralization in subchondral bone of osteoarthritis: A synchrotron radiation µCT study
TL;DR: The microstructure and degree of mineralization of the subchondral trabecular bone in hip osteoarthritis (OA) using synchrotron radiation computed tomography (SRCT) was analyzed to identify the relationship between bone structure and bone turnover.
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Heterogeneity of bone microstructure in the femoral head in patients with osteoporosis: An ex vivo HR-pQCT study
TL;DR: Significant heterogeneity of the trabecular bone microstructure in the OP femoral head was showed quantitatively in this study and may prove to provide useful information on clinical medicine such as hip surgeries.
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A Modified Pre-plating Method for High-Yield and High-Purity Muscle Stem Cell Isolation From Human/Mouse Skeletal Muscle Tissues.
TL;DR: The modified pre-plating method for isolatingMuSCs in culture with greatly improved purity, yield, and procedure time is described and it is confirmed that MuSCs can be isolated from small amounts of human/mouse muscle tissues, enabling us to perform experiments with amount-limited specimens.