Publications / 研究成果

2024

Gu J, Sugimura YK, Kato F, Del Negro C, Central amygdala-to-preBötzinger complex neurotransmission is direct and inhibitory. Eur J Neurosci, 2024. in press.

Inokuchi-Sakata S, Narita R, Takahashi Y, Ishiuji Y, Asahina A, Kato F. Region-specific activation in the accumbens nucleus by itch with modified scratch efficacy in mice – a model-free multivariate analysis. Mol Brain. 2024 May 23;17(1):27. doi: 10.1186/s13041-024-01101-w. PMID: 38783364; PMCID: PMC11119306.

Sato N, Takahashi Y, Sugimura YK, Kato F. Presynaptic inhibition of excitatory synaptic transmission from the calcitonin gene-related peptide-containing parabrachial neurons to the central amygdala in mice – unexpected influence of systemic inflammation thereon. Journal of Pharmacological Sciences. Volume 154, Issue 4, April 2024, Pages 264-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphs.2024.02.004.

2023

Yajima M, Takahashi Y, Sugimura YK, Kato F. Pregabalin attenuates long-lasting post-inflammatory nociplastic mechanical sensitization in mice. Neurobiol Pain. 2023 Apr 28;13:100131. doi: 10.1016/j.ynpai.2023.100131. PMID: 37215502; PMCID: PMC10195975.

Murakami T, Ishida T, Tanaka S, Nakayama J, Tsurugizawa T, Takahashi Y, Kato F, Kawamata M. Inflammation and subsequent nociceptor sensitization in the bone marrow are involved in an animal model of osteoarthritis pain. Life Sci. 2023 Jul 1;324:121736. doi: 10.1016/j.lfs.2023.121736. Epub 2023 Apr 28. PMID: 37121542.

2022

Suzuki J, Nagase M, Sato N, Takahashi Y, Okamoto A, Kato F. Delivery-dependent shift in oxytocin-responsive cell population in the central amygdala of the female rat. Neuroendocrinology. 2022 Jul 4. doi: 10.1159/000525860. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35785764.

Yajima M, Sugimoto M, Sugimura YK, Takahashi Y, Kato F, Acetaminophen and pregabalin attenuate central sensitization in rodent models of nociplastic widespread pain, Neuropharmacology, 2022. 109029,
ISSN 0028-3908, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2022.109029.

Tsunogai T, Ohashi T, Shimada Y, Higuchi T, Kimura A, Watabe AM, Kato F, Ida H, Kobayashi H. Hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy ameliorates CNS involvement in murine model of GM1-gangliosidosis. Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev. 2022 Apr 28;25:448-460. doi: 10.1016/j.omtm.2022.04.012. PMID: 35615711; PMCID: PMC9118356.

Kurihara S, Fujioka M, Hirabayashi M, Yoshida T, Hosoya M, Nagase M, Kato F, Ogawa K, Okano H, Kojima H, Okano HJ. Otic Organoids Containing Spiral Ganglion Neuron-like Cells Derived from Human-induced Pluripotent Stem Cells as a Model of Drug-induced Neuropathy. Stem Cells Transl Med. 2022 Mar 31;11(3):282-296. doi: 10.1093/stcltm/szab023. PMID: 35356976; PMCID: PMC8968745.

2021

Tokunaga, R., Takahashi, Y., Touj, S., Hotta, H., Leblond, H., Kato, F., & Piché, M. (2022). Attenuation of widespread hypersensitivity to noxious mechanical stimuli by inhibition of GABAergic neurons of the right amygdala in a rat model of chronic back pain. European Journal of Pain, 00, 1– 18. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.1921

Yamamoto S, Takahashi Y, Kato F. Input-dependent synaptic suppression by pregabalin in the central amygdala in male mice with inflammatory pain. Neurobiol Pain. 2021 Nov 18;10:100078. doi: 10.1016/j.ynpai.2021.100078. PMID: 34877437; PMCID: PMC8628014.

Matsushita T, Otani K, Oto Y, Takahashi Y, Kurosaka D, Kato F. Sustained microglial activation in the area postrema of collagen-induced arthritis mice. Arthritis Res Ther. 2021 Oct 29;23(1):273. doi: 10.1186/s13075-021-02657-x. PMID: 34715926; PMCID: PMC8556992.

Ito M, Nagase M, Tohyama S, Mikami K, Kato F, Watabe AM. The parabrachial-to-amygdala pathway provides aversive information to induce avoidance behavior in mice. Mol Brain. 2021 Jun 24;14(1):94. doi: 10.1186/s13041-021-00807-5. PMID: 34167570; PMCID: PMC8223383.

Momoko Koizumi, Sayaka Asano, Akihiko Furukawa, Yoshinori Hayashi, Suzuro Hitomi, Ikuko Shibuta, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Fusao Kato, Koichi Iwata & Masamichi Shinoda. P2X3 receptor upregulation in trigeminal ganglion neurons through TNFα production in macrophages contributes to trigeminal neuropathic pain in rats. J Headache Pain 22, 31 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s10194-021-01244-4

Sugimoto M, Takahashi Y, Sugimura YK, Tokunaga R, Yajima M, Kato F. Active role of the central amygdala in widespread mechanical sensitization in rats with facial inflammatory pain. Pain. 2021 Mar 12. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002224. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33900711.

2020

Miwa S, Watabe AM, Shimada Y, Higuchi T, Kobayashi H, Fukuda T, Kato F, Ida H, Ohashi T. Efficient engraftment of genetically modified cells is necessary to ameliorate central nervous system involvement of murine model of mucopolysaccharidosis type II by hematopoietic stem cell targeted gene therapy. Mol Genet Metab. 2020 Aug;130(4):262-273. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2020.06.007. Epub 2020 Jun 24. PMID: 32631737.

Moriwaki Y, Kubo N, Watanabe M, Asano S, Shinoda T, Sugino T, Ichikawa D, Tsuji S, Kato F, Misawa H. Endogenous neurotoxin-like protein Ly6H inhibits alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor currents at the plasma membrane. Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 20;10(1):11996. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-68947-7. PMID: 32686737; PMCID: PMC7371702.

Takahashi Y, Miyazawa Y, Arimura D, Sugimura YK, Kato F. Right-side predominance of the central amygdala activation in trigeminal inflammatory pain model. Pain Research, 2020. 35: 10-16. (三叉神経支配領域炎症性疼痛モデルにおける扁桃体疼痛制御機構. 高橋由香里、宮沢祐太、有村大吾、杉村弥恵、加藤総夫)

2019

Yohsuke Oto, Yukari Takahashi, Daitaro Kurosaka, Fusao Kato, Alterations of voluntary behavior in the course of disease progress and pharmacotherapy in mice with collagen-induced arthritis. Arthritis Research & Therapy, 2019. 21 (1), 284-.

Daigo Arimura, Kei Shinohara, Yukari Takahashi, Yae K Sugimura, Mariko Sugimoto, Tomokazu Tsurugizawa, Keishi Marumo, Fusao Kato, Primary role of the amygdala in spontaneous inflammatory pain-associated activation of pain networks – a chemogenetic manganese-enhanced MRI approach. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2019. DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2019.00058.

2018

Shogo Soma, Junichi Yoshida, Shigeki Kato, Yukari Takahashi, Satoshi Nonomura, Yae K Sugimura, Alain Ríos, Masanori Kawabata, Kazuto Kobayashi, Fusao Kato, Yutaka Sakai, and Yoshikazu Isomura, Ipsilateral-dominant control of limb movements in rodent posterior parietal cortex. J Neurosci. 1584-18; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1584-18.2018.

Miyazawa Y, Takahashi Y, Watabe AM, Kato F, Predominant synaptic potentiation and activation in the right central amygdala are independent of bilateral parabrachial activation in the hemilateral trigeminal inflammatory pain model of rats. Mol Pain 14: 1744806918807102.

Kato F, Sugimura YK, Takahashi Y, Pain-associated neural plasticity in the parabrachial to central amygdala circuit -Pain changes the Brain, the Brain changes the Pain. “Advances in Pain Research: Mechanisms and Modulation of Chronic Pain”, Adv Exp Med Biol, 2018 1099:157-166.

Yamauchi N, Takahashi D, Sugimura YK, Kato F, Amano T, Minami M, Activation of the neural pathway from the dorsolateral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to the central amygdala induces anxiety-like behaviors, Eur J Neurosci. 2018.

Gu J, Zhuo M, Tominaga M, Zhang X, Kato F, OH SB, Shyu BC, Abstracts of the 7th Asian Pain Symposium, Mol Pain,14: 1-53. 2018.

Kato F, Shinohara K, Okutsu Y, Sugimoto M, Sugimura YK, Takahashi Y, Role of calcitonin gene-related peptide in nociception-emotion link and its consequences [Meeting Abstract]. Mol Pain, 14:27, 2018.

Igarashi H, Ikeda K, Onimaru H, Kaneko R, Koizumi K, Beppu K, Nishizawa K, Takahashi Y, Kato F, Matsui K, Kobayashi K, Yanagawa Y, Muramatsu SI, Ishizuka T, Yawo H., Targeted expression of step-function opsins in transgenic rats for optogenetic studies. Sci Rep. 2018 Apr 3;8(1):5435.

2017

Shinohara K, Watabe AM, Nagase M, Okutsu Y, Takahashi Y, Kurihara H, Kato F, Essential role of endogenous
calcitonin gene-related peptide in pain-associated plasticity in the central amygdala, Eur J Neurosci, 2017 Sep;46(6):2149-2160

Okutsu Y, Takahashi Y, Nagase M, Shinohara K, Ikeda R, Kato F, Potentiation of NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic transmission at the parabrachial-central amygdala synapses by CGRP in mice. Mol Pain. 2017; 13: doi: 10.1177/1744806917709201.

Yokose J, Okubo-Suzuki R, Nomoto M, Ohkawa N, Nishizono H, Suzuki A, Matsuo M, Tsujimura S, Takahashi Y, Nagase M, Watabe AM, Sasahara M, Kato F, Inokuchi K. Overlapping memory trace indispensable for linking, but not recalling, individual memories. Science. 2017 Jan 27;355(6323):398-403.

Takagi S, Kono Y, Nagase M, Mochio S, Kato F. Facilitation of distinct inhibitory synaptic inputs by chemical anoxia in neurons in the oculomotor, facial and hypoglossal motor nuclei of the rat. Exp Neurol. 2017 Jan 19;290:95-105.

2016

Tsurugizawa T, Takahashi Y, Kato F. Distinct effects of isoflurane on basal BOLD signals in tissue/vascular microstructures in rats. Sci Rep. 2016 Dec 15;6:38977.

Nomoto M, Ohkawa N, Nishizono H, Yokose J, Suzuki A, Matsuo M, Tsujimura S, Takahashi Y, Nagase M, Watabe AM, Kato F, Inokuchi K. Cellular tagging as a neural network mechanism for behavioural tagging. Nat Commun. 2016 7:12319.

Sugimura YK, Takahashi Y, Watabe AM, Kato F. Synaptic and network consequences of monosynaptic nociceptive inputs of parabrachial nucleus origin in the central amygdala, J Neurophysiol. 115: 2721-39,2016.

Megumi Tsuji, Yukari Takahashi, Ayako M Watabe, and Fusao Kato; Enhanced long-term potentiation in mature rats in a model of epileptic spasms with betamethasone-priming and postnatal N-methyl-D-aspartate administration, Epilepsia,
57(3):495-505,
2016.

2015

Takeda K, Yamaguchi Y, Hino M, Kato F. Potentiation of acetylcholine-mediated facilitation of inhibitory synaptic transmission by an azaindolizione derivative, ZSET1446 (ST101), in the rat hippocampus. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2015; 356(2):445-55. PMID: 26578264

Watabe AM, Nagase M, Hagiwara A, Hida Y, Tsuji M, Ochiai T, Kato F, Ohtsuka T. SAD-B kinase regulates pre-synaptic vesicular dynamics at hippocampal Schaffer collateral synapses and affects contextual fear memory. J Neurochem. 2016 Jan;136(1):36-47. doi: 10.1111/jnc.13379. Epub 2015 Nov 6. PMID: 26444684

Nagano Y, Kaneda K, Maruyama C, Ide S, Kato F, Minami M. Corticotropin-releasing factor enhances inhibitory synaptic transmission to type III neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.  Neurosci Lett. 2015 Jul 23;600:56-61. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2015.05.059. Epub 2015 Jun 1. PMID: 26044990

Ohkawa N, Saitoh N, Suzuki A, Tsujimura S, Murayama E, Kosugi, Nishizono H, Matsuo M, Takahashi Y, Nagase M, Sugimura YK, Watabe AM, Kato F, Inokuchi K. Artificial association of pre-stored information to generate a qualitatively new memory,  2015, Cell Reports 11, 1-9.

Sato M, Ito M, Nagase M, Sugimura YK, Takahashi Y, Watabe, AM, Kato F. The lateral parabrachial nucleus is actively involved in the acquisition of fear memory in mice, , Mol Brain (2015) 8:22.

2014

Masashi Nagase, Yukari Takahashi, Ayako M. Watabe, Yoshihiro, Fusao Kato. J Neurosci 34:2605-2617, 2014. On-site energy supply at synapses through monocarboxylate transporters maintains excitatory synaptic transmission.

2013

Jun Kinoshita, Yukari Takahashi, Ayako M Watabe, Kazunori Utsunomiya, Fusao Kato. Impaired noradrenaline homeostasis in rats with painful diabetic neuropathy as a target of duloxetine analgesia. Mol Pain. 2013;9:59.

Chin Y, Kishi M, Sekino M, Nakajo F, Abe Y. Terazono Y, Hiroyuki O, kato F, koizumi S, Gachet C, Hisatsune T. Involvement of glial P2Y receptors in cognitive deficit after focal cerebral stroke in a rodent model. J Neuroinflam 2013;10;95.

Ayako M Watabe, Toshitaka Ochiai, Masashi Nagase, Yukari Takahashi, Masaru Sato and Fusao Kato, Synaptic potentiation in the nociceptive amygdala following fear learning in mice, Mol Brain 2013, 6:11.

2012

Ayano Nakao, Yukari Takahashi, Masashi Nagase, Ryo Ikeda, Fusao Kato, Role of capsaicin-sensitive C-fiber afferents in neuropathic pain-induced synaptic potentiation in the nociceptive amygdala, Mol Pain 2012, 8:51.

2011

Aoyama R, Okada Y, Yokota S, Yasui Y, Fukuda K, Shinozaki Y, Yoshida H, Nakamura M, Chiba K, Yasui Y, Kato F, Toyama Y, Spatiotemporal and anatomical analyses of P2X receptor-mediated neuronal and glial processing of sensory signals in the rat dorsal horn, Pain, 2011, 152:2085-9.

Yasui Y, Masaki E, Kato F, Esmolol modulates inhibitory neurotransmission in the substantia gelatinosa of the spinal trigeminal nucleus of the rat. BMC Anesthesiol. 2011;11: 15.

Moody TD, Watabe AM, Indersmitten T, Komiyama NH, Grant SG, O’Dell TJ, Beta-adrenergic receptor activation rescues theta frequency stimulation-induced LTP deficits in mice expressing C-terminally truncated NMDA receptor GluN2A subunits. Learn Mem. 2011 18(2):118-27.

Ono K, Tsukamoto-Yasui M, Hara-Kimura Y, Inoue N, Nogusa Y, Okabe Y, Nagashima K, Kato F, Intragastric administration of capsiate, a transient receptor potential channel agonist, triggers thermogenic sympathetic responses, J Appl Physiol 2011, 110:789-98.

2010
Yamamoto K, Noguchi J, Yamada C, Watabe AM, Kato F, Distinct target cell-dependent forms of short-term plasticity of the central visceral afferent synapses of the rat, BMC Neurosci, 2010; 11:Article 134.

2009
Sumiyama K, Tajiri H, Kato F, Imura T, Ono K, Ikeda K, Imazu H, Gostout CJ. Pilot study for in vivo cellular imaging of the muscularis propria and ex vivo molecular imaging of myenteric neurons. Gastrointest Endosc 2009; 69:1129-34.

Taniguchi S, Nakazawa T, Tanimura A, Kiyama Y, Tezuka T, Watabe AM, Katayama N, Yokoyama K, Inoue T, Izumi-Nakaseko H, Kakuta S, Sudo K, Iwakura Y, Umemori H, Inoue T, Murphy NP, Hashimoto K, Kano M, Manabe T, Yamamoto T, Involvement of NMDAR2A tyrosine phosphorylation in depression-related behaviour. EMBO J. 2009 28(23):3717-29.

高橋由香里, 池田 亮, 加藤総夫, 痛みモデル依存的扁桃体中心核シナプス増強機構の差異. Pain Res 2009; 24: 137-46.

2008
Okada T, Tashiro Y, Kato F, Yanagawa Y, Obata K, Kawai Y, Quantitative and immunohistochemical analysis of neuronal types in the mouse caudal nucleus tractus solitarius: Focus on GABAergic neurons. J Chem Neuroanat. 2008, 35: 275-84.

2007
Yasui Y, Masaki E, Kato F. Sevoflurane directly excites locus coeruleus neurons of rats. Anesthesiology. 2007;107:992-1002.

Ohi Y, Kato F, Haji A, Codeine presynaptically inhibits the glutamatergic synaptic transmission in the nucleus tractus solitarius of the guinea pig. Neuroscience. 2007; 146:1425-33.

Kono Y, Shigetomi E, Inoue K, Kato F, Facilitation of spontaneous glycine release by anoxia potentiates NMDA receptor current in the hypoglossal motor neurons of the rat. Eur J Neurosci. 2007; 25:1748-56.

Ikeda R, Takahashi, Y, Inoue K, Kato F, NMDA receptor-independent synaptic plasticity in the central amygdala in the rat model of neuropathic pain, Pain, 2007; 127: 161-72.

-2006

Yamazaki K, Shigetomi E, Ikeda R, Nishida M, Kiyonaka S, Mori Y, Kato F. Blocker-resistant presynaptic voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels underlying glutamate release in mice nucleus tractus solitarii, Brain Res, 2006; 1104: 103-13.

Ikeda R, Kato F, Early and transient increase in spontaneous synaptic inputs to the rat facial motoneurons after axotomy in isolated brainstem slices of rats, Neuroscience, 2005; 134: 889-99.

Kawamura M, Gachet C, Inoue K, Kato F, Direct excitation of inhibitory interneurons by extracellular ATP mediated by P2Y1 receptors in the hippocampal slice, J Neurosci 24: 10835-10845 (2004).

Shigetomi E, Kato F, Action potential-independent release of glutamate by Ca2+ entry through presynaptic P2X receptors elicits postsynaptic firing in the brainstem autonomic network, J Neurosci 24: 3125-3135 (2004).

Masaki E, Kawamura M, Kato F, Attenuation of gap-junction-mediated signaling facilitated anesthetic effect of sevoflurane in the central nervous system of the rats, Anesth Analg 98, 647-652 (2004).

Kato F, Shigetomi E, Yamazaki K, Tsuji N, Takano K, A dual-role played by extracellular ATP in frequency-filtering of the nucleus tractus solitarii network, Adv Exp Med Biol 551,151-156 (2004).

Fukuda S, Kato F, Tozuka Y, Yamaguchi M, Miyamoto Y, Hisatsune T. Two distinct subpopulations of nestin-positive cells in adult mouse dentate gyrus, J Neurosci 23: 9357-9366 (2003).