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Akio Inui is affiliated with Kagoshima University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, neuroscience, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans a variety of subfields, including physiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, and immunology.

Inui's work often focuses on themes such as neuropeptides and animal physiology, nutrition and health in aging, regulation of appetite and obesity, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, zebrafish biomedical research applications, employment and welfare studies, and adipokines, inflammation, and metabolic diseases.

Among the frequent venues where Inui has published are:

  • Neuropeptides
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • Scientific Reports

Recent papers authored by or involving Inui include:

  • "The regulatory approval of anamorelin for treatment of cachexia in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, gastric cancer, pancreatic cancer, and colorectal cancer in Japan: facts and numbers." (2020, Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle)
  • "Neuropeptide Y deficiency induces anxiety-like behaviours in zebrafish (Danio rerio)" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Impaired brain fractalkine-CX3CR1 signaling is implicated in cognitive dysfunction in diet-induced obese mice" (2021, BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care)
  • "Atractylenolide-III suppresses lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation via downregulation of toll-like receptor 4 in mouse microglia" (2021, Heliyon)
  • "Impact of Ninjin'yoeito on frailty and short life in klotho-hypomorphic (kl/kl) mice" (2022, Frontiers in Pharmacology)

Inui has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably:

  • Goro Katsuura
  • Akihiro Asakawa
  • Haruka Amitani
  • Marie Amitani
  • Namiko Kawamura

Best Publications

  • Ghrelin is an appetite-stimulatory signal from stomach with structural resemblance to motilin.

    Akihiro Asakawa;Akio Inui;Toshihiro Kaga;Hideki Yuzuriha

  • Sarcopenia With Limited Mobility: An International Consensus

    John E. Morley;Angela Marie Abbatecola;Josep M Argiles;Vickie Baracos

  • Cancer Anorexia‐Cachexia Syndrome: Current Issues in Research and Management

    Akio Inui

  • Antagonism of ghrelin receptor reduces food intake and body weight gain in mice.

    A Asakawa;A Inui;T Kaga;G Katsuura

  • Stomach regulates energy balance via acylated ghrelin and desacyl ghrelin

    A Asakawa;A Inui;M Fujimiya;R Sakamaki

  • Ghrelin, appetite, and gastric motility: the emerging role of the stomach as an endocrine organ

    Akio Inui;Akihiro Asakawa;Cyril Y Bowers;Giovanni Mantovani

  • Ghrelin: An orexigenic and somatotrophic signal from the stomach

    Akio Inui

  • Characterization of the effects of pancreatic polypeptide in the regulation of energy balance.

    Akihiro Asakawa;Akio Inui;Hideki Yuzuriha;Naohiko Ueno

  • A role of ghrelin in neuroendocrine and behavioral responses to stress in mice

    Akihiro Asakawa;Akio Inui;Toshihiro Kaga;Hideki Yuzuriha

  • Ghrelin Induces Fasted Motor Activity of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Conscious Fed Rats

    Kazunori Fujino;Akio Inui;Akihiro Asakawa;Naoki Kihara

  • Cancer Anorexia-Cachexia Syndrome Are Neuropeptides the Key?

    Akio Inui

  • Feeding and body-weight regulation by hypothalamic neuropeptides—mediation of the actions of leptin

    Akio Inui

  • Therapy insight: Cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome--when all you can eat is yourself.

    Alessandro Laviano;Michael M Meguid;Akio Inui;Maurizio Muscaritoli

  • Role of hepatic STAT3 in brain-insulin action on hepatic glucose production.

    Hiroshi Inoue;Wataru Ogawa;Akihiro Asakawa;Yasuo Okamoto

  • Des-acyl ghrelin acts by CRF type 2 receptors to disrupt fasted stomach motility in conscious rats.

    Chih Yen Chen;Chih Yen Chen;Chih Yen Chen;Akio Inui;Akihiro Asakawa;Kazunori Fujino

  • Ghrelin Gene Products and the Regulation of Food Intake and Gut Motility

    Chih Yen Chen;Akihiro Asakawa;Mineko Fujimiya;Shou Dong Lee

  • Cancer cachexia--pathophysiology and management.

    Hajime Suzuki;Akihiro Asakawa;Haruka Amitani;Norifumi Nakamura

  • Decreased food intake and body weight in pancreatic polypeptide-overexpressing mice

    Naohiko Ueno;Akio Inui;Masako Iwamoto;Masako Iwamoto;Toshihiro Kaga

  • Cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome: cytokines and neuropeptides.

    Eduardo J.B. Ramos;Susumu Suzuki;Daniel Marks;Akio Inui

  • Neuropeptide Y feeding receptors: are multiple subtypes involved?

    Akio Inui

Frequent Co-Authors

Masato Kasuga
Masato Kasuga National Center For Global Health and Medicine
Toshihiko Yada
Toshihiko Yada Kobe University
Satya P. Kalra
Satya P. Kalra University of Florida
Toshikazu Yoshikawa
Toshikazu Yoshikawa Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Shou-Dong Lee
Shou-Dong Lee Taipei Veterans General Hospital
Herbert Herzog
Herbert Herzog Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Yuji Naito
Yuji Naito Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Tomohisa Takagi
Tomohisa Takagi Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Cyril Y. Bowers
Cyril Y. Bowers Tulane University
Ken Ichi Yamamura
Ken Ichi Yamamura Kumamoto University

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