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Ichiro
Nishimura, DDS, DMSc, DMD
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Advisory Board Member:
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Contact Info:
The Weintraub Center for Reconstructive Biotechnology
UCLA School of Dentistry
Box 951668, CHS B3-087
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1668
Email: inishimura@dentistry.ucla.edu
Professional Info:
Curriculum vitae (pdf)
Biographical sketch (pdf)
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“When patients lose part of their faces, it becomes not only a problem with diseases --- it becomes a personal-psychological problem. When you lose your face, you lose your soul, in a way. At the Weintraub Center, we are proceeding in a totally new direction involving regenerative medicine and tissue engineering, in which cells that are capable of adapting to the new environment will be given much greater autonomy in the future. For this new game of biology, we are setting new rules.”
Areas of Research:
- Genetic control of wound healing and tissue remodeling
- Molecular mechanism of stem cell differentiation
- Biotechnology development for NeuroEngineeing
Recent Publications:
- Butz F, Ogawa T, Chang T-L, Nishimura I: Three-dimensional bone-implant integration profiling using micro-computed tomography. Int J Oral Maxillofac Implantol, 21:687-695, 2006.
- Ogawa T, Nishimura I: Genes differentially expressed in titanium implant healing, J Dent Res, 85:566-570, 2006. (pdf)
- Ogawa T, Nishimura I: Osseointegration Engineering: Implant Biology under the Tissue Engineering Paradigm, In Regenerative Medicine and Dentistry, Ed, Yoshie H, Quintessence, Tokyo, 202-211, 2005.
- Egusa H, Schweizer FE, Wang C-C, Matsuka Y, Nishimura I: Neuronal Differentiation of Bone Marrow-Derived Stromal Stem Cells Involves Suppression of Discordant Phenotypes through Gene Silencing, J Biol Chem, 280:23692-23697, 2005. (pdf)
- Zhou X, Egusa H, Cole SW, Nishimura I, Wong DTW: Methodology of microarray data analysis, Handbook of Immunohistochemistry and in situ Hybridization in Human Carcinomas, Ed. Hayat M., Elsevier, Amsterdam, p17-30, 2005.
- Kim SW, Ogawa T, Tabata Y, Nishimura I: Efficacy and cytotoxicity of cationic agent-mediated nonviral gene transfer into obsteoblasts, J Biomed Mat Res, 71A:308-315, 2004.
- Nishimura I, Garrett N: Impact of human genome project on treatment of frail and edentulous patients, Gerodontology, 21:3-9, 2004. (pdf)
- Sukotjo C, Lin A, Song K, Wu B, Ogawa T, Nishimura I: Oral fibroblast expression of wound-inducible transcript 3.0 (wit3.0) accelerates the collagen gel contraction in vitro. J Biol Chem, 278: 51527-51534, 2003. (pdf)
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