Yasuko Iwakiri, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Departments & Organizations
2007 YCCI Scholars
Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program
Internal Medicine: Digestive Diseases:
(Liver Center)
Research Interests
Portal hypertension; Nitric oxide; S-nitrosylation; CD147 (EMMPRIN, Basigin); Reticulon 4B (Nogo-B); liver fibrosis; liver regeneration more...
Education
- B.S., Miyazaki University, Japan, 1988
- M.S., Oregon State University, 1995
- Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2000
Selected Publications
- Chung, C. and Iwakiri, Y. Activated hepatic stellate cells: Negative regulators of hepatocyte proliferation in liver diseases. Hepatology. 2012 (in press).
- Iwakiri, Y. A role of miR-33 for cell cycle progression and cell proliferation. Cell Cycle. 2012; 11(6) (in press).
- Sangwung, P., Greco, T.M., Wang, Y., Ischiropoulos, H., Sessa, W.C., and Iwakiri, Y. Proteomic Identification of S-nitrosylated Golgi Proteins: New Insights into Endothelial Cell Regulation by eNOS-derived NO. PLoS ONE. 2012 (in press).
