Makoto Igarashi - Papers

Potential risk of a liver fluke Opisthorchis viverrini infection brought by immigrants from prevalent areas: A case study in the lower Northern Thailand

Wilawan Pumidonming, Hirotaka Katahira, Makoto Igarashi, Doaa Salman, Abdelbaset E. Abdelbaset, Khamphon Sangkaeo

Acta Tropica, 178 213-218, Feb 1, 2018 Peer-reviewed

Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum infections in cattle in Mongolia.

IGARASHI Makoto

Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports, 14 11-17, 2018 Peer-reviewed

Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and other intestinal parasites in cats in Tokachi sub-prefecture, Japan.

IGARASHI Makoto

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, 80(6) 960-967, 2018 Peer-reviewed

Evaluation of novel oocyst wall protein candidates of Toxoplasma gondii

Doaa Salman, Liria Hiromi Okuda, Akio Ueno, George Dautu, Feifei Zhang, Makoto Igarashi

PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, 66(5) 643-651, Oct, 2017 Peer-reviewed

Lactate dehydrogenase in Toxoplasma gondii controls virulence, bradyzoite differentiation, and chronic infection.

IGARASHI Makoto

PLoS One, 12(3) e0173745, Mar, 2017 Peer-reviewed

Evaluation of recombinant antigens in combination and single formula for diagnosis of feline toxoplasmosis

Abdelbaset Eweda Abdelbaset, Hend Alhasan, Doaa Salman, Mohamed Hassan Karram, Mahmoud Abd Ellah Rushdi, Xuan Xuenan, Makoto Igarashi

EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY, 172 1-4, Jan, 2017 Peer-reviewed

Prevalence of gastrointestinal helminth parasites of zoonotic significance in dogs and cats in lower Northern Thailand

Wilawan Pumidonming, Doaa Salman, Dulyatad Gronsang, E. Abdelbaset Abdelbaset, Khamphon Sangkaeo, Shin-ichiro Kawazu, Makoto Igarashi

JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE, 78(12) 1779-1784, Dec, 2016 Peer-reviewed

Kinetic analysis of specific antibodies in serum and urine of experimentally Encephalitozoon cuniculi-infected rabbits.

IGARASHI Makoto

J. Protozool. Res., 26 11-17, 2016 Peer-reviewed

erological Survey and Factors Associated with Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Domestic Goats in Myanmar.

IGARASHI Makoto

Scientifica, 2016(4794318), Jan, 2016 Peer-reviewed

Characterization of Toxoplasma gondii glyoxalase 1 and evaluation of inhibitory effects of curcumin on the enzyme and parasite cultures

Youn-Kyoung Goo, Junya Yamagishi, Akio Ueno, Mohamad Alaa Terkawi, Gabriel Oluga Aboge, Dongmi Kwak, Yeonchul Hong, Dong-Il Chung, Makoto Igarashi, Yoshifumi Nishikawa …

PARASITES & VECTORS, 8 654, Dec, 2015 Peer-reviewed

Structural and Functional Divergence of the Aldolase Fold in Toxoplasma gondii

Michelle L. Tonkin, Andrei S. Halavaty, Raghavendran Ramaswamy, Jiapeng Ruan, Makoto Igarashi, Huan M. Ngo, Martin J. Boulanger

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 427(4) 840-852, Feb, 2015 Peer-reviewed

Seroprevalences of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in Pet Rabbits in Japan

Doaa Salman, Eiji Oohashi, Adel Elsayed Ahmed Mohamed, Abd El-Raheem Abd El-Mottelib, Tadashi Okada, Makoto Igarashi

JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE, 76(6) 855-862, Jun, 2014 Peer-reviewed

Actin polymerization mediated by Babesia gibsoni aldolase is required for parasite invasion

Youn-Kyoung Goo, Akio Ueno, Mohamad Alaa Terkawi, G. Oluga Aboge, Yamagishi Junya, Makoto Igarashi, Jung-Yeon Kim, Yeon-Chul Hong, Dong-Il Chung, Yoshifumi Nishikawa …

EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY, 135(1) 42-49, Sep, 2013 Peer-reviewed

A novel dense granule protein, GRA22, is involved in regulating parasite egress in Toxoplasma gondii

Tadashi Okada, Dini Marmansari, Zeng-mei Li, Altanchimeg Adilbish, Shishenkov Canko, Akio Ueno, Haruhi Shono, Hidefumi Furuoka, Makoto Igarashi

MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY, 189(1-2) 5-13, May, 2013 Peer-reviewed

Toxoplasma gondii: A bradyzoite-specific DnaK-tetratricopeptide repeat (DnaK-TPR) protein interacts with p23 co-chaperone protein

Akio Ueno, George Dautu, Kaori Haga, Biscah Munyaka, Gabriella Carmen, Yoshiyasu Kobayashi, Makoto Igarashi

EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY, 127(4) 795-803, Apr, 2011 Peer-reviewed

Toxoplasma gondii deoxyribose phosphate aldolase-like protein (TgDPA) interacts with actin depolymerizing factor (TgADF) to enhance the actin filament dynamics in the bradyzoite stage

Akio Ueno, George Dautu, Erisha Saiki, Kaori Haga, Makoto Igarashi

MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY, 173(1) 39-42, Sep, 2010 Peer-reviewed

High-Resolution Characterization of Toxoplasma gondii Transcriptome with a Massive Parallel Sequencing Method

Junya Yamagishi, Hiroyuki Wakaguri, Akio Ueno, Youn-Kyoung Goo, Mohammed Tolba, Makoto Igarashi, Yoshifumi Nishikawa, Chihiro Sugimoto, Sumio Sugano, Yutaka Suzuki …

DNA RESEARCH, 17(4) 233-243, Aug, 2010 Peer-reviewed

Characterization of a novel thrombospondin-related protein in Toxoplasma gondii

Osamu Kawase, Yoshifumi Nishikawa, Hiroshi Bannai, Makoto Igarashi, Tomohide Matsuo, Xuenan Xuan

PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, 59(2) 211-216, Jun, 2010 Peer-reviewed

Identification of cross-reactive antigen of Plasmodium falciparum able to control Toxoplasma gondii infection.

IGARASHI Makoto

J. Protozool. Res., 20(1) 82-88, 2010 Peer-reviewed

Microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi antibodies in rabbit urine samples.

IGARASHI Makoto

The Veterinary record, 165(3) 85-86, Aug, 2009 Peer-reviewed