Imaging docking and fusion of insulin granules induced by antidiabetes agents: sulfonylurea and glinide drugs preferentially mediate the fusion of newcomer, but not previously docked, insulin granules.
Nagamatsu S, Ohara-Imaizumi M, Nakamichi Y, Kikuta T, Nishiwaki C, Diabetes, 2006 Oct - link

Docking and fusion of insulin secretory granules in SUR1 knock out mouse beta-cells observed by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy.
Kikuta T, Ohara-Imaizumi M, Nakazaki M, Nishiwaki C, Nakamichi Y, Tei C, Aguilar-Bryan L, Bryan J, Nagamatsu S, FEBS Lett, 2005 Mar 14 - link

Rab27a mediates the tight docking of insulin granules onto the plasma membrane during glucose stimulation.
Kasai K, Ohara-Imaizumi M, Takahashi N, Mizutani S, Zhao S, Kikuta T, Kasai H, Nagamatsu S, Gomi H, Izumi T, J Clin Invest, 2005 Feb - link

Correlation of syntaxin-1 and SNAP-25 clusters with docking and fusion of insulin granules analysed by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy.
Ohara-Imaizumi M, Nishiwaki C, Nakamichi Y, Kikuta T, Nagai S, Nagamatsu S, Diabetologia, 2004 Dec - link

The cytokine interleukin-1beta reduces the docking and fusion of insulin granules in pancreatic beta-cells, preferentially decreasing the first phase of exocytosis.
Ohara-Imaizumi M, Cardozo AK, Kikuta T, Eizirik DL, Nagamatsu S, J Biol Chem, 2004 Oct 1 - link

TIRF imaging of docking and fusion of single insulin granule motion in primary rat pancreatic beta-cells: different behaviour of granule motion between normal and Goto-Kakizaki diabetic rat beta-cells.
Ohara-Imaizumi M, Nishiwaki C, Kikuta T, Nagai S, Nakamichi Y, Nagamatsu S, Biochem J, 2004 Jul 1 - link

Site of docking and fusion of insulin secretory granules in live MIN6 beta cells analyzed by TAT-conjugated anti-syntaxin 1 antibody and total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy.
Ohara-Imaizumi M, Nishiwaki C, Kikuta T, Kumakura K, Nakamichi Y, Nagamatsu S, J Biol Chem, 2004 Feb 27 - link