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Hirotaka Watada

Hirotaka Watada

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Medicine

D-Index
86
Citations
26720
World Ranking
14139
National Ranking
428

Overview

Hirotaka Watada is affiliated with Juntendo University in Japan and has a research focus largely in the field of medicine, with a particular emphasis on endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Their work spans various subfields, including physiology, molecular biology, surgery, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's research topics are dominated by diabetes-related issues, encompassing diabetes treatment and management, diabetes management and research, and pancreatic function and diabetes. Additional significant areas of study include metabolism related to diabetes and cancer, cardiovascular risks linked to diabetes, nutrition and health in aging, and diabetes-associated disorders.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Interconnection between cardiovascular, renal and metabolic disorders: A narrative review with a focus on Japan" (2022, Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism)
  • "Switching to once-weekly insulin icodec versus once-daily insulin degludec in individuals with basal insulin-treated type 2 diabetes (ONWARDS 2): a phase 3a, randomised, open label, multicentre, treat-to-target trial" (2023, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)
  • "Effects of Synbiotic Supplementation on Chronic Inflammation and the Gut Microbiota in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Randomized Controlled Study" (2021, Nutrients)
  • "Sarcopenic obesity is associated with cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults: The Bunkyo Health Study" (2022, Clinical Nutrition)
  • "Neuroimaging findings related to glymphatic system alterations in older adults with metabolic syndrome" (2023, Neurobiology of Disease)

Watada frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including Ryuzo Kawamori, Hideyoshi Kaga, Yoshifumi Tamura, Yuki Someya, and Iichiro Shimomura, each with numerous joint publications.

The scientist's contributions are regularly published in journals such as Diabetes, Journal of Diabetes Investigation, Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism, Diabetes Therapy, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Autophagy is important in islet homeostasis and compensatory increase of beta cell mass in response to high-fat diet

    Chie Ebato;Toyoyoshi Uchida;Masayuki Arakawa;Masaaki Komatsu;Masaaki Komatsu;Masaaki Komatsu

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Serotonin regulates pancreatic beta cell mass during pregnancy.

    Hail Kim;Yukiko Toyofuku;Francis C. Lynn;Francis C. Lynn;Eric W Chak

  • Inhibition of Monocyte Adhesion to Endothelial Cells and Attenuation of Atherosclerotic Lesion by a Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist, Exendin-4

    Masayuki Arakawa;Tomoya Mita;Kosuke Azuma;Chie Ebato

  • Estrogen regulation of the insulin-like growth factor I gene transcription involves an AP-1 enhancer.

    Y Umayahara;R Kawamori;H Watada;E Imano

  • Gut Dysbiosis and Detection of “Live Gut Bacteria” in Blood of Japanese Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

    Junko Sato;Akio Kanazawa;Fuki Ikeda;Tomoaki Yoshihara

  • Glycation-dependent, reactive oxygen species-mediated suppression of the insulin gene promoter activity in HIT cells.

    T.-A. Matsuoka;Y. Kajimoto;H. Watada;H. Kaneto

  • Brachial-Ankle Pulse Wave Velocity and the Risk Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis.

    Toshiaki Ohkuma;Toshiharu Ninomiya;Hirofumi Tomiyama;Kazuomi Kario

  • Effects of Diet and Exercise on Muscle and Liver Intracellular Lipid Contents and Insulin Sensitivity in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

    Yoshifumi Tamura;Yasushi Tanaka;Fumihiko Sato;Jong Bock Choi

  • Regulation of the Pancreatic Pro-Endocrine Gene Neurogenin3

    Jane C. Lee;Stewart B. Smith;Hirotaka Watada;Joseph Lin

  • Effect of Additional Oral Semaglutide vs Sitagliptin on Glycated Hemoglobin in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Uncontrolled With Metformin Alone or With Sulfonylurea: The PIONEER 3 Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Julio Rosenstock;Dale Allison;Andreas L. Birkenfeld;Thalia Marie Blicher

  • A genome-wide association study in the Japanese population identifies susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes at UBE2E2 and C2CD4A-C2CD4B

    Toshimasa Yamauchi;Kazuo Hara;Shiro Maeda;Kazuki Yasuda

  • The human glucokinase gene beta-cell-type promoter: an essential role of insulin promoter factor 1/PDX-1 in its activation in HIT-T15 cells.

    Hirotaka Watada;Yoshitaka Kajimoto;Yutaka Umayahara;Taka-aki Matsuoka

  • The emerging role of autophagy in the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus

    Claudio D. Gonzalez;Myung Shik Lee;Piero Marchetti;Massimo Pietropaolo

  • Little evidence of transdifferentiation of bone marrow-derived cells into pancreatic beta cells

    J. B. Choi;H. Uchino;K. Azuma;N. Iwashita

  • PDX-1 Induces Insulin and Glucokinase Gene Expressions in αTC1 Clone 6 Cells in the Presence of Betacellulin

    Hirotaka Watada;Yoshitaka Kajimoto;Jun-ichiro Miyagawa;Toshiaki Hanafusa

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

Frequent Co-Authors

Ryuzo Kawamori
Ryuzo Kawamori Juntendo University
Iichiro Shimomura
Iichiro Shimomura Osaka University
Shiro Maeda
Shiro Maeda University of the Ryukyus
Niklas Hammar
Niklas Hammar Karolinska Institute
Kamlesh Khunti
Kamlesh Khunti University of Leicester
Kazuyuki Tobe
Kazuyuki Tobe University of Toyama
Mikhail Kosiborod
Mikhail Kosiborod University of Missouri–Kansas City
Antonio Nicolucci
Antonio Nicolucci Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Atsunori Kashiwagi
Atsunori Kashiwagi Shiga University of Medical Science
Michael S. German
Michael S. German University of California, San Francisco

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