Kazuyoshi Kawakami
First Department of Internal Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of the Ryukyus
Okinawa
Japan
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- Interferon-gamma production and host protective response against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice lacking both IL-12p40 and IL-18. Kawakami, K., Kinjo, Y., Uezu, K., Miyagi, K., Kinjo, T., Yara, S., Koguchi, Y., Miyazato, A., Shibuya, K., Iwakura, Y., Takeda, K., Akira, S., Saito, A. Microbes Infect. (2004)
- Regulation by innate immune T lymphocytes in the host defense against pulmonary infection with Cryptococcus neoformans. Kawakami, K. Jpn. J. Infect. Dis. (2004)
- Promising immunotherapies with Th1-related cytokines against infectious diseases. Kawakami, K. J. Infect. Chemother. (2003)
- Critical role of Valpha14+ natural killer T cells in the innate phase of host protection against Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. Kawakami, K., Yamamoto, N., Kinjo, Y., Miyagi, K., Nakasone, C., Uezu, K., Kinjo, T., Nakayama, T., Taniguchi, M., Saito, A. Eur. J. Immunol. (2003)
- Anti-CD11 b monoclonal antibody suppresses brain dissemination of Cryptococcus neoformans in mice. Kawakami, K., Koguchi, Y., Qureshi, M.H., Zhang, T., Kinjo, Y., Yara, S., Uezu, K., Shibuya, K., Naoe, S., Saito, A. Microbiol. Immunol. (2002)
- Minimal contribution of Valpha14 natural killer T cells to Th1 response and host resistance against mycobacterial infection in mice. Kawakami, K., Kinjo, Y., Uezu, K., Yara, S., Miyagi, K., Koguchi, Y., Nakayama, T., Taniguchi, M., Saito, A. Microbiol. Immunol. (2002)
- Interleukin-18 and host defense against infectious pathogens. Kawakami, K. J. Immunother. (2002)
- Role of natural killer T cells in host defence against cryptococcal infection. Kawakami, K. Rev. Iberoam. Micol (2002)
- Activation of Valpha14(+) natural killer T cells by alpha-galactosylceramide results in development of Th1 response and local host resistance in mice infected with Cryptococcus neoformans. Kawakami, K., Kinjo, Y., Yara, S., Koguchi, Y., Uezu, K., Nakayama, T., Taniguchi, M., Saito, A. Infect. Immun. (2001)
- Enhanced gamma interferon production through activation of Valpha14(+) natural killer T cells by alpha-galactosylceramide in interleukin-18-deficient mice with systemic cryptococcosis. Kawakami, K., Kinjo, Y., Yara, S., Uezu, K., Koguchi, Y., Tohyama, M., Azuma, M., Takeda, K., Akira, S., Saito, A. Infect. Immun. (2001)
- Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1-dependent increase of V alpha 14 NKT cells in lungs and their roles in Th1 response and host defense in cryptococcal infection. Kawakami, K., Kinjo, Y., Uezu, K., Yara, S., Miyagi, K., Koguchi, Y., Nakayama, T., Taniguchi, M., Saito, A. J. Immunol. (2001)
- Reduced host resistance and Th1 response to Cryptococcus neoformans in interleukin-18 deficient mice. Kawakami, K., Koguchi, Y., Qureshi, M.H., Kinjo, Y., Yara, S., Miyazato, A., Kurimoto, M., Takeda, K., Akira, S., Saito, A. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. (2000)
- IL-18 contributes to host resistance against infection with Cryptococcus neoformans in mice with defective IL-12 synthesis through induction of IFN-gamma production by NK cells. Kawakami, K., Koguchi, Y., Qureshi, M.H., Miyazato, A., Yara, S., Kinjo, Y., Iwakura, Y., Takeda, K., Akira, S., Kurimoto, M., Saito, A. J. Immunol. (2000)
- Circulating soluble CD4 directly prevents host resistance and delayed-type hypersensitivity response to Cryptococcus neoformans in mice. Kawakami, K., Koguchi, Y., Qureshi, M.H., Yara, S., Kinjo, Y., Miyazato, A., Nishizawa, A., Nariuchi, H., Saito, A. Microbiol. Immunol. (2000)
- NK cells eliminate Cryptococcus neoformans by potentiating the fungicidal activity of macrophages rather than by directly killing them upon stimulation with IL-12 and IL-18. Kawakami, K., Koguchi, Y., Qureshi, M.H., Yara, S., Kinjo, Y., Uezu, K., Saito, A. Microbiol. Immunol. (2000)
- Differential effect of Cryptococcus neoformans on the production of IL-12p40 and IL-10 by murine macrophages stimulated with lipopolysaccharide and gamma interferon. Kawakami, K., Qureshi, M.H., Koguchi, Y., Nakajima, K., Saito, A. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. (1999)
- Induction of lymphocytic inflammatory changes in lung interstitium by human T lymphotropic virus type I. Kawakami, K., Miyazato, A., Iwakura, Y., Saito, A. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. (1999)
- Interleukin-4 weakens host resistance to pulmonary and disseminated cryptococcal infection caused by combined treatment with interferon-gamma-inducing cytokines. Kawakami, K., Hossain Qureshi, M., Zhang, T., Koguchi, Y., Xie, Q., Kurimoto, M., Saito, A. Cell. Immunol. (1999)
- IL-18 protects mice against pulmonary and disseminated infection with Cryptococcus neoformans by inducing IFN-gamma production. Kawakami, K., Qureshi, M.H., Zhang, T., Okamura, H., Kurimoto, M., Saito, A. J. Immunol. (1997)









