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.