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Hiroaki Saito

Hiroaki Saito

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
9224
World Ranking
4994
National Ranking
86

Overview

Hiroaki Saito is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan with a primary focus on Medicine and related subfields. Their research encompasses pulmonary and respiratory medicine, oncology, surgery, molecular biology, and physiology.

The scientist's work is centered on key topics such as:

  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
  • Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis
  • Esophageal and GI Pathology
  • Metastasis and carcinoma case studies
  • Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers

Among the recent publications are:

  • Increased PD-1-positive macrophages in the tissue of gastric cancer are closely associated with poor prognosis in gastric cancer patients, 2020, BMC Cancer
  • Comparisons of Postoperative Complications and Nutritional Status After Proximal Laparoscopic Gastrectomy with Esophagogastrostomy and Double-Tract Reconstruction, 2020, Yonago acta medica
  • Modified Frailty Index is Useful in Predicting Non-home Discharge in Elderly Patients with Gastric Cancer Who Undergo Gastrectomy, 2020, World Journal of Surgery
  • Impact of geriatric nutritional risk index on outcomes after gastrectomy in elderly patients with gastric cancer: a retrospective multicenter study in Japan, 2022, BMC Cancer
  • AMIGO2 as a novel indicator of liver metastasis in patients with colorectal cancer, 2021, Oncology Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hiroaki Saito include:

  • Yoshiyuki Fujiwara
  • Tomoyuki Matsunaga
  • Kozo Miyatani
  • Yuji Shishido
  • Manabu Yamamoto

The scientist's publications are often featured in venues such as:

  • BMC Cancer
  • Yonago acta medica
  • Surgery Today
  • BMC Surgery
  • Research Square

Hiroaki Saito's research contributions include significant work on inflammatory biomarkers and their role in cancer prognosis, surgical outcomes in gastric cancer patients, and nutritional assessments for elderly patients in oncological surgery settings. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates clinical surgery, oncology, and molecular biology to address disease pathology and treatment outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Synthesis of iron fertilization experiments: From the iron age in the age of enlightenment

    Hein J.W. de Baar;Philip W. Boyd;Kenneth H. Coale;Michael R. Landry

  • A mesoscale iron enrichment in the western subarctic Pacific induces a large centric diatom bloom.

    Atsushi Tsuda;Shigenobu Takeda;Hiroaki Saito;Jun Nishioka

  • The decline and fate of an iron-induced subarctic phytoplankton bloom

    Philip W. Boyd;Cliff S. Law;C.S. Wong;Yukihiro Nojiri

  • Iron supply to the western subarctic Pacific: Importance of iron export from the Sea of Okhotsk

    Jun Nishioka;Jun Nishioka;Tsuneo Ono;Hiroaki Saito;Takeshi Nakatsuka

  • Docosahexaenoic acid suppresses nitric oxide production and inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in interferon-γ plus lipopolysaccharide-stimulated murine macrophages by inhibiting the oxidative stress

    Wataru Komatsu;Kenji Ishihara;Masakazu Murata;Hiroaki Saito

  • Antioxidant Activity and Active Sites of Phospholipids as Antioxidants

    Hiroaki Saito;Kenji Ishihara

  • Adaptive Changes in Membrane Lipids of Barophilic Bacteria in Response to Changes in Growth Pressure

    Yutaka Yano;Akihiko Nakayama;Kenji Ishihara;Hiroaki Saito

  • Nutrient and Plankton Dynamics in the NE and NW Gyres of the Subarctic Pacific Ocean

    Paul J. Harrison;Frank A. Whitney;Atsushi Tsuda;Hiroaki Saito

  • Nutrient and plankton dynamics in the Oyashio region of the western subarctic Pacific Ocean

    Hiroaki Saito;Atsushi Tsuda;Hiromi Kasai

  • Visual predators and the diel vertical migration of copepods under Arctic sea ice during the midnight sun

    Martin Fortier;Louis Fortier;Hiroshi Hattori;Hiroaki Saito

  • The evolution and termination of an iron-induced mesoscale bloom in the northeast subarctic Pacific

    Philip W. Boyd;Robert Strzepek;Shigenobu Takeda;George Jackson

  • Life histories of Neocalanus flemingeri and Neocalanus plumchrus (Calanoida: Copepoda) in the western subarctic Pacific

    A. Tsuda;H. Saito;H. Kasai

  • Perspectives on marine zooplankton lipids

    Gerhard Kattner;Willy Hagen;Richard F. Lee;Robert Campbell

  • Influence of diet on fatty acids of three subtropical fish, subfamily Caesioninae (Caesio diagramma and C. tile) and family Siganidae (Siganus canaliculatus).

    Hiroaki Saito;Rieko Yamashiro;Cesarettin Alasalvar;Toshiya Konno

  • Comparison of SYBR Green I and SYBR Gold stains for enumerating bacteria and viruses by epifluorescence microscopy

    Akira Shibata;Yoichi Goto;Hiroaki Saito;Tomohiko Kikuchi

  • Evidence for the grazing hypothesis: Grazing reduces phytoplankton responses of the HNLC ecosystem to iron enrichment in the western subarctic pacific (SEEDS II)

    Atsushi Tsuda;Shigenobu Takeda;Hiroaki Saito;Jun Nishioka

  • Variability in timing and magnitude of spring bloom in the Oyashio region, the western subarctic Pacific off Hokkaido, Japan

    Hiromi Kasai;Hiroaki Saito;Akira Yoshimori;Satoru Taguchi

  • Feeding rates in the chaetognath Sagitta elegans: effects of prey size, prey swimming behaviour and small-scale turbulence

    Hiroaki Saito;Thomas Kiørboe

  • Photobleaching as a factor controlling spectral characteristics of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in open ocean

    Youhei Yamashita;Yuichi Nosaka;Koji Suzuki;Hiroshi Ogawa

  • Distributions of particulate and dissolved organic and inorganic phosphorus in North Pacific surface waters

    Takeshi Yoshimura;Jun Nishioka;Hiroaki Saito;Shigenobu Takeda

  • The Fatty Acid Composition in Tuna (Bonito, Euthynnus pelamis) Caught at Three Different Localities from Tropics to Temperate

    Hiroaki Saito;Kenji Ishihara;Teruaki Murase

  • Characterizing photosymbiosis in modern planktonic foraminifera

    Haruka Takagi;Haruka Takagi;Katsunori Kimoto;Tetsuichi Fujiki;Hiroaki Saito

Frequent Co-Authors

Atsushi Tsuda
Atsushi Tsuda University of Tokyo
Jun Nishioka
Jun Nishioka Hokkaido University
Ken Furuya
Ken Furuya Soka University
Shigenobu Takeda
Shigenobu Takeda Nagasaki University
Yukihiro Nojiri
Yukihiro Nojiri National Institute for Environmental Studies
Philip W. Boyd
Philip W. Boyd University of Tasmania
Kazufumi Osako
Kazufumi Osako Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Youhei Yamashita
Youhei Yamashita Hokkaido University
Maurice Levasseur
Maurice Levasseur Université Laval
Hiromichi Kataura
Hiromichi Kataura National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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