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).University of Edinburgh , Hirano bodies , citing Asao Hirano. (1965) "Pathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis," in Slow Latent and Temperate Virus Infections, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (NINDB) monograph No.2, pp. 23-37.
Career Dr. Hirano was a professor of pathology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.Library of Congress Authority File, Asao Hirano
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.WorldCat Identities : Hirano, Asao 1926-
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.Consulate General of Japan in New York, "Government of Japan to Honor Dr. Asao Hirano," 2001.
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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