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1.	Kazunori Nakagawa, Mitsuru Tanaka, Tae Hun Hahm, Huu-Nghi Nguyen, Toshiro Matsui, Yong-Xiang Chen, Yutaka Nakashima, Accumulation of Plasma-derived Lipids in the Lipid Core and Necrotic Core of Human Atheroma: Imaging Mass Spectrometry and Histopathological Analyses, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.121.316154., 41, 11, e498-e511, Epub 2021 Sep 2., 2021.11.
2.	Kazunori Nakagawa, Yutaka Nakashima, Pathologic intimal thickening in human atherosclerosis is formed by extracellular accumulation of plasma-derived lipids and dispersion of intimal smooth muscle cells, Atherosclerosis, 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2018.03.039, 274, 235-242, 2018.07, [URL], Background and aims: Pathologic intimal thickening (PIT) is an important stage of atherosclerosis that leads to atheroma. The present study aimed to clarify the pathogenesis of PIT in humans. Methods: Coronary arteries were obtained from 43 autopsy subjects aged 15–49 years. Non-atherosclerotic intima and atherosclerotic intimal lesions were classified into four groups, i.e. diffuse intimal thickening, fatty infiltration, fatty streak, and PIT, and the number and density of macrophages and smooth muscle cells (SMCs) were determined. Components of the lesions and proliferative and apoptotic activities of macrophages and SMCs were investigated by immunohistochemistry and TUNEL assay. Results: Extracellular lipids accumulated mildly in the fatty infiltration and fatty streak, and abundantly in the PIT to form the lipid pool. The extracellular lipids co-localized with apolipoprotein B and fibrinogen. Macrophage foam cells accumulated in the fatty streak and PIT, but no TUNEL-positive macrophages were detected in any lesion. No significant difference in the number of SMCs was found between the four groups, but the density of SMCs decreased in the fatty streak and PIT. The decrease correlated with an increase in the number of macrophages, and the accumulation of extracellular lipids in the lipid pool. Neither Ki-67-positive nor TUNEL-positive SMCs were detected in any lesion. Conclusions: In PIT in human atherosclerosis, the lipid pool is formed by infiltration and deposition of plasma-derived lipids. Intimal SMCs are dispersed in association with macrophage infiltration and lipid pool formation without undergoing significant proliferation or death..
3.	Yamashita A, Yonemitsu Y, Okano S, Nakagawa K, Nakashima Y, Irisa T, Iwamoto Y, Nagai Y, Hasegawa M, Sueishi K, Fibroblast growth factor-2 determines severity of joint disease in adjuvant-induced arthritis in rats., J Immunol, 168, 1, 450-457, 168(1),pp450-457, 2002.01, [URL].
4.	Masaki I, Yonemitsu Y, Komori K, Ueno H, Nakashima Y, Nakagawa K, Fukumura M, Kato A, Hasan M, Nagai Y, Sugimachi K, Alton EWFW, Hasegawa M, Sueishi K., Recombinant Sendai virus-mediated gene transfer to vasculature: a new class of efficient gene transfer vector to the vascular system., FASEB J, 15, 7, 1294-1296, 15(7): 1294-1296, 2001, 2001.01.

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