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  1. Ichikawa, T.*, Hirahara, K.*, Kokubo, K.*, Kiuchi, M., Aoki, A., Morimoto, Y., Kumagai, J., Onodera, A., Mato, N., Tumes, D., Goto, Y., Hagiwara, K., Inagaki, Y., Sparwasser, T., Tobe, K., and Nakayama, T.: CD103hi Treg cells constrain lung fibrosis induced by CD103low tissue-resident pathogenic CD4 T cells. *These authors contributed equally to this work. Nat. Immunol. in press.
  2. Endo, Y., Onodera, A., Obata-Ninomiya, K., Koyama-Nasu, R., Asou, H. K., Ito, T., Yamamoto, T., Kanno, T., Nakajima, T., Ishiwata, K., Kanuka, H., Tumes, D. J., and Nakayama, T.: Acc1 determines memory potential of indivisual CD4+ T cells by regulating de novo fatty acid biosynthesis. Nature Metabolisum 1:61–275 (2019)
  3. Morimoto, Y., Hirahara, K., Kiuchi, M., Wada, T., Ichikawa, T., Kanno, T., Okano, M., Kokubo, K., Onodera, A., Sakurai, D., Okamoto, Y., and Nakayama, T.: Amphiregulin-producing pathogenic memory T helper-2 cells instruct eosinophils to secrete Osteopontin and facilitate airway fibrosis. Immunity 49:134-150 (2018)
  4. Nakayama, T.: Introduction to "allergic inflammation". Immunolo. Rev. 278:5-7(2017)
  5. Nakayama, T., Hirahara, K., Onodera, A., Endo, Y., Hosokawa, H., Shinoda, K., Tumes, D. J., and Okamoto, Y.: Th2 Cells in Health and Disease. Annu. Rev. Immunol. 35:53-84 (2017)