🏆 Finalist — NIH Data Sharing Index (“S-Index”) Challenge

Akira Nishii

University of Michigan

ORCID: 0000-0002-8981-3264

Also affiliated with University of Illinois Chicago, Laboratoire d’immunologie intégrative du cancer, Earth and Space Research, Nagoya University, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Social SciencesEngineeringMedicine

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Papers

Driven by 8 papers. Top paper: “Wnt/β-catenin signaling regulates adipose tissue lipogenesis and adipocyte-specific loss is rigorously defended by neighboring stromal-vascular cells”.

Wnt/β-catenin signaling regulates adipose tissue lipogenesis and adipocyte-specific loss is rigorously defended by neighboring stromal-vascular cells

Molecular Metabolism(2020)10.1016/j.molmet.2020.101078

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107 citations

Akira Nishii, Ziru Li, Jennifer B. DelProposto, Callie A.S. Corsa, Hiroyuki Mori +5 more

The molecular and metabolic program for adaptation of white adipocytes to cool physiologic temperatures

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.10.16.342220

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1 citations

Colleen E. Dugan, Akira Nishii, Ameena Benchamana, Ziru Li, Thomas S. Cadenhead +13 more

The molecular and metabolic program by which white adipocytes adapt to cool physiologic temperatures

PLoS Biology(2021)10.1371/journal.pbio.3000988

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22 citations

Colleen E. Dugan, Akira Nishii, Ameena Benchamana, Ziru Li, Thomas S. Cadenhead +14 more

BAd-CRISPR: Inducible gene knockout in interscapular brown adipose tissue of adult mice

Journal of Biological Chemistry(2021)10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101402

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15 citations

Kenneth T. Lewis, Akira Nishii, Alan C. Rupp, Ziru Li, Hiroyuki Mori +5 more

SCD1 and monounsaturated lipids are required for autophagy and survival of adipocytes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.10.27.564376

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0 citations

Sydney K. Peterson, Rachel Simmermon, Katherine A. Overmyer, Akira Nishii, Emma Paulsson +13 more

Scd1 and monounsaturated lipids are required for autophagy and survival of adipocytes

Molecular Metabolism(2024)10.1016/j.molmet.2024.101916

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15 citations

Sydney K. Peterson, Rachel C. Simmermon, Katherine A. Overmyer, Akira Nishii, Emma Paulsson +13 more

Effects of β-catenin deficiency on adipose tissue physiology

Molecular Metabolism(2025)10.1016/j.molmet.2025.102226

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3 citations

Akira Nishii, Jessica N. Maung, Hiroyuki Mori, Brian Desrosiers, Jannis Jacobs +10 more

Altered lipid metabolism and inflammatory programs associate with adipocyte loss in familial partial lipodystrophy 2

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2025)10.1172/jci198387

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2 citations

Rebecca L. Schill, Akira Nishii, Maria Foss de Freitas, Bonje Obua, Marcus Nygård +24 more