Taro Kawai

83.9k citations
179 papers · 69.8k · 32 hit papers · h-index 83

Impact in

  • Immunology top 0.01%
    • Immune Response and Inflammation
    • interferon and immune responses
    • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
    • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
    • Immune cells in cancer
  • Microbiology top 0.02%
    • Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities

Papers in

    • Immune Response and Inflammation 96
    • interferon and immune responses 84
    • Immune Cell Function and Interaction 27
    • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses 14
    • Inflammasome and immune disorders 20

Taro Kawai

176 papers receiving 68.3k citations

Taro Kawai's Hit Papers

Decoding Toll-like receptors: Recent insights and perspectives in innate immunity 2024 · 239 citations
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Peers

Taro Kawai
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  • Immunology 45.8k
  • Microbiology 4.0k
  • Cancer Research 8.3k
  • Infectious Diseases 6.8k
  • Epidemiology 12.0k
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All Works

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The role of pattern-recognition receptors in innate immunity: update on Toll-like receptors
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20107414
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A Toll-like receptor recognizes bacterial DNA
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20005467
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Differential roles of MDA5 and RIG-I helicases in the recognition of RNA viruses
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20063139
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Toll-like Receptors and Their Crosstalk with Other Innate Receptors in Infection and Immunity
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20112996
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Cutting Edge: Toll-Like Receptor 4 (TLR4)-Deficient Mice Are Hyporesponsive to Lipopolysaccharide: Evidence for TLR4 as the Lps Gene Product
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19992943
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Differential Roles of TLR2 and TLR4 in Recognition of Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacterial Cell Wall Components
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19992883
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Toll-Like Receptor Signaling Pathways
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20142563
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IPS-1, an adaptor triggering RIG-I- and Mda5-mediated type I interferon induction
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20052174
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Signaling to NF-κB by Toll-like receptors
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20072015
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Pathogen Recognition by the Innate Immune System
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20111785
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Unresponsiveness of MyD88-Deficient Mice to Endotoxin
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19991772
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Targeted Disruption of the MyD88 Gene Results in Loss of IL-1- and IL-18-Mediated Function
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19981751
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Loss of the autophagy protein Atg16L1 enhances endotoxin-induced IL-1β production
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20081745
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TLR signaling
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20061615
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Innate immune recognition of viral infection
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20061583
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The roles of TLRs, RLRs and NLRs in pathogen recognition
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20091309
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TLR signaling
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20071256
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Discrimination of bacterial lipoproteins by Toll-like receptor 6
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20011036
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Toll-like receptors and innate immunity
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2009973
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Lipopolysaccharide Stimulates the MyD88-Independent Pathway and Results in Activation of IFN-Regulatory Factor 3 and the Expression of a Subset of Lipopolysaccharide-Inducible Genes
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2001927

About Taro Kawai

Taro Kawai is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, having authored 179 papers that have together received 69.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Immune Response and Inflammation (96 papers), interferon and immune responses (84 papers), NF-κB Signaling Pathways (30 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (27 papers), Inflammasome and immune disorders (20 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (14 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (14 papers) and Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Immunology (45.8k citations), Microbiology (4.0k citations), Cancer Research (8.3k citations), Infectious Diseases (6.8k citations) and Epidemiology (12.0k citations). Taro Kawai has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, United States and Israel. Frequent co-authors include Shizuo Akira, Osamu Takeuchi, Kiyoshi Takeda, Himanshu Kumar, Shintaro Sato, Hideki Sanjo, Katsuaki Hoshino, Takumi Kawasaki, Tomohiko Ogawa and Ken J. Ishii. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Immunology, Immunity, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, International Immunology and Nature Immunology.

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