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Masashi Hosokawa

Masashi Hosokawa

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
49
Citations
10693
World Ranking
14685
National Ranking
1147

Masashi Hosokawa publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

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

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 178 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Masashi Hosokawa D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Masashi Hosokawa is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Key subfields of their work include Molecular Biology, Aquatic Science, Nutrition and Dietetics, Biochemistry, and Physiology.

Hosokawa's scientific contributions focus on topics such as Fatty Acid Research and Health, Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds, Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Algal biology and biofuel production, Echinoderm biology and ecology, and Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes.

Recent papers by Hosokawa include the following:

  • Nutraceutical characteristics of the brown seaweed carotenoid fucoxanthin, 2020, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Fucoxanthin inhibits hepatic oxidative stress, inflammation, and fibrosis in diet-induced nonalcoholic steatohepatitis model mice, 2020, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • Effective extraction of carotenoids from brown seaweeds and vegetable leaves with edible oils, 2020, Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies
  • Total Lipids Content, Lipid Class and Fatty Acid Composition of Ten Species of Microalgae, 2020, Journal of Oleo Science
  • Bioactive significance of fucoxanthin and its effective extraction, 2020, Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hosokawa include:

  • Fumiaki Beppu
  • Kazuo Miyashita
  • Naoki Takatani
  • Yumiko Yamano
  • Takashi Maoka

Hosokawa's work is commonly published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Oleo Science
  • Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology
  • Fisheries Science
  • Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Best Publications

  • Fucoxanthin from edible seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida, shows antiobesity effect through UCP1 expression in white adipose tissues.

    Hayato Maeda;Masashi Hosokawa;Tokutake Sashima;Katsura Funayama

  • Radical scavenging and singlet oxygen quenching activity of marine carotenoid fucoxanthin and its metabolites.

    Nakkarike M. Sachindra;Emiko Sato;Hayato Maeda;Masashi Hosokawa

  • Fucoxanthin induces apoptosis and enhances the antiproliferative effect of the PPARγ ligand, troglitazone, on colon cancer cells

    Masashi Hosokawa;Masahiro Kudo;Hayato Maeda;Hiroyuki Kohno

  • Dietary combination of fucoxanthin and fish oil attenuates the weight gain of white adipose tissue and decreases blood glucose in obese/diabetic KK-Ay mice

    Hayato Maeda;Masashi Hosokawa;Tokutake Sashima;Kazuo Miyashita

  • POMEGRANATE SEED OIL RICH IN CONJUGATED LINOLENIC ACID SUPPRESSES CHEMICALLY INDUCED COLON CARCINOGENESIS IN RATS

    Hiroyuki Kohno;Rikako Suzuki;Rikako Suzuki;Yumiko Yasui;Masashi Hosokawa

  • Ligands for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors alpha and gamma inhibit chemically induced colitis and formation of aberrant crypt foci in rats.

    Takuji Tanaka;Hiroyuki Kohno;Shin-ichiro Yoshitani;Shigeki Takashima

  • Edible Japanese seaweed, wakame (Undaria pinnatifida) as an ingredient in pasta: Chemical, functional and structural evaluation

    P. Prabhasankar;P. Ganesan;N. Bhaskar;N. Bhaskar;A. Hirose

  • Fucoxanthin and its metabolite, fucoxanthinol, suppress adipocyte differentiation in 3T3-L1 cells

    Hayato Maeda;Masashi Hosokawa;Tokutake Sashima;Nobuyuki Takahashi

  • Fucoxanthin: A Marine Carotenoid Exerting Anti-Cancer Effects by Affecting Multiple Mechanisms

    Sangeetha Ravi Kumar;Masashi Hosokawa;Kazuo Miyashita

  • The allenic carotenoid fucoxanthin, a novel marine nutraceutical from brown seaweeds.

    Kazuo Miyashita;Sho Nishikawa;Fumiaki Beppu;Takayuki Tsukui

  • Single and repeated oral dose toxicity study of fucoxanthin (FX), a marine carotenoid, in mice.

    Fumiaki Beppu;Yoshimi Niwano;Takayuki Tsukui;Masashi Hosokawa

  • Dietary astaxanthin inhibits colitis and colitis-associated colon carcinogenesis in mice via modulation of the inflammatory cytokines.

    Yumiko Yasui;Masashi Hosokawa;Nana Mikami;Kazuo Miyashita

  • Apoptosis-Inducing Effect of Fucoxanthin on Human Leukemia Cell Line HL-60

    Masashi Hosokawa;Satoshi Wanezaki;Kozue Miyauchi;Hideyuki Kurihara

  • Chemical and nutritional characteristics of brown seaweed lipids: A review

    Kazuo Miyashita;Nana Mikami;Nana Mikami;Masashi Hosokawa

  • Bitter gourd seed fatty acid rich in 9c,11t,13t -conjugated linolenic acid induces apoptosis and up-regulates the GADD45, p53 and PPARγ in human colon cancer Caco-2 cells

    Yumiko Yasui;Masashi Hosokawa;Takehiko Sahara;Rikako Suzuki

  • Potent inhibitory effect of trans9, trans11 isomer of conjugated linoleic acid on the growth of human colon cancer cells.

    Fumiaki Beppu;Masashi Hosokawa;Leo Tanaka;Hiroyuki Kohno

  • Suppressive effects of the marine carotenoids, fucoxanthin and fucoxanthinol on triglyceride absorption in lymph duct-cannulated rats

    Megumi Matsumoto;Masashi Hosokawa;Noriko Matsukawa;Masahito Hagio

  • Inhibition of proliferation of a hepatoma cell line by fucoxanthin in relation to cell cycle arrest and enhanced gap junctional intercellular communication.

    Cheng-Ling Liu;Yung-Sheng Huang;Masashi Hosokawa;Kazuo Miyashita

  • Comparative evaluation of growth inhibitory effect of stereoisomers of fucoxanthin in human cancer cell lines

    Y. Nakazawa;T. Sashima;M. Hosokawa;K. Miyashita

  • Dietary seed oil rich in conjugated linolenic acid from bitter melon inhibits azoxymethane-induced rat colon carcinogenesis through elevation of colonic PPARγ expression and alteration of lipid composition

    Hiroyuki Kohno;Yumiko Yasui;Rikako Suzuki;Rikako Suzuki;Masashi Hosokawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuo Miyashita
Kazuo Miyashita Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine
Takuji Tanaka
Takuji Tanaka Gifu University
Tomoo Sawabe
Tomoo Sawabe Hokkaido University
Fabiano L. Thompson
Fabiano L. Thompson Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Kenshiro Oshima
Kenshiro Oshima University of Tokyo
Masahira Hattori
Masahira Hattori Waseda University
Moriya Ohkuma
Moriya Ohkuma National Presto Industries
Bas E. Dutilh
Bas E. Dutilh Utrecht University
Hoyoku Nishino
Hoyoku Nishino Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Yoshiyuki Mizushina
Yoshiyuki Mizushina Shinshu University

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