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Mako Ogawa, MD, Ph.D.

Hans and Helen Koebig Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Reserach Services (151)
Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center

Phone: 843-789-6712

Email Dr. Ogawa Fax: 843-876-5381

 

Education:

  • 1958-1964     MD, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan

  • 1970-1973     PhD, University of Toronto, Institute of Medical Science, Toronto, Canada

Clinical Training:

1964-1965

Rotating Intern, US Naval Hospital, Jokosuka, Japan

1965-1966

Resident in Medicine, The Third Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka University Hospital, Osaka, Japan

1966-1968

Resident in Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School Affiliated Hospitals, Hanover, NH

1968-1970

Fellow in Hematology, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH

 

Research Interests:

My research interest has been in the cellular physiology of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Current focus is in the tissue reconstituting potentials of HSCs.

 

Dividing line

Recent Publications:

  • LaRue AC, Masuya M, Ebihara Y, Fleming PA, Visconti RP, Ogawa M, and Drake, CJ:  Hematopoietic origins of fibroblasts: I. In vivo studies of fibroblasts associated with solid tumors. Exp Hematol 34:208-218, 2006.
  • Ebihara Y, Masuya M, LaRue AC, Yang S, Owens RW, Argraves  K, Visconti RP, Fleming PA, Minamiguchi H, Hill WD, Martin-Studdard A, Drake CJ, Ogawa M:  Hematopoietic origin of fibroblasts: II. In vitro studies of fibroblasts, CFU-F and fibrocytes.  Exp Hematol 34:219-229, 2006.
  • Lang H, Ebihara Y, Schmiedt R, Minamiguchi H, Zhou D, Smythe N, Liu L, Ogawa M, Schulte B:  Contribution of bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells to adult mouse inner ear: Mesenchymal cells and fibrocytes.  J Comp Neurol 496:187-201, 2006. 
  • Visconti RP, Ebihara Y, LaRue AC, Fleming PA, McQuinn TC, Masuya M, Minamiguchi H, Markwald RR, Ogawa M, Drake CJ: An in vivo analysis of hematopoietic stem cell potential: Hematopoietic origin of cardiac valve interstitial cells. Circ Res 98:690-696, 2006
  • Wang Y, Schulte BA, LaRue AC, Ogawa M, Zhou D.  Total body irradiation selectively induces murine hematopoietic stem cell senescence.  Blood 107:358-366, 2006.
  • Ogawa M, LaRue AC, Drake CJ: Hematopoietic Origin of Fibroblasts/Myofibroblasts: Its Patho-physiological Implications. Blood 108:2893-2896, 2006.
  • LaRue AC, Ogawa M: Hematopoietic origin of fibrocytes. IN: Fibrocyets: New Insights into Tissue Repair and Systemic Sclerosis, Bucala R (ed), World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2007, pp 61-74.
  • Ogawa M, LaRue AC: Origin of fibroblast colony-forming units. Exp Hematol 35: 1319-1320, 2007

 

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