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Mitsuhiro Kawata

Mitsuhiro Kawata

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Neuroscience

D-Index
60
Citations
12263
World Ranking
3857
National Ranking
106

Overview

Mitsuhiro Kawata is affiliated with RMIT University in Australia and specializes in medical research with a significant focus on cardiovascular and respiratory medicine. Their work spans a range of related subfields including pulmonary and respiratory medicine, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, surgery, biomedical engineering, and emergency medicine.

Kawata's research topics concentrate particularly on aortic disease and treatment approaches, aortic aneurysm repair treatments, mechanical circulatory support devices, cardiac structural anomalies and repair, cardiac anesthesia and surgical outcomes, cardiac valve diseases and treatments, and intensive care unit cognitive disorders.

Their recent publications cover clinical and surgical perspectives on acute aortic conditions and related outcomes. Notable papers include:

  • Risk analysis for early mortality in emergency acute type A aortic dissection surgery: experience of Tokyo Acute Aortic Super-network, 2021, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  • Sex-Related Differences in Clinical Features and In-Hospital Outcomes of Type B Acute Aortic Dissection: A Registry Study, 2022, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Estrogens influence female itch sensitivity via the spinal gastrin-releasing peptide receptor neurons, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Outcomes of type A acute aortic dissection with cardiopulmonary arrest: Tokyo Acute Aortic Super-network Registry, 2023, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  • Dexmedetomidine for dyspnoea, 2020, BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

Kawata frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Hideaki Yoshino, Takashi Kunihara, Koichi Akutsu, Tomoki Shimokawa, and Hitoshi Ogino, each with numerous coauthored publications.

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in several leading academic journals, particularly:

  • European Heart Journal
  • European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  • JACC Asia
  • Histochemistry and Cell Biology
  • Journal of the American Heart Association

Their primary field of study is medicine, with 47 publications in the area, reflecting a career devoted largely to clinical and biomedical research.

Best Publications

  • Distribution of glucocorticoid receptor immunoreactivity and mRNA in the rat brain: an immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization study

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  • Atrial natriuretic polypeptide: topographical distribution in the rat brain by radioimmunoassay and immunohistochemistry.

    M. Kawata;K. Nakao;N. Morii;Y. Kiso

  • Motoneuron-Specific Expression of NR3B, a Novel NMDA-Type Glutamate Receptor Subunit That Works in a Dominant-Negative Manner

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  • Colocalization of mineralocorticoid receptor and glucocorticoid receptor in the hippocampus and hypothalamus.

    Fang Han;Hitoshi Ozawa;Ken-ichi Matsuda;Mayumi Nishi

  • Transgenic expression of enhanced green fluorescent protein enables direct visualization for physiological studies of vasopressin neurons and isolated nerve terminals of the rat

    Yoichi Ueta;Hiroaki Fujihara;Ryota Serino;Govindan Dayanithi

  • Glucocorticoid receptor protein expression in human hippocampus; stability with age

    Qian Wang;Joop Van Heerikhuize;Eleonora Aronica;Mitsuhiro Kawata

  • Local secretion of corticotropin-releasing hormone by enterochromaffin cells in human colon

    Yutaka Kawahito;Hajime Sano;Mitsuhiro Kawata;Kazunari Yuri

  • Aldosterone target neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius drive sodium appetite.

    Joel C. Geerling;William C. Engeland;Mitsuhiro Kawata;Arthur D. Loewy

  • Phasically firing neurons in the supraoptic nucleus of the rat hypothalamus: Immunocytochemical and electrophysiological studies☆

    H. Yamashita;K. Inenaga;M. Kawata;Y. Sano

  • Expression and intracellular distribution of the G protein-coupled receptor 30 in rat hippocampal formation

    Ken Ichi Matsuda;Hirotaka Sakamoto;Hiroko Mori;Koji Hosokawa

  • Aldosterone-sensitive neurons in the rat central nervous system.

    Joel C. Geerling;Mitsuhiro Kawata;Arthur D. Loewy

  • Expression of G protein-coupled receptor-30, a G protein-coupled membrane estrogen receptor, in oxytocin neurons of the rat paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei.

    Hirotaka Sakamoto;Ken Ichi Matsuda;Koji Hosokawa;Mayumi Nishi

  • Histone deacetylation during brain development is essential for permanent masculinization of sexual behavior.

    Ken Ichi Matsuda;Hiroko Mori;Bridget M. Nugent;Donald W. Pfaff

  • Characterization of in vivo effects of platelet-rich plasma and biodegradable gelatin hydrogel microspheres on degenerated intervertebral discs.

    Kazuhide Sawamura;Takumi Ikeda;Masateru Nagae;Shin Ichi Okamoto

  • Visualization of Glucocorticoid Receptor and Mineralocorticoid Receptor Interactions in Living Cells with GFP-Based Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer

    Mayumi Nishi;Masayuki Tanaka;Ken-ichi Matsuda;Masataka Sunaguchi

  • Keratinocyte Growth Inhibition through The Modification of Wnt Signaling by Androgen in Balding Dermal Papilla Cells

    Tomoko Kitagawa;Ken-Ichi Matsuda;Shigeki Inui;Hideya Takenaka

  • Sexually dimorphic gastrin releasing peptide system in the spinal cord controls male reproductive functions

    Hirotaka Sakamoto;Ken Ichi Matsuda;Damian G. Zuloaga;Hisayuki Hongu

  • The In Vivo Time Course for Elimination of Adrenalectomy-Induced Apoptotic Profiles from the Granule Cell Layer of the Rat Hippocampus

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  • Testosterone has sublayer-specific effects on dendritic spine maturation mediated by BDNF and PSD-95 in pyramidal neurons in the hippocampus CA1 area

    Meihua Li;Miwako Masugi-Tokita;Keiko Takanami;Shunji Yamada

  • Serotonergic neurones in the dorsal raphe nucleus that project into the medial preoptic area contain oestrogen receptor beta.

    H. Lu;H. Ozawa;M. Nishi;T. Ito

  • Immuohistochemical demonstration of alpha-atrial natriretic plypeptide-containing neurons in the rat brain.

    M Kawata;S Ueda;K Nakao;N Morii

  • EFFECTS OF SINGLE-PROLONGED STRESS ON NEURONS AND THEIR AFFERENT INPUTS IN THE AMYGDALA

    H. Cui;H. Sakamoto;S. Higashi;M. Kawata

  • Rapid spinogenesis of pyramidal neurons induced by activation of glucocorticoid receptors in adult male rat hippocampus.

    Yoshimasa Komatsuzaki;Gen Murakami;Tomokazu Tsurugizawa;Hideo Mukai

  • Identification of serotonin- and vasopressin immunoreactivities in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of four mammalian species

    S. Ueda;M. Kawata;Y. Sano

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoichi Ueta
Yoichi Ueta University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan
Govindan Dayanithi
Govindan Dayanithi University of Montpellier
Hiroshi Yamashita
Hiroshi Yamashita Yamaguchi University
S. Marc Breedlove
S. Marc Breedlove Michigan State University
Efrain C. Azmitia
Efrain C. Azmitia New York University
Donald W. Pfaff
Donald W. Pfaff Rockefeller University
Jiro Imanishi
Jiro Imanishi Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Kiyomi Koizumi
Kiyomi Koizumi SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Margaret M. McCarthy
Margaret M. McCarthy University of Maryland, Baltimore
Suguru Kawato
Suguru Kawato University of Tokyo

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