2026 Masaharu Noda: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	79	4232	3906	277	259	208	29067

Overview

Masaharu Noda is a researcher affiliated with the National Institute for Basic Biology in Japan. Their work spans multiple areas in medicine, particularly focusing on physiology and immunology, with intersections into molecular biology and endocrine systems.

The main fields of study include:

Medicine
Immunology and Microbiology

Within these, the subfields of study cover:

Immunology
Molecular Biology
Physiology
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Social Psychology

Noda's research topics frequently address:

Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases
Galectins and Cancer Biology
Immune cells in cancer
Dietary Effects on Health
Thermoregulation and physiological responses

Noda has published in a variety of venues including:

Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B
Nature Communications
Glia
Life Sciences
Cell Reports

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Noda are:

Central regulation of body fluid homeostasis (2022), Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B
Distinct CCK-positive SFO neurons are involved in persistent or transient suppression of water intake (2020), Nature Communications
Insights into olfactory ensheathing cell development from a laser-microdissection and transcriptome-profiling approach (2020), Glia
SLC9A4 in the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis is a [Na+] sensor for the control of water intake (2020), Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology
Deletion or inhibition of PTPRO prevents ectopic fat accumulation and induces healthy obesity with markedly reduced systemic inflammation (2022), Life Sciences

Frequent collaborators include:

Takashi Matsuda
Kenta Kobayashi
Takeshi Y. Hiyama
Kazuto Kobayashi
Takafumi Shintani

Best Publications

Primary structure of Electrophorus electricus sodium channel deduced from cDNA sequence.

Masaharu Noda;Shin Shimizu;Tsutomu Tanabe;Toshiyuki Takai

1728
Citations
Structural parts involved in activation and inactivation of the sodium channel.

Walter Stühmer;Franco Conti;Harukazu Suzuki;Xiaodong Wang

1515
Citations
IN VITRO GUIDANCE OF RETINAL GANGLION CELL AXONS BY RAGS, A 25 KDA TECTAL PROTEIN RELATED TO LIGANDS FOR EPH RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASES

Uwe Drescher;Claus Kremoser;Claudia Handwerker;Jürgen Löschinger

1248
Citations
Molecular distinction between fetal and adult forms of muscle acetylcholine receptor

Masayoshi Mishina;Toshiyuki Takai;Keiji Imoto;Masaharu Noda

1188
Citations
Cloning and sequence analysis of cDNA for bovine adrenal preproenkephalin

Masaharu Noda;Yasuji Furutani;Hideo Takahashi;Mitsuyoshi Toyosato

1141
Citations
Existence of distinct sodium channel messenger RNAs in rat brain

Masaharu Noda;Takayuki Ikeda;Toshiaki Kayano;Harukazu Suzuki

1083
Citations
Cloning and sequence analysis of cDNA for porcine beta-neo-endorphin/dynorphin precursor

Hitoshi Kakidani;Yasuji Furutani;Hideo Takahashi;Masaharu Noda

1049
Citations
Structural homology of Torpedo californica acetylcholine receptor subunits

Masaharu Noda;Hideo Takahashi;Tsutomu Tanabe;Mitsuyoshi Toyosato

1032
Citations
Primary structure of α -subunit precursor of Torpedo californica acetylcholine receptor deduced from cDNA sequence

Masaharu Noda;Hideo Takahashi;Tsutomu Tanabe;Mitsuyoshi Toyosato

964
Citations
Expression of functional sodium channels from cloned cDNA

Masaharu Noda;Takayuki Ikeda;Harukazu Suzuki;Hiroshi Takeshima

644
Citations
Pleiotrophin signals increased tyrosine phosphorylation of β-catenin through inactivation of the intrinsic catalytic activity of the receptor-type protein tyrosine phosphatase β/ζ

Kung Meng;A. Rodríguez-Peña;Todor Dimitrov;Wen Chen

532
Citations
Primary structures of beta- and delta-subunit precursors of Torpedo californica acetylcholine receptor deduced from cDNA sequences.

Masaharu Noda;Hideo Takahashi;Tsutomu Tanabe;Mitsuyoshi Toyosato

529
Citations
Cloning and sequence analysis of calf cDNA and human genomic DNA encoding α -subunit precursor of muscle acetylcholine receptor

Masaharu Noda;Yasuji Furutani;Hideo Takahashi;Mitsuyoshi Toyosato

519
Citations
A missense mutation of the Na+ channel αII subunit gene Nav1.2 in a patient with febrile and afebrile seizures causes channel dysfunction

Takashi Sugawara;Yuji Tsurubuchi;Kishan Lal Agarwala;Masatoshi Ito

514
Citations
A single point mutation confers tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin insensitivity on the sodium channel II.

Masaharu Noda;Harukazu Suzuki;Harukazu Suzuki;Shosaku Numa;Walter Stühmer

461
Citations
A receptor-like protein-tyrosine phosphatase PTPzeta/RPTPbeta binds a heparin-binding growth factor midkine. Involvement of arginine 78 of midkine in the high affinity binding to PTPzeta.

Nobuaki Maeda;Keiko Ichihara-Tanaka;Terutoshi Kimura;Kenji Kadomatsu

461
Citations
Expression of functional acetylcholine receptor from cloned cDNAs

Masayoshi Mishina;Tomohiro Kurosaki;Takamasa Tobimatsu;Yuuki Morimoto

440
Citations
6B4 Proteoglycan/Phosphacan, an Extracellular Variant of Receptor-like Protein-tyrosine Phosphatase ζ/RPTPβ, Binds Pleiotrophin/Heparin-binding Growth-associated Molecule (HB-GAM)

Nobuaki Maeda;Taeko Nishiwaki;Takafumi Shintani;Hiroki Hamanaka

415
Citations
Differential regulation of three sodium channel messenger RNAs in the rat central nervous system during development

S Beckh;M Noda;H Lübbert;S Numa

399
Citations
Primary structure of rat brain sodium channel III deduced from the cDNA sequence.

Toshiaki Kayano;Masaharu Noda;Veit Flockerzi;Hideo Takahashi

391
Citations