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Masato Asanuma

Masato Asanuma

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58
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10083
World Ranking
4227
National Ranking
123

Overview

Masato Asanuma is affiliated with Okayama University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of medicine, neuroscience, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, physiology, and nutrition and dietetics.

The core topics of Asanuma's research focus on various neurodegenerative and neurological mechanisms and treatments. Key areas include Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, nerve injury and regeneration, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, trace elements in health, spectroscopy techniques in biomedical and chemical research, and neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

Asanuma has published papers in notable venues such as the Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, PubMed, NeuroSci, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

  • Neuron-Astrocyte Interactions in Parkinson's Disease (2020, Cells)
  • Chronic Systemic Exposure to Low-Dose Rotenone Induced Central and Peripheral Neuropathology and Motor Deficits in Mice: Reproducible Animal Model of Parkinson's Disease (2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • Glutathione and Related Molecules in Parkinsonism (2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • The Rotenone Models Reproducing Central and Peripheral Features of Parkinson's Disease (2020, NeuroSci)
  • N-Acetylcysteine Attenuates the Anxiety-Like Behavior and Spatial Cognition Impairment Induced by Doxorubicin and Cyclophosphamide Combination Treatment in Rats (2020, Pharmacology)

Collaboration has been a significant aspect of Asanuma's research practice, with frequent co-authors including Ikuko Miyazaki, Ryo Kikuoka, Yoshihisa Kitamura, Nami Isooka, and Shinki Murakami.

  • Ikuko Miyazaki
  • Ryo Kikuoka
  • Yoshihisa Kitamura
  • Nami Isooka
  • Shinki Murakami

The scientist's work primarily contributes to understanding the biochemical and physiological underpinnings of neurological diseases, especially focusing on Parkinson's disease and related neurodegenerative conditions. The research encompasses both molecular studies and animal models that seek to elucidate disease mechanisms and therapeutic approaches.

Best Publications

  • Dopamine- or L-DOPA-induced neurotoxicity: the role of dopamine quinone formation and tyrosinase in a model of Parkinson's disease.

    Masato Asanuma;Ikuko Miyazaki;Norio Ogawa

  • Neuroprotective effects of non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs by direct scavenging of nitric oxide radicals

    Masato Asanuma;Sakiko Nishibayashi-Asanuma;Ikuko Miyazaki;Masahiro Kohno

  • Glial Cells Protect Neurons Against Oxidative Stress via Transcriptional Up-Regulation of the Glutathione Synthesis

    Emi Iwata-Ichikawa;Yoichi Kondo;Ikuko Miyazaki;Masato Asanuma

  • Dopaminergic neuron-specific oxidative stress caused by dopamine itself.

    Ikuko Miyazaki;Masato Asanuma

  • Bromocriptine protects mice against 6-hydroxydopamine and scavenges hydroxyl free radicals in vitro

    Norio Ogawa;Ken ichi Tanaka;Masato Asanuma;Motoko Kawai

  • Apoptosis-inducing neurotoxicity of dopamine and its metabolites via reactive quinone generation in neuroblastoma cells.

    M. Emdadul Haque;Masato Asanuma;Youichirou Higashi;Ikuko Miyazaki

  • Direct evidence for expression of dopamine receptors in astrocytes from basal ganglia

    Ikuko Miyazaki;Masato Asanuma;Francisco J. Diaz-Corrales;Ko Miyoshi

  • Parkin attenuates manganese‐induced dopaminergic cell death

    Youichirou Higashi;Masato Asanuma;Ikuko Miyazaki;Nobutaka Hattori

  • Anti-high mobility group box 1 antibody exerts neuroprotection in a rat model of Parkinson's disease

    Tatsuya Sasaki;Keyue Liu;Takashi Agari;Takao Yasuhara

  • Methamphetamine-induced dopaminergic neurotoxicity is regulated by quinone formation-related molecules

    Ikuko Miyazaki;Masato Asanuma;Francisco J. Diaz-Corrales;Masaya Fukuda

  • DISC1 localizes to the centrosome by binding to kendrin.

    Ko Miyoshi;Masato Asanuma;Ikuko Miyazaki;Francisco J. Diaz-Corrales

  • Direct evidence of high DNA binding activity of transcription factor AP-1 in rheumatoid arthritis synovium

    Hiroshi Asahara;Koushi Fujisawa;Tetsuji Kobata;Tomoko Hasunuma

  • Regional Differences in Late-Onset Iron Deposition, Ferritin, Transferrin, Astrocyte Proliferation, and Microglial Activation after Transient Forebrain Ischemia in Rat Brain

    Yoichi Kondo;Norio Ogawa;Masato Asanuma;Zensuke Ota

  • Neuron-Astrocyte Interactions in Parkinson's Disease

    Ikuko Miyazaki;Masato Asanuma

  • Neuroprotective effects of zonisamide target astrocyte

    Masato Asanuma;Ikuko Miyazaki;Francisco J. Diaz-Corrales;Naotaka Kimoto

  • Scavenging effects of dopamine agonists on nitric oxide radicals

    Sakiko Nishibayashi;Masato Asanuma;Masahiro Kohno;Masahiro Kohno;Marvin Gómez-Vargas

  • Lithium treatment elongates primary cilia in the mouse brain and in cultured cells.

    Ko Miyoshi;Kyosuke Kasahara;Ikuko Miyazaki;Masato Asanuma

  • Attenuation of 6-hydroxydopamine-induced dopaminergic nigrostriatal lesions in superoxide dismutase transgenic mice.

    M Asanuma;H Hirata;J.L Cadet

  • Astrocyte‐derived metallothionein protects dopaminergic neurons from dopamine quinone toxicity

    Ikuko Miyazaki;Masato Asanuma;Yuri Kikkawa;Mika Takeshima

  • Relationship between cholinergic dysfunction and discrimination learning disabilities in Wistar rats following chronic cerebral hypoperfusion

    Ken Ichi Tanaka;Norio Ogawa;Masato Asanuma;Yoichi Kondo

  • Effects of HMGB1 on ischemia-reperfusion injury in the rat heart.

    Susumu Oozawa;Shuji Mori;Toru Kanke;Hideo Takahashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Ikuko Miyazaki
Ikuko Miyazaki Okayama University
Taiichi Katayama
Taiichi Katayama Osaka University
Hideki Mochizuki
Hideki Mochizuki Osaka University
Ikuo Tooyama
Ikuo Tooyama Shiga University of Medical Science

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