Asao Hirano

Asao Hirano (平野朝雄) 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.