Kentaro Nagaoka

The paper develops a Herbivore-Carnivore index to assess diet and health in human gut microbiota, finding humans fall between herbivores and carnivores with diet and health linked to HC-index values.

This study maps the expression of PAQR6 and PAQR8 in ruminant reproductive tissues using antibodies and qPCR, showing their localization and dynamic gene expression changes during pregnancy.

The paper identifies cell-type-specific expression patterns of classical and membrane progesterone receptors at the human maternal-fetal interface using single-cell and spatial transcriptomic data.

This study identifies maternal progesterone signaling through mPRδ as critical for establishing lifelong oral homeostasis via a hormone-lipid-microbiome axis.

This study shows that maternal progesterone and adipose mPRε regulate the embryonic nutritional state by affecting glucose provision and metabolic outcomes in offspring.