The Meniscus Tear: A Review of Stem Cell Therapies

by George Jacob, Kazunori Shimomura, Aaron J. Krych, Norimasa Nakamura
Published 2019-12-01

Osteochondral Injury, Management and Tissue Engineering Approaches

by George Jacob, George Jacob, Kazunori Shimomura, Norimasa Nakamura, Norimasa Nakamura
Published 2020-11-01

Scaffold-free tissue engineering for injured joint surface restoration

by Kazunori Shimomura, Wataru Ando, Hiromichi Fujie, David A. Hart, Hideki Yoshikawa, Norimasa Nakamura
Published 2018-01-01

Return to the original sport at only 3 months after an Achilles tendon rupture by a combination of intra-tissue injection of freeze-dried platelet-derived factor concentrate and ex...

by Shota Morimoto, Tomoya Iseki, Hiroshi Nakayama, Kazunori Shimomura, Tetsuo Nishikawa, Norimasa Nakamura, Toshiya Tachibana
Published 2021-12-01

Rhosin Suppressed Tumor Cell Metastasis through Inhibition of Rho/YAP Pathway and Expression of RHAMM and CXCR4 in Melanoma and Breast Cancer Cells

by Masanobu Tsubaki, Shuuji Genno, Tomoya Takeda, Takuya Matsuda, Naoto Kimura, Yuuma Yamashita, Yuusuke Morii, Kazunori Shimomura, Shozo Nishida
Published 2021-01-01

The HGF/Met/NF-κB Pathway Regulates RANKL Expression in Osteoblasts and Bone Marrow Stromal Cells

by Masanobu Tsubaki, Shiori Seki, Tomoya Takeda, Akiko Chihara, Yuuko Arai, Yuusuke Morii, Motohiro Imano, Takao Satou, Kazunori Shimomura, Shozo Nishida
Published 2020-10-01

Potential of Soluble Decellularized Extracellular Matrix for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering – Comparison of Various Mesenchymal Tissues

by Hiroto Hanai, George Jacob, George Jacob, Shinichi Nakagawa, Rocky S. Tuan, Rocky S. Tuan, Norimasa Nakamura, Norimasa Nakamura, Norimasa Nakamura, Kazunori Shimomura
Published 2020-11-01

Novel flat and wide meniscal repair material improves the ultimate load of knot breakage in a porcine trans-capsular meniscal repair model

by Hiroyuki Yokoi, Tatsuo Mae, Ryo Iuchi, Yasuhiro Take, Yuta Tachibana, Kazunori Shimomura, Tomoki Ohori, Konsei Shino, Hideki Yoshikawa, Ken Nakata
Published 2017-12-01

Enhancement of chondrogenic differentiation supplemented by a novel small compound for chondrocyte-based tissue engineering

by Shuichi Hamamoto, Ryota Chijimatsu, Kazunori Shimomura, Masato Kobayashi, George Jacob, Fumiko Yano, Taku Saito, Ung-il Chung, Sakae Tanaka, Norimasa Nakamura
Published 2020-03-01

Characterization of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Like Cells Derived From Human iPSCs via Neural Crest Development and Their Application for Osteochondral Repair

by Ryota Chijimatsu, Makoto Ikeya, Yukihiko Yasui, Yasutoshi Ikeda, Kosuke Ebina, Yu Moriguchi, Kazunori Shimomura, David A Hart, Yoshikawa Hideki, Nakamura Norimasa
Published 2017-01-01

IGF-1 Gene Transfer to Human Synovial MSCs Promotes Their Chondrogenic Differentiation Potential without Induction of the Hypertrophic Phenotype

by Yasutoshi Ikeda, Morito Sakaue, Ryota Chijimatsu, David A. Hart, Hidenori Otsubo, Kazunori Shimomura, Henning Madry, Tomoyuki Suzuki, Hideki Yoshikawa, Toshihiko Yamashita, Norimasa Nakamura
Published 2017-01-01

Vibration acceleration promotes endochondral formation during fracture healing through cellular chondrogenic differentiation.

by Hiroyuki Yokoi, Yasuhiro Take, Ryohei Uchida, Takuya Magome, Kazunori Shimomura, Tatsuo Mae, Tomoko Okamoto, Tatsuhiro Hanai, Yang Chong, Seira Sato, Minami Hikida, Ken Nakata
Published 2020-01-01