Harakawa K, Kawarai S, Kryukov K, Nakagawa S, Moriya S,Imakawa K.
Buccal Swab Samples from Japanese Brown Cattle Fed with Limonite Reveal Altered Rumen Microbiome.
Animals (Basel). 2024 Jul 3;14(13):1968. doi:10.3390/ani14131968.

Bhattacharjee J, Rolfo A, Barbosa BF,Imakawa K, Ermini L.
Editorial: Developmental biology and endocrine research for a successful pregnancy.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2024 May 13;15:1411864. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2024.1411864.

Sakurai T, Kusama K, Imakawa K.
Progressive Exaptation of Endogenous Retroviruses in Placental Evolution in Cattle.
Biomolecules. 2023 Nov 21;13(12):1680. doi: 10.3390/biom13121680.

Inenaga T, Fukuoka K, Sumida M, Aiba S, Nishikaku K, Matsuno Y, Kobayashi T, Imakawa K.
Low proviral load in the Kumamoto strain of Japanese Brown cattle infected with the bovine leukemia virus.
BMC Vet Res. 2023 Oct 2;19(1):185. doi: 10.1186/s12917-023-03738-6.

Nakamura K, Kusama K, Hori M, Imakawa K.
Global analyses and potential effects of extracellular vesicles on the establishment of conceptus implantation during the peri-implantation period.
J Reprod Dev. 2023 Jul 25. doi: 10.1262/jrd.2023-044.

Bai R, Kusama K, Matsuno Y, Bai H, Sakurai T, Kimura K, Imakawa K.
Expression of NFIL3 and CEBPA regulated by IFNT induced-PGE2 in bovine endometrial stromal cells during the pre-implantation period.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2023 Feb 21;14:1075030. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1075030. eCollection 2023.

Hossain MB, Kobayashi T, Makimoto S, Matsuo M, Nishikaku K, Tan BJY, Rahman A, Rajib SA, Sugata K, Ohnuki N, Saito M, Inenaga T, Imakawa K, Satou Y.
Clone Dynamics and Its Application for the Diagnosis of Enzootic Bovine Leukosis.
J Virol. 2022 Dec 19:e0154222. doi: 10.1128/jvi.01542-22.

Sharawy HA, Hegab AO, Risha EF, El-Adl M, Soliman WT, Gohar MA, Fahmy RA, Farag VM, Imakawa K, Bazer FW, James D, Zaghloul A, Abdalla AA, Rabie MM, Elmetwally MA.
The vaginal and uterine blood flow changes during the ovsynch program and its impact on the pregnancy rates in Holstein dairy cows.
BMC Vet Res. 2022 Sep 17;18(1):350. doi: 10.1186/s12917-022-03444-9.

Imakawa K, Kusama K, Kaneko-Ishino T, Nakagawa S, Kitao K, Miyazawa T, Ishino F.
Endogenous Retroviruses and Placental Evolution, Development, and Diversity.
Cells. 2022 Aug 8;11(15):2458. doi: 10.3390/cells11152458.

Imakawa K, Matsuno Y, Fujiwara H.
New Roles for EVs, miRNA and lncRNA in Bovine Embryo Implantation.
Front Vet Sci. 2022 Jul 15;9:944370. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.944370.

Bai H, Kawahara M, Takahashi M, Imakawa K.
Recent progress of interferon-tau research and potential direction beyond pregnancy recognition.
J Reprod Dev. 2022 Jul 23. doi: 10.1262/jrd.2022-061.

Nishikaku K, Yonezawa T, Nishibori M, Harada M, Kawaguchi F, Sasazaki S, Torii Y, Imakawa K, Kawai K, Liu J, Mannen H, Kobayashi T.
Phylogenomics and Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Bovine Leukemia Virus Focusing on Asian Native Cattle: Insights Into the Early Origin and Global Dissemination.
Front Microbiol. 2022 Jun 24;13:917324. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.917324.

Rashid MB, Marey MA, Fukuda K, Haneda S, Kusama K, Shimada M, Imakawa K, Miyamoto A.
Intrauterine infusion of low levels of interferon-tau on day-8 post-estrus stimulates the bovine endometrium to secrete apolipoprotein-A1: A possible implication for early embryo tolerance.
Am J Reprod Immunol. 2022 Jul 4:e13592. doi: 10.1111/aji.13592.