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Masayoshi Mishina

Masayoshi Mishina

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Neuroscience
Japan
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
98
Citations
35647
World Ranking
802
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Masayoshi Mishina is affiliated with Ritsumeikan University in Japan and specializes in medical research, with a focus on epidemiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, and cancer research.

The primary fields of study covered by Mishina's work include:

  • Medicine

The subfields of study encompass:

  • Epidemiology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Neurology
  • Cancer Research

Mishina's research topics concentrate mostly on neurological and cerebrovascular issues, including:

  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research
  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Frailty in Older Adults

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications across various journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
  • Annals of Nuclear Medicine
  • Journal of Nippon Medical School
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Mishina include:

  • "Quantitative Evaluation of 18F-Flutemetamol PET in Patients With Cognitive Impairment and Suspected Alzheimer's Disease: A Multicenter Study," 2021, Frontiers in Neurology
  • "Early Cognitive Assessment Following Acute Stroke: Feasibility and Comparison between Mini-Mental State Examination and Montreal Cognitive Assessment," 2020, Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
  • "Early Cognitive Impairment after Minor Stroke: Associated Factors and Functional Outcome," 2020, Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
  • "Risk factors, etiology, and outcome of ischemic stroke in young adults: A Japanese multicenter prospective study," 2020, Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • "Generative image transformer (GIT): unsupervised continuous image generative and transformable model for [123I]FP-CIT SPECT images," 2021, Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Mishina has collaborated frequently with a group of coauthors, including:

  • Kazumi Kimura
  • Satoshi Suda
  • Yasuhiro Nishiyama
  • Takehiko Nagao
  • Seiji Okubo

Best Publications

  • Reduced hippocampal LTP and spatial learning in mice lacking NMDA receptor ε1 subunit

    Kenji Sakimura;Tatsuya Kutsuwada;Isao Ito;Toshiya Manabe

  • Molecular distinction between fetal and adult forms of muscle acetylcholine receptor

    Masayoshi Mishina;Toshiyuki Takai;Keiji Imoto;Masaharu Noda

  • Structure and function of the NMDA receptor channel

    H. Mori;M. Mishina

  • Rings of negatively charged amino acids determine the acetylcholine receptor channel conductance.

    Keiji Imoto;Christopher Busch;Bert Sakmann;Masayoshi Mishina

  • Impairment of motor coordination, Purkinje cell synapse formation, and cerebellar long-term depression in GluRδ2 mutant mice

    Nobuko Kashiwabuchi;Kazutaka Ikeda;Kazuaki Araki;Tomoo Hirano

  • Disruption of semaphorin III/D gene causes severe abnormality in peripheral nerve projection.

    Masahiko Taniguchi;Shigeki Yuasa;Hajime Fujisawa;Ichiro Naruse

  • Impairment of suckling response, trigeminal neuronal pattern formation, and hippocampal LTD in NMDA receptor ε2 subunit mutant mice

    Tatsuya Kutsuwada;Kenji Sakimura;Toshiya Manabe;Chitoshi Takayama

  • Characterization of Fyn-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation sites on GluRε2 (NR2B) subunit of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor

    Takanobu Nakazawa;Shoji Komai;Tohru Tezuka;Chihiro Hisatsune

  • Trans-synaptic interaction of GluRdelta2 and Neurexin through Cbln1 mediates synapse formation in the cerebellum.

    Takeshi Uemura;Sung-Jin Lee;Misato Yasumura;Tomonori Takeuchi

  • Diversity Revealed by a Novel Family of Cadherins Expressed in Neurons at a Synaptic Complex

    Naohiro Kohmura;Kouji Senzaki;Shun Hamada;Nobuyuki Kai

  • Location of functional regions of acetylcholine receptor α-subunit by site-directed mutagenesis

    Masayoshi Mishina;Takamasa Tobimatsu;Keiji Imoto;Ken Ichi Tanaka

  • Distinct distributions of five N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor channel subunit mRNAs in the forebrain

    Masahiko Watanabe;Y. Inoue;K. Sakimura;M. Mishina

  • Expression of functional acetylcholine receptor from cloned cDNAs

    Masayoshi Mishina;Tomohiro Kurosaki;Takamasa Tobimatsu;Yuuki Morimoto

  • Cloning and expression of the ε4 subunit of the NMDA receptor channel

    Kazutaka Ikeda;Michiaki Nagasawa;Hisashi Mori;Kazuaki Araki

  • Impaired Parallel Fiber→Purkinje Cell Synapse Stabilization during Cerebellar Development of Mutant Mice Lacking the Glutamate Receptor δ2 Subunit

    Hideo Kurihara;Kouichi Hashimoto;Masanobu Kano;Chitoshi Takayama

  • Selective scarcity of NMDA receptor channel subunits in the stratum lucidum (mossy fibre‐recipient layer) of the mouse hippocampal CA3 subfield

    Masahiko Watanabe;Masahiro Fukaya;Kenji Sakimura;Toshiya Manabe

  • Location of a δ-Subunit Region Determining Ion Transport Through the Acetylcholine Receptor Channel

    Keiji Imoto;Keiji Imoto;Christoph Methfessel;Bert Sakmann;Masayoshi Mishina

  • The AMPA receptor interacts with and signals through the protein tyrosine kinase Lyn.

    Takashi Hayashi;Hisashi Umemori;Masayoshi Mishina;Tadashi Yamamoto

  • Increased Thresholds for Long-Term Potentiation and Contextual Learning in Mice Lacking the NMDA-type Glutamate Receptor ε1 Subunit

    Yuji Kiyama;Toshiya Manabe;Kenji Sakimura;Fumiko Kawakami

  • Role of acetylcholine receptor subunits in gating of the channel.

    Bert Sakmann;Christoph Methfessel;Masayoshi Mishina;Tomoyuki Takahashi;Tomoyuki Takahashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenji Sakimura
Kenji Sakimura Niigata University
Masahiko Watanabe
Masahiko Watanabe Hokkaido University
Yoshiro Inoue
Yoshiro Inoue Hokkaido University
Toshiya Manabe
Toshiya Manabe University of Tokyo
Manabu Abe
Manabu Abe Niigata University
Masahiro Fukaya
Masahiro Fukaya Kitasato University
Tomoo Hirano
Tomoo Hirano Kyoto University
Yukihiro Noda
Yukihiro Noda Meijo University
Miwako Yamasaki
Miwako Yamasaki Hokkaido University
Taisuke Miyazaki
Taisuke Miyazaki Hokkaido University

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