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Emiko Senba

Emiko Senba

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
75
Citations
16146
World Ranking
2054
National Ranking
48

Emiko Senba publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emiko Senba sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 411 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Emiko Senba D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emiko Senba sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Emiko Senba is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work often focuses on subfields including Physiology, Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

The central topics of Senba's research encompass Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, and Pain Management and Placebo Effect.

Senba has contributed to several recent scientific papers, including:

  • Brain Mechanisms of Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia: To Find a Way Out from "Fear-Avoidance Belief" (2022) International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Exercise-induced increase in M2 macrophages accelerates wound healing in young mice (2022) Physiological Reports
  • Relief of neuropathic pain by cell-specific manipulation of nucleus accumbens dopamine D1- and D2-receptor-expressing neurons (2022) Molecular Brain
  • Plastic changes in amygdala subregions by voluntary running contribute to exercise-induced hypoalgesia in neuropathic pain model mice (2020) Molecular Pain
  • Tumor suppression and improvement in immune systems by specific activation of dopamine D1-receptor-expressing neurons in the nucleus accumbens (2022) Molecular Brain

Frequent coauthors of Emiko Senba include:

  • Katsuya Kami
  • Fumihiro Tajima
  • Kohei Minami
  • Nobuko Fujita
  • Kenji Miki

Their publications have appeared regularly in scientific venues such as:

  • Neurobiology of Pain
  • Rigakuryoho Kagaku
  • Molecular Brain
  • PAIN RESEARCH
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Best Publications

  • Fetal liver development requires a paracrine action of oncostatin M through the gp130 signal transducer

    Akihide Kamiya;Taisei Kinoshita;Yoshiaki Ito;Takaaki Matsui

  • Chronic stress, as well as acute stress, reduces BDNF mRNA expression in the rat hippocampus but less robustly.

    Shuji Murakami;Hiroki Imbe;Yoshihiro Morikawa;Chiharu Kubo

  • Substance P induced by peripheral nerve injury in primary afferent sensory neurons and its effect on dorsal column nucleus neurons

    K Noguchi;Y Kawai;T Fukuoka;E Senba

  • Stress-induced c-fos expression in the rat brain: activation mechanism of sympathetic pathway.

    Emiko Senba;Keiji Matsunaga;Masaya Tohyama;Koichi Noguchi

  • Ontogeny of substance P-containing neuron system of the rat: immunohistochemical analysis--I. Forebrain and upper brain stem.

    S. Inagaki;M. Sakanaka;S. Shiosaka;E. Senba

  • Immobilization stress reduced the expression of neurotrophins and their receptors in the rat brain

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  • α -CGRP and β -CGRP mRNAS are differentially regulated in the rat spinal cord and dorsal root ganglion

    Koichi Noguchi;Emiko Senba;Yasuhiro Morita;Makoto Sato

  • α-CGRP and β-CGRP mRNAs are differentially regulated in the rat spinal cord and dorsal root ganglion

    Koichi Noguchi;Emiko Senba;Yasuhiro Morita;Makoto Sato

  • Ontogeny of somatostatin‐containing neuron system of the rat: Immunohistochemical analysis. II. Forebrain and diencephalon

    Sadao Shiosaka;Kenichi Takatsuki;Masahiro Sakanaka;Shinobu Inagaki

  • Ontogeny of the peptidergic system in the rat spinal cord: immunohistochemical analysis.

    Emiko Senba;Sadao Shiosaka;Yoshinobu Hara;Shinobu Inagaki

  • Stress-induced expression of immediate early genes in the brain and peripheral organs of the rat

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  • Sequential mRNA Expression for Immediate Early Genes, Cytokines, and Neurotrophins in Spinal Cord Injury

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  • Quantification of axotomy-induced alteration of neuropeptide mRNAs in dorsal root ganglion neurons with special reference to neuropeptide Y mRNA and the effects of neonatal capsaicin treatment.

    K Noguchi;M De León;R L Nahin;E Senba

  • TROY, a Newly Identified Member of the Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Superfamily, Exhibits a Homology with Edar and Is Expressed in Embryonic Skin and Hair Follicles

    Tetsuo Kojima;Yoshihiro Morikawa;Neal G. Copeland;Debra J. Gilbert

  • Prepro-VIP and preprotachykinin mRNAs in the rat dorsal root ganglion cells following peripheral axotomy.

    Koichi Noguchi;Emiko Senba;Yasuhiro Morita;Makoto Sato

  • Coexistence of adenosine deaminase, histidine decarboxylase, and glutamate decarboxylase in hypothalamic neurons of the rat

    Senba E;Daddona Pe;Watanabe T;Wu Jy

  • Ontogeny of the neurotensin-containing neuron system of the rat: immunohistochemical analysis. I. Forebrain and diencephalon.

    Yoshinobu Hara;Sadao Shiosaka;Emiko Senba;Masahiro Sakanaka

  • Complete overlap of interleukin-31 receptor a and oncostatin m receptor β in the adult dorsal root ganglia with distinct developmental expression patterns

    T. Bando;Y. Morikawa;T. Komori;E. Senba

  • Ascending components of the medial forebrain bundle from the lower brain stem in the rat, with special reference to raphe and catecholamine cell groups. A study by the HRP method.

    Hiroshi Takagi;Sadao Shiosaka;Masaya Tohyama;Emiko Senba

  • The forkhead transcription factors, Foxp1 and Foxp2, identify different subpopulations of projection neurons in the mouse cerebral cortex

    T. Hisaoka;Y. Nakamura;E. Senba;Y. Morikawa

  • Ontogeny of substance P-containing neuron system of the rat: immunohistochemical analysis--II. Lower brain stem.

    M. Sakanaka;S. Inagaki;S. Shiosaka;E. Senba

  • 5-HT2A receptor subtype in the peripheral branch of sensory fibers is involved in the potentiation of inflammatory pain in rats

    Keiichiro Okamoto;Hiroki Imbe;Yoshihiro Morikawa;Masayuki Itoh

  • Induction of brain-derived neurotrophic factor by leptin in the ventromedial hypothalamus.

    T. Komori;Y. Morikawa;K. Nanjo;E. Senba

  • Regional distribution of substance P-like immunoreactivity in the frog brain and spinal cord: immunohistochemical analysis.

    Shinobu Inagaki;Emiko Senba;Sadao Shiosaka;Hiroshi Takagi

  • Experimental immunohistochemical studies on the amygdalofugal peptidergic (substance P and somatostatin) fibers in the stria terminals of the rat

    Masahiro Sakanaka;Sadao Shiosaka;Kenichi Takatsuki;Shinobu Inagaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Masaya Tohyama
Masaya Tohyama Kindai University
Sadao Shiosaka
Sadao Shiosaka Osaka University
Masahiro Sakanaka
Masahiro Sakanaka Ehime University
Shinobu Inagaki
Shinobu Inagaki Osaka University
Takeshi Kubo
Takeshi Kubo Osaka University
Koichi Noguchi
Koichi Noguchi Hyogo College of Medicine
Makoto Sato
Makoto Sato University of Fukui
Jose Javier Miguel-Hidalgo
Jose Javier Miguel-Hidalgo University of Mississippi Medical Center
James I. Nagy
James I. Nagy University of Manitoba
Noboru Yanaihara
Noboru Yanaihara University of Shizuoka

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