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Kazue Mizumura

Kazue Mizumura

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Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
6604
World Ranking
8302
National Ranking
289

Overview

Kazue Mizumura is a researcher affiliated with Nihon University in Japan, specializing in the field of Medicine with a focus on physiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, rehabilitation, and mental health. Their scholarly output spans multiple subfields including physiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, pharmacology, rehabilitation, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their main research themes center on pain mechanisms and treatments, exercise and physiological responses, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, nerve injury and regeneration, myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment, and neuropeptides and animal physiology.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • PAIN RESEARCH
  • Neuroscience Research
  • The Journal of Physiological Sciences
  • The Journal of Physiology
  • Scientific Reports

Among recent significant publications are:

  • Neurochemical mechanism of muscular pain: Insight from the study on delayed onset muscle soreness, 2024, The Journal of Physiological Sciences
  • Neuronal Sensitization and Synaptic Facilitation in the Superficial Dorsal Horn of a Rat Reserpine-induced Pain Model, 2021, Neuroscience
  • Mechanism of aspirin-induced inhibition on the secondary hyperalgesia in osteoarthritis model rats, 2020, Heliyon
  • Synergistic interaction of nerve growth factor and glial cell-line derived neurotrophic factor in muscular mechanical hyperalgesia in rats, 2021, The Journal of Physiology
  • Increased nociceptive behaviors and spinal c-Fos expression in the formalin test in a rat repeated cold stress model, 2023, Neuroscience Research

The researcher collaborates regularly with several co-authors, notable among them are:

  • Toru Taguchi
  • Asako Kubo
  • Hiroki Ota
  • Teruaki Nasu
  • Kimiaki Katanosaka

Best Publications

  • Bradykinin Lowers the Threshold Temperature for Heat Activation of Vanilloid Receptor 1

    Takeshi Sugiura;Makoto Tominaga;Hirotada Katsuya;Kazue Mizumura

  • TRPV3 in keratinocytes transmits temperature information to sensory neurons via ATP

    Sravan Mandadi;Takaaki Sokabe;Koji Shibasaki;Kimiaki Katanosaka

  • Bradykinin and Nerve Growth Factor Play Pivotal Roles in Muscular Mechanical Hyperalgesia after Exercise (Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness)

    Shiori Murase;Etsuji Terazawa;Fernando Queme;Hiroki Ota

  • TRP channels and ASICs mediate mechanical hyperalgesia in models of inflammatory muscle pain and delayed onset muscle soreness

    Yuko Fujii;Noriyuki Ozaki;Toru Taguchi;Kazue Mizumura

  • Delayed onset muscle soreness: Involvement of neurotrophic factors

    Kazue Mizumura;Toru Taguchi

  • Effects of prostaglandins and other putative chemical intermediaries on the activity of canine testicular polymodal receptors studied in vitro

    K. Mizumura;J. Sato;T. Kumazawa

  • Increased pain from muscle fascia following eccentric exercise: animal and human findings

    William Gibson;William Gibson;Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Toru Taguchi;Kazue Mizumura

  • Augmented Mechanical Response of Muscle Thin-Fiber Sensory Receptors Recorded from Rat Muscle–Nerve Preparations In Vitro After Eccentric Contraction

    Toru Taguchi;Jun Sato;Kazue Mizumura

  • Persistent deep mechanical hyperalgesia induced by repeated cold stress in rats

    Teruaki Nasu;Toru Taguchi;Kazue Mizumura

  • Muscular mechanical hyperalgesia revealed by behavioural pain test and c-Fos expression in the spinal dorsal horn after eccentric contraction in rats

    Toru Taguchi;Teru Matsuda;Teru Matsuda;Ryoko Tamura;Jun Sato

  • Influence of surface anesthesia on the pressure pain threshold measured with different-sized probes

    Ken Takahashi;Toru Taguchi;Kazunori Itoh;Kaoru Okada

  • Excitation and Sensitization of Nociceptors by Bradykinin: What Do We Know?

    Kazue Mizumura;Takeshi Sugiura;Takeshi Sugiura;Kimiaki Katanosaka;Ratan K. Banik;Ratan K. Banik

  • Sensitizing effects of bradykinin on the heat responses of the visceral nociceptor.

    T. Kumazawa;K. Mizumura;M. Minagawa;Y. Tsujii

  • Chemical responses of polymodal receptors of the scrotal contents in dogs.

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  • Repeated intramuscular injections of nerve growth factor induced progressive muscle hyperalgesia, facilitated temporal summation, and expanded pain areas.

    Koei Hayashi;Shinichiro Shiozawa;Noriyuki Ozaki;Kazue Mizumura

  • The polymodal C-fiber receptor in the muscle of the dog.

    Takao Kumazawa;Kazue Mizumura

  • Role of nerve growth factor in pain

    Kazue Mizumura;Shiori Murase

  • EP receptor subtypes implicated in the PGE2-induced sensitization of polymodal receptors in response to bradykinin and heat

    T. Kumazawa;K. Mizumura;H. Koda;H. Fukusako

  • Peripheral and spinal mechanisms of nociception in a rat reserpine-induced pain model

    Toru Taguchi;Kimiaki Katanosaka;Masaya Yasui;Koei Hayashi

  • Sensitization to mechanical stimulation by inflammatory mediators and by mild burn in canine visceral nociceptors in vitro.

    Hisashi Koda;Kazue Mizumura

  • The effects of bradykinin agonists and antagonists on visceral polymodal receptor activities.

    Kazue Mizumura;Munenori Minagawa;Yoichiro Tsujii;Takao Kumazawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Graven-Nielsen
Thomas Graven-Nielsen Aalborg University
Akihiro Yamanaka
Akihiro Yamanaka Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hisao Nishijo
Hisao Nishijo University of Toyama
Norihiro Sadato
Norihiro Sadato National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Lawrence Kruger
Lawrence Kruger University of California, Los Angeles
Taketoshi Ono
Taketoshi Ono University of Toyama
Ryusuke Kakigi
Ryusuke Kakigi National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Robert F. Schmidt
Robert F. Schmidt University of Würzburg
Ulrich Hoheisel
Ulrich Hoheisel Heidelberg University
Hidetoshi Tozaki-Saitoh
Hidetoshi Tozaki-Saitoh Kyushu University

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