Masaaki Ito

23.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
365 papers, 16.5k citations indexed

About

Masaaki Ito is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Masaaki Ito has authored 365 papers receiving a total of 16.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 171 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 116 papers in Molecular Biology and 81 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Masaaki Ito's work include Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (51 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (38 papers) and Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management (34 papers). Masaaki Ito is often cited by papers focused on Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (51 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (38 papers) and Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management (34 papers). Masaaki Ito collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Hungary. Masaaki Ito's co-authors include Takeshi Nakano, Kozo Kaibuchi, David J. Hartshorne, Mutsuki Amano, Kazushi Kimura, Yuko Fukata, Kazuyasu Chihara, Jianhua Feng, Akihiro Iwamatsu and Katsuya Okawa 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

Masaaki Ito

350 papers receiving 16.3k citations

Hit Papers

Regulation of Myosin Phosphatase by Rho and Rho-Associate... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 1996 1997 2015 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. Regulation of Myosin Phosphatase by Rho and Rho-Associated Kinase (Rho-Kinase)
    1996 2.4k citations Masaaki Ito, Mutsuki Amano et al. profile →
  2. Phosphorylation and Activation of Myosin by Rho-associated Kinase (Rho-kinase)
    1996 1.7k citations Mutsuki Amano, Masaaki Ito et al. profile →
  3. Rho-associated Kinase Directly Induces Smooth Muscle Contraction through Myosin Light Chain Phosphorylation
    1997 512 citations Mutsuki Amano, Takeshi Nakano et al. profile →
  4. Comparison of the gut microbiota composition between obese and non-obese individuals in a Japanese population, as analyzed by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism and next-generation sequencing
    2015 448 citations Kazushi Sugimoto, Masaaki Ito et al. profile →

Peers

Masaaki Ito
Takeshi Nakano Japan
Guillermo García‐Cardeña United States
Michael P. Walsh Canada
Richard D. Minshall United States
Akiyoshi Fukamizu Japan
Hanjoong Jo United States
Josef Pfeilschifter Germany
Emilio Hirsch Italy
Anthony Rosenzweig United States
Y Yazaki Japan
Takeshi Nakano Japan
Masaaki Ito
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Fields of papers citing papers by Masaaki Ito

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Masaaki Ito

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Masaaki Ito. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Masaaki Ito based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Masaaki Ito. Masaaki Ito is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kawai, Kazushige, Daisuke Nakano, Toshiro Iizuka, et al.. (2024). Does Colorectal Stenting as a Bridge to Surgery for Obstructive Colorectal Cancer Increase Perineural Invasion?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(3). 195–203.
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Suzuki, Yasuo, Kan Katayama, Tomohiro Murata, et al.. (2023). Mutation Analysis of Autosomal-Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients. Genes. 14(2). 443–443. 4 indexed citations
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Katayama, Kan, Hiroshi Matsuo, Mika Fujimoto, et al.. (2022). Mutation Analysis of Thin Basement Membrane Nephropathy. Genes. 13(10). 1779–1779. 5 indexed citations
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Dohi, Kaoru, Takayuki Yamamoto, Naoki Fujimoto, et al.. (2021). Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction Restored After Surgery in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Prospective Observational Study. Journal of the American Heart Association. 10(9). e019125–e019125. 11 indexed citations
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Okamoto, Ryuji, Masahiro Inagaki, Tetsuya Seko, et al.. (2021). U-Shaped Intrapericardial Chronic Expanding Hematoma Due to Blunt Chest Trauma. Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging. 14(2). e011176–e011176. 2 indexed citations
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Tamai, Yasuyuki, Zhen Chen, Yue Wu, et al.. (2021). Branched-chain amino acids and l-carnitine attenuate lipotoxic hepatocellular damage in rat cirrhotic liver. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 135. 111181–111181. 17 indexed citations
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Masuda, Jun, Tairo Kurita, Yuichi Sato, et al.. (2021). Effect of left ventricular ejection fraction on the prognostic impact of chronic total occlusion in a non-infarct-related artery in patients with acute myocardial infarction. IJC Heart & Vasculature. 33. 100738–100738. 6 indexed citations
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Okamoto, Ryuji, Itaru Goto, Yuhei Nishimura, et al.. (2020). Gap junction protein beta 4 plays an important role in cardiac function in humans, rodents, and zebrafish. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0240129–e0240129. 13 indexed citations
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Murakami, Hiroaki, Naoki Fujimoto, Kei Nakata, et al.. (2020). Serial cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in wet beriberi. Journal of Cardiology Cases. 22(3). 100–102. 1 indexed citations
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Endo, Mayumi, Kan Katayama, Hiroshi Matsuo, et al.. (2019). Role of Liver Transplantation in Tolvaptan-Associated Acute Liver Failure. Kidney International Reports. 4(11). 1653–1657. 11 indexed citations
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Fujimoto, Naoki, Toshiki Sawai, Yuichi Sato, et al.. (2019). Effects of sitagliptin on exercise capacity and hemodynamics in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease. Heart and Vessels. 35(5). 605–613. 2 indexed citations
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Okamoto, Ryuji, et al.. (2019). Overlooked pericarditis complicated with cardiac tamponade due to an uncommon cause. European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging. 21(1). 116–116.
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Oda, Keiko, Kan Katayama, Tomohiro Murata, et al.. (2018). Acute kidney injury due to thin basement membrane disease mimicking Deferasirox nephrotoxicity: a case report. BMC Nephrology. 19(1). 363–363. 3 indexed citations
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Goto, Itaru, Ryuji Okamoto, Ryotaro Hashizume, et al.. (2018). Renal papillary tip extract stimulates BNP production and excretion from cardiomyocytes. PLoS ONE. 13(5). e0197078–e0197078. 1 indexed citations
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Suzuki, Yasuo, Kan Katayama, Eiji Ishikawa, et al.. (2017). Granulomatous interstitial nephritis due to chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a case report. BMC Nephrology. 18(1). 348–348. 6 indexed citations
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Okamoto, Ryuji, et al.. (2016). Tracking isolated myocarditis in a young adult with acute rheumatic fever on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. International Journal of Cardiology. 222. 921–923. 1 indexed citations
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Dohi, Kaoru, Naoki Fujimoto, Yuichi Sato, et al.. (2014). A Novel Hemodynamic Subsets in the Predicting of Need for Inotropic Support in Heart Failure. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 20(10). S202–S202. 1 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Takako, Mutsuki Amano, Akio Maeda, et al.. (2000). Identification of Calponin as a Novel Substrate of Rho-Kinase. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 273(1). 110–116. 102 indexed citations
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Nakamura, Mamoo, Kazuhito Ichikawa, Masaaki Ito, et al.. (1999). Effects of the Phosphorylation of Myosin Phosphatase by Cyclic GMP-dependent Protein Kinase. Cellular Signalling. 11(9). 671–676. 44 indexed citations

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