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Toshiro Fujita

Toshiro Fujita

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Medicine
Japan
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
132
Citations
64617
World Ranking
2317
National Ranking
42

Toshiro Fujita publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Toshiro Fujita sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 907 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Toshiro Fujita D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Toshiro Fujita sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 132 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Toshiro Fujita is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their work principally spans the field of Medicine with a focus on subfields such as Nutrition and Dietetics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Nephrology, Molecular Biology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The research of Toshiro Fujita concentrates on several main topics that include:

  • Sodium Intake and Health
  • Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Electrolyte and Hormonal Disorders
  • Ion Transport and Channel Regulation
  • Renin-Angiotensin System Studies
  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes

Frequent publication venues for Fujita's research include:

  • Hypertension
  • Journal of Hypertension
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Kidney International
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

The list of selected recent papers emphasizes Fujita's focus on salt-sensitive hypertension and renal injury, with notable works:

  • Salt causes aging-associated hypertension via vascular Wnt5a under Klotho deficiency, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Kidney and epigenetic mechanisms of salt-sensitive hypertension, 2021, Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • Activation of Rac1-Mineralocorticoid Receptor Pathway Contributes to Renal Injury in Salt-Loaded db/db Mice, 2021, Hypertension
  • Salt-Sensitive Hypertension and the Kidney, 2024, Hypertension
  • The Mineralocorticoid Receptor in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension and Renal Injury, 2021, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Fujita has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Wakako Kawarazaki
  • Mitsuhiro Nishimoto
  • Nobuhiro Ayuzawa
  • Takeshi Marumo
  • Daigoro Hirohama

Best Publications

  • Klotho converts canonical FGF receptor into a specific receptor for FGF23

    Itaru Urakawa;Yuji Yamazaki;Takashi Shimada;Kousuke Iijima

  • FGF-23 is a potent regulator of vitamin D metabolism and phosphate homeostasis.

    Takashi Shimada;Hisashi Hasegawa;Yuji Yamazaki;Takanori Muto

  • Targeted ablation of Fgf23 demonstrates an essential physiological role of FGF23 in phosphate and vitamin D metabolism

    Takashi Shimada;Makoto Kakitani;Yuji Yamazaki;Hisashi Hasegawa

  • PPARγ Mediates High-Fat Diet–Induced Adipocyte Hypertrophy and Insulin Resistance

    Naoto Kubota;Yasuo Terauchi;Hiroshi Miki;Hiroyuki Tamemoto;Hiroyuki Tamemoto

  • Cloning and characterization of FGF23 as a causative factor of tumor-induced osteomalacia

    Takashi Shimada;Satoru Mizutani;Takanori Muto;Takashi Yoneya

  • The Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension (JSH 2009)

    Toshio Ogihara;Kenjiro Kikuchi;Hiroaki Matsuoka;Toshiro Fujita

  • The Japanese Society of Hypertension guidelines for the management of hypertension (JSH 2014)

    Kazuaki Shimamoto;Katsuyuki Ando;Toshiro Fujita;Naoyuki Hasebe

  • Mechanical stress activates angiotensin II type 1 receptor without the involvement of angiotensin II

    Yunzeng Zou;Hiroshi Akazawa;Yingjie Qin;Masanori Sano

  • Increased circulatory level of biologically active full-length FGF-23 in patients with hypophosphatemic rickets/osteomalacia.

    Yuji Yamazaki;Ryo Okazaki;Minako Shibata;Yukihiro Hasegawa

  • Erratum: The Japanese Society of hypertension guidelines for the management of hypertension (Hypertension Research (2009) 32 (11-23) DOI: 10.1038/hr.2008.2)

    Toshio Ogihara;Kenjiro Kikuchi;Hiroaki Matsuoka;Toshiro Fujita

  • Modification of mineralocorticoid receptor function by Rac1 GTPase: implication in proteinuric kidney disease

    Shigeru Shibata;Miki Nagase;Shigetaka Yoshida;Wakako Kawarazaki

  • Oxidative stress and nitric oxide synthase in rat diabetic nephropathy: Effects of ACEI and ARB

    Maristela Lika Onozato;Akihiro Tojo;Akihiro Tojo;Atsuo Goto;Atsuo Goto;Toshiro Fujita;Toshiro Fujita

  • Factors influencing blood pressure in salt-sensitive patients with hypertension.

    T Fujita;W L Henry;F C Bartter;C R Lake

  • Mutant FGF-23 responsible for autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets is resistant to proteolytic cleavage and causes hypophosphatemia in vivo.

    Takashi Shimada;Takanori Muto;Itaru Urakawa;Takashi Yoneya

  • FGF-23 transgenic mice demonstrate hypophosphatemic rickets with reduced expression of sodium phosphate cotransporter type IIa.

    Takashi Shimada;Itaru Urakawa;Yuji Yamazaki;Hisashi Hasegawa

  • Kidney disease: Improving global outcomes (KDIGO) blood pressure work group. KDIGO clinical practice guideline for the management of blood pressure in chronic kidney disease

    Gavin J. Becker;David C. Wheeler;Dick De Zeeuw;Toshiro Fujita

  • Oxidative and nitrosative stress in acute renal ischemia.

    Eisei Noiri;Akihide Nakao;Koji Uchida;Hirokazu Tsukahara

  • Podocyte as the Target for Aldosterone: Roles of Oxidative Stress and Sgk1

    Shigeru Shibata;Miki Nagase;Shigetaka Yoshida;Hiroshi Kawachi

  • Expression and Cellular Localization of Classic NADPH Oxidase Subunits in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat Kidney

    Tinatin Chabrashvili;Akahiro Tojo;Maristela Lika Onozato;Chagriya Kitiyakara

  • Differentiation and Transforming Growth Factor-β Receptor Down-regulation by Collagen-α2β1 Integrin Interaction Is Mediated by Focal Adhesion Kinase and Its Downstream Signals in Murine Osteoblastic Cells

    Yasuhiro Takeuchi;Miyuki Suzawa;Tomoko Kikuchi;Eisuke Nishida

Frequent Co-Authors

Masaomi Nangaku
Masaomi Nangaku University of Tokyo
Seiji Fukumoto
Seiji Fukumoto University of Tokushima
Toshio Miyata
Toshio Miyata Tohoku University
Yutaka Yatomi
Yutaka Yatomi University of Tokyo
Yasunobu Hirata
Yasunobu Hirata University of Tokyo
Masao Omata
Masao Omata University of Tokyo
Sadayoshi Ito
Sadayoshi Ito Tohoku University
Katsushi Tokunaga
Katsushi Tokunaga University of Tokyo
Satoshi Kimura
Satoshi Kimura University of Tokyo
Julie R. Ingelfinger
Julie R. Ingelfinger Harvard University

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