Post-Doc: Yoshihiro Miyahara, MD, PhD

Publications:
1. Rongfu Wang, Yoshihiro Miyahara and Helen Y Wang: Toll-like receptors and immune regulation: implications for cancer therapy. Oncogene. 2008 Jan 7; 27(2):181-189. 2. Yukiko Kiniwa, Yoshihiro Miyahara, Helen Y. Wang, Weiyi Peng, Guangyoung Peng, Thomas M. Wheeler, Timothy C. Thompson, Lloyd J. Old and Rong-Fu Wang: CD8+ Foxp3+ Regulatory T cells mediate immunosuppression in prostate cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 2007 Dec 1; 13:6947-6958. 3. Shigehisa Kitano, Shinichi Kageyama, Yasuhiro Nagata, Yoshihiro Miyahara, Atsunori Hiasa, Hiroaki Naota, Satoshi Okumura, Hiroshi Imai, Taizo Shiraishi, Masahiro Masuya, Masakatsu Nishikawa, Junzo Sunamoto, Kazunari Akiyoshi, Takashi Kanematsu, Andrew M. Scott, Roger Murphy, Eric W. Hoffman, Lloyd J. Old and Hiroshi Shiku. HER2-Specific T-cell immune responses in patients vaccinated with truncated HER2 protein complexed nanogels of cholerteryl pullulan. Clinical Cancer Research. 2006 Dec 15; 12:7397-7405. 4. Hiroaki Naota, Yoshihiro Miyahara, Satoshi Okumura, Kiyotaka Kuzushima, Yoshiki Akatsuka, Atsunori Hiasa, Shigehisa Kitano, Toshitada Takahashi, Atsushi Yuta, Yuichi Majima and Hiroshi Shiku. Generation of peptide-specific CD4+ T cells by phytohemagglutinin-stimulated antigen-mRNA-transduced CD4+ T cells. Journal of Immunological Methods. 2006; 314:54-66.
5. Yoshihiro Miyahara, Hiroaki Naota, Lijie Wang, Atsunori Hiasa, Megumi Goto, Masato Watanabe, Shigehisa Kitano, Satoshi Okumura, Tetsushi Takemitsu, Atsushi Yuta, Yuichi Majima, Francois A. Lemonnier, Thierry Boon, and Hiroshi Shiku. Determination of cellularly processed HLA-A2401 restricted novel CTL epitopes derived from two cancer-germline genes, MAGE A4 and SAGE. Clinical Cancer Research. 2005 Aug 1; 11:5581-5589.
6. Natsuki Hoshino, Naoyuki Katayama, Tetsunori Shibasaki, Kohshi Ohishi, Junji Nishioka, Masahiro Masuya, Yoshihiro Miyahara, Masahiko Hayashida, Daiki Shimomura, Takuma Kato, Kaname Nakatani, Kazuhiro Nishii, Kagemasa Kuribayashi, Tsutomu Nobori and Hiroshi Shiku. A novel role for Notch ligand Delta-1 as a regulator of human Langerhans cell development from blood monocytes. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 2005; 78:921-929. 7. Wang L, Miyahara Y, Kato T, Wang L, Aota T, Kuribayashi K, Shiku H. Essential roles of tumor-derived helper T cell epitopes for an effective peptide-based rumor vaccine. Cancer Immun. 2003 Nov 21; 3:16. 8. Schmitt M, Taniguchi M, Yoshida T, Miyahara Y, Gu X, Mukai K, Yagita H, Dohner H, Shiku H. Rapid lethality of hosts by interleukin-12 following H-2 comptible allogeneic bone marrow transplantation: Reminiscence of gut-associated acute graft-versus-host reaction. Int J Oncol. 2002; 21(4):795-801. 9. Nishikawa H, Tanida K, Ikeda H, Sakakura M, Miyahara Y, Aota T, Mukai K, Watanabe M, Kuribayashi K, Old LJ, Shiku H. Role of SEREX-defined immunogenic wild-type cellular molecultes in the development of tumor-specific immunity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2001; 98(25):14571-6. 10. Wang L, Ikeda H, Ikuta Y, Schmitt M, Miyahara Y, Takahashi Y, Gu X, Nagata Y, Sasaki Y, Akiyoshi K, Sunamoto J, Nakamura H, Kuribayashi K, Shiku H. Bone marrow-derived dendritic cells incorporate and process hydrophobized polysaccharide/oncoprotein complex as antigen presenting cells. Int. J. Oncol. 1999; 14(4):695-701. 10. Higuchi Y, Miyahara Y, Kawano M, Tsurudome M, Matsumura H, Kusagawa S, Komada H, Nishio M, Ito Y. Sequence analysis of the large (L) protein of simian virus 5. J Gen Virol. 1992; 78(Pt4):1005-10.