Naoko Morimura
Ritsumeikan University
6 Papers
11 Citations
Naoko Morimura is an academic researcher from Ritsumeikan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Oncostatin M & Ameloblast. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications. Previous affiliations of Naoko Morimura include Showa University.
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Papers
Sulfated polysaccharides enhance the biological activities of bone morphogenetic proteins
Takatora Takada,Takenobu Katagiri,Michiyo Ifuku,Naoko Morimura,Makoto Kobayashi,Kohji Hasegawa,Akira Ogamo,Ryutaro Kamijo +7 more
TL;DR: Results suggest that sulfated polysaccharides enhance the biological activity of both homodimers and heterodIMers of BMPs by continuously serving the ligands to their signaling receptors expressed on cell membranes.
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Expression of nephronectin is inhibited by oncostatin M via both JAK/STAT and MAPK pathways
Tamaki Kurosawa,Atsushi Yamada,Masamichi Takami,Dai Suzuki,Yoshiro Saito,Katsuhiro Hiranuma,Takuya Enomoto,Naoko Morimura,Matsuo Yamamoto,Takehiko Iijima,Tatsuo Shirota,Hiroyuki Itabe,Ryutaro Kamijo +12 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that OSM inhibits Npnt expression via the JAK/STAT and MAPK pathways, while down‐regulation ofNpnt by OSM influences inhibition of osteoblast differentiation.
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Establishment of primary cultures for mouse ameloblasts as a model of their lifetime.
Tetsuo Suzawa,Nao Itoh,Naoyuki Takahashi,Takenobu Katagiri,Naoko Morimura,Yasuna Kobayashi,Toshinori Yamamoto,Ryutaro Kamijo +7 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that MPAs are valuable in vitro models for investigation of ameloblast biology, and that the visualized system is useful for promoter analysis in MPAs.
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Expression of nephronectin is enhanced by 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3.
Katsuhiro Hiranuma,Atsushi Yamada,Tamaki Kurosawa,Ryo Aizawa,Dai Suzuki,Yoshiro Saito,Ryo Nagahama,Mikiko Ikehata,Masayuki Tsukasaki,Naoko Morimura,Daichi Chikazu,Koutaro Maki,Tatsuo Shirota,Masamichi Takami,Matsuo Yamamoto,Takehiko Iijima,Ryutaro Kamijo +16 more
TL;DR: It is found that vitamin D3 (1α,25‐dihydroxyvitamin D3,VD3) strongly enhanced Npnt mRNA expression in MC3T3‐E1 cells from a mouse osteoblastic cell line.
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Nephronectin Expression Is Up-Regulated by BMP-2.
Tamaki Kurosawa,Atsushi Yamada,Dai Suzuki,Naoko Morimura,Yoshiyuki Sasagane,Hiroyuki Itabe,Ryutaro Kamijo +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors showed that bone morphogenic protein-2 (BMP-2), known as an osteogenesis inducing cytokine, strongly upregulated the expression of Npnt mRNA in a murine skeletal muscle cell line (C2C12) via the BMP-SMAD signaling pathway.
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