Sei Sasaki

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Cloning and expression of apical membrane water channel of rat kidney collecting tubule

  K Fushimi;S Uchida;Y Hara;Y Hirata

  1464
  Citations

• Phosphorylation of Serine 256 Is Required for cAMP-dependent Regulatory Exocytosis of the Aquaporin-2 Water Channel

  Kiyohide Fushimi;Sei Sasaki;Fumiaki Marumo

  659
  Citations

• Molecular cloning and expression of a member of the aquaporin family with permeability to glycerol and urea in addition to water expressed at the basolateral membrane of kidney collecting duct cells

  K Ishibashi;S Sasaki;K Fushimi;S Uchida

  588
  Citations

• Cloning and Functional Expression of a New Water Channel Abundantly Expressed in the Testis Permeable to Water, Glycerol, and Urea *

  Kenichi Ishibashi;Michio Kuwahara;Yong Gu;Yukio Kageyama

  524
  Citations

• Aquaporins: a family of water channel proteins.

  P. Agre;S. Sasaki;M. J. Chrispeels

  499
  Citations

• Implications of the aquaporin-4 structure on array formation and cell adhesion.

  Yoko Hiroaki;Kazutoshi Tani;Akiko Kamegawa;Nobuhiko Gyobu

  493
  Citations

• Cloning and functional expression of a new aquaporin (AQP9) abundantly expressed in the peripheral leukocytes permeable to water and urea, but not to glycerol.

  Kenichi Ishibashi;Michio Kuwahara;Yong Gu;Yujiro Tanaka

  394
  Citations

• Disease-causing mutant WNK4 increases paracellular chloride permeability and phosphorylates claudins

  Kozue Yamauchi;Tatemitsu Rai;Katsuki Kobayashi;Eisei Sohara

  365
  Citations

• Diagnostic usefulness of bone mineral density and biochemical markers of bone turnover in predicting fracture in CKD stage 5D patients—a single-center cohort study

  Soichiro Iimori;Yoshihiro Mori;Wataru Akita;Tamaki Kuyama

  357
  Citations

• Molecular Pathogenesis of Pseudohypoaldosteronism Type II: Generation and Analysis of a Wnk4D561A/+ Knockin Mouse Model

  Sung-Sen Yang;Tetsuji Morimoto;Tatemitsu Rai;Motoko Chiga

  334
  Citations

• Molecular cloning of a chloride channel that is regulated by dehydration and expressed predominantly in kidney medulla.

  S Uchida;S Sasaki;T Furukawa;M Hiraoka

  330
  Citations

• Transcriptional regulation of aquaporin-2 water channel gene by cAMP.

  Y Matsumura;S Uchida;T Rai;S Sasaki

  319
  Citations

• Cloning and expression of a protein kinase C-regulated chloride channel abundantly expressed in rat brain neuronal cells.

  Masanobu Kawasaki;Shinichi Uchida;Toshiaki Monkawa;Toshiaki Monkawa;Atsushi Miyawaki

  318
  Citations

• Progressive adipocyte hypertrophy in aquaporin-7-deficient mice: adipocyte glycerol permeability as a novel regulator of fat accumulation.

  Mariko Hara-Chikuma;Eisei Sohara;Tatemitsu Rai;Masahito Ikawa

  311
  Citations

• Urinary excretion of aquaporin-2 in patients with diabetes insipidus.

  Kazuo Kanno;Sei Sasaki;Yukio Hirata;San E. Ishikawa

  309
  Citations

• Disruption of Aquaporin-11 Produces Polycystic Kidneys following Vacuolization of the Proximal Tubule

  Yoshiyuki Morishita;Toshiyuki Matsuzaki;Mariko Hara-chikuma;Ayaka Andoo

  300
  Citations

• SPAK-Knockout Mice Manifest Gitelman Syndrome and Impaired Vasoconstriction

  Sung-Sen Yang;Yi-Fen Lo;Chin-Chen Wu;Shu-Wha Lin

  300
  Citations

• cAMP-dependent Phosphorylation Stimulates Water Permeability of Aquaporin-collecting Duct Water Channel Protein Expressed in Xenopus Oocytes

  Michio Kuwahara;Kiyohide Fushimi;Yoshio Terada;Liqun Bai

  297
  Citations

• Identification of a novel aquaporin, AQP12, expressed in pancreatic acinar cells

  Tomohiro Itoh;Tatemitsu Rai;Michio Kuwahara;Shigeru B.H. Ko

  283
  Citations

• Overt nephrogenic diabetes insipidus in mice lacking the CLC-K1 chloride channel

  Yoshihiro Matsumura;Shinichi Uchida;Yoshiaki Kondo;Hiroaki Miyazaki

  282
  Citations