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

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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.

Regulation of Myosin Phosphatase by Rho and Rho-Associated Kinase (Rho-Kinase)

1996 2.4k citations Masaaki Ito, Mutsuki Amano et al. profile →
Phosphorylation and Activation of Myosin by Rho-associated Kinase (Rho-kinase)

1996 1.7k citations Mutsuki Amano, Masaaki Ito et al. profile →
Rho-associated Kinase Directly Induces Smooth Muscle Contraction through Myosin Light Chain Phosphorylation

1997 512 citations Mutsuki Amano, Takeshi Nakano et al. profile →
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 →

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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.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Does Colorectal Stenting as a Bridge to Surgery for Obstructive Colorectal Cancer Increase Perineural Invasion? 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Kazushige Kawai, Daisuke Nakano, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Toshiro Iizuka, Tetsuo Akimoto, Yuichiro Tsukada, Masaaki Ito	0
2	Mutation Analysis of Autosomal-Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients 2023 ·Genes ·Yasuo Suzuki, Kan Katayama, (unknown), (unknown), Tomohiro Murata, Eiji Ishikawa, Masaaki Ito, Kaoru Dohi	4
3	Mutation Analysis of Thin Basement Membrane Nephropathy 2022 ·Genes ·(unknown), Kan Katayama, (unknown), Hiroshi Matsuo, Mika Fujimoto, Kensuke Joh, Tomohiro Murata, Masaaki Ito, Kaoru Dohi	5
4	Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction Restored After Surgery in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Prospective Observational Study 2021 ·Journal of the American Heart Association ·(unknown), Kaoru Dohi, Takayuki Yamamoto, Naoki Fujimoto, T Shimoyama, Satoru Umegae, Masaaki Ito	11
5	U-Shaped Intrapericardial Chronic Expanding Hematoma Due to Blunt Chest Trauma 2021 ·Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging ·(unknown), Ryuji Okamoto, Masahiro Inagaki, Tetsuya Seko, Atsunobu Kasai, Toshiya Tokui, Masaaki Ito, Kaoru Dohi	2
6	Branched-chain amino acids and l-carnitine attenuate lipotoxic hepatocellular damage in rat cirrhotic liver 2021 ·Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy ·Yasuyuki Tamai, Zhen Chen, Yue Wu, Jun Okabe, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Hitoshi Chiba, Shu‐Ping Hui, Akiko Eguchi, Motoh Iwasa, Masaaki Ito, Yoshiyuki Takei	17
7	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 2021 ·IJC Heart & Vasculature ·(unknown), Jun Masuda, Tairo Kurita, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yuichi Sato, Takashi Omura, Toshiki Sawai, Takashi Tanigawa, Masaaki Ito, Kaoru Dohi	6
8	Gap junction protein beta 4 plays an important role in cardiac function in humans, rodents, and zebrafish 2020 ·PLoS ONE ·Ryuji Okamoto, Itaru Goto, Yuhei Nishimura, Issei Kobayashi, Ryotaro Hashizume, Yoshinori Yoshida, Rie Ito, Yuhko Kobayashi, Misato Nishikawa, Yusuf Ali, Shunsuke Saito, Toshio Tanaka, Yoshiki Sawa, Masaaki Ito, Kaoru Dohi	13
9	Serial cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in wet beriberi 2020 ·Journal of Cardiology Cases ·Hiroaki Murakami, Naoki Fujimoto, (unknown), Kei Nakata, Masaki Ishida, Ryuji Okamoto, Masaaki Ito, Kaoru Dohi	1
10	Role of Liver Transplantation in Tolvaptan-Associated Acute Liver Failure 2019 ·Kidney International Reports ·Mayumi Endo, Kan Katayama, Hiroshi Matsuo, Shinichiro Horiike, Shinsuke Nomura, (unknown), Eiji Ishikawa, (unknown), Ryosuke Sugimoto, Akihiro Tanemura, Kazushi Sugimoto, Shuji Isaji, Masaaki Ito	11
11	Effects of sitagliptin on exercise capacity and hemodynamics in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease 2019 ·Heart and Vessels ·Naoki Fujimoto, (unknown), (unknown), Toshiki Sawai, Yuichi Sato, Naoto Kumagai, Jun Masuda, Shiro Nakamori, Masaaki Ito, Kaoru Dohi	2
12	Overlooked pericarditis complicated with cardiac tamponade due to an uncommon cause 2019 ·European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging ·(unknown), Ryuji Okamoto, (unknown), Kozo Hoshino, Masaaki Ito	0
13	Acute kidney injury due to thin basement membrane disease mimicking Deferasirox nephrotoxicity: a case report 2018 ·BMC Nephrology ·Keiko Oda, Kan Katayama, (unknown), Tomohiro Murata, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Eiji Ishikawa, Kaoru Dohi, Masaaki Ito	3
14	Renal papillary tip extract stimulates BNP production and excretion from cardiomyocytes 2018 ·PLoS ONE ·Itaru Goto, Ryuji Okamoto, Ryotaro Hashizume, Noboru Suzuki, Rie Ito, Keiichi Yamanaka, Hiromitsu Saito, Hiroshi Kiyonari, Isao Tawara, (unknown), Yoshito Ogihara, Yusuf Ali, Norikazu Yamada, Naoyuki Katayama, Masaaki Ito	1
15	Granulomatous interstitial nephritis due to chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a case report 2017 ·BMC Nephrology ·Yasuo Suzuki, Kan Katayama, Eiji Ishikawa, (unknown), Keiko Oda, (unknown), (unknown), Takayasu Ito, Mika Fujimoto, Tomohiro Murata, Masaaki Ito	6
16	Tracking isolated myocarditis in a young adult with acute rheumatic fever on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging 2016 ·International Journal of Cardiology ·(unknown), Ryuji Okamoto, (unknown), Yasuo Suzuki, Masaki Tanabe, Norikazu Yamada, Masaaki Ito	1
17	A Novel Hemodynamic Subsets in the Predicting of Need for Inotropic Support in Heart Failure 2014 ·Journal of Cardiac Failure ·(unknown), Kaoru Dohi, Naoki Fujimoto, (unknown), Yuichi Sato, Naoto Kumagai, Shiro Nakamori, Norikazu Yamada, Mashio Nakamura, Masaaki Ito	1
18	A STUDY ON THE SPATIAL COMPOSITION OF THE COASTAL VILLAGES CAUGHT IT FROM LIGHT AS AN ENVIRONMENT ELEMENT : About the formation of the village, the house and the living habitude as settlements Part 3 2001 ·Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ) ·Masaaki Ito, (unknown), (unknown)	2
19	Identification of Calponin as a Novel Substrate of Rho-Kinase 2000 ·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Takako Kaneko, Mutsuki Amano, Akio Maeda, Hideyuki Goto, Katsuhito Takahashi, Masaaki Ito, Kozo Kaibuchi	102
20	Effects of the Phosphorylation of Myosin Phosphatase by Cyclic GMP-dependent Protein Kinase 1999 ·Cellular Signalling ·Mamoo Nakamura, Kazuhito Ichikawa, Masaaki Ito, Bunpei Yamamori, Tsutomu Okinaka, Naoki Isaka, Yutaka Yoshida, Satoru Fujita, Takeshi Nakano	44

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