2022

Main Publication (Autoimmunity)

• "Mechanical model of steady-state and inflammatory conditions in patients with relapsing polychondritis: A review. "
  Shimizu J, Suzuki N.
  Medicine (Baltimore). 101, 8, e28852 (2022).
• "Nationwide cross-sectional survey of patients with relapsing polychondritis in 2019 demonstrates reduction of airway involvement compared with that in 2009. "
  Shimizu J, Yamano Y, Kawahata K, Suzuki N.
  Scientific Reports 12, 1, 465 (2022).

2021

Main Publication (Autoimmunity)

• "Serum MMP3 correlated with IL1β messenger RNA expressions of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with relapsing polychondritis with respiratory involvement."
  Shimizu J, Wakisaka S, Suzuki T, Suzuki N.
  ACR open rheumatology 3, 636-641 (2021).

2020

Main Publication (Autoimmunity)

• "Elucidation of predictors of disease progression in patients with relapsing polychondritis at the onset: potential impact on patient monitoring. "
  Shimizu J, Yamano Y, Kawahata K, Suzuki N.
  BMC Rheumatology 4, 41 (2020).

2019

Main Publication (Autoimmunity)

• "Relative abundance of Megamonas hypermegale and Butyrivibrio species decreased in the intestine and its possible association with the T cell aberration by metabolite alteration in patients with Behcet's disease."
  Shimizu J, Kubota T, Takada E, Takai K, Fujiwara N, Arimitsu N, Ueda Y, Wakisaka S, Suzuki T, Suzuki N.
  Clinical Rheumatology 38, 1437-45 (2019).

2018

Main Publication (Autoimmunity)

• "Propionate-producing bacteria in the intestine may associate with skewed responses of IL10-producing regulatory T cells in patients with relapsing polychondritis."
  Shimizu J, Kubota T, Takada E, Takai K, Fujiwara N, Arimitsu N, Murayama MA, Ueda Y, Wakisaka S, Suzuki T, Suzuki N.
  PLOS One 13, e0203657 (2018).
• "Relapsing polychondritis patients were divided into three subgroups: patients with respiratory involvement (R subgroup), patients with auricular involvement (A subgroup), and overlapping patients with both involvements (O subgroup), and each group had distinctive clinical characteristics."
  Shimizu J, Yamano Y, Kawahata K, Suzuki N.
  Medicine (Baltimore) 97, 42, e12837 (2018).

2016

Main Publication (Autoimmunity)

• "Possible association of proinflammatory cytokines including IL1β and TNFα with enhanced Th17 cell differentiation in patients with Behcet's disease."
  Shimizu J, Takai K, Takada E, Fujiwara N, Arimitsu N, Ueda Y, Wakisaka S, Suzuki T, Suzuki N.
  Clinical Rheumatology 35, 1857-63 (2016).
• "Bifidobacteria abundance-featured gut microbiota compositional change in patients with Behcet's disease."
  Shimizu J, Takai K, Takada E, Fujiwara N, Arimitsu N, Ueda Y, Wakisaka S, Suzuki T, Suzuki N.
  PLOS One 11, e0153746 (2016).

2013

Main Publication (Autoimmunity)

• "Skewed helper T-cell responses to IL-12 family cytokines produced by antigen-presenting cells and the genetic background in Behcet's disease. "
  Shimizu J, Kaneko F, Suzuki N.
  Genetic Research International 2013, 2013, 363859 (2013).