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Masaki Mori

Masaki Mori

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Medicine
Japan
2023

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Medicine

D-Index
141
Citations
96162
World Ranking
1593
National Ranking
32

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Masaki Mori is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, particularly focusing on oncology and cancer research. The scientist has published extensively on topics related to gastrointestinal cancers, cancer genomics, and molecular biology.

Their recent publications include:

  • Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Molecular residual disease and efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with colorectal cancer, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • CCR8-targeted specific depletion of clonally expanded Treg cells in tumor tissues evokes potent tumor immunity with long-lasting memory, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • CIRCULATE-Japan: Circulating tumor DNA-guided adaptive platform trials to refine adjuvant therapy for colorectal cancer, 2021, Cancer Science
  • The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index predicts postoperative complications and prognosis in elderly patients with colorectal cancer after curative surgery, 2020, Scientific Reports

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Yuichiro Doki
  • Eiji Oki
  • Tomoharu Yoshizumi
  • Hidetoshi Eguchi
  • Shinji Itoh

Masaki Mori's research has been published prominently in venues such as:

  • Cancer Science
  • Surgery Today
  • Annals of Surgical Oncology
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Scientific Reports

Their primary fields of study are medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these areas, the scientist frequently publishes on subfields including surgery, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, oncology, and cancer research.

The key topics addressed by their work are:

  • Cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer studies
  • Gastric cancer management and outcomes
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Cancer genomics and diagnostics
  • Esophageal cancer research and treatment
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Lung cancer treatments and mutations

Best Publications

  • The Uncanny Valley [From the Field]

    M. Mori;K. F. MacDorman;N. Kageki

  • The FHIT Gene, Spanning the Chromosome 3p14.2 Fragile Site and Renal Carcinoma–Associated t(3;8) Breakpoint, Is Abnormal in Digestive Tract Cancers

    Masataka Ohta;Hiroshi Inoue;Maria Grazia Cotticelli;Kumar Kastury

  • Atmospheric vμ ve ratio in the multi-GeV energy range

    Y. Fukuda;T. Hayakawa;K. Inoue;T. Ishida

  • Long Noncoding RNA HOTAIR Regulates Polycomb-Dependent Chromatin Modification and Is Associated with Poor Prognosis in Colorectal Cancers

    Ryunosuke Kogo;Teppei Shimamura;Koshi Mimori;Kohichi Kawahara

  • Solar Neutrino Data Covering Solar Cycle 22.

    Y. Fukuda;T. Hayakawa;K. Inoue;K. Ishihara

  • Bukimi no tani [the uncanny valley]

    M. Mori

  • Measurements of the solar neutrino flux from Super-Kamiokande's first 300 days

    Y. Fukuda;T. Hayakawa;E. Ichihara;K. Inoue

  • Observation of a small atmospheric vμ/ve ratio in Kamiokande

    K.S. Hirata;K. Inoue;T. Ishida;T. Kajita

  • Measurement of a small atmospheric νμ/νe ratio

    Y. Fukuda;T. Hayakawa;E. Ichihara;K. Inoue

  • Study of the atmospheric neutrino flux in the multi-GeV energy range

    Y. Fukuda;T. Hayakawa;E. Ichihara;K. Inoue

  • Epithelial–mesenchymal transition in cancer development and its clinical significance

    Masaaki Iwatsuki;Koshi Mimori;Takehiko Yokobori;Hideshi Ishi

  • Reprogramming of mouse and human cells to pluripotency using mature microRNAs.

    Norikatsu Miyoshi;Hideshi Ishii;Hideshi Ishii;Hiroaki Nagano;Naotsugu Haraguchi

  • Two FOXP3 + CD4 + T cell subpopulations distinctly control the prognosis of colorectal cancers

    Takuro Saito;Hiroyoshi Nishikawa;Hisashi Wada;Yuji Nagano

  • Characterization of a side population of cancer cells from human gastrointestinal system

    Naotsugu Haraguchi;Tohru Utsunomiya;Hiroshi Inoue;Fumiaki Tanaka

  • CD13 is a therapeutic target in human liver cancer stem cells

    Naotsugu Haraguchi;Hideshi Ishii;Hideshi Ishii;Koshi Mimori;Fumiaki Tanaka

  • CCAT2, a novel noncoding RNA mapping to 8q24, underlies metastatic progression and chromosomal instability in colon cancer

    Hui Ling;Riccardo Spizzo;Yaser Atlasi;Milena Nicoloso

  • Real-time, directional measurement of 8B solar neutrinos in the Kamiokande II detector.

    K. S. Hirata;K. Inoue;T. Ishida;T. Kajita

  • A risk model for esophagectomy using data of 5354 patients included in a Japanese nationwide web-based database.

    Hiroya Takeuchi;Hiroaki Miyata;Mitsukazu Gotoh;Yuko Kitagawa

  • Ultra-sensitive liquid biopsy of circulating extracellular vesicles using ExoScreen

    Yusuke Yoshioka;Nobuyoshi Kosaka;Yuki Konishi;Hideki Ohta

  • Detection of cancer micrometastases in lymph nodes by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction

    Masaki Mori;Koshi Mimori;Hiroshi Inoue;Graham F. Barnard

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuichiro Doki
Yuichiro Doki Osaka University
Hidetoshi Eguchi
Hidetoshi Eguchi Osaka University
Koshi Mimori
Koshi Mimori Kyushu University
Hirofumi Yamamoto
Hirofumi Yamamoto Osaka University
Hiroaki Nagano
Hiroaki Nagano Osaka University
Keizo Sugimachi
Keizo Sugimachi Kyushu University
Hiroyuki Kuwano
Hiroyuki Kuwano Gunma University
Kensaku Mori
Kensaku Mori Nagoya University
Yoshihiko Maehara
Yoshihiko Maehara Kyushu University
Hideo Baba
Hideo Baba Kumamoto University

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