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Takuro Sakagami

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University
Verified email at mail.goo.ne.jp
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Familial pulmonary alveolar proteinosis caused by mutations in CSF2RA

T Suzuki, T Sakagami, BK Rubin, LM Nogee… - The Journal of …, 2008 - rupress.org
Primary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare syndrome characterized by accumulation
of surfactant in the lungs that is presumed to be mediated by disruption of granulocyte/…

Pulmonary macrophage transplantation therapy

T Suzuki, P Arumugam, T Sakagami, N Lachmann… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Bone-marrow transplantation is an effective cell therapy but requires myeloablation, which
increases infection risk and mortality. Recent lineage-tracing studies documenting that …

Association of Probiotic Clostridium butyricum Therapy with Survival and Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Patients with Lung Cancer

…, K Akaike, S Ishizuka, S Saeki, T Sakagami - Cancer immunology …, 2020 - AACR
Gut dysbiosis caused by antibiotics impairs response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB).
Gut microbiota is becoming an attractive therapeutic target for cancer. The Clostridium …

Human GM-CSF autoantibodies and reproduction of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

T Sakagami, K Uchida, T Suzuki… - … England Journal of …, 2009 - Mass Medical Soc
To the Editor: Idiopathic pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is a rare disease in which surfactant
lipids and proteins accumulate in pulmonary alveolar macrophages and alveoli, resulting in …

Hereditary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis: pathogenesis, presentation, diagnosis, and therapy

T Suzuki, T Sakagami, LR Young, BC Carey… - American journal of …, 2010 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: We identified a 6-year-old girl with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP), impaired
granulocyte-macrophage colony–stimulating factor (GM-CSF) receptor function, and …

Association between HLA gene polymorphisms and mortality of COVID‐19: An in silico analysis

…, T Ikeda, R Sato, T Sakagami - … inflammation and disease, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The emergence of SARS‐CoV‐2 has caused global public health and
economic crisis. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is a critical component of the viral antigen …

[HTML][HTML] Inhaled GM-CSF for pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

…, Y Inoue, T Arai, K Asakawa, T Sakagami… - … England Journal of …, 2019 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is a disease characterized by abnormal
accumulation of surfactant in the alveoli. Most cases are autoimmune and are associated with an …

Aging-associated and CD4 T-cell–dependent ectopic CXCL13 activation predisposes to anti–PD-1 therapy-induced adverse events

…, H Yano, T Kamba, T Sakagami… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Clinical success of immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB) cancer immunotherapy is compromised
by increased risk of immune-related adverse events (irAEs). However, mechanistic action…

Clostridium butyricum therapy restores the decreased efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade in lung cancer patients receiving proton pump inhibitors

…, S Saeki, M Takahashi, T Ikeda, T Sakagami - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Oral microbiota is associated with human diseases including cancer. Emerging evidence
suggests that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), which allow the oral microbiome to translocate into …

Standardized serum GM-CSF autoantibody testing for the routine clinical diagnosis of autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

…, B Carey, C Chalk, T Suzuki, T Sakagami… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Autoantibodies against granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GMAbs) cause
autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) and measurement of the GMAb level in …