Asao Hirano (平野朝雄, Hirano Asao, November 26, 1926 – July 25, 2019)[1] 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).
[2] Dr. Hirano was a professor of pathology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
[3] 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.
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