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Asao Hirano was affiliated with Montefiore Medical Center in the United States. Their research contributions spanned multiple scientific fields, including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Environmental Science.

Their subfields of study encompassed Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Hirano's research interests also focused on key topics such as High Altitude and Hypoxia, Travel-related health issues, and Climate Change and Health Impacts.

Hirano authored research published in the Journal of Nihon University Medical Association. The known publication records include:

  • Prevention of Acute High-Altitude Illness by Health Care Management during Endurance Motor Rallies, 2020, Journal of Nihon University Medical Association

Collaboration was an element of Hirano's scholarly activity. Frequent co-authors included:

  • Tomonori Harada
  • Hiroshi Iseki
  • Shin Aizawa
  • Ken Masamune

Best Publications

  • AN ATLAS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN FOR COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY.

    Takayoshi Matsui;Asao Hirano

  • Parkinsonism-dementia complex, an endemic disease on the island of Guam I. Clinical features

    Asao Hirano;Leonard T. Kurland;Robert S. Krooth;Simmons Lessell

  • Experiences with metastatic neoplasms involving the spinal cord.

    Kevin D. Barron;Asao Hirano;Shukuro Araki;Robert D. Terry

  • Fine Structural Observations of Neurofilamentous Changes in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Asao Hirano;Hyman Donnenfeld;Shoichi Sasaki;Imaharu Nakano

  • Nucleus raphe dorsalis in Alzheimer's disease: neurofibrillary tangles and loss of large neurons

    Toru Yamamoto;Asao Hirano

  • A comparative study of modified Bielschowsky, Bodian and thioflavin S stains on Alzheimer's neurofibrillary tangles

    T. Yamamoto;A. Hirano

  • The Fine Structure of some Intraganglionic Alterations

    Asao Hirano;Herbert M. Dembitzer;Leonard T. Kurland;H. M. Zimmerman

  • Fine Structural Study of Neurofibrillary Changes in a Family with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Asao Hirano;Imaharu Nakano;Leonard T. Kurland;Donald W. Mulder

  • Human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection of the nervous system: An autopsy study of 268 adult, pediatric, and fetal brains

    Katsuhiro Kure;Josefina F. Llena;William D. Lyman;Ruy Soeiro

  • Intense Superoxide Dismutase-1 Immunoreactivity in Intracytoplasmic Hyaline Inclusions of Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with Posterior Column Involvement

    Noriyuki Shibata;Asao Hirano;Makio Kobayashi;Teepu Siddique

  • Parkinson's disease: Neuron loss in the nucleus basalis without concomitant Alzheimer's disease

    Imaharu Nakano;Asao Hirano

  • Autopsy study of unruptured incidental intracranial aneurysms.

    Tetsuji Inagawa;Asao Hirano

  • Vascular structures in brain tumors.

    Asao Hirano;Takayoshi Matsui

  • Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis A Subgroup Characterized by Posterior and Spinocerebellar Tract Involvement and Hyaline Inclusions in the Anterior Horn Cells

    Asao Hirano;Leonard T. Kurland;George P. Sayre

  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinsonism-dementia complex on Guam. Further pathologic studies.

    Asao Hirano;Nathan Malamud;Teresita S. Elizan;Leonard T. Kurland

  • Immunocytochemical Co-localization of the Proteasome in Ubiquitinated Structures in Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Elderly

    Kunio;Hidefumi Ito;Keiji Tanaka;Asao Hirano

  • Morphological evidence for lipid peroxidation and protein glycoxidation in spinal cords from sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients

    Noriyuki Shibata;Ryoji Nagai;Koji Uchida;Seikoh Horiuchi

  • Incidental meningiomas in autopsy study.

    Satoshi Nakasu;Asao Hirano;Toshiro Shimura;Josefina F. Llena

  • Hirano bodies and related neuronal inclusions.

    A. Hirano

  • Mutations of optineurin in amyotrophic lateral

    Hirofumi Maruyama;Hiroyuki Morino;Hidefumi Ito;Yuishin Izumi

Frequent Co-Authors

Cedric S. Raine
Cedric S. Raine Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Seikoh Horiuchi
Seikoh Horiuchi Kumamoto University
Koji Uchida
Koji Uchida University of Tokyo
Hideshi Kawakami
Hideshi Kawakami Hiroshima University
Ryoji Nagai
Ryoji Nagai Tokai University
Ryosuke Takahashi
Ryosuke Takahashi Kyoto University
Don W. Cleveland
Don W. Cleveland University of California, San Diego
Katsuhiko Mikoshiba
Katsuhiko Mikoshiba ShanghaiTech University

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