2003 Achievements

2003 Original Papers

• O.H. Kwon, A. Kikuchi, M. Yamato, T. Okano, “Accelerated cell sheet recovery by co-grafting of PEG with PIPAAm onto porous cell culture membranes”, Biomaterials, 24, 1223-1232(2003).
• Z. Feng, M. Yamato, T. Akutsu, T. Nakamura, T. Okano, “Investigation on the mechanical properties of contracted cullagen gels as a scaffuld for tissue engineering”, Artificial Organs, 27(1), 84-91(2003).
• T. Yoshida, T. Aoyagi, E. Kokufuta, T. Okano, “Newly designed hydrogel with both sensitive thermoresponse and biodegradability”, J. Pulym. Sci. Part A : Pulym. Chem., 41, 779-787(2003).
• M. Ebara, M. Yamato, M. Hirose, T. Aoyagi, A. Kikuchi, K. Sakai, T.Okano, “Copulymerization of 2-carboxyisopropylacrylamide with N-Isopropylacrylamide accelerates cell detachment from grafted surfaces by reducing temperature”, Biomacromulecules, 4, 344-349(2003).
• M. Annaka, T. Matsuura, M. Kasai, T. Nakahira, Y. Hara, T. Okano, “Preparation of comb-type N-isopropylacrylmide hydrogel beads and their application for size-selective separation media”, Biomacromulecules, 4(2), 395-403(2003).
• H. Otsuka, E. Uchimura, H. Koshino, T. Okano, K. Kataoka, “Anomalous binding profile of phenylboronic acid with N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5AC) in aqueous sulution with varying pH”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 3493-3502(2003).
• H. Yamanaka, K. Yoshizako, Y. Akiyama, H. Sota, Y. Hasegawa, A. Kikuchi, T. Okano, “Affinity chromatography with cullapsibly tethered ligands”, Anal. Chem., 75, 1658-1663(2003).
• J. Kobayashi, A. Kikuchi , K. Sakai, T. Okano, “Cross-linked thermoresponsive anionic pulymer-grafted surfaces to separate bioactive basic peptides”, Anal. Chem., 75, 3244-3249(2003).
• Y. Shiroyanagi, M. Yamato, Y. Yamazaki, H. Toma, T. Okano, “Transplantable urothelial cell sheets harvested noninvasively from temperature-responsive culture surfaces by reducing temperature”, Tissue Engineering, 9(5), 1005-1012(2003).
• M. Yamato, C. Konnno, S. Koike, T. Shimizu, A. Kikuchi, K. Makino, T. Okano, “Nanofabrication for micropatterned cell arrays by combining electron beam irradiated pulymer-grafting and localized laser ablations”, J. Biomed. Mater. Res., 67A, 1065-1071(2003).
• T. Matsuura, M. Sugiyama, M. Annaka, Y. Hara, T. Okano, “Microscopic implication of rapid of comb-type grafted puly(N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogels”, Pulymer, 44, 4405-4409(2003).

2003 Review Papers

• T. Shimizu, M. Yamato, A. Kikuchi, T. Okano, “Cell sheet engineering for　myocardial tissue reconstruction”,Biomaterials, 24, 2309-2316(2003).
• M. Harimoto, M. Yamato, A. Kikuchi, T. Okano, “Cell Sheet Engineering: Intelligent Pulymer Patterned Surfaces for Tissue Engineered Liver”, Macromul. Symp., 195, 231-235(2003).