Hiroaki Sunaga

1.1k total citations
33 papers, 799 citations indexed

About

Hiroaki Sunaga is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiroaki Sunaga has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 799 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 11 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Hiroaki Sunaga's work include Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (13 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (11 papers) and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (7 papers). Hiroaki Sunaga is often cited by papers focused on Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (13 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (11 papers) and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (7 papers). Hiroaki Sunaga collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Indonesia and Australia. Hiroaki Sunaga's co-authors include Masahiko Kurabayashi, Tatsuya Iso, Hiroki Matsui, Tomoyuki Yokoyama, Norimichi Koitabashi, Masaru Obokata, Mas Rizky A. A. Syamsunarno, Hirofumi Hanaoka, Aiko Yamaguchi and Manabu Ueno and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Hiroaki Sunaga

32 papers receiving 794 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hiroaki Sunaga Japan	17	321	243	210	106	101	33	799
Simona Marchitti Italy	19	379 1.2×	166 0.7×	384 1.8×	80 0.8×	144 1.4×	49	934
Marjut Louhelainen Finland	15	307 1.0×	135 0.6×	203 1.0×	55 0.5×	63 0.6×	20	698
Delyth Graham United Kingdom	18	232 0.7×	153 0.6×	293 1.4×	71 0.7×	56 0.6×	32	839
Kurt D. Marshall United States	10	214 0.7×	196 0.8×	337 1.6×	76 0.7×	64 0.6×	13	719
Stêfany Bruno de Assis Cáu Brazil	17	170 0.5×	193 0.8×	198 0.9×	85 0.8×	72 0.7×	32	713
Asif Anwar United States	13	277 0.9×	180 0.7×	173 0.8×	77 0.7×	76 0.8×	22	721
Ryo Takeda Japan	13	277 0.9×	124 0.5×	127 0.6×	55 0.5×	86 0.9×	33	756
R. Garrett Morgan United States	15	290 0.9×	375 1.5×	201 1.0×	44 0.4×	116 1.1×	20	932
Ne N. Wu China	14	461 1.4×	177 0.7×	226 1.1×	65 0.6×	224 2.2×	16	899

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Sunaga, Hiroaki, Kuniko Yoshida, Kazuki Kagami, et al.. (2025). Prognostic Impact of Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 in Patients With Heart Failure. Circulation Reports. 7(10). 922–929.

Matsui, Hiroki, Hiroaki Sunaga, Kohzo Nagata, et al.. (2024). Sacubitril/valsartan improves diastolic left ventricular stiffness with increased titin phosphorylation via cGMP-PKG activation in diabetic mice. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 25081–25081. 4 indexed citations

Obokata, Masaru, Hiroki Matsui, Y. Seki, et al.. (2023). Pathophysiologic Contributions of Visceral Adiposity to Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction. Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease. 10(6). 247–247. 2 indexed citations

Kawakami, Ryo, Hiroaki Sunaga, Tatsuya Iso, et al.. (2022). Ketone body and FGF21 coordinately regulate fasting-induced oxidative stress response in the heart. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 7338–7338. 11 indexed citations

Kawakami, Ryo, Ayumu Konno, Ryosuke Kaneko, et al.. (2021). Urinary FABP1 is a biomarker for impaired proximal tubular protein reabsorption and is synergistically enhanced by concurrent liver injury. The Journal of Pathology. 255(4). 362–373. 8 indexed citations

Kawakami, Ryo, Mas Rizky A. A. Syamsunarno, Hideru Obinata, et al.. (2021). Reduced Fatty Acid Use from CD36 Deficiency Deteriorates Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Cardiomyopathy in Mice. Metabolites. 11(12). 881–881. 4 indexed citations

Kagami, Kazuki, Hiroaki Sunaga, Hidemi Sorimachi, et al.. (2021). Prognostic Impact of Elevated Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 1 in Patients with Heart Failure. ESC Heart Failure. 8(2). 1494–1501. 5 indexed citations

Harada, Tomonari, Hiroaki Sunaga, Kazuki Kagami, et al.. (2021). Pathophysiological and diagnostic importance of fatty acid-binding protein 1 in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 21175–21175. 4 indexed citations

Harada, Tomonari, Hiroaki Sunaga, Hidemi Sorimachi, et al.. (2020). Pathophysiological Role of Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 4 in Asian Patients with Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction. ESC Heart Failure. 7(6). 4256–4266. 27 indexed citations

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Koitabashi, Norimichi, Hiroki Matsui, Hiroaki Sunaga, et al.. (2020). DPP-4 inhibitor induces FGF21 expression via sirtuin 1 signaling and improves myocardial energy metabolism. Heart and Vessels. 36(1). 136–146. 21 indexed citations

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Iso, Tatsuya, Hiroaki Sunaga, Hiroki Matsui, et al.. (2019). Exercise endurance capacity is markedly reduced due to impaired energy homeostasis during prolonged fasting in FABP4/5 deficient mice. BMC Physiology. 19(1). 1–1. 5 indexed citations

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Ueno, Manabu, Toshitaka Maeno, Koichi Yamaguchi, et al.. (2019). Reduced transient receptor potential vanilloid 2 expression in alveolar macrophages causes COPD in mice through impaired phagocytic activity. BMC Pulmonary Medicine. 19(1). 70–70. 13 indexed citations

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Syamsunarno, Mas Rizky A. A., Norimichi Koitabashi, Hideru Obinata, et al.. (2018). Myocardial fatty acid uptake through CD36 is indispensable for sufficient bioenergetic metabolism to prevent progression of pressure overload-induced heart failure. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 12035–12035. 33 indexed citations

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Syamsunarno, Mas Rizky A. A., Hideru Obinata, Aiko Yamaguchi, et al.. (2017). Robust suppression of cardiac energy catabolism with marked accumulation of energy substrates during lipopolysaccharide-induced cardiac dysfunction in mice. Metabolism. 77. 47–57. 33 indexed citations

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Iso, Tatsuya, Hiroaki Sunaga, Hiroki Matsui, et al.. (2017). Serum levels of fatty acid binding protein 4 and fat metabolic markers in relation to catecholamines following exercise. Clinical Biochemistry. 50(16-17). 896–902. 19 indexed citations

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Obokata, Masaru, Hiroaki Sunaga, Hideki Ishida, et al.. (2016). Independent and incremental prognostic value of novel cardiac biomarkers in chronic hemodialysis patients. American Heart Journal. 179. 29–41. 43 indexed citations

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Syamsunarno, Mas Rizky A. A., Tatsuya Iso, Aiko Yamaguchi, et al.. (2015). CD36 is indispensable for thermogenesis under conditions of fasting and cold stress. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 457(4). 520–525. 64 indexed citations

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Syamsunarno, Mas Rizky A. A., Tatsuya Iso, Aiko Yamaguchi, et al.. (2014). Fatty Acid Binding Protein 4 and 5 Play a Crucial Role in Thermogenesis under the Conditions of Fasting and Cold Stress. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e90825–e90825. 33 indexed citations

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Sunaga, Hiroaki, Hiroki Matsui, Manabu Ueno, et al.. (2013). Deranged fatty acid composition causes pulmonary fibrosis in Elovl6-deficient mice. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2563–2563. 87 indexed citations

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Matsui, Hiroki, Tomoyuki Yokoyama, Kenichi Sekiguchi, et al.. (2012). Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1 (SCD1) Augments Saturated Fatty Acid-Induced Lipid Accumulation and Inhibits Apoptosis in Cardiac Myocytes. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e33283–e33283. 73 indexed citations

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