Minako Ito

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Minako Ito is a scholar working on Immunology, Neurology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Minako Ito has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Immunology, 18 papers in Neurology and 15 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Minako Ito's work include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (18 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (16 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (13 papers). Minako Ito is often cited by papers focused on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (18 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (16 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (13 papers). Minako Ito collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Minako Ito's co-authors include Akihiko Yoshimura, Takashi Shichita, Taisuke Kondo, Yoshiko Noguchi, Hiroko Nakatsukasa, Shunsuke Chikuma, Yusuke Yanagi, Kyoko Komai, Takeshi Ichinohe and Rimpei Morita and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Minako Ito

66 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Brain regulatory T cells suppress astrogliosis and potentiate neurological recovery

2018 529 citations Minako Ito, Kyoko Komai et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Minako Ito Japan	23	1.4k	1.1k	628	517	306	71	2.9k
Khadir Raddassi United States	26	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	685 1.1×	572 1.1×	180 0.6×	49	3.6k
Thomas Ulas Germany	27	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	561 0.9×	289 0.6×	172 0.6×	64	2.8k
Robert C. Axtell United States	21	1.2k 0.9×	608 0.6×	486 0.8×	563 1.1×	218 0.7×	41	2.5k
Partha Dutta United States	26	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	329 0.5×	237 0.5×	305 1.0×	65	3.3k
Xiaoyun Sun China	28	924 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	451 0.7×	219 0.4×	223 0.7×	83	3.1k
Chang He China	27	595 0.4×	957 0.9×	318 0.5×	247 0.5×	171 0.6×	66	2.5k
Jason DeVoss United States	35	1.8k 1.3×	829 0.8×	211 0.3×	403 0.8×	303 1.0×	49	3.4k
Yongmei Zhao United States	22	710 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	243 0.4×	510 1.0×	206 0.7×	59	2.6k
Munehisa Shimamura Japan	31	495 0.4×	957 0.9×	437 0.7×	245 0.5×	207 0.7×	97	2.6k
Tomohiro Aoki Japan	35	487 0.3×	804 0.8×	764 1.2×	236 0.5×	177 0.6×	114	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Minako Ito

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Minako Ito. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Minako 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 Minako Ito. Minako Ito is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Yoshida, S, Kenta Nakano, Xiaojun Li, et al.. (2025). Fibroblast-derived CSF1 maintains colonization of gut mucosal macrophage to resist bacterial infection. Mucosal Immunology. 18(5). 1113–1123. 2 indexed citations

Ito, Minako, et al.. (2025). Stage-specific roles of clonally expanded CD8+ T cells in regulating amyloid pathology in Alzheimer’s disease models. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9458–9458.

Komori, Atsuko, Atsushi Kasai, Henrik Skibbe, et al.. (2025). The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory. Nature. 648(8092). 146–156.

Shintaku, Haruo, Akihito Harada, Kazumitsu Maehara, et al.. (2025). Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1A mediates mouse line- and fate-dependent cellular responses in Cx3cr1-Cre genetic tools. Cell Reports. 44(9). 116267–116267.

Takao, T., Chie Kikutake, Keiko Kan‐o, et al.. (2025). Maternal asthma imprints fetal lung ILC2s via glucocorticoid signaling leading to worsened allergic airway inflammation in murine adult offspring. Nature Communications. 16(1). 631–631. 3 indexed citations

Brems, Hilde, Mana Iizuka, Setsuko Mise‐Omata, et al.. (2024). Legius syndrome mutations in the Ras-regulator SPRED1 abolish its membrane localization and potentially cause neurodegeneration. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(12). 107969–107969.

Aki, Daisuke, Tanakorn Srirat, Shigeyuki Shichino, et al.. (2024). The Nr4a family regulates intrahepatic Treg proliferation and liver fibrosis in MASLD models. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134(23). 6 indexed citations

Mise‐Omata, Setsuko, Makoto Ando, Tanakorn Srirat, et al.. (2023). SOCS3 deletion in effector T cells confers an anti-tumorigenic role of IL-6 to the pro-tumorigenic cytokine. Cell Reports. 42(8). 112940–112940. 7 indexed citations

Kanamori, Mitsuhiro, T. Takao, Y Kobayashi, et al.. (2023). Increased neutrophils in inflammatory bowel disease accelerate the accumulation of amyloid plaques in the mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Inflammation and Regeneration. 43(1). 20–20. 18 indexed citations

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Yamamoto, Shinichi, Chie Kikutake, Mana Iizuka-Koga, et al.. (2022). In Vitro Generation of Brain Regulatory T Cells by Co-culturing With Astrocytes. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 960036–960036. 11 indexed citations

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Sakai, Ryota, Minako Ito, Keiko Yoshimoto, et al.. (2020). Tocilizumab monotherapy uncovered the role of the CCL22/17‐CCR4⁺ Treg axis during remission of crescentic glomerulonephritis. Clinical & Translational Immunology. 9(11). e1203–e1203. 15 indexed citations

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Hibino, Sana, Shunsuke Chikuma, Taisuke Kondo, et al.. (2018). Inhibition of Nr4a Receptors Enhances Antitumor Immunity by Breaking Treg-Mediated Immune Tolerance. Cancer Research. 78(11). 3027–3040. 64 indexed citations

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Nakatsukasa, Hiroko, Minako Ito, Taisuke Kondo, et al.. (2017). Improvement of Foxp3 stability through CNS2 demethylation by TET enzyme induction and activation. International Immunology. 29(8). 365–375. 66 indexed citations

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Yoshimura, Akihiko, Minako Ito, Shunsuke Chikuma, Takashi Akanuma, & Hiroko Nakatsukasa. (2017). Negative Regulation of Cytokine Signaling in Immunity. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 10(7). a028571–a028571. 139 indexed citations

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Shichita, Takashi, Minako Ito, Rimpei Morita, et al.. (2017). MAFB prevents excess inflammation after ischemic stroke by accelerating clearance of damage signals through MSR1. Nature Medicine. 23(6). 723–732. 187 indexed citations

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Ito, Minako. (2003). Attending to Health Room in School, and Troubles and Opinions on it of School Nurses: Collaboration with School Counselors. The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology. 51(3). 251–260. 1 indexed citations

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Ito, Minako. (1999). Self-Evaluation of School Clinical Activities by School Counselors: Relation Between Their Activities and Some Characteristics of Schools. The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology. 47(4). 521–529. 1 indexed citations

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Ito, Minako. (1997). A STUDY ON THE OPINIONS OF CONSULTING TEACHERS AT ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS, AND ON TRAINING SEMINARS FOR TEACHERS. The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology. 45(3). 295–302. 2 indexed citations

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Ito, Minako. (1994). THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF DIFFERENTIATION AND INTERNALIZATION OF IDEAL IMAGES. The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology. 42(4). 363–372. 2 indexed citations

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Noda, Atsushi, Minako Ito, Yoshio Yamamoto, et al.. (1993). Effects of dietary restriction on embryogenesis in Japanese White-NIBS rabbits : Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the Japanese Teratology Society Nagoya, Japan, July 21-23, 1993. Congenital Anomalies. 33(3). 304–305. 2 indexed citations

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