Masanori Asakura

9.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
216 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Masanori Asakura is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Masanori Asakura has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 51 papers in Molecular Biology and 35 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Masanori Asakura's work include Heart Failure Treatment and Management (40 papers), Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (39 papers) and Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion (24 papers). Masanori Asakura is often cited by papers focused on Heart Failure Treatment and Management (40 papers), Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (39 papers) and Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion (24 papers). Masanori Asakura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Masanori Asakura's co-authors include Masafumi Kitakaze, Hiroshi Asanuma, Seiji Takashima, Masatsugu Hori, Tetsuo Minamino, Shoji Sanada, Yulin Liao, Yoshihiro Asano, Yasunori Ueda and Jiyoong Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Masanori Asakura

209 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Cardiac hypertrophy is inhibited by antagonism of ADAM12 processing of HB-EGF: Metalloproteinase inhibitors as a new therapy

2002 590 citations Masanori Asakura, Masafumi Kitakaze et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Masanori Asakura Japan	41	2.6k	2.5k	1.3k	740	713	216	6.5k
Takako Fujiwara Japan	43	2.5k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	651 0.9×	455 0.6×	169	6.4k
Bodo Levkau Germany	52	4.8k 1.8×	1.8k 0.7×	2.0k 1.6×	1.0k 1.4×	838 1.2×	157	9.2k
Seiji Takashima Japan	48	3.6k 1.4×	2.1k 0.8×	766 0.6×	1.0k 1.4×	708 1.0×	166	7.6k
Mansoor Husain Canada	48	4.3k 1.7×	2.5k 1.0×	2.6k 2.1×	705 1.0×	1.3k 1.9×	158	10.9k
Tetsuo Minamino Japan	51	3.0k 1.2×	2.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	439 0.6×	1.1k 1.5×	182	8.0k
Carla J. Weinheimer United States	34	4.1k 1.6×	2.5k 1.0×	870 0.7×	399 0.5×	1.6k 2.2×	79	7.8k
Tetsuo Shioi Japan	40	3.8k 1.5×	3.3k 1.3×	961 0.8×	480 0.6×	867 1.2×	73	7.0k
Hiroshi Iwao Japan	48	3.7k 1.4×	3.2k 1.3×	857 0.7×	619 0.8×	1.1k 1.6×	249	8.2k
Stefan Jovinge Sweden	37	4.0k 1.6×	2.2k 0.9×	2.8k 2.2×	455 0.6×	546 0.8×	94	8.2k
Satya P. Kunapuli United States	58	3.6k 1.4×	3.3k 1.3×	962 0.8×	687 0.9×	554 0.8×	253	10.5k

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Kobayashi, Masatake, Akira Yamashina, Kazuhiro Satomi, et al.. (2025). Eplerenone, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure: findings from the EARLIER trial. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 24(1). 136–136. 1 indexed citations

Matsumura, Tsuyoshi, Takayasu Fukudome, Yasufumi Motoyoshi, et al.. (2025). Efficacy of tranilast in preventing exacerbating cardiac function and death from heart failure in muscular dystrophy patients with advanced-stage heart failure: a single-arm, open-label, multicenter study. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. 20(1). 13–13. 1 indexed citations

Asakura, Masanori, et al.. (2023). A numerical approach toward the p-adic Beilinson conjecture for elliptic curves over $${\mathbb {Q}}$$. Research in the Mathematical Sciences. 10(1).

Orihara, Yoshiyuki, Makiko Oboshi, Satoshi Yoshihara, et al.. (2023). The correlation between cardiac biomarkers and serum cytokines after CAR-T therapy. European Heart Journal. 44(Supplement_2).

Akahori, Hirokuni, Takahiro Imanaka, Kojiro Miki, et al.. (2022). Impact of lipoprotein(a) levels on primary patency after endovascular therapy for femoropopliteal lesions. Heart and Vessels. 38(2). 171–176. 4 indexed citations

Kojima, Keisuke, Sei Komatsu, Tsunekazu Kakuta, et al.. (2021). Aortic plaque burden predicts vascular events in patients with cardiovascular disease: The EAST-NOGA study. Journal of Cardiology. 79(1). 144–152. 10 indexed citations

Asakura, Masanori. (2018). Regulators of $$K_2$$ of hypergeometric fibrations. Research in Number Theory. 4(2). 2 indexed citations

Okuno, Keisuke, Yoshiro Naito, Hisashi Sawada, et al.. (2018). Influence of dietary iron intake restriction on the development of hypertension in weanling prehypertensive rats. Heart and Vessels. 33(7). 820–825. 5 indexed citations

Yoshida, Akemi, Hatsue Ishibashi‐Ueda, Naoaki Yamada, et al.. (2013). Direct Comparison of the Diagnostic Capability of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Endomyocardial Biopsy in Patients with Heart Failure. European Journal of Heart Failure. 15(2). 166–175. 50 indexed citations

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Asakura, Masanori, et al.. (2009). Beilinson's Tate conjecture for $K_2$ and finiteness of torsion zero-cycles on elliptic surface. arXiv (Cornell University).

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Sano, Motoaki, Yasukatsu Izumi, Katja Helenius, et al.. (2007). Ménage-à-Trois 1 Is Critical for the Transcriptional Function of PPARγ Coactivator 1. Cell Metabolism. 5(2). 129–142. 50 indexed citations

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Tsukamoto, Osamu, Masanori Asakura, Jiyoong Kim, et al.. (2006). Abstract 2370: Brain Natriuretic Peptide Enhances Adiponectin Production in Adipocytes. Circulation. 114(6). 1267–76. 2 indexed citations

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Kitakaze, Masafumi, Masanori Asakura, Hiroshi Asanuma, et al.. (2006). 2 How to Find Novel Pathophysiology and Therapy of Chronic Heart Failure from Genomic Database(Perspectives of Genome-wide Study to Identify Genes Underlying Cardiovascular Diseases,Roundtable Discussion 10 (RT10) (M),The 70th Anniversary Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society). Japanese Circulation Journal-english Edition. 70. 94–95. 1 indexed citations

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Asakura, Masanori. (2005). K_2 of elliptic surface minus singular fibers and q-expansion of Beilinson's regulator. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Asakura, Masanori. (2003). A criterion of exactness of the Clemens-Schmid sequences arising from semi-stable families of open curves. Osaka Journal of Mathematics. 40(4). 977–980. 1 indexed citations

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Iwamoto, Ryo, Satoru Yamazaki, Masanori Asakura, et al.. (2003). Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor and ErbB signaling is essential for heart function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(6). 3221–3226. 281 indexed citations

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Takashima, Seiji, Masafumi Kitakaze, Masanori Asakura, et al.. (2002). Targeting of both mouse neuropilin-1 and neuropilin-2 genes severely impairs developmental yolk sac and embryonic angiogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(6). 3657–3662. 292 indexed citations

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Ogita, Hisakazu, Koichi Node, Hiroshi Asanuma, et al.. (2002). Amelioration of ischemia- and reperfusion-induced myocardial injury by the selective estrogen receptor modulator, raloxifene, in the canine heart. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 40(5). 998–1005. 40 indexed citations

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Kitakaze, Masafumi, Masanori Asakura, Yasuhiko Sakata, et al.. (2001). cDNA Array Hybridization Reveals Cardiac Gene Expression in Acute Ischemic Murine Hearts. Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy. 15(2). 125–130. 7 indexed citations

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Asakura, Masanori, Yasuhiko Sakata, Akiko Ogai, et al.. (1999). マウスでcDNAマイクロアレイ・テクニックにより検出される、主に心筋虚血による心臓遺伝子発現の変化:内因性アデノシンの役割. Circulation. 100(18). 56. 1 indexed citations

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