Asao Hirano

Asao Hirano (平野朝雄, Hirano Asao, born 1926) is 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).

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

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 Microsopic 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)

• WorldCat Identities Archived December 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.: Hirano, Asao 1926-

• Order of the Rising Sun, 2001.

• Consulate General of Japan in New York, "Government of Japan to Honor Dr. Asao Hirano," 2001.