Publications
205
Citations
2,735
Est. group size
~12
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
46
Publishing since 1980
Daniel M. Hirai's research examines how blood flow and oxygen delivery to skeletal muscle are controlled during exercise, particularly in conditions like heart failure and chronic disease. His work combines animal models and human studies to understand microvascular oxygen dynamics, muscle blood flow regulation, and exercise intolerance. This research aims to clarify why patients with heart failure and related conditions have limited exercise capacity.
Publication output has fluctuated over the past decade, dipping around 2019-2021 before rebounding to higher levels in 2024-2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- KATP channel inhibition-induced hyporemia in skeletal muscle: No evidence for pre-capillary sphincter action
Microvascular Research · 2025
- Differential impacts of body composition on oxygen kinetics and exercise tolerance of HFrEF and HFpEF patients
Scientific Reports · 2024
- Distinct effects of cell-free hemoglobin on oxygen pressure dynamics of fast vs. slow twitch muscle
Physiology · 2023
- Exertional oscillatory ventilation in subjects without heart failure reporting chronic dyspnoea
ERJ Open Research · 2022
- Effects of dietary fish oil on exercising muscle blood flow in chronic heart failure rats
2022
- Blockade of ATP-sensitive potassium channels impairs vascular control in exercising rats
2022
- Chronic (-)-epicatechin administration does not affect contracting skeletal muscle microvascular oxygenation
2022
- Regulation of capillary hemodynamics by K <sub>ATP</sub> channels in resting skeletal muscle
Physiological Reports · 2021
- Exercise training decreases intercostal and transversus abdominis muscle blood flows in heart failure rats during submaximal exercise
Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology · 2021
- Transcapillary PO<sub>2</sub> gradients in contracting muscles across the fibre type and oxidative continuum
The Journal of Physiology · 2020
- The effect of dietary nitrate supplementation on the speed-duration relationship in mice with sickle cell disease
Journal of Applied Physiology · 2020
- ATP-sensitive K+ channel inhibition in rats decreases kidney and skeletal muscle blood flow without increasing sympathetic nerve discharge
Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology · 2020
- Systemic NOS inhibition reduces contracting muscle oxygenation more in intact female than male rats
Nitric Oxide · 2020
- Skeletal Muscle Capillary Hemodynamics in Rats with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
The FASEB Journal · 2020
- Impact Of Cell-free Hemoglobin On Exercising Muscle Vascular Control In Rats
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2020
- Journal of Applied Physiology×10
- Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise×10
- The FASEB Journal×8
- COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease×4
- Physiology×4
- Michael D. Belbis
Medicine · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Keigo Tomoo
Medicine · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Austin T. Robinson
Medicine · Indiana University
- Felipe S. Pereira
Medicine · Indiana University
- Stephen J. Carter
Medicine · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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