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Masayuki Saito

Masayuki Saito

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
19254
World Ranking
6596
National Ranking
433

Masayuki Saito publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masayuki Saito sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 270 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Masayuki Saito D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masayuki Saito sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Masayuki Saito is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily focuses on adipose tissue and metabolism, with additional studies addressing exercise and physiological responses, muscle metabolism and nutrition, thermoregulation, diet and metabolism, lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, and adipokines related to inflammation and metabolic diseases.

The scientist's work has been published in various journals, with frequent appearances in Frontiers in Endocrinology, iScience, International Journal of Obesity, Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, and Research Square. These venues have featured studies that explore the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying energy metabolism and the role of brown adipose tissue in systemic metabolic regulation.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Masayuki Saito include the following:

  • Brown Adipose Tissue, Diet-Induced Thermogenesis, and Thermogenic Food Ingredients: From Mice to Men (2020, Frontiers in Endocrinology)
  • Bacteroides spp. promotes branched-chain amino acid catabolism in brown fat and inhibits obesity (2021, iScience)
  • UCP1-dependent and UCP1-independent metabolic changes induced by acute cold exposure in brown adipose tissue of mice (2020, Metabolism)
  • BCAA-nitrogen flux in brown fat controls metabolic health independent of thermogenesis (2024, Cell)
  • Brown Fat as a Regulator of Systemic Metabolism beyond Thermogenesis (2021, Diabetes & Metabolism Journal)

Throughout their career, Masayuki Saito has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Mami Matsushita
  • Takeshi Yoneshiro
  • Yuko Okamatsu-Ogura
  • Toshimitsu Kameya
  • Takafumi Hamaoka

Their research substantially covers the subfields of physiology, rehabilitation, cell biology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. The physiologic aspects of adipose tissue and metabolic processes form a strong thematic core throughout their published work.

Best Publications

  • High Incidence of Metabolically Active Brown Adipose Tissue in Healthy Adult Humans: Effects of Cold Exposure and Adiposity

    Masayuki U. Saito;Yuko Okamatsu-Ogura;Mami Matsushita;Kumiko Watanabe

  • Recruited brown adipose tissue as an antiobesity agent in humans

    Takeshi Yoneshiro;Sayuri Aita;Mami Matsushita;Takashi Kayahara

  • Age-related decrease in cold-activated brown adipose tissue and accumulation of body fat in healthy humans.

    Takeshi Yoneshiro;Sayuri Aita;Mami Matsushita;Yuko Okamatsu-Ogura

  • Brown adipose tissue, whole-body energy expenditure, and thermogenesis in healthy adult men.

    Takeshi Yoneshiro;Sayuri Aita;Mami Matsushita;Toshimitsu Kameya

  • BCAA catabolism in brown fat controls energy homeostasis through SLC25A44.

    Takeshi Yoneshiro;Qiang Wang;Kazuki Tajima;Mami Matsushita

  • FSP27 contributes to efficient energy storage in murine white adipocytes by promoting the formation of unilocular lipid droplets

    Naonobu Nishino;Yoshikazu Tamori;Sanshiro Tateya;Takayuki Kawaguchi

  • Deficient of a Clock Gene, Brain and Muscle Arnt-Like Protein-1 (BMAL1), Induces Dyslipidemia and Ectopic Fat Formation

    Shigeki Shimba;Tomohiro Ogawa;Shunsuke Hitosugi;Yuya Ichihashi

  • Impact of brown adipose tissue on body fatness and glucose metabolism in healthy humans.

    M Matsushita;T Yoneshiro;S Aita;T Kameya

  • Nonpungent capsaicin analogs (capsinoids) increase energy expenditure through the activation of brown adipose tissue in humans

    Takeshi Yoneshiro;Sayuri Aita;Yuko Kawai;Toshihiko Iwanaga

  • Expression of uncoupling protein in skeletal muscle and white fat of obese mice treated with thermogenic beta 3-adrenergic agonist.

    I Nagase;T Yoshida;K Kumamoto;T Umekawa

  • Dual action of isoprenols from herbal medicines on both PPARγ and PPARα in 3T3-L1 adipocytes and HepG2 hepatocytes

    Nobuyuki Takahashi;Teruo Kawada;Tsuyoshi Goto;Takayuki Yamamoto

  • UCP1 deficiency increases susceptibility to diet‐induced obesity with age

    Y. Kontani;Y. Wang;K. Kimura;K. I. Inokuma

  • Uncoupling Protein 1 Is Necessary for Norepinephrine-Induced Glucose Utilization in Brown Adipose Tissue

    Ken-ichi Inokuma;Yuko Ogura-Okamatsu;Chitoku Toda;Kazuhiro Kimura

  • Production of Functional Classical Brown Adipocytes from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells using Specific Hemopoietin Cocktail without Gene Transfer

    Miwako Nishio;Takeshi Yoneshiro;Masako Nakahara;Shinnosuke Suzuki

  • Formation and decomposition of a phosphorylated intermediate in the reaction of Na+-K+ dependent ATPase

    Tohru Kanazawa;Masayuki Saito;Yuji Tonomura

  • MAIL, a novel nuclear IκB protein that potentiates LPS‐induced IL‐6 production

    Hiroshi Kitamura;Katsushi Kanehira;Keisuke Okita;Masami Morimatsu

  • Formation of two methylenedioxy bridges by a Sesamum CYP81Q protein yielding a furofuran lignan, (+)-sesamin.

    Eiichiro Ono;Masaaki Nakai;Yuko Fukui;Namino Tomimori

  • Indispensable role of mitochondrial UCP1 for antiobesity effect of β3-adrenergic stimulation

    Ken-ichi Inokuma;Yuko Okamatsu-Ogura;Asako Omachi;Yukiko Matsushita

  • Capsinoids and related food ingredients activating brown fat thermogenesis and reducing body fat in humans.

    Masayuki Saito;Takeshi Yoneshiro

  • Brown Adipose Tissue, Diet-Induced Thermogenesis, and Thermogenic Food Ingredients: From Mice to Men.

    Masayuki Saito;Mami Matsushita;Takeshi Yoneshiro;Yuko Okamatsu-Ogura

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshihiko Iwanaga
Toshihiko Iwanaga Hokkaido University
Teruo Kawada
Teruo Kawada Kyoto University
Keisuke Okita
Keisuke Okita Kyoto University
Wataru Ogawa
Wataru Ogawa Kobe University
Motoharu Kondo
Motoharu Kondo Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Shingo Kajimura
Shingo Kajimura Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Naoyuki Kamatani
Naoyuki Kamatani StaGen (Japan)
Keiji Oguma
Keiji Oguma Okayama University
Osamu Hayaishi
Osamu Hayaishi Osaka Bioscience Institute
Kazuo Miyashita
Kazuo Miyashita Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine

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