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Shigeru Saito

Shigeru Saito

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Medicine

D-Index
85
Citations
34252
World Ranking
14426
National Ranking
439

Overview

Shigeru Saito is affiliated with the University of Toyama in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of physics and astronomy. Their work focuses extensively on ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, solar and space plasma dynamics, and earthquake detection and analysis, along with contributions to geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies. The scientist has also explored topics in computational physics with applications in Python, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Their recent publications include research articles that address various aspects of space and atmospheric physics. These papers are:

  • Relativistic Electron Microbursts as High-Energy Tail of Pulsating Aurora Electrons, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Penetration of MeV electrons into the mesosphere accompanying pulsating aurorae, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Simultaneous Pulsating Aurora and Microburst Observations With Ground-Based Fast Auroral Imagers and CubeSat FIREBIRD-II, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • PSTEP: project for solar-terrestrial environment prediction, 2021, Earth Planets and Space
  • Data-Driven Simulation of Rapid Flux Enhancement of Energetic Electrons With an Upper-Band Whistler Burst, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics

Shigeru Saito has collaborated regularly with a number of other researchers in their field. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Yoshizumi Miyoshi
  • Satoshi Kurita
  • Keisuke Hosokawa
  • Satoshi Kasahara
  • Takefumi Mitani

Their work has been published in a variety of scientific journals, with notable frequent venues being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
  • Earth Planets and Space

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Th1/Th2/Th17 and Regulatory T-Cell Paradigm in Pregnancy

    Shigeru Saito;Akitoshi Nakashima;Tomoko Shima;Mika Ito

  • Decidual and peripheral blood CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells in early pregnancy subjects and spontaneous abortion cases.

    Y. Sasaki;M. Sakai;S. Miyazaki;S. Higuma

  • Silica and titanium dioxide nanoparticles cause pregnancy complications in mice.

    Kohei Yamashita;Yasuo Yoshioka;Kazuma Higashisaka;Kazuya Mimura

  • Quantitative analysis of peripheral blood Th0, Th1, Th2 and the Th1:Th2 cell ratio during normal human pregnancy and preeclampsia.

    S Saito;M Sakai;Y Sasaki;K Tanebe

  • The role of the immune system in preeclampsia.

    Shigeru Saito;Arihiro Shiozaki;Akitoshi Nakashima;Masatoshi Sakai

  • The Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: The 2021 International Society for the Study of Hypertesion in Pregnancy Classification, Diagnosis & Management Recommendations for International Practice

    Laura A Magee;Mark A Brown;David R Hall;Sanjay Gupte

  • Th1/Th2 balance in preeclampsia

    Shigeru Saito;Masatoshi Sakai

  • Proportion of peripheral blood and decidual CD4+ CD25bright regulatory T cells in pre-eclampsia

    Y Sasaki;D Darmochwal-Kolarz;D Suzuki;M Sakai

  • Regulatory T cells are necessary for implantation and maintenance of early pregnancy but not late pregnancy in allogeneic mice

    Tomoko Shima;Yasushi Sasaki;Mika Itoh;Akitoshi Nakashima

  • Liver‐targeted and peripheral blood alterations of regulatory T cells in primary biliary cirrhosis

    Ruth Y. Lan;Chunmei Cheng;Zhe Xiong Lian;Koichi Tsuneyama

  • Increased T-Helper-1-Type Immunity and Decreased T-Helper-2-Type Immunity in Patients with Preeclampsia

    Shigeru Saito;Hideshi Umekage;Yoshiharu Sakamoto;Masatoshi Sakai

  • Guidelines for obstetrical practice in Japan: Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) and Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (JAOG) 2011 edition.

    Hisanori Minakami;Yuji Hiramatsu;Mitsuhiko Koresawa;Tomoyuki Fujii

  • CD4+CD25high regulatory T cells in human pregnancy

    Shigeru Saito;Yasushi Sasaki;Masatoshi Sakai

  • Toll-like receptor 4: A potential link between “danger signals,” the innate immune system, and preeclampsia?

    Yeon Mee Kim;Roberto Romero;Seo Young Oh;Chong Jai Kim

  • IDO expression on decidual and peripheral blood dendritic cells and monocytes/macrophages after treatment with CTLA-4 or interferon-γ increase in normal pregnancy but decrease in spontaneous abortion

    Naoko Miwa;Satoshi Hayakawa;Satomi Miyazaki;Subaru Myojo

  • Predominance of Th2-promoting dendritic cells in early human pregnancy decidua

    Satomi Miyazaki;Hiroshi Tsuda;Masatoshi Sakai;Shinichi Hori

  • A review of the mechanism for poor placentation in early-onset preeclampsia: the role of autophagy in trophoblast invasion and vascular remodeling.

    Shigeru Saito;Akitoshi Nakashima

  • Expression of indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase and the recruitment of Foxp3-expressing regulatory T cells in the development and progression of uterine cervical cancer.

    Takafumi Nakamura;Tomoko Shima;Ai Saeki;Takao Hidaka

  • Pyroptosis is a critical inflammatory pathway in the placenta from early onset preeclampsia and in human trophoblasts exposed to hypoxia and endoplasmic reticulum stressors

    Shi Bin Cheng;Akitoshi Nakashima;Warren J. Huber;Sarah Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Yutaka Osuga
Yutaka Osuga University of Tokyo
Surendra Sharma
Surendra Sharma Brown University
Tamotsu Yoshimori
Tamotsu Yoshimori Osaka University
Dean J. Kereiakes
Dean J. Kereiakes The Christ Hospital Health Network
Kazuyuki Tobe
Kazuyuki Tobe University of Toyama
Stephan Windecker
Stephan Windecker University of Bern
Joseph Beyene
Joseph Beyene McMaster University
Atsushi Miyajima
Atsushi Miyajima University of Tokyo
Prakesh S. Shah
Prakesh S. Shah University of Toronto
Kazuo Sugamura
Kazuo Sugamura Tohoku University

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