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Masafumi Ihara

Masafumi Ihara

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Neuroscience

D-Index
76
Citations
18336
World Ranking
1944
National Ranking
42

Overview

Masafumi Ihara is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and works primarily in the field of Medicine with a focus on Neurology. Their research encompasses several subfields including Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics covered by Ihara's work include:

  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research
  • Cerebrovascular and Genetic Disorders
  • Moyamoya Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

Ihara has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with significant publications such as:

  • "Moyamoya disease: diagnosis and interventions", 2022, The Lancet Neurology
  • "Brain Microvascular Pericytes in Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia", 2020, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • "Loss of capillary pericytes and the blood-brain barrier in white matter in poststroke and vascular dementias and Alzheimer's disease", 2020, Brain Pathology
  • "Spontaneous ARIA-like Events in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Inflammation", 2021, Neurology
  • "Molecular biomarkers for vascular cognitive impairment and dementia", 2023, Nature Reviews Neurology

The venues where Ihara frequently publishes include:

  • Stroke
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Neurology

Collaboration is a feature of Ihara's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Masatoshi Koga
  • Ḱazunori Toyoda
  • Takeshi Yoshimoto
  • Satoshi Saitô
  • Yorito Hattori

Best Publications

  • Stroke injury, cognitive impairment and vascular dementia

    Raj N. Kalaria;Rufus Akinyemi;Masafumi Ihara

  • White Matter Lesions and Glial Activation in a Novel Mouse Model of Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion

    Masunari Shibata;Ryo Ohtani;Masafumi Ihara;Hidekazu Tomimoto

  • Progress toward standardized diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment: Guidelines from the Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study

    Olivia Skrobot;Sandra Black;Christopher Chen;Charles Decarli

  • Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion: a key mechanism leading to vascular cognitive impairment and dementia. Closing the translational gap between rodent models and human vascular cognitive impairment and dementia.

    Jessica Duncombe;Akihiro Kitamura;Yoshiki Hase;Masafumi Ihara

  • Does vascular pathology contribute to Alzheimer changes

    Raj N. Kalaria;Rufus Akinyemi;Rufus Akinyemi;Masafumi Ihara;Masafumi Ihara

  • Cerebral hypoperfusion accelerates cerebral amyloid angiopathy and promotes cortical microinfarcts

    Yoko Okamoto;Toru Yamamoto;Raj N. Kalaria;Hideto Senzaki

  • Selective Impairment of Working Memory in a Mouse Model of Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion

    Masunari Shibata;Nobuyuki Yamasaki;Tsuyoshi Miyakawa;Rajesh N. Kalaria

  • Quantification of myelin loss in frontal lobe white matter in vascular dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and dementia with Lewy bodies.

    Masafumi Ihara;Tuomo M. Polvikoski;Ros Hall;Janet Y. Slade

  • Axonal damage and demyelination in the white matter after chronic cerebral hypoperfusion in the rat

    Hideaki Wakita;Hidekazu Tomimoto;Ichiro Akiguchi;Akinori Matsuo

  • Brain Microvascular Pericytes in Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia.

    Uemura Mt;Maki T;Ihara M;Lee Vmy

  • Astrocytes Promote Oligodendrogenesis after White Matter Damage via Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor

    Nobukazu Miyamoto;Takakuni Maki;Akihiro Shindo;Anna C. Liang

  • A Mouse Model Characterizing Features of Vascular Dementia With Hippocampal Atrophy

    Keiko Nishio;Masafumi Ihara;Nobuyuki Yamasaki;Raj N. Kalaria

  • White matter degeneration in vascular and other ageing-related dementias

    Yoshiki Hase;Karen Horsburgh;Masafumi Ihara;Raj N. Kalaria

  • Sept4, a Component of Presynaptic Scaffold and Lewy Bodies, Is Required for the Suppression of α-Synuclein Neurotoxicity

    Masafumi Ihara;Nobuyuki Yamasaki;Akari Hagiwara;Ai Tanigaki

  • Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion induces white matter lesions and loss of oligodendroglia with DNA fragmentation in the rat.

    H. Tomimoto;M. Ihara;H. Wakita;R. Ohtani

  • Vascular Risk Factors and Neurodegeneration in Ageing Related Dementias: Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia

    Rufus O. Akinyemi;Elizabeta B. Mukaetova-Ladinska;Johannes Attems;Masafumi Ihara

  • Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells Support Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity via TGF-β Signaling

    Ji Hae Seo;Ji Hae Seo;Takakuni Maki;Mitsuyo Maeda;Nobukazu Miyamoto

  • Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 Plays a Critical Role in the Pathogenesis of White Matter Lesions After Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion in Rodents

    Kayoko Nakaji;Masafumi Ihara;Chiaki Takahashi;Shigeyoshi Itohara

  • Association of the cytoskeletal GTP-binding protein Sept4/H5 with cytoplasmic inclusions found in Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies.

    Masafumi Ihara;Hidekazu Tomimoto;Hitoshi Kitayama;Yoko Morioka

  • Nonhypotensive Dose of Telmisartan Attenuates Cognitive Impairment Partially Due to Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-γ Activation in Mice With Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion

    Kazuo Washida;Masafumi Ihara;Keiko Nishio;Youshi Fujita

Frequent Co-Authors

Raj N. Kalaria
Raj N. Kalaria Newcastle University
Karen Horsburgh
Karen Horsburgh University of Edinburgh
Hidenao Fukuyama
Hidenao Fukuyama Kyoto University
Hiroaki Kazui
Hiroaki Kazui Kōchi University
Tomohiro Matsuyama
Tomohiro Matsuyama Hyogo College of Medicine
Howard J. Aizenstein
Howard J. Aizenstein University of Pittsburgh
Tsuyoshi Miyakawa
Tsuyoshi Miyakawa Fujita Health University
Takeshi Kihara
Takeshi Kihara Kyoto University
Riki Matsumoto
Riki Matsumoto Kobe University

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