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Masahiko Kurabayashi

Masahiko Kurabayashi

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Medicine

D-Index
86
Citations
28314
World Ranking
14090
National Ranking
423

Overview

Masahiko Kurabayashi is affiliated with Gunma University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's research primarily focuses on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, with significant work also in molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The main topics covered in Kurabayashi's research include cardiovascular function and risk factors, cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, ion channel regulation and function, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, and cardiac valve diseases and treatments.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Kurabayashi include:

  • Enhancing rare variant interpretation in inherited arrhythmias through quantitative analysis of consortium disease cohorts and population controls (2020, Genetics in Medicine)
  • Short-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a nationwide case-crossover study in Japan (2020, The Lancet Planetary Health)
  • Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation and Right Atrial Remodeling in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (2021, The American Journal of Cardiology)
  • Impact of Right Atrial Remodeling in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (2020, Journal of Cardiac Failure)
  • Unspecified title (2020, Institutional Repository University of Antwerp)

Kurabayashi frequently publishes in journals such as Scientific Reports, Journal of Medical Ultrasonics, Internal Medicine, International Heart Journal, and European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging.

Frequent collaborators include Masaru Obokata, Norimichi Koitabashi, Tadashi Nakajima, Yoshiaki Kaneko, and Tomonari Harada, indicating a collaborative research network within cardiovascular and medical sciences.

Best Publications

  • Mutation of the mouse klotho gene leads to a syndrome resembling ageing

    Makoto Kuro-o;Yutaka Matsumura;Hiroki Aizawa;Hiroshi Kawaguchi

  • Stretching cardiac myocytes stimulates protooncogene expression.

    I Komuro;T Kaida;Y Shibazaki;M Kurabayashi

  • Mechanical loading stimulates cell hypertrophy and specific gene expression in cultured rat cardiac myocytes. Possible role of protein kinase C activation.

    Issei Komuro;Youichi Katoh;Toshikazu Kaida;Yoshikazu Shibazaki

  • Circulating oxidized low density lipoprotein levels. A biochemical risk marker for coronary heart disease

    Shun-ichi Toshima;Akira Hasegawa;Masahiko Kurabayashi;Hiroyuki Itabe

  • Krüppel-like zinc-finger transcription factor KLF5/BTEB2 is a target for angiotensin II signaling and an essential regulator of cardiovascular remodeling.

    Takayuki Shindo;Ichiro Manabe;Yasushi Fukushima;Kazuyuki Tobe

  • Usefulness of Fasting 18F-FDG PET in Identification of Cardiac Sarcoidosis

    Wataru Okumura;Tsutomu Iwasaki;Takuji Toyama;Tatsuya Iso

  • In vivo klotho gene delivery protects against endothelial dysfunction in multiple risk factor syndrome.

    Yuichiro Saito;Tetsuya Nakamura;Yoshio Ohyama;Toru Suzuki

  • Expression of cellular oncogenes in the myocardium during the developmental stage and pressure-overloaded hypertrophy of the rat heart.

    I Komuro;M Kurabayashi;F Takaku;Y Yazaki

  • Mechanism of Doxorubicin-Induced Inhibition of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+-ATPase Gene Transcription

    Masashi Arai;Akemi Yoguchi;Takako Takizawa;Tomoyuki Yokoyama

  • Elevated B-type natriuretic peptide levels after anthracycline administration☆☆☆★★★

    Toru Suzuki;Doubun Hayashi;Tsutomu Yamazaki;Takehiko Mizuno

  • Disruption of the klotho gene causes pulmonary emphysema in mice. Defect in maintenance of pulmonary integrity during postnatal life.

    Tatsuo Suga;Masahiko Kurabayashi;Yoshichika Sando;Yoshio Ohyama

  • Molecular cloning and characterization of a Ca2+ + Mg2+-dependent adenosine triphosphatase from rat cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. Regulation of its expression by pressure overload and developmental stage.

    I Komuro;M Kurabayashi;Y Shibazaki;F Takaku

  • Endothelial dysfunction in the klotho mouse and downregulation of klotho gene expression in various animal models of vascular and metabolic diseases.

    R Nagai;Y Saito;Y Ohyama;H Aizawa

  • MOLECULAR CLONING OF RAT KLOTHO CDNA : MARKEDLY DECREASED EXPRESSION OF KLOTHO BY ACUTE INFLAMMATORY STRESS

    Yoshio Ohyama;Masahiko Kurabayashi;Hiroaki Masuda;Tetsuya Nakamura

  • Decreased Insulin Production and Increased Insulin Sensitivity in the Klotho Mutant Mouse, a Novel Animal Model for Human Aging

    T. Utsugi;T. Ohno;Y. Ohyama;T. Uchiyama

  • BTEB2, a Krüppel-Like Transcription Factor, Regulates Expression of the SMemb/Nonmuscle Myosin Heavy Chain B (SMemb/NMHC-B) Gene

    Noboru Watanabe;Masahiko Kurabayashi;Yukio Shimomura;Keiko Kawai-Kowase

  • Pioglitazone improves the phenotype and molecular defects of a targeted Pkd1 mutant

    Satoru Muto;Atsu Aiba;Yuichirou Saito;Kazuki Nakao

  • VKORC1 gene variations are the major contributors of variation in warfarin dose in Japanese patients.

    Kyoko Obayashi;Kyoko Obayashi;Katsunori Nakamura;Katsunori Nakamura;Junichi Kawana;Junichi Kawana;Hiroyasu Ogata;Hiroyasu Ogata

  • Effect of spironolactone on cardiacsympathetic nerve activity and left ventricular remodeling in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy

    Shu Kasama;Takuji Toyama;Hisao Kumakura;Yoshiaki Takayama

  • Cardiac Ankyrin Repeat Protein Is a Novel Marker of Cardiac Hypertrophy: Role of M-CAT Element Within the Promoter

    Yasushi Aihara;Masahiko Kurabayashi;Yuichiro Saito;Yoshio Ohyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Ryozo Nagai
Ryozo Nagai Jichi Medical University
Ichiro Manabe
Ichiro Manabe Chiba University
Keigo Endo
Keigo Endo Gunma University
Issei Komuro
Issei Komuro University of Tokyo
Akira Hasegawa
Akira Hasegawa Tohoku University
Yoshio Yazaki
Yoshio Yazaki University of Tokyo
Fumimaro Takaku
Fumimaro Takaku University of Tokyo
Makoto Kuro-o
Makoto Kuro-o Jichi Medical University
Hitoshi Shimano
Hitoshi Shimano University of Tsukuba
Hiroyuki Miyoshi
Hiroyuki Miyoshi Keio University

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