Kousaku Ohno

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
211 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Kousaku Ohno is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kousaku Ohno has authored 211 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Physiology, 85 papers in Molecular Biology and 34 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kousaku Ohno's work include Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research (78 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (34 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (29 papers). Kousaku Ohno is often cited by papers focused on Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research (78 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (34 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (29 papers). Kousaku Ohno collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Italy. Kousaku Ohno's co-authors include Katsumi Higaki, Eiji Nanba, Takeshi Sakurai, Haruaki Ninomiya, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Jill A. Morris, Peter G. Pentchev, Eugene D. Carstea, Kenzo Takeshita and Yoshihiro Maegaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Kousaku Ohno

208 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Murine Model of Niemann-Pick C Disease: Mutation in a Cholesterol Homeostasis Gene

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kousaku Ohno Japan	40	3.1k	2.3k	1.3k	1.1k	836	211	6.0k
Eiji Nanba Japan	39	1.9k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	890 0.7×	805 0.7×	684 0.8×	223	5.2k
Arndt Rolfs Germany	40	2.3k 0.7×	2.3k 1.0×	730 0.6×	960 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	280	6.5k
Edwin H. Kolodny United States	50	5.4k 1.7×	2.9k 1.3×	1.4k 1.1×	2.1k 1.9×	1.8k 2.1×	202	9.0k
David A. Wenger United States	55	6.4k 2.0×	4.1k 1.8×	1.5k 1.2×	2.0k 1.8×	1.8k 2.1×	221	9.2k
Edward I. Ginns United States	45	2.5k 0.8×	3.0k 1.3×	847 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	470 0.6×	118	6.7k
Marie T. Vanier France	54	6.8k 2.2×	2.7k 1.2×	2.1k 1.6×	1.7k 1.5×	1.6k 1.9×	141	9.3k
Mark S. Sands United States	55	4.1k 1.3×	3.6k 1.6×	371 0.3×	1.6k 1.5×	1.5k 1.8×	150	7.8k
Jean‐Pierre Kinet United States	64	3.0k 1.0×	4.5k 2.0×	249 0.2×	569 0.5×	178 0.2×	105	14.5k
Kotaro Suzuki Japan	39	1.4k 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	193 0.2×	556 0.5×	489 0.6×	215	5.0k
Irma Järvelä Finland	42	1.5k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	210 0.2×	680 0.6×	273 0.3×	146	5.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kousaku Ohno

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Ford, Matthew M., Victor S. Van Laar, Katherine M. Holleran, et al.. (2023). GDNF gene therapy for alcohol use disorder in male non-human primates. Nature Medicine. 29(8). 2030–2040. 12 indexed citations

Ishitsuka, Yoichi, Akira Ishii, Yuki Kondo, et al.. (2019). In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of 6-O-α-Maltosyl-β-Cyclodextrin as a Potential Therapeutic Agent Against Niemann-Pick Disease Type C. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 20(5). 1152–1152. 14 indexed citations

Samaranch, Lluı́s, Kousaku Ohno, Waldy San Sebastián, & Krystof S. Bankiewicz. (2019). Cerebellomedullary Cistern Injection of Viral Vectors in Nonhuman Primates. Methods in molecular biology. 1937. 313–324. 2 indexed citations

Ohno, Kousaku, et al.. (2015). Prasugrel reduces ischaemic infarct volume and ameliorates neurological deficits in a non-human primate model of middle cerebral artery thrombosis. Thrombosis Research. 136(6). 1224–1230. 14 indexed citations

Maegaki, Yoshihiro, Kei Murayama, Taro Yamazaki, et al.. (2014). Myocerebrohepatopathy spectrum disorder due to POLG mutations: A clinicopathological report. Brain and Development. 37(7). 719–724. 11 indexed citations

Luan, Zhuo, Katsumi Higaki, Matilde Aguilar‐Moncayo, et al.. (2010). A Fluorescent sp²‐Iminosugar With Pharmacological Chaperone Activity for Gaucher Disease: Synthesis and Intracellular Distribution Studies. ChemBioChem. 11(17). 2453–2464. 48 indexed citations

Miyata, Hajime, et al.. (2008). Immunohistochemical expression of fibroblast growth factor (FGF)‐2 in epilepsy‐associated malformations of cortical development (MCDs). Neuropathology. 28(4). 372–381. 9 indexed citations

Fujii, Yuji, Yoshiaki Saito, Toshihide Ogawa, et al.. (2008). Basal ganglia germinoma: Diagnostic value of MR spectroscopy and 11C-methionine positron emission tomography. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 270(1-2). 189–193. 17 indexed citations

Ohno, Kousaku & Takeshi Sakurai. (2007). Orexin neuronal circuitry: Role in the regulation of sleep and wakefulness. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 29(1). 70–87. 209 indexed citations

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Okanishi, Tohru, Yoshiaki Saito, Shinya Fujii, et al.. (2007). Low signal intensity and increased anisotropy on magnetic resonance imaging in the white matter lesion after head trauma: Unrecognized findings of diffuse axonal injury. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 263(1-2). 218–222. 9 indexed citations

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Tsuzaki, Kokoro, Haruaki Ninomiya, Ayumi Takamura, et al.. (2007). The TSC1 gene product hamartin interacts with NADE. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 35(1). 100–108. 13 indexed citations

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Maegaki, Yoshihiro, et al.. (2007). Behavioral and psychiatric disorders in Prader-Willi syndrome: A population study in Japan. Brain and Development. 29(9). 535–542. 30 indexed citations

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Lei, Ke, Haruaki Ninomiya, Michitaka Suzuki, et al.. (2007). Enzyme enhancement activity of N-octyl-β-valienamine on β-glucosidase mutants associated with Gaucher disease. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1772(5). 587–596. 34 indexed citations

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Saito, Yoshiaki, Satoshi Miyashita, Atsushi Yokoyama, et al.. (2006). Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy with severe mental retardation and epilepsy. Brain and Development. 29(4). 231–233. 24 indexed citations

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Okanishi, Tohru, Yoshiaki Saito, Keiichi Hanaki, et al.. (2006). Lower brainstem dysfunction in an infant with persistent primitive trigeminal artery. Brain and Development. 29(3). 189–192. 4 indexed citations

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Uchiyama, Hitoshi, Ayumi Seki, Daisuke N. Saito, et al.. (2006). Neural substrates of sarcasm: A functional magnetic-resonance imaging study. Brain Research. 1124(1). 100–110. 89 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haidi, Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Eiji Nanba, et al.. (1999). NovelTSC2 mutation in a patient with pulmonary tuberous sclerosis: lack of loss of heterozygosity in a lung cyst. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 82(5). 368–370. 10 indexed citations

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Kurimasa, Akihiro, Kousaku Ohno, & Mitsuo Oshimura. (1993). Restoration of the cholesterol metabolism in 3T3 cell lines derived from the sphingomyelinosis mouse (spm/spm) by transfer of a human chromosome 18. Human Genetics. 92(2). 157–62. 22 indexed citations

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Nakano, Takeshi, Eiji Nanba, Akemi Tanaka, et al.. (1990). A new point mutation within exon 5 of β‐hexosaminidase α gene in a Japanese infant with Tay‐Sachs disease. Annals of Neurology. 27(5). 465–473. 27 indexed citations

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Nakano, Takeshi, Michele Muscillo, Kousaku Ohno, Andrew J. Hoffman, & Kunihiko Suzuki. (1988). A Point Mutation in the Coding Sequence of the β‐Hexosaminidase α Gene Results in Defective Processing of the Enzyme Protein in an Unusual GM2‐Gangliosidosis Variant. Journal of Neurochemistry. 51(3). 984–987. 41 indexed citations

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