Kinji Asahina

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Kinji Asahina is a scholar working on Hepatology, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kinji Asahina has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Hepatology, 35 papers in Surgery and 26 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kinji Asahina's work include Liver physiology and pathology (41 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (20 papers) and Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments (12 papers). Kinji Asahina is often cited by papers focused on Liver physiology and pathology (41 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (20 papers) and Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments (12 papers). Kinji Asahina collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Canada. Kinji Asahina's co-authors include Hidekazu Tsukamoto, Kimberley Evason, Chunyue Yin, Didier Y. R. Stainier, Jiaohong Wang, Katsutoshi Yoshizato, Yuchang Li, Hirobumi Teraoka, Ingrid Lua and Bin Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Kinji Asahina

71 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Hepatic stellate cells in liver development, regeneration, and cancer

2013 561 citations Chunyue Yin, Kimberley Evason et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kinji Asahina Japan	30	1.7k	1.6k	1.2k	1.1k	559	71	4.0k
George C. Yeoh Australia	42	2.3k 1.4×	2.2k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.7×	426 0.8×	157	5.7k
Georges Baffet France	35	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	500 0.4×	732 0.7×	391 0.7×	73	3.7k
F J Roll United States	18	2.1k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	829 0.8×	534 1.0×	26	4.0k
Mengchao Wu China	37	1.0k 0.6×	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	872 0.8×	313 0.6×	120	4.5k
Masakiyo Sakaguchi Japan	41	693 0.4×	3.2k 2.0×	517 0.4×	919 0.8×	361 0.6×	195	5.5k
Nathalie Théret France	37	607 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	477 0.4×	540 0.5×	241 0.4×	87	3.4k
N Fausto United States	41	4.2k 2.5×	2.9k 1.8×	1.8k 1.5×	2.6k 2.4×	410 0.7×	76	7.1k
Vinicio Carloni Italy	28	817 0.5×	835 0.5×	568 0.5×	252 0.2×	308 0.6×	58	2.2k
Douglas C. Hixson United States	34	793 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	297 0.2×	900 0.8×	199 0.4×	110	3.2k
Jesper B. Andersen Denmark	41	908 0.5×	3.3k 2.1×	644 0.5×	1.7k 1.5×	265 0.5×	113	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Kinji Asahina

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kinji Asahina

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Xu, Jiabo, et al.. (2023). TWEAK/FN14 promotes profibrogenic pathway activation in Prominin-1-expressing hepatic progenitor cells in biliary atresia. Hepatology. 77(5). 1639–1653. 18 indexed citations

Xu, Jiabo, G. Esteban Fernández, Larry Wang, et al.. (2023). Prominin-1 promotes restitution of the murine extrahepatic biliary luminal epithelium following cholestatic liver injury. Hepatology Communications. 7(2). e0018–e0018. 5 indexed citations

Kweon, Soo-Mi, Patrick T. Fueger, Kinji Asahina, et al.. (2023). Heterozygous midnolin knockout attenuates severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in mice fed a Western-style diet high in fat, cholesterol, and fructose. American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 325(2). G147–G157. 6 indexed citations

Asahina, Kinji, et al.. (2023). Recruitment of large peritoneal macrophages to capsular fibrosis developed on the liver surface. The FASEB Journal. 38(1). e23327–e23327. 4 indexed citations

Pan, Stephanie Q., Hye Yeon Choi, Qihong Yang, et al.. (2022). Emergence of highly profibrotic and proinflammatory Lrat + Fbln2 + HSC subpopulation in alcoholic hepatitis. Hepatology. 78(1). 212–224. 7 indexed citations

Lua, Ingrid, et al.. (2021). Loss of lysophosphatidic acid receptor 1 in hepatocytes reduces steatosis via down-regulation of CD36. Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators. 156. 106577–106577. 5 indexed citations

Park, Eek Joong, Yoon Seok Roh, Ling Yang, et al.. (2014). TAK1-mediated autophagy and fatty acid oxidation prevent hepatosteatosis and tumorigenesis. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 124(8). 3566–3578. 140 indexed citations

Yin, Chunyue, Kimberley Evason, Kinji Asahina, & Didier Y. R. Stainier. (2013). Hepatic stellate cells in liver development, regeneration, and cancer. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 123(5). 1902–1910. 561 indexed citations breakdown →

Kakinuma, Sei, Kinji Asahina, Keiko Shimizu‐Saito, et al.. (2012). Hepatic stellate cells mediate differentiation of dendritic cells from monocytes.. PubMed. 59(1). 43–52. 2 indexed citations

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Zhu, Nian‐Ling, Kinji Asahina, Jiaohong Wang, et al.. (2012). Hepatic Stellate Cell-derived Delta-like Homolog 1 (DLK1) Protein in Liver Regeneration. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(13). 10355–10367. 69 indexed citations

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Asahina, Kinji. (2012). Hepatic stellate cell progenitor cells. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 27(s2). 80–84. 46 indexed citations

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Tsukamoto, Hidekazu, Nian‐Ling Zhu, Kinji Asahina, Derek A. Mann, & Jelena Mann. (2011). Epigenetic cell fate regulation of hepatic stellate cells. Hepatology Research. 41(7). 675–682. 43 indexed citations

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Asahina, Kinji, Bin Zhou, William T. Pu, & Hidekazu Tsukamoto. (2010). Septum Transversum-Derived Mesothelium Gives Rise to Hepatic Stellate Cells and Perivascular Mesenchymal Cells in Developing Mouse Liver §Δ. Hepatology. 53(3). 983–995. 230 indexed citations

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Gaucher, Geneviève, Kinji Asahina, Jiaohong Wang, & Jean‐Christophe Leroux. (2009). Effect of Poly(N-vinyl-pyrrolidone)-block-poly(d,l-lactide) as Coating Agent on the Opsonization, Phagocytosis, and Pharmacokinetics of Biodegradable Nanoparticles. Biomacromolecules. 10(2). 408–416. 106 indexed citations

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Irie, Takumi, Kinji Asahina, Keiko Shimizu‐Saito, et al.. (2007). Hepatic Progenitor Cells in the Mouse Extrahepatic Bile Duct after a Bile Duct Ligation. Stem Cells and Development. 16(6). 979–988. 13 indexed citations

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Ogawa, Tomohiro, Chise Tateno, Kinji Asahina, et al.. (2006). Identification of vitamin A-free cells in a stellate cell-enriched fraction of normal rat liver as myofibroblasts. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 127(2). 161–174. 27 indexed citations

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Sakasai, Ryo, Yosuke Ichijima, Naoyuki Okita, et al.. (2006). Differential involvement of phosphatidylinositol 3‐kinase‐related protein kinases in hyperphosphorylation of replication protein A2 in response to replication‐mediated DNA double‐strand breaks. Genes to Cells. 11(3). 237–246. 33 indexed citations

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Asahina, Kinji, Keiko Shimizu‐Saito, Yujiro Tanaka, et al.. (2005). Enrichment of Hepatocytes Differentiated from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells as a Transplantable Source. Transplantation. 79(5). 550–557. 52 indexed citations

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Asahina, Kinji, Hajime Sato, Chihiro Yamasaki, et al.. (2002). Pleiotrophin/Heparin-Binding Growth-Associated Molecule as a Mitogen of Rat Hepatocytes and Its Role in Regeneration and Development of Liver. American Journal Of Pathology. 160(6). 2191–2205. 68 indexed citations

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Asahina, Kinji, Ken Oofusa, Masanobu Obara, & Katsutoshi Yoshizato. (1997). Cloning and characterization of the full length cDNA encoding α2 type I collagen of bullfrog Rana catesbeiana. Gene. 194(2). 283–289. 17 indexed citations

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