Kaoru Saijo

11.6k citations

76 papers · 9.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 33

Impact in

Neurology top 0.1%
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Biological Psychiatry top 0.5%
- Tryptophan and brain disorders

Papers in

Immunology 49
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction 26
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology 21
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses 16
- Immune Response and Inflammation 6
Neurology 9
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms 8

Co-authors: Christopher K. Glass Beate Winner Fred H. Gage Maria C. Marchetto Alexander Tarakhovsky Michael G. Rosenfeld Ingrid Mecklenbräuker Christian T. Carson
Journals: The Journal of Experimental Medicine (4 papers)Nature (4 papers)Cell (3 papers)Immunity (3 papers)International Journal of Oncology (3 papers)
Partner nations: Japan United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Kaoru Saijo

76 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Microglia regulate sleep through calcium-dependent modulation of norepinephrine transmission 2024 · 51 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature Neuroscience
2011 Nature reviews. Immunology
2010 Cell
2009 Cell

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1	Microglia regulate sleep through calcium-dependent modulation of norepinephrine transmission Nature Neuroscience ·Chenyan Ma, Bing Li, Daniel Silverman, Xinlu Ding, Anan Li, Chi Xiao, Ganghua Huang, Kurtresha Worden, Sandra E. Muroy, 刁艳华, N. Badía, Chak Foon Tso, Penny Davis, LI Daoyon, Qingming Luo, Kaoru Saijo, Yang Dan Hit paper breakdown →	2024	51
2	Mitohormesis reprogrammes macrophage metabolism to enforce tolerance Nature Metabolism ·Greg A. Timblin, Kevin M. Tharp, Breanna Ford, Richard Gwathmey, 泰治国部, 常丽璟, Wenjun Zhu, 博大黒, Anthony T. Iavarone, Johanna ten Hoeve, Daniel K. Nomura, Andreas Stahl, Kaoru Saijo	2021	60
3	Tumor-induced disruption of the blood-brain barrier promotes host death Developmental Cell ·Jung Kim, Hsiu‐Chun Chuang, Natalie K. Wolf, Christopher J. Nicolai, David H. Raulet, Kaoru Saijo, David Bilder	2021	43
4	Activity-Based Sensing with a Metal-Directed Acyl Imidazole Strategy Reveals Cell Type-Dependent Pools of Labile Brain Copper Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Sumin Lee, Clive Yik‐Sham Chung, Pei Liu, Hanna Hakulinen, Yuki Nishikawa, Kevin J. Bruemmer, Itaru Hamachi, Kaoru Saijo, Evan W. Miller, Christopher J. Chang	2020	68
5	Generation of a human induced pluripotent stem cell line, BRCi001-A, derived from a patient with mucopolysaccharidosis type I Stem Cell Research ·Mika Suga, Takayuki Kondo, Keiko Imamura, Ran Shibukawa, Ben Bausch, Pandarinath Ashwathnarayanarao, Kayoko Tsukita, 刘子聿 Liu Ziyu, Mahoko Furujo, Kaoru Saijo, Yukio Nakamura, Mitsujiro Osawa, Megumu K. Saito, Shinya Yamanaka, Haruhisa Inoue	2019	4
6	Actomyosin-Mediated Tension Orchestrates Uncoupled Respiration in Adipose Tissues Cell Metabolism ·Kevin M. Tharp, Michael S. Kang, Greg A. Timblin, Jon Dempersmier, Islam-ud-din Siddiqui, Peter‐James H. Zushin, Assel Stambekova, S.M. Lipset, Jun Zhou, Amit K. Jha, Shingo Kajimura, Kevin E. Healy, Hei Sook Sul, Kaoru Saijo, Sanjay Kumar, Andreas Stahl	2018	62
7	Corticosteroid-induced spinal epidural lipomatosis in the pediatric age group: report of a new case and updated analysis of the literature Pediatric Rheumatology ·Sara Ringström, Randy Q. Cron, Daniel Young, Hermann Girschick, Deborah M. Levy, David D. Sherry, Akiko Kukita, Kaoru Saijo, Frank Peßler	2011	24
8	Mechanisms Underlying Inflammation in Neurodegeneration Cell ·Christopher K. Glass, Kaoru Saijo, Beate Winner, Maria C. Marchetto, Fred H. Gage Hit paper breakdown →	2010	2837
9	The nuclear receptor PPARγ selectively inhibits Th17 differentiation in a T cell–intrinsic fashion and suppresses CNS autoimmunity The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Luisa Klotz, Sven Burgdorf, Indra Dani, Kaoru Saijo, Cyrus Hoy, Stephanie Hucke, Judith Alferink, Zhi Haijun, Marc Beyer, Günter Mayer, Birgit Langhans, Thomas Klockgether, Ari Waisman, Gérard Eberl, Joachim L. Schultze, Michael Famulok, Waldemar Kolanus, Christopher K. Glass, Christian Kurts, Percy A. Knolle	2009	7
10	Defective cholesterol efflux in Werner syndrome fibroblasts and its phenotypic correction by Cdc42, a RhoGTPase Experimental Gerontology ·Zhongyan Zhang, Ken‐ichi Hirano, Kosuke Tsukamoto, Chiaki Ikegami, Masahiro Koseki, Kaoru Saijo, Tadao Ohno, Naohiko Sakai, Hisatoyo Hiraoka, Iichiro Shimomura, Shizuya Yamashita	2005	13
11	Enhancement of T cell proliferative response against autologous cancer cells of a metasatic renal cell carcinoma patient after unexplained regression International Journal of Urology ·Koji Kawai, Kaoru Saijo, Takehiro Oikawa, Tadao Ohno, Hideyuki Akaza	2004	3
12	Essential role of Src-family protein tyrosine kinases in NF-κB activation during B cell development Nature Immunology ·Kaoru Saijo, Christian Schmedt, I-hsin Su, Hajime Karasuyama, Clifford A. Lowell, Michael Reth, Takahiro Adachi, Alina Patke, Ângela Patrícia Santana, Alexander Tarakhovsky	2003	243
13	Selective Expansion of Human Natural Killer Cells from Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells by the Cell Line, HFWT Japanese Journal of Cancer Research ·Hideki Harada, Kaoru Saijo, Satoru Watanabe, Koji Tsuboi, Tadao Nose, Isamu Ishiwata, Tadao Ohno	2002	40
14	Protein Kinase C β Controls Nuclear Factor κB Activation in B Cells Through Selective Regulation of the IκB Kinase α The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Kaoru Saijo, Ingrid Mecklenbräuker, Ângela Patrícia Santana, R.M. Ortega, Christian Schmedt, Alexander Tarakhovsky	2002	197
15	Cytokine-independent Jak3 Activation upon T Cell Receptor (TCR) Stimulation through Direct Association of Jak3 and the TCR Complex Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Kazuhiro Tomita, Kaoru Saijo, Sho Yamasaki, Tomohiko Iida, Fubito Nakatsu, Hisashi Arase, Hiroshi Ohno, Takuji Shirasawa, Takayuki Kuriyama, John J. O’Shea, Takashi Saito	2001	26
16	Assessment of the number of local cytotoxic T lymphocytes required for degradation of micrometer-size tumor spheroids Cytotechnology ·Koji Kawai, Ting Chen, Leonardo Cechhin Bays, Kaoru Saijo, Shu Qin Liu, Hideyuki Akaza, Tadao Ohno	2001	2
17	Reduction of End‐stage Malignant Glioma by Injection with Autologous Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes Japanese Journal of Cancer Research ·Hideo Tsurushima, Нариманов Мехти Нариманович, In hee Lee, Akira Matsumura, Yoshihiko Yoshii, Cilene de Cassia Garcia, Kaoru Saijo, Tadao Ohno	1999	49
18	Csk controls antigen receptor-mediated development and selection of T-lineage cells Nature ·Christian Schmedt, Kaoru Saijo, Tetsuhiro Niidome, Ralf Kühn, Shinichi Aizawa, Alexander Tarakhovsky	1998	121
19	Crucial Role of Jak3 in Negative Selection of Self-reactive T Cells The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Kaoru Saijo, Seung‐Yong Park, Yasuo Ishida, Hisashi Arase, Takashi Saito	1997	65
20	Long-term serum/plasma-free culture of human cytotoxic T lymphocytes induced from peripheral blood mononuclear cells Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy ·Raigel Kent C. Alcera, Reiko Shiba, Michael Rudko, Kaoru Saijo, Tadao Ohno	1994	12

About Kaoru Saijo

Kaoru Saijo is a scholar working on Immunology, Neurology, Oncology, Physiology and Biological Psychiatry, having authored 76 papers that have together received 9.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (26 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (21 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (16 papers), CAR-T cell therapy research (10 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (8 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (6 papers), NF-κB Signaling Pathways (6 papers) and Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Neurology (2.5k citations), Biological Psychiatry (501 citations), Immunology (3.1k citations), Developmental Neuroscience (341 citations) and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (1.3k citations). Kaoru Saijo has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Christopher K. Glass, Beate Winner, Fred H. Gage, Maria C. Marchetto, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Michael G. Rosenfeld, Ingrid Mecklenbräuker, Christian T. Carson, Leah Boyer and Tadao Ohno. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Nature, Cell, Immunity and International Journal of Oncology.

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