Neutrophil infiltration into inflammatory sites is one of the hallmarks of acute inflammation.
Locally produced chemotactic factors are presumed to mediate the sequence of events …

… Author links open overlay panel Takashi Wada , Kengo Furuichi , Norihiko Sakai , Yasunori
Iwata , Keiichi Yoshimoto , Miho Shimizu , Shin-Ichi Takeda , Kazuya Takasawa , Mitsuhiro …

Objective To develop and validate revised classification criteria for granulomatosis with
polyangiitis (GPA). Methods Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were recruited into …

Objective To develop and validate revised classification criteria for eosinophilic granulomatosis
with polyangiitis (EGPA). Methods Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were …

Objective To develop and validate classification criteria for microscopic polyangiitis (MPA).
Methods Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were recruited into an international …

This review covers the last 80 years of remarkable progress in the development of
mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) antagonists (MRAs) from synthesis of the first mineralocorticoid to …

Diabetic nephropathy has been traditionally diagnosed based on persistently high albuminuria
and a subsequent decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR), which is widely recognized …

Objective To develop and validate new classification criteria for Takayasu arteritis (TAK).
Methods Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were recruited into an international …

… .; Takashi Wada has received speaker honoraria from pharmaceutical company Daiichi-Sankyo
Co., Ltd., scholarship grants from Chugai pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; Susumu Ogawa has …

Fibrosis is a hallmark of progressive organ diseases. Monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1,
also termed as macrophage chemotactic and activating factor (MCAF/CCL2) and its …