Publications

2025

• Microdifferential Pressure Measurement Device for Cellular Microenvironments Bioengineering

  Mami Akaike, Jun Hatakeyama, Yoichi Saito, Yoshitaka Nakanishi, Kenji Shimamura, and Yuta Nakashima

  Bioengineering, 12(1), 3, 2025

  https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering12010003

2024

• In vitro generation of micro/nano-plastics for biological tests

  Ryota Tashiro, Kazushi Miyamoto, Yoshiyuki Kume, Ryo Suzuki, Yukio Fujiwara, Yoshihiro Komohara, Yuta Nakashima, Yoshitaka Nakanishi

  Journal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering, 19(4), 24-00040, 2024.

  https://doi.org/10.1299/jbse.24-00040

2023

• Development of a Microfluidic Ion Current Measurement System for Single-Microplastic Detection

  Yuta Kishimoto, Sachiko Ide, Toyohiro Naito, Yuta Nakashima, Yoshitaka Nakanishi, and Noritada Kaji

  J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.35 No.5, pp. 1193-1202, 2023.

  https://doi.org/10.20965/jrm.2023.p1193

• Development of Cell Micropatterning Technique Using Laser Processing of Alginate Gel

  Haruhiko Takemoto, Keito Sonoda, Kanae Ike, Yoichi Saito, Yoshitaka Nakanishi, and Yuta Nakashima

  J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.35 No.5, pp. 1185-1192, 2023.

  https://doi.org/10.20965/jrm.2023.p1185

• Microchamber device for studying phagocytosis of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene particles by human monocyte-derived macrophages

  Yoshitaka Nakanishi, Yukio Fujiwara, Yuta Nakashima, Yoshihiro Komohara, Kazunori Hino, Hiromasa Miura, Hidehiko Higaki

  Wear, 523, 204749, 2023
  

  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2023.204749

  *Supported by "IROAST Start-up Program for Formulation of Joint Research Hub by Crossing Departments 2021"

• Generation of Nano/Microplastics for Immunological Assessments

  Yoshitaka Nakanishi, Yukio Fujiwara, Yuta Nakashima

  Biotribology, 33-34, 100235, 2023

  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotri.2023.100235

  *This also appears in the special Issue contained from the scientific theme “Biotribology and Biomimetics” of the 7th World Tribology Congress 2022
  *This is also supported by "IROAST Start-up Program for Formulation of Joint Research Hub by Crossing Departments 2021"

• CD169+ sinus macrophages in regional lymph nodes do not predict mismatch-repair status of patients with colorectal cancer

  Yoichi Saito, Yukio Fujiwara, Yuji Miyamoto, Koji Ohnishi, Yuta Nakashima, Yasuhiko Tabata, Hideo Baba, Yoshihiro Komohara

  Cancer Medicine,  12(9), 10199-10211, 2023

  https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.5747

2022

• Classification of PD-L1 expression in various cancers and macrophages based on immunohistocytological analysis

  Yoichi Saito, Yukio Fujiwara, Yusuke Shinchi, Remi Mito, Yuji Miura, Tomoya Yamaguchi, Koei Ikeda, Shinji Urakami, Yuta Nakashima, Takuro Sakagami, Makoto Suzuki, Yasuhiko Tabata, Yoshihiro Komohara

   Cancer Science, 113(9), 3255-3266, 2022

  https://doi.org/10.1111/cas.15442

• Fabrication of Three-Dimensionally Deformable Metal Structures Using Precision Electroforming

  Seitaro Kumamoto, Souichiro Fukuyama, Seiya Nagano, Keiichiro Yasuda, Yusuke Kitamura, Masaaki Iwatsuki, Hideo Baba, Toshihiro Ihara, Yoshitaka Nakanishi, and Yuta Nakashima

  Micromachines, 13(7), 1046 (2022)

  https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13071046

  *This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Micro Manufacturing Technologies and Applications

• A thermoresponsive valve to control fluid flow in microfluidic paper-based devices

  Wataru Iwasaki, Hiroki Toda, Nobutomo Morita, Taisei Motomura, Yuki Fujio, Kenshin Takemura, Yoshitaka Nakanishi, Yuta Nakashima

  Microfluid Nanofluid, 26, 47 (2022)

  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-022-02552-0

• Novel Inhibitor for Downstream Targeting of Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling to Suppress Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition and Cell Migration

  Tsugumasa Toma, Hiroshi Tateishi, Kensaku Kawakami, Taha F. S. Ali, Masahiro Kamo, Kazuaki Monde, Yuta Nakashima, Mikako Fujita, and Masami Otsuka

  International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(9), 5047, 2022.

  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23095047

• Reversible Thermo-Responsive Valve for Microfluidic Paper-Based Analytical Devices

  Hiroki Toda, Wataru Iwasaki, Nobutomo Morita, Taisei Motomura, Kenshin Takemura, Masaya Nagano, Yoshitaka Nakanishi and Yuta Nakashima

  Micromachines, 13(5), 690, 2022

  https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13050690