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Shigeki Masunaga is affiliated with Yokohama National University in Japan and focuses primarily on environmental science. Their research spans multiple subfields, notably health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, immunology, molecular medicine, and aspects of management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's work contributes extensively to understanding environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, with specific attention to the presence and effects of heavy metals in the environment. Other main topics covered in their research include mercury impact and mitigation studies, toxic organic pollutants impact, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, and antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Shigeki Masunaga has published in several scientific venues, with multiple articles appearing in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Other frequent publication venues include Environmental Science and Pollution Research, The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Applied Toxicology, and Water Air & Soil Pollution.

Recent papers by Masunaga include:

  • Antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and resistance genes in aquaculture: risks, current concern, and future thinking, 2022, Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Does a sum of toxic units exceeding 1 imply adverse impacts on macroinvertebrate assemblages? A field study in a northern Japanese river receiving treated mine discharge, 2020, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • Chronic toxicity of 50 metals to Ceriodaphnia dubia, 2020, Journal of Applied Toxicology
  • Assessment of Metal Levels in Sediments and Oyster (Crassostrea gigas) Tissues from Shidugawa Bay, a Closed Japanese Aquaculture Environment, 2020, Water Air & Soil Pollution
  • Vertical profiles of legacy organochlorine pesticides in sediment cores from lake Nakaumi, Japan, 2021, Chemosphere

Masunaga has collaborated with several co-authors, including Shuping Han, Wataru Naito, Anwar Hossain, Mohammad Raknuzzaman, and Bommanna G. Loganathan. These frequent collaborators reflect overlapping interests in environmental toxicology, pollution, and related ecological impact studies.

Best Publications

  • Dioxin- and POP-contaminated sites—contemporary and future relevance and challenges

    Roland Weber;Caroline Gaus;Mats Tysklind;Paul Johnston

  • Dioxin and dioxin-like PCB impurities in some Japanese agrochemical formulations.

    Shigeki Masunaga;Takumi Takasuga;Junko Nakanishi

  • Concentrations of perfluorinated acids in livers of birds from Japan and Korea.

    Kurunthachalam Kannan;Jae-Won Choi;Naomasa Iseki;Kurunthachalam Senthilkumar

  • Potential ecological risk of hazardous elements in different land-use urban soils of Bangladesh.

    Saiful Islam;Saiful Islam;Kawser Ahmed;Habibullah-Al-Mamun;Habibullah-Al-Mamun;Shigeki Masunaga

  • Antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and resistance genes in aquaculture: risks, current concern, and future thinking

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  • Characterization of PM2.5, PM2.5-10 and PM>10 in ambient air, Yokohama, Japan

    Md. Firoz Khan;Yuichiro Shirasuna;Koichiro Hirano;Shigeki Masunaga

  • Assessment of Trace Metal Contamination in Water and Sediment of Some Rivers in Bangladesh

    Saiful Islam;Saiful Islam;Shuping Han;Kawser Ahmed;Shigeki Masunaga

  • Ambient levels of volatile organic compounds in the vicinity of petrochemical industrial area of Yokohama, Japan

    Vasu Tiwari;Yoshimichi Hanai;Shigeki Masunaga

  • Detailed PCB congener patterns in incinerator flue gas and commercial PCB formulations (Kanechlor).

    Kyoung Soo Kim;Yusuke Hirai;Mika Kato;Kouhei Urano

  • Trace metal contamination in commercial fish and crustaceans collected from coastal area of Bangladesh and health risk assessment

    Mohammad Raknuzzaman;Kawser Ahmed;Saiful Islam;Habibullah-Al-Mamun

  • Occurrence and ecological risk of pharmaceuticals in river surface water of Bangladesh

    Anwar Hossain;Anwar Hossain;Shihori Nakamichi;Md. Habibullah-Al-Mamun;Md. Habibullah-Al-Mamun;Keiichiro Tani

  • Contribution of known endocrine disrupting substances to the estrogenic activity in Tama River water samples from Japan using instrumental analysis and in vitro reporter gene assay

    Takuma Furuichi;Kurunthachalam Kannan;John P. Giesy;Shigeki Masunaga

  • Polychlorinated naphthalenes, biphenyls, dibenzo-p-dioxins, and dibenzofurans as well as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and alkylphenols in sediment from the Detroit and Rouge Rivers, Michigan, USA

    Kurunthachalam Kannan;Jamie L. E. E. Kober;Youn-Seok Kang;Shigeki Masunaga

  • Passive air monitoring of PCBs and PCNs across East Asia: A comprehensive congener evaluation for source characterization

    Jonathan Nartey Hogarh;Nobuyasu Seike;Yuso Kobara;Ahsan Habib

  • Trace metals in soil and vegetables and associated health risk assessment.

    Saiful Islam;Saiful Islam;Kawser Ahmed;Habibullah-Al-Mamun;Habibullah-Al-Mamun;Shigeki Masunaga

  • Existence of nonpoint source of perfluorinated compounds and their loads in the Tsurumi River basin, Japan

    Yasuyuki Zushi;Tomoharu Takeda;Shigeki Masunaga

  • Progress and perspective of perfluorinated compound risk assessment and management in various countries and institutes

    Yasuyuki Zushi;Jonathan Nartey Hogarh;Shigeki Masunaga

  • Metal speciation in sediment and their bioaccumulation in fish species of three urban rivers in Bangladesh

    Saiful Islam;Saiful Islam;Kawser Ahmed;Mohammad Raknuzzaman;Mohammad Raknuzzaman;Habibullah-Al-Mamun;Habibullah-Al-Mamun

  • Identifying sources and mass balance of dioxin pollution in Lake Shinji Basin, Japan.

    Shigeki Masunaga;Yuan Yao;Isamu Ogura;Satoshi Nakai

  • Atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: size distribution, estimation of their risk and their depositions to the human respiratory tract.

    Yutaka Kameda;Junko Shirai;Takeshi Komai;Junko Nakanishi

  • Quantitative Identification of Unknown Exposure Pathways of Phthalates Based on Measuring Their Metabolites in Human Urine

    Hiroaki Itoh;Kikuo Yoshida;Shigeki Masunaga

Frequent Co-Authors

Kurunthachalam Kannan
Kurunthachalam Kannan University at Albany, State University of New York
John P. Giesy
John P. Giesy University of Saskatchewan
Md. Saiful Islam
Md. Saiful Islam Patuakhali Science and Technology University
Ivan Holoubek
Ivan Holoubek Masaryk University
Nobuyoshi Yamashita
Nobuyoshi Yamashita National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Jiti Zhou
Jiti Zhou Dalian University of Technology
Hideshige Takada
Hideshige Takada Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Klára Hilscherová
Klára Hilscherová Masaryk University
Jong Seong Khim
Jong Seong Khim Seoul National University
Masatoshi Morita
Masatoshi Morita United Nations University

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