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Masahisa Katsuno

Masahisa Katsuno

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
80
Citations
22185
World Ranking
17168
National Ranking
548

Masahisa Katsuno publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masahisa Katsuno sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 629 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Masahisa Katsuno D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masahisa Katsuno sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Masahisa Katsuno is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has a research portfolio primarily rooted in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Neurology, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Their work spans a significant number of publications in these areas, contributing particularly to neurological and neurogenetic disease studies.

Their research topics prominently include:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Katsuno include:

  • <scp>Meta-Analysis</scp> of Gut Dysbiosis in Parkinson's Disease, 2020, Movement Disorders
  • Terminal Complement Inhibitor Ravulizumab in Generalized Myasthenia Gravis, 2022, NEJM Evidence
  • Short-Chain Fatty Acid-Producing Gut Microbiota Is Decreased in Parkinson's Disease but Not in Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder, 2020, mSystems
  • YAP-dependent necrosis occurs in early stages of Alzheimer's disease and regulates mouse model pathology, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Transthyretin Amyloidosis: Update on the Clinical Spectrum, Pathogenesis, and Disease-Modifying Therapies, 2020, Neurology and Therapy

Katsuno's collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Gen Sobue
  • Haruki Koike
  • Hirohisa Watanabe
  • Kazuhiro Hara
  • Masashi Aoki

Their most frequent publication venues reflect their engagement in reputable neurological and medical journals, including:

  • Neurology
  • Journal of Neurology
  • PubMed
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Internal Medicine

Best Publications

  • The wide spectrum of clinical manifestations in Sjögren's syndrome-associated neuropathy

    Keiko Mori;Masahiro Iijima;Haruki Koike;Naoki Hattori

  • Testosterone reduction prevents phenotypic expression in a transgenic mouse model of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy.

    Masahisa Katsuno;Hiroaki Adachi;Akito Kume;Mei Li

  • 17-AAG, an Hsp90 inhibitor, ameliorates polyglutamine-mediated motor neuron degeneration.

    Masahiro Waza;Hiroaki Adachi;Masahisa Katsuno;Makoto Minamiyama

  • Long-read sequencing identifies GGC repeat expansions in NOTCH2NLC associated with neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease.

    Jun Sone;Satomi Mitsuhashi;Atsushi Fujita;Takeshi Mizuguchi

  • Leuprorelin rescues polyglutamine-dependent phenotypes in a transgenic mouse model of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

    Masahisa Katsuno;Hiroaki Adachi;Manabu Doyu;Makoto Minamiyama

  • Heat Shock Protein 70 Chaperone Overexpression Ameliorates Phenotypes of the Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy Transgenic Mouse Model by Reducing Nuclear-Localized Mutant Androgen Receptor Protein

    Hiroaki Adachi;Masahisa Katsuno;Makoto Minamiyama;Chen Sang

  • Sodium butyrate ameliorates phenotypic expression in a transgenic mouse model of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

    Makoto Minamiyama;Masahisa Katsuno;Hiroaki Adachi;Masahiro Waza

  • Exosome secretion is a key pathway for clearance of pathological TDP-43.

    Yohei Iguchi;Lara Eid;Martin Parent;Geneviève Soucy

  • Natural history of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) : a study of 223 Japanese patients

    Naoki Atsuta;Hirohisa Watanabe;Mizuki Ito;Haruhiko Banno

  • Pharmacological induction of heat-shock proteins alleviates polyglutamine-mediated motor neuron disease.

    Masahisa Katsuno;Chen Sang;Hiroaki Adachi;Makoto Minamiyama

  • Clinicopathological features of adult-onset neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease

    Jun Sone;Keiko Mori;Tomonori Inagaki;Ryu Katsumata

  • Gene expression profile of spinal motor neurons in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Yue-Mei Jiang;Masahiko Yamamoto;Yasushi Kobayashi;Tsuyoshi Yoshihara

  • Widespread nuclear and cytoplasmic accumulation of mutant androgen receptor in SBMA patients.

    Hiroaki Adachi;Masahisa Katsuno;Makoto Minamiyama;Masahiro Waza

  • Meta‐Analysis of Gut Dysbiosis in Parkinson's Disease

    Hiroshi Nishiwaki;Mikako Ito;Tomohiro Ishida;Tomonari Hamaguchi

  • Position-dependent FUS-RNA interactions regulate alternative splicing events and transcriptions

    Shinsuke Ishigaki;Akio Masuda;Yusuke Fujioka;Yohei Iguchi

  • Paranodal dissection in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy with anti-neurofascin-155 and anti-contactin-1 antibodies

    Haruki Koike;Masato Kadoya;Ken Ichi Kaida;Shohei Ikeda

  • Overexpression of IGF-1 in muscle attenuates disease in a mouse model of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy.

    Isabella Palazzolo;Conor Stack;Lingling Kong;Antonio Musaro

  • Loss of TDP-43 causes age-dependent progressive motor neuron degeneration.

    Yohei Iguchi;Masahisa Katsuno;Jun Ichi Niwa;Shinnosuke Takagi

  • Suppression of Alzheimer's Disease-Related Phenotypes by Expression of Heat Shock Protein 70 in Mice

    Tatsuya Hoshino;Naoya Murao;Takushi Namba;Masaya Takehara

  • CHIP Overexpression Reduces Mutant Androgen Receptor Protein and Ameliorates Phenotypes of the Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy Transgenic Mouse Model

    Hiroaki Adachi;Masahiro Waza;Keisuke Tokui;Masahisa Katsuno

Frequent Co-Authors

Gen Sobue
Gen Sobue Aichi Medical University
Fumiaki Tanaka
Fumiaki Tanaka Yokohama City University
Hiroaki Adachi
Hiroaki Adachi University of East Anglia
Shinji Naganawa
Shinji Naganawa Nagoya University
Koji Abe
Koji Abe Okayama University
Satoshi Kuwabara
Satoshi Kuwabara Chiba University
Kinji Ohno
Kinji Ohno Nagoya University
Hideyuki Okano
Hideyuki Okano Keio University
Nobutaka Hattori
Nobutaka Hattori Juntendo University
Shoji Tsuji
Shoji Tsuji University of Tokyo

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