Kenya Honda

57.0k total citations · 21 hit papers
129 papers, 29.9k citations indexed

About

Kenya Honda is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenya Honda has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 29.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Immunology, 60 papers in Molecular Biology and 33 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Kenya Honda's work include Gut microbiota and health (49 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (36 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (30 papers). Kenya Honda is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (49 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (36 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (30 papers). Kenya Honda collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Canada. Kenya Honda's co-authors include Tadatsugu Taniguchi, Dan R. Littman, Akinori Takaoka, Koji Atarashi, Hideyuki Yanai, Yusuke Ohba, Hideo Negishi, Takeshi Tanoue, Ivaylo I. Ivanov and Kiyoshi Takeda and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kenya Honda

127 papers receiving 29.4k citations

Hit Papers

Induction of Intestinal Th17 Cells by Segmented Filamento... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2009 2010 2005 2013 2007 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Induction of Intestinal Th17 Cells by Segmented Filamentous Bacteria
    2009 3.4k citations Ivaylo I. Ivanov, Koji Atarashi et al. profile →
  2. Induction of Colonic Regulatory T Cells by Indigenous Clostridium Species
    2010 2.9k citations Koji Atarashi, Takeshi Tanoue et al. Science profile →
  3. IRF-7 is the master regulator of type-I interferon-dependent immune responses
    2005 1.8k citations Kenya Honda, Hideyuki Yanai et al. profile →
  4. Obesity-induced gut microbial metabolite promotes liver cancer through senescence secretome
    2013 1.7k citations Koji Atarashi, Kenshiro Oshima et al. profile →
  5. DAI (DLM-1/ZBP1) is a cytosolic DNA sensor and an activator of innate immune response
    2007 1.4k citations Hideyuki Yanai, Hideo Negishi et al. profile →
  6. IRFs: master regulators of signalling by Toll-like receptors and cytosolic pattern-recognition receptors
    2006 1.3k citations Kenya Honda, Tadatsugu Taniguchi profile →
  7. The microbiota in adaptive immune homeostasis and disease
    2016 1.3k citations Kenya Honda et al. profile →
  8. Type I Inteferon Gene Induction by the Interferon Regulatory Factor Family of Transcription Factors
    2006 1.1k citations Kenya Honda, Tadatsugu Taniguchi et al. profile →
  9. ATP drives lamina propria TH17 cell differentiation
    2008 867 citations Koji Atarashi, Tatsuichiro Shima et al. profile →
  10. Integral role of IRF-5 in the gene induction programme activated by Toll-like receptors
    2005 796 citations Hideyuki Yanai, Hideo Negishi et al. profile →
  11. Spatiotemporal regulation of MyD88–IRF-7 signalling for robust type-I interferon induction
    2005 743 citations Kenya Honda, Yusuke Ohba et al. profile →
  12. Integration of interferon-α/β signalling to p53 responses in tumour suppression and antiviral defence
    2003 704 citations Hideyuki Yanai, Hideo Negishi et al. profile →
  13. The microbiota regulates type 2 immunity through RORγt + T cells
    2015 650 citations Caspar Ohnmacht, Sascha Cording et al. Science profile →
  14. The Microbiome in Infectious Disease and Inflammation
    2012 618 citations Kenya Honda et al. profile →
  15. HMGB proteins function as universal sentinels for nucleic-acid-mediated innate immune responses
    2009 548 citations Hideyuki Yanai, Hideo Negishi et al. profile →
  16. Maternal gut bacteria promote neurodevelopmental abnormalities in mouse offspring
    2017 508 citations Koji Atarashi, Kenya Honda et al. profile →
  17. Development and maintenance of intestinal regulatory T cells
    2016 433 citations Takeshi Tanoue, Koji Atarashi et al. profile →
  18. Helminth infection promotes colonization resistance via type 2 immunity
    2016 300 citations Kenya Honda et al. Science profile →
  19. Microbiota-Dependent Activation of an Autoreactive T Cell Receptor Provokes Autoimmunity in an Immunologically Privileged Site
    2015 299 citations Reiko Horai, Yingyos Jittayasothorn et al. profile →
  20. Microbiota modulate sympathetic neurons via a gut–brain circuit
    2020 299 citations Kenya Honda et al. profile →
  21. Microbiota imbalance induced by dietary sugar disrupts immune-mediated protection from metabolic syndrome
    2022 208 citations Leandro P. Araújo, Takeshi Tanoue et al. profile →

Peers

Kenya Honda
Klaus Pfeffer Germany
Yasmine Belkaid United States
Naohiro Inohara United States
Mauro Martins Teixeira Brazil
Richard S. Blumberg United States
Arturo Zychlinsky Germany
Eric G. Pamer United States
Lars Eckmann United States
Satoshi Uematsu Japan
Genhong Cheng United States
Klaus Pfeffer Germany
Kenya Honda
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenya Honda

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kenya Honda. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kenya Honda based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kenya Honda. Kenya Honda is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nagano, Yuji, Satoru Morita, Takeshi Tanoue, et al.. (2023). Diet-mediated constitutive induction of novel IL-4+ ILC2 cells maintains intestinal homeostasis in mice. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 220(8). 14 indexed citations
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Lin, Chia‐Wen, Hsu‐Wen Chao, Mikiko Konda, et al.. (2022). A common epigenetic mechanism across different cellular origins underlies systemic immune dysregulation in an idiopathic autism mouse model. Molecular Psychiatry. 27(8). 3343–3354. 13 indexed citations
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Tsugawa, Hitoshi, Yasuaki Kabe, Yuki Sugiura, et al.. (2020). Short-chain fatty acids bind to apoptosis-associated speck-like protein to activate inflammasome complex to prevent Salmonella infection. PLoS Biology. 18(9). e3000813–e3000813. 38 indexed citations
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Ladinsky, Mark S., Leandro P. Araújo, Xiao Zhang, et al.. (2019). Endocytosis of commensal antigens by intestinal epithelial cells regulates mucosal T cell homeostasis. Science. 363(6431). 132 indexed citations
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Kaito, Satoshi, Takashi Toya, Kota Yoshifuji, et al.. (2018). Fecal microbiota transplantation with frozen capsules for a patient with refractory acute gut graft-versus-host disease. Blood Advances. 2(22). 3097–3101. 54 indexed citations
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Yoshifuji, Kota, Kyoko Inamoto, Kazuhiko Kakihana, et al.. (2018). Clinical Efficacy of Prebiotics on Transplant-Related Complications. Blood. 132(Supplement 1). 4573–4573. 1 indexed citations
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Stein, Richard R., Takeshi Tanoue, Rose L. Szabady, et al.. (2018). Computer-guided design of optimal microbial consortia for immune system modulation. eLife. 7. 62 indexed citations
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Chai, Jiani, Yangqing Peng, Sunaina Rengarajan, et al.. (2017). Helicobacter species are potent drivers of colonic T cell responses in homeostasis and inflammation. Science Immunology. 2(13). 109 indexed citations
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Chai, Jiani, Yangqing Peng, Sunaina Rengarajan, et al.. (2017). Helicobacter species are potent drivers of colonic T cell responses in homeostasis and inflammation. PMC. 9 indexed citations
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Horai, Reiko, et al.. (2017). Gut microbiota as a source of signals that trigger spontaneous ocular autoimmunity. 6–15. 1 indexed citations
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Ohnmacht, Caspar, Sascha Cording, James B. Wing, et al.. (2015). The microbiota regulates type 2 immunity through RORγt + T cells. Science. 349(6251). 989–993. 650 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nishio, Junko, Koji Atarashi, Takeshi Tanoue, et al.. (2015). Requirement of full TCR repertoire for regulatory T cells to maintain intestinal homeostasis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(41). 12770–12775. 47 indexed citations
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Morita, Hidetoshi, Hidehiro Toh, Kenshiro Oshima, et al.. (2015). Complete genome sequence of Bifidobacterium angulatum JCM 7096T isolated from human feces. Journal of Biotechnology. 211. 10–11. 4 indexed citations
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Negishi, Hideo, M. Shoji, Naoko Taguchi‐Atarashi, et al.. (2012). Essential contribution of IRF3 to intestinal homeostasis and microbiota-mediated Tslp gene induction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(51). 21016–21021. 40 indexed citations
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Savitsky, David A., Hideyuki Yanai, Tomohiko Tamura, Tadatsugu Taniguchi, & Kenya Honda. (2010). Contribution of IRF5 in B cells to the development of murine SLE-like disease through its transcriptional control of the IgG2a locus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(22). 10154–10159. 77 indexed citations
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Atarashi, Koji, Takeshi Tanoue, Tatsuichiro Shima, et al.. (2010). Induction of Colonic Regulatory T Cells by Indigenous Clostridium Species. Science. 331(6015). 337–341. 2855 indexed citations breakdown →
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Negishi, Hideo, Xinshou Ouyang, Shinya Sakaguchi, et al.. (2008). A critical link between Toll-like receptor 3 and type II interferon signaling pathways in antiviral innate immunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(51). 20446–20451. 173 indexed citations
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Negishi, Hideo, Yasuyuki Fujita, Hideyuki Yanai, et al.. (2006). Evidence for licensing of IFN-γ-induced IFN regulatory factor 1 transcription factor by MyD88 in Toll-like receptor-dependent gene induction program. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(41). 15136–15141. 260 indexed citations
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Shingai, Masashi, Naokazu Inoue, T. Okuno, et al.. (2005). Wild-Type Measles Virus Infection in Human CD46/CD150-Transgenic Mice: CD11c-Positive Dendritic Cells Establish Systemic Viral Infection. The Journal of Immunology. 175(5). 3252–3261. 53 indexed citations
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Yoshida, Hisahiro, Hiroshi Kawamoto, Sybil M. Santee, et al.. (2001). Expression of α4β7 Integrin Defines a Distinct Pathway of Lymphoid Progenitors Committed to T Cells, Fetal Intestinal Lymphotoxin Producer, NK, and Dendritic Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 167(5). 2511–2521. 116 indexed citations

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