Masato Minami
Osaka University
269 Papers
1.1K Citations
Masato Minami is an academic researcher from Osaka University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Lung cancer. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 249 publications. Previous affiliations of Masato Minami include Canon Inc. & University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
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Papers
Clinical Spectrum of Mediastinal Cysts
Shin'ichi Takeda,Shinichiro Miyoshi,Masato Minami,Mitsunori Ohta,Akira Masaoka,Hikaru Matsuda +5 more
TL;DR: The institutional experience with congenital cysts of the mediastinum was reviewed, emphasizing the clinical spectrum of the disease and MRI has become a useful tool for providing supplemental data in combination with CT.
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Benefits of surgery for patients with pulmonary metastases from colorectal carcinoma
Masayoshi Inoue,Mitsunori Ohta,Keiji Iuchi,Akihide Matsumura,Kan Ideguchi,Tsutomu Yasumitsu,Katsuhiro Nakagawa,Kenjiro Fukuhara,Hajime Maeda,Shin'ichi Takeda,Masato Minami,Yuko Ohno,Hikaru Matsuda +12 more
TL;DR: Patients with unilateral metastasis and Dukes' A for the primary tumor benefit most from the resection of pulmonary metastasis from colorectal carcinoma, and the number of metastases, prethoracotomy CEA level, and hilar or mediastinal lymph-node involvement should be considered to determine the operative indication.
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IL-6 Secreted from Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Mediates Chemoresistance in NSCLC by Increasing Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Signaling.
Yasushi Shintani,Ayako Fujiwara,Toru Kimura,Tomohiro Kawamura,Soichiro Funaki,Masato Minami,Meinoshin Okumura +6 more
TL;DR: IL‐6 may contribute to maintenance of a paracrine loop that functions as part of the communication between CAFs and NSCLC cells, resulting in chemoresistance.
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Interleukin-6/interleukin-21 signaling axis is critical in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension
Takahiro Hashimoto-Kataoka,Naoki Hosen,Takashi Sonobe,Yoh Arita,Taku Yasui,Takeshi Masaki,Masato Minami,Tadakatsu Inagaki,Shigeru Miyagawa,Yoshiki Sawa,Masaaki Murakami,Atsushi Kumanogoh,Keiko Yamauchi-Takihara,Meinoshin Okumura,Tadamitsu Kishimoto,Issei Komuro,Mikiyasu Shirai,Yasushi Sakata,Yoshikazu Nakaoka +18 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that IL-21 promotes PAH in association with M2 macrophage polarization, downstream of IL-6-signaling, through the polarization of primary alveolar macrophages toward the M2 phenotype.
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Primary germ cell tumors in the mediastinum: a 50-year experience at a single Japanese institution.
Shin'ichi Takeda,Shinichiro Miyoshi,Mitsunori Ohta,Masato Minami,Akira Masaoka,Hikaru Matsuda +5 more
TL;DR: The authors' institutional experience of mediastinal GCT is reviewed, emphasizing the clinical spectrum, time trends of treatment, and recent advances in therapeutic modalities for malignant GCT.
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