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Hidemasa Furue is affiliated with Hyogo College of Medicine in Japan and specializes in neuroscience and medicine with a focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, and cognitive neuroscience. Their research spans several subfields, including molecular biology and sensory systems.

The main topics in Furue's body of work encompass:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Furue include:

  • "Ascending noradrenergic excitation from the locus coeruleus to the anterior cingulate cortex," 2020, Molecular Brain
  • "Long-term selective stimulation of transplanted neural stem/progenitor cells for spinal cord injury improves locomotor function," 2021, Cell Reports
  • "A subset of spinal dorsal horn interneurons crucial for gating touch-evoked pain-like behavior," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Dermal macrophages set pain sensitivity by modulating the amount of tissue NGF through an SNX25-Nrf2 pathway," 2023, Nature Immunology
  • "L-bupivacaine Inhibition of Nociceptive Transmission in Rat Peripheral and Dorsal Horn Neurons," 2020, Anesthesiology

Furue frequently publishes in the following venues, demonstrating a consistent contribution to these journals:

  • Molecular Brain
  • Research Square
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • Molecular Pain

The scientist collaborates regularly with several other researchers including Akihiro Yamada, K. Koga, Jianguo G. Gu, Tatsuhide Tanaka, and Hiroaki Okuda, reflecting interdisciplinary and multi-author projects.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms for the Anti-nociceptive Actions of the Descending Noradrenergic and Serotonergic Systems in the Spinal Cord

    Megumu Yoshimura;Hidemasa Furue

  • Capsaicin facilitates excitatory but not inhibitory synaptic transmission in substantia gelatinosa of the rat spinal cord

    Kun Yang;Eiichi Kumamoto;Hidemasa Furue;Megumu Yoshimura

  • α2 Adrenoceptor-mediated presynaptic inhibition of primary afferent glutamatergic transmission in rat substantia gelatinosa neurons

    Yasuhiko Kawasaki;Eiichi Kumamoto;Hidemasa Furue;Megumu Yoshimura

  • Actions of noradrenaline on substantia gelatinosa neurones in the rat spinal cord revealed by in vivo patch recording

    Motoki Sonohata;Hidemasa Furue;Toshihiko Katafuchi;Toshiharu Yasaka

  • Selective activation of primary afferent fibers evaluated by sine-wave electrical stimulation

    Kohei Koga;Hidemasa Furue;Harunor Rashid;Atsushi Takaki

  • Optoactivation of Locus Ceruleus Neurons Evokes Bidirectional Changes in Thermal Nociception in Rats

    Louise Hickey;Yong Li;Sarah J. Fyson;Thomas C. Watson

  • Pain-enhancing mechanism through interaction between TRPV1 and anoctamin 1 in sensory neurons

    Yasunori Takayama;Daisuke Uta;Hidemasa Furue;Makoto Tominaga

  • Cell-type-specific excitatory and inhibitory circuits involving primary afferents in the substantia gelatinosa of the rat spinal dorsal horn in vitro.

    Toshiharu Yasaka;Go Kato;Hidemasa Furue;Harunor Rashid

  • Responsiveness of rat substantia gelatinosa neurones to mechanical but not thermal stimuli revealed by in vivo patch-clamp recording

    H. Furue;K. Narikawa;E. Kumamoto;M. Yoshimura

  • Direct GABAergic and Glycinergic Inhibition of the Substantia Gelatinosa from the Rostral Ventromedial Medulla Revealed by In Vivo Patch-Clamp Analysis in Rats

    Go Kato;Toshiharu Yasaka;Toshihiko Katafuchi;Hidemasa Furue

  • In Vivo Patch-Clamp Analysis of IPSCs Evoked in Rat Substantia Gelatinosa Neurons by Cutaneous Mechanical Stimulation

    Keita Narikawa;Hidemasa Furue;Eiichi Kumamoto;Megumu Yoshimura

  • Activation of Central Terminal Vanilloid Receptor-1 Receptors and αβ-Methylene-ATP-Sensitive P2X Receptors Reveals a Converged Synaptic Activity onto the Deep Dorsal Horn Neurons of the Spinal Cord

    Terumasa Nakatsuka;Hidemasa Furue;Megumu Yoshimura;Jianguo G. Gu

  • Direct inhibition of substantia gelatinosa neurones in the rat spinal cord by activation of dopamine D2-like receptors.

    Akihiro Tamae;Terumasa Nakatsuka;Terumasa Nakatsuka;Kohei Koga;Go Kato

  • Systemic dexmedetomidine augments inhibitory synaptic transmission in the superficial dorsal horn through activation of descending noradrenergic control: an in vivo patch-clamp analysis of analgesic mechanisms.

    Yusuke Funai;Anthony Edward Pickering;Daisuke Uta;Kiyonobu Nishikawa

  • Action of capsaicin on dorsal root-evoked synaptic transmission to substantia gelatinosa neurons in adult rat spinal cord slices

    Kun Yang;Eiichi Kumamoto;Hidemasa Furue;Yun-Qing Li

  • Cadherin-8 is required for the first relay synapses to receive functional inputs from primary sensory afferents for cold sensation.

    Sachihiro C Suzuki;Hidemasa Furue;Kohei Koga;Nan Jiang

  • Actions of brain-derived neurotrophic factor on spinal nociceptive transmission during inflammation in the rat.

    Satoru Matayoshi;Nan Jiang;Toshihiko Katafuchi;Kohei Koga

  • N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein (NSF) is involved in central sensitization in the spinal cord through GluR2 subunit composition switch after inflammation.

    Tayo Katano;Hidemasa Furue;Emiko Okuda-Ashitaka;Mitsuo Tagaya

  • Sensory processing and functional reorganization of sensory transmission under pathological conditions in the spinal dorsal horn

    Hidemasa Furue;Toshihiko Katafuchi;Megumu Yoshimura

  • Nociceptin inhibits excitatory but not inhibitory transmission to substantia gelatinosa neurones of adult rat spinal cord

    C Luo;E Kumamoto;H Furue;J Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Megumu Yoshimura
Megumu Yoshimura Kumamoto Health Science University
Toshihiko Katafuchi
Toshihiko Katafuchi Kyushu University
Keiji Imoto
Keiji Imoto National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Makoto Tsuda
Makoto Tsuda Kyushu University
Kazuhide Inoue
Kazuhide Inoue Kyushu University
Anthony E. Pickering
Anthony E. Pickering University of Bristol
Hidetoshi Tozaki-Saitoh
Hidetoshi Tozaki-Saitoh Kyushu University
Seog Bae Oh
Seog Bae Oh Seoul National University
Min Zhuo
Min Zhuo University of Toronto

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