Ako Yokoi
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· 18 papers in corpus
other
2025
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: S100A4, a small calcium-binding protein, promotes metastasis in a variety of human malignancies, but little is known about its involvement in ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC). Herein, we characterized the functiona…
lab-animal
2023
Ezrin-radixin-moesin-binding phosphoprotein 50 (EBP50) is a scaffold protein that is required for epithelial polarity. Knockout (KO) of membranous EBP50 (Me-EBP50) in ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) cells induced an epithelial-mesenchym…
lab-animal
2019
Figure S1. Responsiveness for TGF-β1 and endogenous Nodal status in the cell line investigated. (A) Western blot for the indicated proteins after treatment of ES-2, OVISE, TOV-21G, and Ishikawa cells with 2 ng/mL TGF-β1 for the times indica…
lab-animal
2019
Figure S1. Responsiveness for TGF-β1 and endogenous Nodal status in the cell line investigated. (A) Western blot for the indicated proteins after treatment of ES-2, OVISE, TOV-21G, and Ishikawa cells with 2 ng/mL TGF-β1 for the times indica…
lab-animal
2019
Figure S2. Overexpression of Nodal enhances susceptibility to apoptosis in OEmCa cells. (A) After treatment of the stable Nodal-expressing Ish-NoD and mock cells with 1 μg/mL Dox for the times indicated, cells undergoing apoptosis (sub-G1) …
lab-animal
2019
Figure S2. Overexpression of Nodal enhances susceptibility to apoptosis in OEmCa cells. (A) After treatment of the stable Nodal-expressing Ish-NoD and mock cells with 1 μg/mL Dox for the times indicated, cells undergoing apoptosis (sub-G1) …
lab-animal
2019
Figure S3. Association between TGF-β1 with Bcl2/Bax status in the stable Nodal-expressing Ish-NoD cells. Left: western blot assay for the indicated proteins after treatment of Ishikawa cells with 2 ng/mL TGF-β1 for the times indicated. Righ…
lab-animal
2019
Figure S3. Association between TGF-β1 with Bcl2/Bax status in the stable Nodal-expressing Ish-NoD cells. Left: western blot assay for the indicated proteins after treatment of Ishikawa cells with 2 ng/mL TGF-β1 for the times indicated. Righ…
lab-animal
2019
Figure S4. Association between overexpression of Nodal and cell proliferation in OEmCa. (A) Two independent stable Nodal-expressing Ish-NoD cell lines and mock cells were seeded at low density. The cell numbers are presented as mean ± SD. P…
lab-animal
2019
Figure S4. Association between overexpression of Nodal and cell proliferation in OEmCa. (A) Two independent stable Nodal-expressing Ish-NoD cell lines and mock cells were seeded at low density. The cell numbers are presented as mean ± SD. P…
other
2019
Figure S5. Association of clinical stages with the indicated factors in OCCCa (upper) and OEmCa (lower). (TIF 758 kb)
other
2019
Figure S5. Association of clinical stages with the indicated factors in OCCCa (upper) and OEmCa (lower). (TIF 758 kb)
other
2019
We focused on specific molecular events during the development of endometriosis-associated ovarian endometrioid carcinoma (OEmCa) and ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCCa). Alterations in β-catenin (encoded by CTNNB1) and microsatellite inst…
lab-animal
2019
Abstract Background Expression of Nodal, a member of the TGF-β superfamily, is commonly absent in differentiated tissues, while its re-expression occurs in a variety of human malignancy. However, little is known about its involvement in ova…
other
2019
BACKGROUND: Expression of Nodal, a member of the TGF-β superfamily, is commonly absent in differentiated tissues, while its re-expression occurs in a variety of human malignancy. However, little is known about its involvement in ovarian tum…
lab-animal
2019
Abstract Background Expression of Nodal, a member of the TGF-β superfamily, is commonly absent in differentiated tissues, while its re-expression occurs in a variety of human malignancy. However, little is known about its involvement in ova…
lab-animal
2017
BACKGROUND: The left-right determination factor (LEFTY) is a novel member of the TGF-β/Smad2 pathway and belongs to the premenstrual/menstrual repertoire in human endometrium, but little is known about its functional role in endometrial car…
other
2017
To identify proteins involved in ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCCa), shotgun proteomics analysis was applied using formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded samples of ovarian carcinoma. Analysis of 1521 proteins revealed that 52 were differen…