Japan's only national university specializing in physical education.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE of FITNESS and SPORTS in KANOYA

HIGUCHI Koji
Name
HIGUCHI Koji
Job title
Associate Professor
TEL
Education
鹿児島大学医学部 1998年卒業
Degree
博士(医学)(鹿児島大学 2012年8月)

専門分野 (Research Areas)

  • 循環器病学
  • 心筋症
  • ファブリー病、アミロイドーシス

主な研究内容 (Main research contents)

  • ファブリー病の遺伝子型と表現型の関連
  • ファブリー病の表現型の多様性について

資格 (Qualification)

  • 日本内科学会 認定内科医、総合内科専門医
  • 日本循環器学会 循環器専門医
  • 日本心臓病学会 日本心臓病学会上級臨床医(FJCC)
  • 産業医

競技歴 (Achievement as a competitor)

実技指導歴 (Achievements as a coach)

Published Papers

2023

  • The Kagoshima-DVT Score Is a Useful Predictive Model for Cancer-Associated Thrombosis in Patients With Gastrointestinal Cancer. Keisuke Shibata,Akihiro Tokushige,Yuki Hamamoto,Koji Higuchi,Masakazu Imamura,Yoshiyuki Ikeda,Mitsuru Ohishi Circulation reports Volume 5 Issues 2 19-26 February 10,2023 DOI

2021

  • Hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and nocturia: a systematic review of the pathophysiological mechanisms. Mitsuru Ohishi,Takuro Kubozono,Koji Higuchi,Yuichi Akasaki Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension Volume 44 Issues 7 733-739 July,2021 DOI

2017

  • Fabry disease. Toshinori Yuasa,Toshihiro Takenaka,Koji Higuchi,Nami Uchiyama,Yoshihisa Horizoe,Hideto Cyaen,Naoko Mizukami,Kunitsugu Takasaki,Akira Kisanuki,Masaaki Miyata,Mitsuru Ohishi Journal of echocardiography Volume 15 Issues 4 151-157 December,2017 DOI
  • Prevalence and clinical features of Fabry disease in Japanese male patients with diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Toru Kubo,Yuri Ochi,Yuichi Baba,Takayoshi Hirota,Katsutoshi Tanioka,Naohito Yamasaki,Makoto Yoshimitsu,Koji Higuchi,Toshihiro Takenaka,Kimiko Nakajima,Tadayasu Togawa,Takahiro Tsukimura,Shigetoshi Sano,Chuwa Tei,Hitoshi Sakuraba,Hiroaki Kitaoka Journal of cardiology Volume 69 Issues 1 302-307 January,2017 DOI

2013

  • Recombinant thrombomodulin protects mice against histone-induced lethal thromboembolism. Mayumi Nakahara,Takashi Ito,Ko-ichi Kawahara,Mika Yamamoto,Tomoka Nagasato,Binita Shrestha,Shingo Yamada,Takahiro Miyauchi,Koji Higuchi,Toshihiro Takenaka,Tomotsugu Yasuda,Akira Matsunaga,Yasuyuki Kakihana,Teruto Hashiguchi,Yuichi Kanmura,Ikuro Maruyama PloS one Volume 8 Issues 9 e75961 2013 DOI

2012

  • Neonatal transfer of membrane-bound stem cell factor improves survival and heart function in aged mice after myocardial ischemia. Zhuo Sun,Chyan-Jang Lee,Salvador Mejia-Guerrero,Yuemei Zhang,Koji Higuchi,Ren-Ke Li,Jeffrey A Medin Human gene therapy Volume 23 Issues 12 1280-9 December,2012 DOI

2011

  • Sequencing and characterization of the porcine α-galactosidase A gene: towards the generation of a porcine model for Fabry disease. Makoto Yoshimitsu,Koji Higuchi,Xin Fan,Sonshin Takao,Jeffrey A Medin,Chuwa Tei,Toshihiro Takenaka Molecular biology reports Volume 38 Issues 5 3145-52 June,2011 DOI
  • Identification of novel mutations in the α-galactosidase A gene in patients with Fabry disease: pitfalls of mutation analyses in patients with low α-galactosidase A activity. Makoto Yoshimitsu,Koji Higuchi,Masaaki Miyata,Sean Devine,Andre Mattman,Sandra Sirrs,Jeffrey A Medin,Chuwa Tei,Toshihiro Takenaka Journal of cardiology Volume 57 Issues 3 345-53 May,2011 DOI

2010

  • Alpha-galactosidase A-Tat fusion enhances storage reduction in hearts and kidneys of Fabry mice. Koji Higuchi,Makoto Yoshimitsu,Xin Fan,Xiaoxin Guo,Vanessa I Rasaiah,Jennifer Yen,Chuwa Tei,Toshihiro Takenaka,Jeffrey A Medin Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) Volume 16 Issues 5-6 216-21 2010 DOI

2009

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor broadens lentivector distribution in the heart after neonatal injection. Takeya Sato,Shobha Ramsubir,Koji Higuchi,Teruyuki Yanagisawa,Jeffrey A Medin Journal of cardiology Volume 54 Issues 2 245-54 October,2009 DOI
  • Direct injection of kit ligand-2 lentivirus improves cardiac repair and rescues mice post-myocardial infarction. Koji Higuchi,Bilal Ayach,Takeya Sato,Manyin Chen,Sean P Devine,Vanessa I Rasaiah,Fayez Dawood,Teruyuki Yanagisawa,Chuwa Tei,Toshihiro Takenaka,Peter P Liu,Jeffrey A Medin Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy Volume 17 Issues 2 262-8 February,2009 DOI

2008

  • Terminal stage cardiac findings in patients with cardiac Fabry disease: an electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and autopsy study. Toshihiro Takenaka,Hiroyuki Teraguchi,Aichi Yoshida,Syuhei Taguchi,Kenjiro Ninomiya,Yoshihisa Umekita,Hiroki Yoshida,Michiko Horinouchi,Kazuhiro Tabata,Suguru Yonezawa,Makoto Yoshimitsu,Koji Higuchi,Shoichiro Nakao,Ryuichiro Anan,Shinichi Minagoe,Chuwa Tei Journal of cardiology Volume 51 Issues 1 50-9 February,2008 DOI

2007

  • Efficient correction of Fabry mice and patient cells mediated by lentiviral transduction of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. M Yoshimitsu,K Higuchi,S Ramsubir,T Nonaka,V I Rasaiah,C Siatskas,S-B Liang,G J Murray,R O Brady,J A Medin Gene therapy Volume 14 Issues 3 256-65 February,2007
  • Lentiviral vectors for gene therapy of heart disease. Koji Higuchi,Jeffrey A Medin Journal of cardiology Volume 49 Issues 1 1-11 January,2007

2006

  • Correction of cardiac abnormalities in fabry mice by direct intraventricular injection of a recombinant lentiviral vector that engineers expression of alpha-galactosidase A. Makoto Yoshimitsu,Koji Higuchi,Fayez Dawood,Vanessa I Rasaiah,Bilal Ayach,Manyin Chen,Peter Liu,Jeffrey A Medin Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society Volume 70 Issues 11 1503-8 November,2006
  • Stem cell factor receptor induces progenitor and natural killer cell-mediated cardiac survival and repair after myocardial infarction. Bilal B Ayach,Makoto Yoshimitsu,Fayez Dawood,Mei Sun,Sara Arab,Manyin Chen,Koji Higuchi,Christopher Siatskas,Paul Lee,Hilda Lim,Jane Zhang,Eva Cukerman,William L Stanford,Jeffrey A Medin,Peter P Liu Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Volume 103 Issues 7 2304-9 February 14,2006

2003

  • [Usefulness of rapid quantitative cardiac troponin T and myoglobin assays for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction]. Koji Higuchi,Satoshi Abe,Tatsuru Matsuoka,Hitoshi Nakajima,Hitoshi Toda,Yuichi Akasaki,Hiroyuki Torii,Sou Kuwahata,Yoshihiko Atsuchi,Koshi Mawatari,Yoshifumi Toyama,Masahiko Saigo,Masakazu Ogawa,Tatsuya Kawasaki,Toshiyuki Ootani,Kenichi Yamaguchi,Masaki Mishima,Chuwa Tei Journal of cardiology Volume 41 Issues 2 55-62 February,2003

Misc

2010

  • VEGF increases lentivector distribution after neonatal injection Takeya Sato,Shobha Ramsubir,Koji Higuchi,Jeffrey Medin,Teruyuki Yanagisawa JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES Volume 112 128P-128P 2010