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    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 (210 characters)

    We have previously demonstrated that the phylum Actinobacteria, the family Lactobacillaceae, and the genus Bifidobacterium increased in relative abundance of gut microbiota in patients with Behcet’s disease (BD)....

    Jun Shimizu, Takao Kubota, Erika Takada, Kenji Takai in Clinical Rheumatology (2019)

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    Possible association of proinflammatory cytokines including IL1β and TNFα with enhanced Th17 cell differentiation in patients with Behcet’s disease

    We have reported that helper T type 17 (Th17) cells increased in patients with Behcet’s disease (BD). It remains obscure how Th17 cells increase in the patients. We here analyzed whether T cells preferentially...

    Jun Shimizu, Kenji Takai, Erika Takada, Naruyoshi Fujiwara in Clinical Rheumatology (2016)

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    Asian Pacific Islander Health

    Asian Pacific Islander Americans (A/PI), one of the United States’ smallest subpopulations at 3% of the total U.S. population (1990 U.S. Census, in Lum, 1995), is also the fastest growing minority group in the...

    Erika Takada, Judy M. Ford, Linda S. Lloyd in Handbook of Immigrant Health (1998)