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Masaru Okabe

Active 1980–2020

136
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32,773
Citations
106
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Citations

Citations per year for Masaru Okabe1955: 1 citations1984: 1 citations1986: 1 citations1987: 1 citations1989: 3 citations1990: 2 citations1991: 1 citations1992: 3 citations1993: 3 citations1994: 3 citations1995: 3 citations1996: 4 citations1997: 36 citations1998: 46 citations1999: 63 citations2000: 120 citations2001: 171 citations2002: 244 citations2003: 343 citations2004: 357 citations2005: 472 citations2006: 469 citations2007: 428 citations2008: 451 citations2009: 440 citations2010: 430 citations2011: 415 citations2012: 420 citations2013: 397 citations2014: 370 citations2015: 347 citations2016: 299 citations2017: 229 citations2018: 266 citations2019: 722 citations2020: 922 citations2021: 803 citations2022: 528 citations2023: 324 citations2024: 545 citations2025: 200 citations1956–1983: no citations, so these years are not shown1985: no citations, so this year is not shown1988: no citations, so this year is not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 4,010 citing papers, 29.5% of this breakdownJapan: 1,845 citing papers, 13.6% of this breakdownChina: 1,213 citing papers, 8.9% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 796 citing papers, 5.8% of this breakdownGermany: 759 citing papers, 5.6% of this breakdownFrance: 534 citing papers, 3.9% of this breakdownCanada: 447 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownAustralia: 407 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownItaly: 349 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownSpain: 284 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 244 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdownNetherlands: 225 citing papers, 1.6% of this breakdown
0%29.5%Other 18.3%

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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology36.6%
  • Medicine30%
  • Immunology and Microbiology16.4%
  • Neuroscience10.6%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences4%
  • Nursing0.7%
  • Other1.7%

Topics

  • Immune Response and Inflammation4%
  • Sperm and Testicular Function2.8%
  • Reproductive Biology and Fertility2.7%
  • interferon and immune responses2.6%
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering2.2%
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation1.9%
  • Other83.8%

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  1. Role of Adaptor TRIF in the MyD88-Independent Toll-Like Receptor Signaling Pathway

    Authors: Masahiro Yamamoto, Shintaro Sato, Hiroaki Hemmi, Katsuaki Hoshino, Tsuneyasu Kaisho, Hideki Sanjo, Osamu Takeuchi, Masanaka Sugiyama, Masaru Okabe, Kiyoshi Takeda, Shizuo Akira - Science 2003 cited by 3,236

  2. DNA methylation of retrotransposon genes is regulated by Piwi family members MILI and MIWI2 in murine fetal testes

    Authors: Satomi Kuramochi‐Miyagawa, Toshiaki Watanabe, Kengo Gotoh, Yasushi Totoki, Atsushi Toyoda, Masahito Ikawa, Noriko Asada, Kanako Kojima, Yuka Yamaguchi, Takashi W. Ijiri, Kenichiro Hata, En Li, Yoichi Matsuda, Tohru Kimura, Masaru Okabe, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Toru Nakano - Genes & Development 2008 cited by 922

  3. Dysregulation of TGF-β1 receptor activation leads to abnormal lung development and emphysema-like phenotype in core fucose-deficient mice

    Authors: Xiangchun Wang, Shinya Inoué, Jianguo Gu, Eiji Miyoshi, Katsuhisa Noda, Wenzhe Li, Yoko Mizuno-Horikawa, Miyako Nakano, Michio Asahi, Motoko Takahashi, Naofumi Uozumi, Shinji Ihara, Seung Ho Lee, Yoshitaka Ikeda, Yukihiro Yamaguchi, Yoshiya Aze, Yoshiaki Tomiyama, Junichi Fujii, Keiichiro Suzuki, Akihiro Kondo, Steven D. Shapiro, Carlos López-Otı́n, Tomoyuki Kuwaki, Masaru Okabe, Koichi Honke, Naoyuki Taniguchi - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2005 cited by 491

  4. The immunoglobulin superfamily protein Izumo is required for sperm to fuse with eggs

    Authors: Naokazu Inoue, Masahito Ikawa, Ayako Isotani, Masaru Okabe - Nature 2005 cited by 843

  5. ‘Green mice’ as a source of ubiquitous green cells

    Authors: Masaru Okabe, Masahito Ikawa, Katsuya Kominami, Tomoko Nakanishi, Yoshitake Nishimune - FEBS Letters 1997 cited by 2,603

  6. DDX60 Is Involved in RIG-I-Dependent and Independent Antiviral Responses, and Its Function Is Attenuated by Virus-Induced EGFR Activation

    Authors: Hiroyuki Oshiumi, Moeko Miyashita, Masaaki Okamoto, Yuka Morioka, Masaru Okabe, Misako Matsumoto, Tsukasa Seya - Cell Reports 2015 cited by 173

  7. Mili, a mammalian member ofpiwifamily gene, is essential for spermatogenesis

    Authors: Satomi Kuramochi‐Miyagawa, Tohru Kimura, Takashi W. Ijiri, Taku Isobe, Noriko Asada, Yukiko Fujita, Masahito Ikawa, Naomi Iwai, Masaru Okabe, Wei Deng, Haifan Lin, Yoichi Matsuda, Toru Nakano - Development 2004 cited by 772

  8. Innate versus learned odour processing in the mouse olfactory bulb

    Authors: Ko Kobayakawa, Reiko Kobayakawa, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Yuichiro Oka, Takeshi Imai, Masahito Ikawa, Masaru Okabe, Toshio Ikeda, Shigeyoshi Itohara, Takefumi Kikusui, Kensaku Mori, Hitoshi Sakano - Nature 2007 cited by 672

  9. Signalling mediated by the endoplasmic reticulum stress transducer OASIS is involved in bone formation

    Authors: Tomohiko Murakami, Atsushi Saito, Shin‐ichiro Hino, Shinichi Kondo, Soshi Kanemoto, Kazuyasu Chihara, Hiroshi Sekiya, Kenji Tsumagari, Kimiko Ochiai, Kazuya Yoshinaga, Masahiro Saitoh, Riko Nishimura, Toshiyuki Yoneda, Ikuyo Kou, Tatsuya Furuichi, Shiro Ikegawa, Masahito Ikawa, Masaru Okabe, Akio Wanaka, Kazunori Imaizumi - Nature Cell Biology 2009 cited by 404

  10. Pravastatin induces placental growth factor (PGF) and ameliorates preeclampsia in a mouse model

    Authors: Keiichi Kumasawa, Masahito Ikawa, Hiroyasu Kidoya, Hidetoshi Hasuwa, Tomoko Saito‐Fujita, Yuka Morioka, Nobuyuki Takakura, Tadashi Kimura, Masaru Okabe - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2010 cited by 361

  11. Randomized phase III study of bevacizumab plus FOLFIRI and bevacizumab plus mFOLFOX6 as first-line treatment for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (WJOG4407G)

    Authors: K. Yamazaki, Michitaka Nagase, H Tamagawa, Shinya Ueda, Takao Tamura, K. Murata, Takako Eguchi Nakajima, Eishi Baba, Masahiro Tsuda, Toshikazu Moriwaki, Taito Esaki, Yasushi Tsuji, Kei Muro, Koichi Taira, Tadamichi Denda, Sadao Funai, Katsunori Shinozaki, Hitoshi Yamashita, Naotoshi Sugimoto, Tatsuya Okuno, Tomohiro Nishina, M. Umeki, Takayuki Kurimoto, Tetsuji Takayama, Akihito Tsuji, Miki Yoshida, A. Hosokawa, Yoshihiro Shibata, Koichi Suyama, Masaru Okabe, Koichi Suzuki, Narihito Seki, Kentaro Kawakami, Mikio Sato, Koshi Fujikawa, T. Hirashima, Takaya Shimura, K. Taku, Toshio Otsuji, F. Tamura, Eiji Shinozaki, Kazutaka Nakashima, Hiroki Hara, Takahiro Tsushima, Masahiko Ando, Satoshi Morita, Narikazu Boku, Ichinosuke Hyodo - Annals of Oncology 2016 cited by 282

  12. The Ubiquitin Ligase Riplet Is Essential for RIG-I-Dependent Innate Immune Responses to RNA Virus Infection

    Authors: Hiroyuki Oshiumi, Moeko Miyashita, Naokazu Inoue, Masaru Okabe, Misako Matsumoto, Tsukasa Seya - Cell Host & Microbe 2010 cited by 263

  13. Expanding the Repertoire of Optogenetically Targeted Cells with an Enhanced Gene Expression System

    Authors: Kenji F. Tanaka, Ko Matsui, Takuya Sasaki, Hiromi Sano, Shouta Sugio, Kai Fan, René Hen, Junichi Nakai, Yuchio Yanagawa, Hidetoshi Hasuwa, Masaru Okabe, Karl Deisseroth, Kazuhiro Ikenaka, Akihiro Yamanaka - Cell Reports 2012 cited by 190

  14. Requirement of CD9 on the Egg Plasma Membrane for Fertilization

    Authors: Kenji Miyado, Gen Yamada, Shuichi Yamada, Hidetoshi Hasuwa, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Fuminori Ryu, Kentaro Suzuki, Ken-ichiro Kosai, Kimiko Inoue, Atsuo Ogura, Masaru Okabe, Eisuke Mekada - Science 2000 cited by 691

  15. SPACA1-deficient male mice are infertile with abnormally shaped sperm heads reminiscent of globozoospermia

    Authors: Yoshitaka Fujihara, Yuhkoh Satouh, Naokazu Inoue, Ayako Isotani, Masahito Ikawa, Masaru Okabe - Development 2012 cited by 181

  16. A histone H3 lysine 36 trimethyltransferase links Nkx2-5 to Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome

    Authors: Keisuke Nimura, Kiyoe Ura, Hidetaka Shiratori, Masahito Ikawa, Masaru Okabe, Robert J. Schwartz, Yasufumi Kaneda - Nature 2009 cited by 378

  17. STING in tumor and host cells cooperatively work for NK cell-mediated tumor growth retardation

    Authors: Ken Takashima, Yohei Takeda, Hiroyuki Oshiumi, Hiroaki Shime, Masaru Okabe, Masahito Ikawa, Misako Matsumoto, Tsukasa Seya - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 2016 cited by 95

  18. MiR-200b and miR-429 Function in Mouse Ovulation and Are Essential for Female Fertility

    Authors: Hidetoshi Hasuwa, Jun Ueda, Masahito Ikawa, Masaru Okabe - Science 2013 cited by 172

  19. Functional characterization of a mouse testicular olfactory receptor and its role in chemosensing and in regulation of sperm motility

    Authors: Nanaho Fukuda, Kentaro Yomogida, Masaru Okabe, Kazushige Touhara - Journal of Cell Science 2004 cited by 225

  20. Regulation of endoplasmic reticulum stress response by a BBF2H7-mediated Sec23a pathway is essential for chondrogenesis

    Authors: Atsushi Saito, Shin-ichiro Hino, Tomohiko Murakami, Soshi Kanemoto, Shinichi Kondo, Masahiro Saitoh, Riko Nishimura, Toshiyuki Yoneda, Tatsuya Furuichi, Shiro Ikegawa, Masahito Ikawa, Masaru Okabe, Kazunori Imaizumi - Nature Cell Biology 2009 cited by 220

  21. Transgenic Mouse Sperm that Have Green Acrosome and Red Mitochondria Allow Visualization of Sperm and Their Acrosome Reaction in Vivo

    Authors: Hidetoshi Hasuwa, Yuko Muro, Masahito Ikawa, Noriko Kato, Yoshihide Tsujimoto, Masaru Okabe - EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS 2010 cited by 161

  22. NELL2-mediated lumicrine signaling through OVCH2 is required for male fertility

    Authors: Daiji Kiyozumi, Taichi Noda, Ryo Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Tobita, Takafumi Matsumura, Kentaro Shimada, Mayo Kodani, Takashi Kohda, Yoshitaka Fujihara, Manabu Ozawa, Zhifeng Yu, Gabriella Miklóssy, Kurt M. Bohren, Masato Horie, Masaru Okabe, Martin M. Matzuk, Masahito Ikawa - Science 2020 cited by 149

  23. Sperm–egg interaction and fertilization: past, present, and future

    Authors: Masaru Okabe - Biology of Reproduction 2018 cited by 85

  24. PGC7/Stella protects against DNA demethylation in early embryogenesis

    Authors: Toshinobu Nakamura, Yoshikazu Arai, Hiroki Umehara, Masaaki Masuhara, Tohru Kimura, Hisaaki Taniguchi, Toshihiro Sekimoto, Masahito Ikawa, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Masaru Okabe, Satoshi Tanaka, Kunio Shiota, Toru Nakano - Nature Cell Biology 2006 cited by 574