Bisei Ohkawara

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Bisei Ohkawara is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bisei Ohkawara has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Neurology and 16 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Bisei Ohkawara's work include Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer (18 papers), Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma (14 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers). Bisei Ohkawara is often cited by papers focused on Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer (18 papers), Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma (14 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers). Bisei Ohkawara collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Bisei Ohkawara's co-authors include Christof Niehrs, Kinji Ohno, Mikako Ito, Akio Masuda, Hiroshi Shibuyà, Naoto Ueno, Michael Boutros, Andrei Glinka, Emil Karaulanov and Sergio P. Acebrón and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Bisei Ohkawara

70 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

The receptor tyrosine kinase Ror2 is involved in non‐canonical Wnt5a/JNK signalling pathway

2003 605 citations Bisei Ohkawara, Hiroshi Shibuyà et al. profile →
Requirement of Prorenin Receptor and Vacuolar H ⁺ -ATPase–Mediated Acidification for Wnt Signaling

2010 454 citations Bisei Ohkawara, Sergio P. Acebrón et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bisei Ohkawara Japan	30	2.8k	575	497	396	332	71	3.8k
An Zwijsen Belgium	35	3.4k 1.2×	512 0.9×	454 0.9×	135 0.3×	357 1.1×	87	4.7k
Peter Pytel United States	32	1.8k 0.6×	375 0.7×	187 0.4×	620 1.6×	548 1.7×	126	3.7k
Elisabeth Raschperger Sweden	16	1.4k 0.5×	308 0.5×	274 0.6×	242 0.6×	401 1.2×	17	3.1k
Luke T. Krebs United States	18	2.3k 0.8×	362 0.6×	221 0.4×	433 1.1×	197 0.6×	22	3.1k
Nick Thomas United Kingdom	27	3.2k 1.1×	403 0.7×	1.3k 2.7×	484 1.2×	164 0.5×	41	4.6k
António Duarte Portugal	24	3.1k 1.1×	703 1.2×	241 0.5×	230 0.6×	518 1.6×	54	4.1k
Gregory E. Hannigan Canada	27	1.9k 0.7×	1.0k 1.8×	210 0.4×	292 0.7×	477 1.4×	41	3.7k
Ivan B. Lobov United States	13	2.3k 0.8×	362 0.6×	314 0.6×	103 0.3×	435 1.3×	25	3.0k
Akihiko Shimono Japan	31	3.2k 1.1×	895 1.6×	609 1.2×	145 0.4×	384 1.2×	50	4.3k
Bernd Wollnik Germany	36	2.8k 1.0×	304 0.5×	1.6k 3.2×	173 0.4×	211 0.6×	138	4.3k

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Ito, Mikako, Tomoya Hasegawa, Bisei Ohkawara, et al.. (2025). The Rieske iron-sulfur protein is a primary target of molecular hydrogen. Redox Biology. 88. 103952–103952. 1 indexed citations

Ohkawara, Bisei, K. Nakajima, Jun‐ichi Takeda, et al.. (2024). Muscle-specific lack of Gfpt1 triggers ER stress to alleviate misfolded protein accumulation. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 17(8). 4 indexed citations

Matsushita, Masaki, Kenichi Mishima, Bisei Ohkawara, et al.. (2024). Long-term oral meclozine administration improves survival rate and spinal canal stenosis during postnatal growth in a mouse model of achondroplasia in both sexes. JBMR Plus. 8(4). ziae018–ziae018. 1 indexed citations

Ohkawara, Bisei, Akinori Kanai, Kiyomi Imamura, et al.. (2023). Transcriptome profile of subsynaptic myonuclei at the neuromuscular junction in embryogenesis. Journal of Neurochemistry. 168(4). 342–354. 5 indexed citations

Ohno, Kinji, Bisei Ohkawara, Xin‐Ming Shen, Duygu Selcen, & Andrew G. Engel. (2023). Clinical and Pathologic Features of Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes Caused by 35 Genes—A Comprehensive Review. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(4). 3730–3730. 52 indexed citations

Ito, Mikako, et al.. (2023). Neural Isoforms of Agrin Are Generated by Reduced PTBP1−RNA Interaction Network Spanning the Neuron−Specific Splicing Regions in AGRN. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(8). 7420–7420. 1 indexed citations

Koike, Hiroshi, Yoshihiro Nishida, Tamayuki Shinomura, et al.. (2022). Possible Repositioning of an Oral Anti-Osteoporotic Drug, Ipriflavone, for Treatment of Inflammatory Arthritis via Inhibitory Activity of KIAA1199, a Novel Potent Hyaluronidase. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(8). 4089–4089. 4 indexed citations

Ohkawara, Bisei, Mikako Ito, & Kinji Ohno. (2021). Secreted Signaling Molecules at the Neuromuscular Junction in Physiology and Pathology. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(5). 2455–2455. 30 indexed citations

Masuda, Akio, Yoshihiro Yamashita, Jun‐ichi Takeda, et al.. (2021). Regulated splicing of large exons is linked to phase‐separation of vertebrate transcription factors. The EMBO Journal. 40(22). e107485–e107485. 11 indexed citations

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Ohkawara, Bisei, Shunsuke Kanbara, Takako Hattori, et al.. (2020). CTGF/CCN2 facilitates LRP4‐mediated formation of the embryonic neuromuscular junction. EMBO Reports. 21(8). e48462–e48462. 17 indexed citations

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Huang, Kun, Akio Masuda, Guiying Chen, et al.. (2020). Inhibition of cyclooxygenase-1 by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs demethylates MeR2 enhancer and promotes Mbnl1 transcription in myogenic cells. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 2558–2558. 16 indexed citations

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Ohkawara, Bisei, Yasuhiko Takegami, Mikako Ito, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Mianserin suppresses R-spondin 2-induced activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling in chondrocytes and prevents cartilage degradation in a rat model of osteoarthritis. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 1 indexed citations

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Masuda, Akio, et al.. (2020). tRIP‐seq reveals repression of premature polyadenylation by co‐transcriptional FUS‐U1 snRNP assembly. EMBO Reports. 21(5). e49890–e49890. 24 indexed citations

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Ohkawara, Bisei, Tadahiro Sakai, Mikako Ito, et al.. (2017). Wnt/β-catenin signaling suppresses expressions of Scx, Mkx, and Tnmd in tendon-derived cells. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0182051–e0182051. 50 indexed citations

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Miyamoto, Kentaro, Bisei Ohkawara, Mikako Ito, et al.. (2017). Fluoxetine ameliorates cartilage degradation in osteoarthritis by inhibiting Wnt/β-catenin signaling. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0184388–e0184388. 29 indexed citations

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Selcen, Duygu, Xin‐Ming Shen, Bisei Ohkawara, et al.. (2015). Congenital myasthenic syndrome (CMS) caused by novel mutation in LRP4. Phenotypic heterogeneity and defects in neuromuscular transmission (NMT) identified in a second kinship (P2.021). Neurology. 84(14_supplement). 1 indexed citations

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Dolde, Christine, et al.. (2013). RNA Helicase DDX3 Is a Regulatory Subunit of Casein Kinase 1 in Wnt–β-Catenin Signaling. Science. 339(6126). 1436–1441. 164 indexed citations

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Ohkawara, Bisei, Sergio P. Acebrón, Emil Karaulanov, et al.. (2010). Requirement of Prorenin Receptor and Vacuolar H ⁺ -ATPase–Mediated Acidification for Wnt Signaling. Science. 327(5964). 459–463. 454 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yamada, Misato, Junji Ohnishi, Bisei Ohkawara, et al.. (2006). NARF, an Nemo-like Kinase (NLK)-associated Ring Finger Protein Regulates the Ubiquitylation and Degradation of T Cell Factor/Lymphoid Enhancer Factor (TCF/LEF). Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(30). 20749–20760. 116 indexed citations

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Ohkawara, Bisei, Misako Okuno, Takashi Ishii, Makoto Horiuchi, & Yasuhiro Tomooka. (2002). Characterization of a multipotent neural progenitor cell line cloned from an adult p53−/− mouse cerebellum. Brain Research. 959(1). 11–19. 5 indexed citations

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