Ryuichiro Sato

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
152 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Ryuichiro Sato is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryuichiro Sato has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Molecular Biology, 64 papers in Surgery and 31 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Ryuichiro Sato's work include Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (50 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (36 papers) and Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (25 papers). Ryuichiro Sato is often cited by papers focused on Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (50 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (36 papers) and Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (25 papers). Ryuichiro Sato collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and France. Ryuichiro Sato's co-authors include Hitoshi Shimano, Makoto Shimizu, Jun Inoue, Yuko Hirano, Yu Takahashi, Taro Horiba, Tsuneo Imanaka, Tatsuya Takano, Jun Inoue and Kazutoshi Mori and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ryuichiro Sato

150 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

SREBP-regulated lipid metabolism: convergent physiology — divergent pathophysiology

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ryuichiro Sato	3.4k	1.9k	954	946	915	152	6.1k
Enrique Sáez	3.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	787 0.8×	666 0.7×	71	6.1k
Russell A. DeBose‐Boyd	3.8k 1.1×	3.1k 1.6×	514 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	754 0.8×	62	6.4k
Michael R. Briggs	4.5k 1.3×	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	856 0.9×	25	6.4k
Jahangir Iqbal	1.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	691 0.7×	640 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	92	5.1k
Zhijun Luo	5.5k 1.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	108	8.3k
Guosheng Liang	3.8k 1.1×	3.6k 1.8×	1.7k 1.8×	1.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.8×	60	8.4k
Jun-ichi Osuga	3.7k 1.1×	3.1k 1.6×	1.7k 1.8×	1.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.7×	85	7.8k
Chieko Yokoyama	2.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	690 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	324 0.4×	80	6.1k
Inès Pineda‐Torra	4.5k 1.3×	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	76	7.7k
Daryl K. Granner	6.1k 1.8×	2.0k 1.0×	2.0k 2.1×	831 0.9×	664 0.7×	139	9.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryuichiro Sato

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Zhao, Xiaolin, Liyang Ni, Hidetoshi Sakurai, et al.. (2025). Modeling statin-induced myopathy with hiPSC-derived myocytes reveals that impaired proteostasis underlies the myotoxicity and is targetable for the prevention. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. 328(4). C1247–C1259. 1 indexed citations

Zheng, Lirong, Takashi Sasaki, Liyang Ni, et al.. (2025). The growth factor FGF21 maintains neuromuscular junction through histone deacetylase HDAC4 in denervation-induced skeletal muscle atrophy. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(11). 110756–110756.

Watanabe, Kyoko, Haruhiko Sakiyama, Yusuke Inoue, et al.. (2024). HNF4α is required for Tkfc promoter activation by ChREBP. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 88(8). 941–947.

Lee, Ivan, Yu Takahashi, Takashi Sasaki, Yoshio Yamauchi, & Ryuichiro Sato. (2024). Human colon organoid differentiation from induced pluripotent stem cells using an improved method. FEBS Letters. 599(6). 912–924. 2 indexed citations

Takahashi, Yu, Xia Chen, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, et al.. (2023). Establishment of a cell culture platform for human liver organoids and its application for lipid metabolism research. Biotechnology Journal. 19(1). e2300365–e2300365. 2 indexed citations

Sasaki, Takashi, et al.. (2023). Identification of α-ionone, nootkatone, and their derivatives as TGR5 agonists. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 653. 147–152. 2 indexed citations

Takahashi, Yu, Yu Inoue, Shintaro Sato, et al.. (2023). Drug cytotoxicity screening using human intestinal organoids propagated with extensive cost-reduction strategies. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 5407–5407. 21 indexed citations

Kimura, Satoshi, Kenji Tomita, Makoto Noguchi, et al.. (2022). Skeletal muscle releases extracellular vesicles with distinct protein and microRNA signatures that function in the muscle microenvironment. PNAS Nexus. 1(4). pgac173–pgac173. 41 indexed citations

Noguchi, Makoto, Makoto Shimizu, Peng Lü, et al.. (2022). Lactic acid bacteria–derived γ-linolenic acid metabolites are PPARδ ligands that reduce lipid accumulation in human intestinal organoids. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298(11). 102534–102534. 13 indexed citations

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Sasaki, Takashi, et al.. (2021). Maslinic acid activates mTORC1 and human TGR5 and induces skeletal muscle hypertrophy. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 85(11). 2311–2321. 12 indexed citations

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Shimizu, Makoto, Juan Li, Jun Inoue, & Ryuichiro Sato. (2015). Quercetin Represses Apolipoprotein B Expression by Inhibiting the Transcriptional Activity of C/EBPβ. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0121784–e0121784. 16 indexed citations

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Inoue, Jun & Ryuichiro Sato. (2013). New insights into the activation of sterol regulatory element-binding proteins by proteolytic processing. BioMolecular Concepts. 4(4). 417–423. 17 indexed citations

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Sato, Ryuichiro. (2013). Nomilin as an Anti-Obesity and Anti-Hyperglycemic Agent. Vitamins and hormones. 91. 425–439. 19 indexed citations

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Inoue, Jun, et al.. (2011). Stabilization of small heterodimer partner mRNA by grape seed procyanidins extract in cultured hepatocytes. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. 55(7). 1052–1058. 2 indexed citations

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Uematsu, Seiji, et al.. (2008). (51)Ethyl Alcohol Treatment as a Promising Material of Reductive Soil Disinfestation for Controlling Root Knot Nematode and Soil-borne Disease(Abstracts Presented at the Meeting of the Kanto Division,Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Division Meetings of the Phytopathological Society of Japan, 2007). 74(1). 46. 1 indexed citations

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Sato, Ryuichiro, et al.. (2006). . KAGAKU TO SEIBUTSU. 44(11). 767–773. 1 indexed citations

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Satsu, Hideo, Hirohito Watanabe, Ryuichiro Sato, et al.. (2003). Evaluation of Intestinal Dioxin Permeability Using Human Caco-2 Cell Monolayers. Food Science and Technology Research. 9(4). 364–366. 8 indexed citations

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Sato, Ryuichiro, et al.. (1999). Temporal Differences in Actions of Calcium Channel Blockers on K+ Accumulation, Cardiac Function, and High-Energy Phosphate Levels in Ischemic Guinea Pig Hearts. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 289(2). 831–839. 9 indexed citations

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Nagoshi, Emi, Naoko Imamoto, Ryuichiro Sato, & Yoshihiro Yoneda. (1999). Nuclear Import of Sterol Regulatory Element–binding Protein-2, a Basic Helix-Loop-Helix–Leucine Zipper (bHLH-Zip)–containing Transcription Factor, Occurs through the Direct Interaction of Importin β with HLH-Zip. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 10(7). 2221–2233. 106 indexed citations

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Sato, Ryuichiro, et al.. (1997). GATA‐6 DNA binding protein expressed in human gastric adenocarcinoma MKN45 cells. FEBS Letters. 414(2). 333–337. 21 indexed citations

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