Asao Hirano

was a Japanese physician, academic, medical researcher and neuropathologist. He is credited with having first observed Hirano bodies which are intracellular aggregates of actin and actin-associated proteins in the neurons (nerve cells).

Career

Dr. Hirano was a professor of pathology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Asao Hirano, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 30 works in 50+ publications in 5 languages and 1,000+ library holdings.

• Electron Microscopic Atlas of Brain Tumors (1971), with Tung Pui Poon
• Atlas of Neuropathology (1974), with by Nathan Malamud
• An Atlas of the Human Brain for Computerized Tomography (1978), with Takayoshi Matsui
• Color Atlas of Pathology of the Nervous System (1980)
• A Guide to Neuropathology (1981)
• Atlas d'anatomie pathologique du système nerveux (1981)
• Neuropsychiatric Disorders in the Elderly (1983)
• Praktischer Leitfaden der Neuropathologie (1983)
• The Pathology of the Myelinated Axon (1984), with Masazumi Adachi
• 神経病理を学ぶ人のために (1986)
• 神経病理を学ぶ人のために (2003)
• カラーアトラス神経病理 (2006)

Honors

• Order of the Rising Sun, 2001.

Notes

References

• Gajdusek, D. Carleton, Clarence J. Gibbs Jr. and Michael Alpers. (1965) Slow Latent and Temperate Virus Infections. Bethesda: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness. OCLC 463013735