Hiroaki Niitsu

Supermeres are functional extracellular nanoparticles replete with disease biomarkers and therapeutic targets

Qin Zhang, Dennis K. Jeppesen, James N. Higginbotham et al. · Nature Cell Biology · 2021 · 406 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +15

Differential pre-malignant programs and microenvironment chart distinct paths to malignancy in human colorectal polyps

Bob Chen, Cherie’ R. Scurrah, Eliot T. McKinley et al. · Cell · 2021 · 341 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cancer Biology, Oncology +17

Using the Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) global rating scale to evaluate the skills of surgical trainees in the operating room

Hiroaki Niitsu, Naoki Hirabayashi, Masanori Yoshimitsu et al. · Surgery Today · 2012 · 268 citations · Full text

Medicine, Educational Assessment, Surgery +17

Gasdermin C Is Upregulated by Inactivation of Transforming Growth Factor β Receptor Type II in the Presence of Mutated Apc, Promoting Colorectal Cancer Proliferation

Masashi Miguchi, Takao Hinoi, Manabu Shimomura et al. · PLoS ONE · 2016 · 196 citations · Full text

Medicine, Genetics, Oncology +17

Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer is safe and has survival outcomes similar to those of open surgery in elderly patients with a poor performance status: subanalysis of a large multicenter case–control study in Japan

Hiroaki Niitsu, Takao Hinoi, Yasuo Kawaguchi et al. · Journal of Gastroenterology · 2015 · 43 citations

Medicine, Oncology, Surgery +14