Anthony Kanai

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
136 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Anthony Kanai is a scholar working on Urology, Rheumatology and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Anthony Kanai has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Urology, 41 papers in Rheumatology and 24 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Anthony Kanai's work include Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research (97 papers), Pelvic floor disorders treatments (40 papers) and Urological Disorders and Treatments (22 papers). Anthony Kanai is often cited by papers focused on Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research (97 papers), Pelvic floor disorders treatments (40 papers) and Urological Disorders and Treatments (22 papers). Anthony Kanai collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Anthony Kanai's co-authors include Lori A. Birder, William C. de Groat, Gerard Apodaca, Youko Ikeda, Susanna Kiss, Christopher Fry, Michael J. Caterina, Michele L. Nealen, Guy Salama and Stacey Barrick and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Anthony Kanai

130 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Altered urinary bladder function in mice lacking the vanilloid receptor TRPV1

2002 541 citations Lori A. Birder, Anthony Kanai et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anthony Kanai United States	40	3.0k	1.3k	1.2k	1.0k	978	136	5.7k
Lori A. Birder United States	53	5.9k 1.9×	1.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	2.1k 2.0×	1.5k 1.5×	205	9.0k
Alison F. Brading United Kingdom	49	3.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	2.3k 2.0×	1.8k 1.7×	810 0.8×	183	7.4k
Anthony Ford United States	51	2.4k 0.8×	2.1k 1.7×	2.2k 1.8×	683 0.7×	942 1.0×	135	8.3k
Petter Hedlund Sweden	39	2.2k 0.7×	531 0.4×	649 0.5×	549 0.5×	399 0.4×	160	4.4k
Paolo Santicioli Italy	52	2.2k 0.7×	2.9k 2.2×	3.1k 2.6×	465 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	243	8.1k
Masaki Yoshida Japan	27	1.6k 0.5×	644 0.5×	437 0.4×	958 0.9×	173 0.2×	100	3.1k
Sandro Giuliani Italy	52	1.6k 0.5×	2.8k 2.1×	3.8k 3.2×	434 0.4×	775 0.8×	285	8.3k
Sang Don Koh United States	41	462 0.2×	1.0k 0.8×	2.6k 2.2×	170 0.2×	1.5k 1.5×	108	5.6k
Tadashi Hisamitsu Japan	31	591 0.2×	893 0.7×	724 0.6×	395 0.4×	109 0.1×	144	3.4k
Hikaru Suzuki Japan	33	612 0.2×	1.8k 1.4×	2.1k 1.8×	141 0.1×	592 0.6×	166	4.4k

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Song, Qixiang, Sanjay Sinha, Bahareh Vahabi, et al.. (2025). Are There Potential New Therapeutic Avenues for Treating Idiopathic Nocturia? ICI‐RS 2025. Neurourology and Urodynamics.

Ikeda, Youko, Pradeep Tyagi, Yan Xing, et al.. (2025). 265 - Localized activation of vasopressin receptor 2 by small molecule agonist, fedovaptagon, induces bladder relaxation and urine reabsorption in mice. Continence. 15. 102189–102189. 1 indexed citations

Wolf‐Johnston, Amanda, et al.. (2024). 26 - Endogenous production of arginine vasopressin in the mouse urinary bladder. Continence. 12. 101368–101368. 2 indexed citations

Zabbarova, Irina, Youko Ikeda, Pradeep Tyagi, Lori A. Birder, & Anthony Kanai. (2024). 84 - Effects of aging and vasopressin receptor agonists on water reabsorption in the mouse urinary bladder. Continence. 12. 101426–101426. 1 indexed citations

Koeveringe, Gommert A. van, Karen D. McCloskey, Anthony Kanai, et al.. (2024). Can the Bladder Itself “Measure” Volume, and Thereby Help to Determine When Initiation of Voiding Should Occur? ICI‐RS 2024. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 44(3). 568–576. 1 indexed citations

Kanai, Anthony, Karel Everaert, Apostolos Apostolidis, et al.. (2024). A better understanding of basic science may help our management of LUTS/LUTD in older persons with nocturnal polyuria and nocturia: ICI‐RS 2024. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 43(8). 2300–2307. 1 indexed citations

Tyagi, Shachi, Christopher Chermansky, Anthony Kanai, et al.. (2023). Treating Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Older Adults: Intravesical Options. Drugs & Aging. 40(3). 241–261. 5 indexed citations

Birder, Lori A., Amanda Wolf‐Johnston, Irina Zabbarova, et al.. (2023). Hypoxanthine Induces Signs of Bladder Aging With Voiding Dysfunction and Lower Urinary Tract Remodeling. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 79(6). 2 indexed citations

Ikeda, Youko, Irina Zabbarova, Anthony Kanai, et al.. (2022). Effects of vasopressin receptor agonists on detrusor smooth muscle tone in young and aged bladders: Implications for nocturia treatment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 100032–100032. 8 indexed citations

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Bijos, Dominika, Bahareh Vahabi, Francesco Clavica, et al.. (2019). Modulation of Bladder Wall Micromotions Alters Intravesical Pressure Activity in the Isolated Bladder. Frontiers in Physiology. 9. 1937–1937. 8 indexed citations

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Ito, Hiroki, et al.. (2019). Sildenafil, a phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor, augments sphincter bursting and bladder afferent activity to enhance storage function and voiding efficiency in mice. British Journal of Urology. 124(1). 163–173. 7 indexed citations

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Ito, Hiroki, Bahareh Vahabi, Anthony Kanai, et al.. (2019). Influence of sildenafil on the purinergic components of nerve‐mediated and urothelial ATP release from the bladder of normal and spinal cord injured mice. British Journal of Pharmacology. 176(13). 2227–2237. 21 indexed citations

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Ryu, Jae Cheon, Susan E. Malley, Stephanie L. Daugherty, et al.. (2018). Role of proNGF/p75 signaling in bladder dysfunction after spinal cord injury. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 128(5). 1772–1786. 33 indexed citations

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Shimizu, Nobutaka, Naoki Wada, Takahiro Shimizu, et al.. (2018). Effects of nerve growth factor neutralization on TRP channel expression in laser-captured bladder afferent neurons in mice with spinal cord injury. Neuroscience Letters. 683. 100–103. 12 indexed citations

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Kullmann, F. Aura, Amanda Wolf‐Johnston, Youko Ikeda, et al.. (2018). Mitochondrial-targeted antioxidant therapy improves spinal cord injury associated urothelial dysfunction. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 1 indexed citations

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Drake, Marcus J., Christopher Fry, Hikaru Hashitani, et al.. (2018). What are the origins and relevance of spontaneous bladder contractions? ICI‐RS 2017. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 37(S4). S13–S19. 19 indexed citations

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Shimizu, Nobutaka, William F. Goins, Katsumi Kadekawa, et al.. (2017). Morphological changes in different populations of bladder afferent neurons detected by herpes simplex virus (HSV) vectors with cell-type-specific promoters in mice with spinal cord injury. Neuroscience. 364. 190–201. 21 indexed citations

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Ikeda, Youko, Irina Zabbarova, F. Aura Kullmann, Lori A. Birder, & Anthony Kanai. (2016). Bladder afferent neurons selectively interact with apical urothelial cells. Neurourology and Urodynamics.

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Ikeda, Youko, Lori A. Birder, William DeGroat, & Anthony Kanai. (2009). Interstitial cell P2Y6-receptors modulate detrusor overactivity following spinal cord transection. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 1 indexed citations

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Hanna‐Mitchell, Ann T., William de Groat, Anthony Kanai, Edwin S. Levitan, & Lori A. Birder. (2007). The correlation of vesicular traffic and transmitter release in bladder urothelial cells: involvement of urothelial muscarinic receptors and overactive bladder. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 2 indexed citations

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