Tyrosol is a quorum-sensing molecule in Candida albicans

H Chen, M Fujita, Q Feng, J Clardy… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans shows a significant lag in growth when diluted
into fresh minimal medium. This lag is abolished by the addition of conditioned medium …

Small-molecule pheromones that control dauer development in Caenorhabditis elegans

RA Butcher, M Fujita, FC Schroeder, J Clardy - Nature chemical biology, 2007 - nature.com
In response to high population density or low food supply, the nematode Caenorhabditis
elegans enters an alternative larval stage, known as the dauer, that can withstand adverse …

Progress in Neutron Scattering Studies of Spin Excitations in High-Tc Cuprates

M Fujita, H Hiraka, M Matsuda, M Matsuura… - Journal of the Physical …, 2011 - journals.jps.jp
Neutron scattering experiments continue to improve our knowledge of spin fluctuations in
layered cuprates, excitations that are symptomatic of the electronic correlations underlying high…

Stripe order, depinning, and fluctuations in and

M Fujita, H Goka, K Yamada, JM Tranquada… - Physical Review B, 2004 - APS
We present a neutron scattering study of stripe correlations measured on a single crystal of
La 1.875 Ba 0.125 CuO 4. Within the low-temperature-tetragonal (LTT) phase, superlattice …

Induction of apoptosis and pulmonary fibrosis in mice in response to ligation of Fas antigen

…, H Miyazaki, R Kunitake, M Fujita… - American journal of …, 1997 - atsjournals.org
Fas antigen is a cell surface protein that mediates apoptosis, and it is expressed in various
cells and tissues. Fas ligand binds to its receptor Fas, thus inducing apoptosis of Fas-bearing …

Overexpression of tumor necrosis factor-α produces an increase in lung volumes and pulmonary hypertension

M Fujita, JM Shannon, CG Irvin… - … of Physiology-Lung …, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α is a key proinflammatory cytokine that is thought to be important
in the development of pulmonary fibrosis, whereas its role in pulmonary emphysema has …

TGF-β1 as an enhancer of Fas-mediated apoptosis of lung epithelial cells

…, M Yoshimi, N Nakamura, M Fujita… - The Journal of …, 2002 - journals.aai.org
Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) has important roles in lung fibrosis and the potential
to induce apoptosis in several types of cells. We previously demonstrated that apoptosis of …

Secondary fracture prevention: consensus clinical recommendations from a multistakeholder coalition

…, TJ Eagen, AL Elderkin, M Fujita… - Journal of bone and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Osteoporosis‐related fractures are undertreated, due in part to misinformation about
recommended approaches to patient care and discrepancies among treatment guidelines. To help …

MAP kinase activation and apoptosis in lung tissues from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

…, K Watanabe, T Matsuba, M Fujita… - The Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Three major MAP kinases (MAPKs), including extracellular signal‐regulated kinase (ERK), c‐jun
N‐terminal kinase (JNK), and p38 kinase (p38 MAPK), are involved in the regulation of …

First demonstration of novel method for inelastic neutron scattering measurement utilizing multiple incident energies

…, R Kajimoto, Y Inamura, F Mizuno, M Fujita… - Journal of the Physical …, 2009 - journals.jps.jp
We succeeded in experimentally demonstrating that a series of two-dimensional maps of a
dynamical structure factor in momentum–energy space with multiple incident energies can be …