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Satohiro Masuda is affiliated with Himeji Dokkyo University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant attention to transplantation, oncology, surgery, pharmacology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. The body of work encompasses topics such as renal transplantation outcomes and treatments, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, drug transport and resistance mechanisms, antibiotics pharmacokinetics and efficacy, pancreatic function and diabetes, adenosine and purinergic signaling, and pharmacogenetics and drug metabolism.

Their recent publications include:

  • Personalized Therapy for Mycophenolate: Consensus Report by the International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology, 2021, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
  • Continuous monitoring of neutrophils to lymphocytes ratio for estimating the onset, severity, and subsequent prognosis of immune related adverse events, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Dosage Adjustments of Immunosuppressive Drugs When Combined With Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir in Patients With COVID-19, 2022, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
  • Association of lenvatinib plasma concentration with clinical efficacy and adverse events in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, 2020, Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology
  • Influence of POR*28 Polymorphisms on CYP3A5*3-Associated Variations in Tacrolimus Blood Levels at an Early Stage after Liver Transplantation, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Masuda has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Nobuaki Egashira, Kimitaka Suetsugu, Toshikazu Tsuji, Stein Bergan, and Kamisha L. Johnson-Davis.

Their work has appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
  • Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

The main fields of study for Masuda include medicine, with a concentration on subfields such as transplantation, oncology, surgery, pharmacology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. The scientific topics covered reflect their research interest in renal transplantation outcomes, pharmacological effects and toxicity, drug transport and resistance mechanisms, antibiotics pharmacokinetics, pancreatic function, adenosine signaling, and pharmacogenetics.

Best Publications

  • Gene Expression Levels and Immunolocalization of Organic Ion Transporters in the Human Kidney

    Hideyuki Motohashi;Yuji Sakurai;Hideyuki Saito;Satohiro Masuda

  • A novel site of erythropoietin production. Oxygen-dependent production in cultured rat astrocytes.

    S Masuda;M Okano;K Yamagishi;M Nagao

  • Cellular and molecular aspects of drug transport in the kidney

    Ken-Ichi Inui;Satohiro Masuda;Hideyuki Saito

  • Substrate specificity of MATE1 and MATE2-K, human multidrug and toxin extrusions/H+-organic cation antiporters

    Yuko Tanihara;Satohiro Masuda;Tomoko Sato;Toshiya Katsura

  • Identification and Functional Characterization of a New Human Kidney–Specific H+/Organic Cation Antiporter, Kidney-Specific Multidrug and Toxin Extrusion 2

    Satohiro Masuda;Tomohiro Terada;Atsushi Yonezawa;Yuko Tanihara

  • Metformin is a superior substrate for renal organic cation transporter OCT2 rather than hepatic OCT1.

    Naoko Kimura;Satohiro Masuda;Yuko Tanihara;Harumasa Ueo

  • Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Tacrolimus-Personalized Therapy : Second Consensus Report

    Mercè Brunet;Teun Van Gelder;Anders Åsberg;Vincent Haufroid;Vincent Haufroid

  • Cisplatin and Oxaliplatin, but Not Carboplatin and Nedaplatin, Are Substrates for Human Organic Cation Transporters (SLC22A1–3 and Multidrug and Toxin Extrusion Family)

    Atsushi Yonezawa;Satohiro Masuda;Sachiko Yokoo;Toshiya Katsura

  • Isolation and characterization of a digoxin transporter and its rat homologue expressed in the kidney.

    Tsuyoshi Mikkaichi;Takehiro Suzuki;Tohru Onogawa;Tohru Onogawa;Masayuki Tanemoto

  • Differential contribution of organic cation transporters, OCT2 and MATE1, in platinum agent-induced nephrotoxicity.

    Sachiko Yokoo;Atsushi Yonezawa;Satohiro Masuda;Atsushi Fukatsu

  • Functional Characteristics and Membrane Localization of Rat Multispecific Organic Cation Transporters, OCT1 and OCT2, Mediating Tubular Secretion of Cationic Drugs

    Yumiko Urakami;Masahiro Okuda;Satohiro Masuda;Hideyuki Saito

  • Cerebrospinal fluid concentration of gefitinib and erlotinib in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

    Yosuke Togashi;Katsuhiro Masago;Satohiro Masuda;Tomoyuki Mizuno

  • Cloning and functional characterization of a novel rat organic anion transporter mediating basolateral uptake of methotrexate in the kidney.

    Hideyuki Saito;Satohiro Masuda;Ken-ichi Inui

  • C3435T polymorphism in the MDR1 gene affects the enterocyte expression level of CYP3A4 rather than Pgp in recipients of living-donor liver transplantation.

    Maki Goto;Satohiro Masuda;Hideyuki Saito;Shinji Uemoto

  • CYP3A5*1-carrying graft liver reduces the concentration/oral dose ratio of tacrolimus in recipients of living-donor liver transplantation.

    Maki Goto;Satohiro Masuda;Tetsuya Kiuchi;Yasuhiro Ogura

  • Involvement of Human Multidrug and Toxin Extrusion 1 in the Drug Interaction between Cimetidine and Metformin in Renal Epithelial Cells

    Masahiro Tsuda;Tomohiro Terada;Miki Ueba;Tomoko Sato

  • An up-date review on individualized dosage adjustment of calcineurin inhibitors in organ transplant patients.

    Satohiro Masuda;Ken ichi Inui

  • Association between tubular toxicity of cisplatin and expression of organic cation transporter rOCT2 (Slc22a2) in the rat.

    Atsushi Yonezawa;Satohiro Masuda;Kumiko Nishihara;Ikuko Yano

  • Down-regulation of rat organic cation transporter rOCT2 by 5/6 nephrectomy

    Lin Ji;Satohiro Masuda;Hideyuki Saito;Ken Ichi Inui

  • Molecular Markers of Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Cell Damage in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.

    Shunsaku Nakagawa;Kumiko Nishihara;Hitomi Miyata;Haruka Shinke

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken-ichi Inui
Ken-ichi Inui Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
Shinji Uemoto
Shinji Uemoto Kyoto University
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka Kyoto University
Osamu Ogawa
Osamu Ogawa Kyoto University
Hiroto Egawa
Hiroto Egawa Kyoto University
Tsutomu Chiba
Tsutomu Chiba Kyoto University
Toshihiro Miyamoto
Toshihiro Miyamoto Kyushu University
Takaaki Abe
Takaaki Abe Tohoku University
Koichi Akashi
Koichi Akashi Kyushu University
Eishi Ashihara
Eishi Ashihara Kyoto Pharmaceutical University

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