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Masaaki Ito

Masaaki Ito

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D-Index
92
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42993
World Ranking
11111
National Ranking
319

Overview

Masaaki Ito is affiliated with Mie University in Japan and has contributed extensively to medical research, particularly within the field of medicine. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields including oncology, surgery, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, immunology, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics related to cancer and surgical treatments. These include colorectal cancer surgical treatments, colorectal and anal carcinomas, surgical simulation and training, colorectal cancer treatments and studies, colorectal cancer screening and detection, anorectal disease treatments and outcomes, and gastric cancer management and outcomes.

They have published in multiple academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Surgical Endoscopy
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery
  • Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society
  • Annals of Oncology

Notable recent papers by Masaaki Ito include:

  • Primary Tumor Resection Plus Chemotherapy Versus Chemotherapy Alone for Colorectal Cancer Patients With Asymptomatic, Synchronous Unresectable Metastases (JCOG1007; iPACS): A Randomized Clinical Trial, 2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Flash glucose monitoring helps achieve better glycemic control than conventional self-monitoring of blood glucose in non-insulin-treated type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial, 2020, BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care
  • Automated laparoscopic colorectal surgery workflow recognition using artificial intelligence: Experimental research, 2020, International Journal of Surgery
  • Pituitary dysfunction induced by immune checkpoint inhibitors is associated with better overall survival in both malignant melanoma and non-small cell lung carcinoma: a prospective study, 2020, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Long-term follow-up of the randomized trial of mesorectal excision with or without lateral lymph node dissection in rectal cancer (JCOG0212), 2020, British journal of surgery

Masaaki Ito collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Daichi Kitaguchi
  • Yuichiro Tsukada
  • Nobuyoshi Takeshita
  • Hiro Hasegawa
  • Yukihide Kanemitsu

Best Publications

  • The Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension (JSH 2019)

    Satoshi Umemura;Hisatomi Arima;Shuji Arima;Kei Asayama

  • The Japanese Society of Hypertension guidelines for the management of hypertension (JSH 2014)

    Kazuaki Shimamoto;Katsuyuki Ando;Toshiro Fujita;Naoyuki Hasebe

  • Rho-associated Kinase Directly Induces Smooth Muscle Contraction through Myosin Light Chain Phosphorylation

    Yasuko Kureishi;Sei Kobayashi;Mutsuki Amano;Kazushi Kimura

  • Inhibitory Phosphorylation Site for Rho-associated Kinase on Smooth Muscle Myosin Phosphatase

    Jianhua Feng;Masaaki Ito;Kazuhito Ichikawa;Naoki Isaka

  • Comparison of the gut microbiota composition between obese and non-obese individuals in a Japanese population, as analyzed by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism and next-generation sequencing

    Chika Kasai;Kazushi Sugimoto;Isao Moritani;Junichiro Tanaka

  • Myosin phosphatase: structure, regulation and function.

    Masaaki Ito;Takeshi Nakano;Ferenc Erdodi;David J. Hartshorne

  • Activation of RhoA and Inhibition of Myosin Phosphatase as Important Components in Hypertension in Vascular Smooth Muscle

    Tetsuya Seko;Masaaki Ito;Yasuko Kureishi;Ryuji Okamoto

  • Survivin promotes cell proliferation in human hepatocellular carcinoma

    Takeshi Ito;Katsuya Shiraki;Kazushi Sugimoto;Takenari Yamanaka

  • Mesorectal Excision With or Without Lateral Lymph Node Dissection for Clinical Stage II/III Lower Rectal Cancer (JCOG0212): A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled, Noninferiority Trial.

    Shin Fujita;Junki Mizusawa;Yukihide Kanemitsu;Masaaki Ito

  • Long-term clinical outcome after intramuscular implantation of bone marrow mononuclear cells (Therapeutic Angiogenesis by Cell Transplantation [TACT] trial) in patients with chronic limb ischemia

    Satoaki Matoba;Tetsuya Tatsumi;Toyoaki Murohara;Tsutomu Imaizumi

  • Rho-associated Kinase of Chicken Gizzard Smooth Muscle

    Jianhua Feng;Masaaki Ito;Yasuko Kureishi;Kazuhito Ichikawa

  • Characterization of the myosin-binding subunit of smooth muscle myosin phosphatase.

    H Shimizu;M Ito;M Miyahara;K Ichikawa

  • Relationship between multiple numbers of stapler firings during rectal division and anastomotic leakage after laparoscopic rectal resection

    Masaaki Ito;Masanori Sugito;Akihiro Kobayashi;Yusuke Nishizawa

  • The Japanese Society of Hypertension Committee for Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension

    Toshio Ogihara;Kenjiro Kikuchi;Toshiro Fujita;Jitsuo Higaki

  • Phosphorylation of CPI-17, an inhibitory phosphoprotein of smooth muscle myosin phosphatase, by Rho-kinase

    Mutsumi Koyama;Masaaki Ito;Jianhua Feng;Tetsuya Seko

  • Survival outcomes following laparoscopic versus open D3 dissection for stage II or III colon cancer (JCOG0404): a phase 3, randomised controlled trial

    Seigo Kitano;Masafumi Inomata;Junki Mizusawa;Hiroshi Katayama

  • Chemotherapeutic agents augment TRAIL-induced apoptosis in human hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines.

    Takenari Yamanaka;Katsuya Shiraki;Kazushi Sugimoto;Takeshi Ito

  • Beneficial acute effects of rho-kinase inhibitor in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.

    Ken Ishikura;Norikazu Yamada;Masaaki Ito;Satoshi Ota

  • Multicentre prospective study of perinatal depression in Japan: incidence and correlates of antenatal and postnatal depression.

    T. Kitamura;K. Yoshida;T. Okano;K. Kinoshita

  • Associations of serum total cholesterol, different types of stroke, and stenosis distribution of cerebral arteries. The Akita Pathology Study.

    M Konishi;H Iso;Y Komachi;M Iida

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Hartshorne
David J. Hartshorne University of Arizona
Hiroshi Nakajima
Hiroshi Nakajima Chiba University
Toshio Tanaka
Toshio Tanaka Mie University
Kozo Kaibuchi
Kozo Kaibuchi Nagoya University
Osamu Ogawa
Osamu Ogawa Kyoto University
Atsushi Ochiai
Atsushi Ochiai University of Tokyo
Hiroyoshi Hidaka
Hiroyoshi Hidaka D. Western Therapeutics Institute (Japan)
Kenichi Sugihara
Kenichi Sugihara Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Takayuki Yoshino
Takayuki Yoshino University of Tsukuba
Mutsuki Amano
Mutsuki Amano Nagoya University

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