Chieko Ishifune
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Medicine
University of Tokushima
Japan
Biography
Chieko Ishifune has done her Doctor of Medicine from Tokushima University in 2011. Currently she is working as Assistant Professor in Faculty of Medicine in Tokushima University. Her research interests are Immunology. Several papers of her work were published in reputed international journals. She is the member of Japan Immunological Society.
Research Interest
Immunology, Differentiation and function control of immunocompetent cells by Notch signal.
Publications
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Takahiro Furukawa, Chieko Ishifune, Shin-ichi Tsukumo, Katsuto Hozumi, Yoichi Maekawa, Naoko Matsui, Ryuji Kaji and Koji Yasutomo. Transmission of survival signals through Delta-like 1 on activated CD4(+) T cells. Scientific Reports. 2016. 6.
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Sultana Taskia Zaman, Hideki Arimochi, Satoshi Maruyama, Chieko Ishifune, Shin-ichi Tsukumo, Akiko Kitamura and Koji Yasutomo. Notch Balances Th17 and Induced Regulatory T Cell Functions in Dendritic Cells by Regulating Aldh1a2 Expression. The Journal of Immunology, 2017, 199(6): 1989-1997.
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Masanori Niki, Kohei Nakajima, Daichi Ishikawa, Jun Nishida, Chieko Ishifune, Shin-ichi Tsukumo, Mitsuo Shimada, Shinji Nagahiro, Yoshinori Mitamura and Koji Yasutomo. MicroRNA-449a deficiency promotes colon carcinogenesis. Scientific Reports. 2017, 7(1).
