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Hiroaki Masuzaki

Hiroaki Masuzaki

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Overview

Hiroaki Masuzaki is affiliated with the University of the Ryukyus in Japan. Their research spans medicine with a particular focus on physiology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, surgery, immunology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The main topics Masuzaki has worked on include:

  • T-cell and Retrovirus Studies
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity

Masuzaki has contributed research published in several recurrent academic venues, including:

  • Diabetology International
  • Scientific Reports
  • Endocrine Journal
  • Research Square
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine

Frequent collaborators in Masuzaki's work include:

  • Michio Shimabukuro
  • Takuya Fukushima
  • Tsugumi Uema
  • Sawako Nakachi
  • Hayato Tanabe

Some notable recent publications by and associated with their research include:

  • Factors Associated with Risk of Diabetic Complications in Novel Cluster-Based Diabetes Subgroups: A Japanese Retrospective Cohort Study (2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine)
  • Extra-virgin olive oil and the gut-brain axis: influence on gut microbiota, mucosal immunity, and cardiometabolic and cognitive health (2020, Nutrition Reviews)
  • Novel strategies for glycaemic control and preventing diabetic complications applying the clustering-based classification of adult-onset diabetes mellitus: A perspective (2021, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice)
  • A nutritional assessment tool, GNRI, predicts sarcopenia and its components in type 2 diabetes mellitus: A Japanese cross-sectional study (2023, Frontiers in Nutrition)
  • Metabolic surgery in treatment of obese Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes: a joint consensus statement from the Japanese Society for Treatment of Obesity, the Japan Diabetes Society, and the Japan Society for the Study of Obesity (2021, Diabetology International)

Best Publications

  • A Transgenic Model of Visceral Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome

    Hiroaki Masuzaki;Janice Paterson;Hiroshi Shinyama;Nicholas M. Morton

  • NONADIPOSE TISSUE PRODUCTION OF LEPTIN : LEPTIN AS A NOVEL PLACENTA-DERIVED HORMONE IN HUMANS

    Hiroaki Masuzaki;Yoshihiro Ogawa;Norimasa Sagawa;Kiminori Hosoda

  • Human Obese Gene Expression: Adipocyte-Specific Expression and Regional Differences in the Adipose Tissue

    Hiroaki Masuzaki;Yoshihiro Ogawa;Naohi Isse;Noriko Satoh

  • Pathophysiological role of leptin in obesity-related hypertension

    Megumi Aizawa-Abe;Yoshihiro Ogawa;Hiroaki Masuzaki;Ken Ebihara

  • Novel Adipose Tissue–Mediated Resistance to Diet-Induced Visceral Obesity in 11β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 1–Deficient Mice

    Nicholas M. Morton;Janice M. Paterson;Hiroaki Masuzaki;Megan C. Holmes

  • Changes in Intra-Abdominal Visceral Fat and Serum Leptin Levels in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Following Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy

    Kazuo Chin;Kouichi Shimizu;Takaya Nakamura;Noboru Narai

  • Transgenic amplification of glucocorticoid action in adipose tissue causes high blood pressure in mice

    Hiroaki Masuzaki;Hiroshi Yamamoto;Christopher J. Kenyon;Joel K. Elmquist

  • Role of premature leptin surge in obesity resulting from intrauterine undernutrition

    Shigeo Yura;Hiroaki Itoh;Norimasa Sagawa;Hiroshi Yamamoto

  • Augmented Placental Production of Leptin in Preeclampsia: Possible Involvement of Placental Hypoxia

    Hiroko Mise;Norimasa Sagawa;Tsunekazu Matsumoto;Shigeo Yura

  • Structural organization and chromosomal assignment of the human obese gene.

    Naohi Isse;Yoshihiro Ogawa;Naohisa Tamura;Hiroaki Masuzaki

  • Characterizaton of short isoforms of the leptin receptor in rat cerebral microvessels and of brain uptake of leptin in mouse models of obesity.

    Stanley M. Hileman;Dominique D. Pierroz;Hiroaki Masuzaki;Christian Bjørbæk

  • Molecular cloning of rat leptin receptor isoform complementary DNAs--identification of a missense mutation in Zucker fatty (fa/fa) rats.

    Kazuhiko Takaya;Yoshihiro Ogawa;Naohi Isse;Taku Okazaki

  • Transgenic Overexpression of Leptin Rescues Insulin Resistance and Diabetes in a Mouse Model of Lipoatrophic Diabetes

    Ken Ebihara;Yoshihiro Ogawa;Hiroaki Masuzaki;Mitsuyo Shintani

  • Molecular cloning of rat obese cDNA and augmented gene expression in genetically obese Zucker fatty (fa/fa) rats

    Yoshihiro Ogawa;Hiroaki Masuzaki;Naohi Isse;Taku Okazaki

  • Efficacy and Safety of Leptin-Replacement Therapy and Possible Mechanisms of Leptin Actions in Patients with Generalized Lipodystrophy

    Ken Ebihara;Toru Kusakabe;Masakazu Hirata;Hiroaki Masuzaki

  • Variations in the FTO gene are associated with severe obesity in the Japanese

    Kikuko Hotta;Yoshio Nakata;Tomoaki Matsuo;Seika Kamohara

  • Sympathetic activation of leptin via the ventromedial hypothalamus: leptin-induced increase in catecholamine secretion.

    Noriko Satoh;Yoshihiro Ogawa;Goro Katsuura;Yoshito Numata

  • Satiety effect and sympathetic activation of leptin are mediated by hypothalamic melanocortin system

    Noriko Satoh;Yoshihiro Ogawa;Goro Katsuura;Yoshito Numata

  • Increased glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity in transgenic skinny mice overexpressing leptin.

    Yoshihiro Ogawa;Hiroaki Masuzaki;Kiminori Hosoda;Megumi Aizawa-Abe

  • Adipocyte-Specific Expression and Regional Differences in the Adipose Tissue

    Hiroaki Masuzaki;Yoshihiro Ogawa;Naohi Isse;Noriko Satoh

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuwa Nakao
Kazuwa Nakao Kyoto University
Kiminori Hosoda
Kiminori Hosoda Kyoto University
Yoshihiro Ogawa
Yoshihiro Ogawa Kyushu University
Masataka Sata
Masataka Sata University of Tokushima
Masato Yoneda
Masato Yoneda Yokohama City University
Tohru Funahashi
Tohru Funahashi Osaka University
Yuji Matsuzawa
Yuji Matsuzawa Sumitomo Hospital
Atsushi Nakajima
Atsushi Nakajima Yokohama City University
Hironobu Yoshimatsu
Hironobu Yoshimatsu Oita University
Kiyoshi Mori
Kiyoshi Mori University of Shizuoka

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