Articles

Hosoya K, Kyoko H, Toyooka N, Kato A, Orihashi M, Tomi M, Tachikawa M.
Evaluation of amino acid-mustard transport as L-type amino acid transporter 1 (LAT1)-mediated alkylating agents.
Biol Pharm Bull. 2008 Nov;31(11):2126-30.

Hosoya K, Fujita K, Tachikawa M.
Involvement of reduced folate carrier 1 in the inner blood-retinal barrier transport of methyltetrahydrofolate.
Drug Metab Pharmacokinet. 2008;23(4):285-92.

Tachikawa M, Fujinawa J, Takahashi M, Kasai Y, Fukaya M, Sakai K, Yamazaki M, Tomi M, Watanabe M, Sakimura K, Terasaki T, Hosoya K.
Expression and possible role of creatine transporter in the brain and at the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier as a transporting protein of guanidinoacetate, an endogenous convulsant.
J Neurochem. 2008 Nov;107(3):768-78.

Tachikawa M, Kasai Y, Takahashi M, Fujinawa J, Kitaichi K, Terasaki T, Hosoya K.
The blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier is a major pathway of cerebral creatinine clearance: involvement of transporter-mediated process.
J Neurochem. 2008 Oct;107(2):432-42.

Tomi M, Tajima A, Tachikawa M, Hosoya K.
Function of taurine transporter (Slc6a6/TauT) as a GABA transporting protein and its relevance to GABA transport in rat retinal capillary endothelial cells.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2008 Oct;1778(10):2138-42.

Hosoya K, Nakamura G, Akanuma S, Tomi M, Tachikawa M.
Dehydroascorbic acid uptake and intracellular ascorbic acid accumulation in cultured Müller glial cells (TR-MUL).
Neurochem Int. 2008 Jun;52(7):1351-7.

Tachikawa M, Toki H, Tomi M, Hosoya K.
Gene expression profiles of ATP-binding cassette transporter A and C subfamilies in mouse retinal vascular endothelial cells.
Microvasc Res. 2008 Jan;75(1):68-72.

Books and Reviews

細谷健一：吸収.「わかりやすい生物薬剤学」第4版, 辻　彰編, 13-57, 廣川書店, 東京, 2008.

Hosoya K., and Tomi M.: Inner blood-retinal barrier: transport biology and methodology, In Drug Absorption Studies-In Situ, In Vitro and In Silico Models, by Ehrhardt C., and Kim K.J.,(Ed.) 321-338, Springer, New York, 2008.

Tomi M., and Hosoya K.: Molecular mechanisms of the inner blood-retinal barrier transporters, In Ocular Transporters in Ophthalmic Diseases and Drug Delivery, by Tombran-Tink J., and Barnstable C.J.,(Ed.) 139-154, Springer, New York, 2008.