Laboratory of Developmental Immunology, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Graduate School of Medicine,

and WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University

ADDRESS

JST-CREST
Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University

2-1, Yamada-oka Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

TEL:81-6-6879-4856
FAX:81-6-6879-4706

Masaaki Murakami, Ph.D., D.V.M.

E-mail:murakami@molonc.
med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Achievements

• Major Achievements
• Publication list

Major Achievements
Cell Reports 3: 946-959 (2013) Disease-Association Analysis of an Inflammation-Related Feedback Loop	Cell. 148: 447-457 (2012) Regional neural activation defines a gateway for autoreactive T cells to cross the blood-brain barrier
Immunity. 2009 Mar;30(3):447-57. 2009 Hepatic IL-7 regulates T cell responses in vivo.	J. Exp. Med. 208: 103-114 (2011) A 4 step model for MHC class II associated autoimmune diseases
Immunity, 29, 628-636, 2008. Interleukin-17 Promotes Autoimmunity by Triggering a Positive-Feedback Loop via Interleukin-6 Induction	J. Clin. Invest. 117: 1270-1281, 2007 Omenn Syndrome ; a murine model is established.
Nature Immunol.7:971-977, 2006 Toll-like receptor-mediated regulation of zinc homeostasis influences dendritic cell function.	J. Exp. Med. published on line 22 May 2006. Autoimmune arthritis associated with mutated IL-6 receptor gp130 is driven by STAT3/IL-7-dependent homeostatic proliferation of CD4+ T.