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Katsuko Furukawa

東京大学
Verified email at g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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3D culture of osteoblast‐like cells by unidirectional or oscillatory flow for bone tissue engineering

D Du, KS Furukawa, T Ushida - Biotechnology and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A medium perfusion system is expected to be beneficial for three‐dimensional (3D) culture
of engineered bone, not only by chemotransport enhancement but also by mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Bone regeneration in calvarial defects in a rat model by implantation of human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cell spheroids

H Suenaga, KS Furukawa, Y Suzuki, T Takato… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - Springer
Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) condensation contributes to membrane ossification by
enhancing their osteodifferentiation. We investigated bone regeneration in rats using the human …

[HTML][HTML] Application of Detergents or High Hydrostatic Pressure as Decellularization Processes in Uterine Tissues and Their Subsequent Effects on In Vivo Uterine …

…, A Kishida, Y Osuga, S Saito, T Ushida, KS Furukawa - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Infertility caused by ovarian or tubal problems can be treated using In Vitro Fertilization and
Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET); however, this is not possible for women with uterine loss and …

The effect of substrate microtopography on focal adhesion maturation and actin organization via the RhoA/ROCK pathway

CH Seo, K Furukawa, K Montagne, H Jeong, T Ushida - Biomaterials, 2011 - Elsevier
Recently, a growing number of reports have reported that micro- or nanoscale topography
enhances cellular functions such as cell adhesion and stem cell differentiation, but the …

Micropit surfaces designed for accelerating osteogenic differentiation of murine mesenchymal stem cells via enhancing focal adhesion and actin polymerization

…, K Montagne, T Ushida, Y Suzuki, KS Furukawa - Biomaterials, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent reports demonstrate that enhanced focal adhesion (FA) between cells and the
extracellular matrix (ECM) and intracellular actin polymerization (AP) upregulates cellular …

Three-dimensional seeding of chondrocytes encapsulated in collagen gel into PLLA scaffolds

T Ushida, K Furukawa, K Toita… - Cell …, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Tissue engineering approaches have been clinically tried to repair damaged articular
cartilages. It is an essential step to uniformly seed chondrocytes into 3D scaffolds in order to …

Rapid and large-scale formation of chondrocyte aggregates by rotational culture

KS Furukawa, H Suenaga, K Toita… - Cell …, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Chondrocytes in articular cartilage synthesize collagen type II and large sulfated proteoglycans,
whereas the same cells cultured in monolayer (2D) dedifferentiate into fibroblastic cells …

Scaffold-free cartilage by rotational culture for tissue engineering

KS Furukawa, K Imura, T Tateishi, T Ushida - Journal of biotechnology, 2008 - Elsevier
Our objective was to investigate the hypothesis that tissue-engineered cartilage with promising
biochemical, mechanical properties can be formed by loading mechanical stress under …

[HTML][HTML] STAT3 accelerates uterine epithelial regeneration in a mouse model of decellularized uterine matrix transplantation

…, L Matsumoto, H Haraguchi, SK Dey, KS Furukawa… - JCI insight, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Although a close connection between uterine regeneration and successful pregnancy in
both humans and mice has been consistently observed, its molecular basis remains unclear. …

The switching of focal adhesion maturation sites and actin filament activation for MSCs by topography of well-defined micropatterned surfaces

CH Seo, H Jeong, KS Furukawa, Y Suzuki, T Ushida - Biomaterials, 2013 - Elsevier
Securing robust cell adhesion between cells and biomaterials is one of key considerations
for tissue engineering. However, the cell adhesion investigation by the biophysical effects …