2026 Kazuhiro Nakamura: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	46	6603	6072	220	208	137	11117

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Overview

Kazuhiro Nakamura is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has an extensive publication record focused primarily on medicine and neuroscience. Their research encompasses subfields such as endocrine and autonomic systems, molecular biology, physiology, plant science, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their work addresses main topics including circadian rhythm and melatonin, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, wheat and barley genetics and pathology, adipose tissue and metabolism, mitochondrial function and pathology, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and regulation of appetite and obesity.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nakamura include the following:

A central master driver of psychosocial stress responses in the rat, 2020, Science
A hypothalamomedullary network for physiological responses to environmental stresses, 2021, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
microRNA-33 maintains adaptive thermogenesis via enhanced sympathetic nerve activity, 2021, Nature Communications
Combi-CRISPR: combination of NHEJ and HDR provides efficient and precise plasmid-based knock-ins in mice and rats, 2020, Human Genetics
Prostaglandin EP3 receptor-expressing preoptic neurons bidirectionally control body temperature via tonic GABAergic signaling, 2022, Science Advances

Frequent co-authors in Nakamura's research network include:

Naoya Kataoka
Goro Ishikawa
Takaki Yahiro
Yoshiko Nakamura
Nobuyuki Mizuno

Key publication venues where Nakamura has contributed multiple times comprise:

Nihon Kikan Shokudoka Gakkai Kaiho
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
UNC Libraries
Scientific Reports
arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist's body of work integrates diverse aspects of physiological and molecular biology studies, focusing on mechanisms underlying stress responses, thermoregulation, and neuroendocrine functions. Their involvement in studies related to genome editing technologies such as Combi-CRISPR illustrates an interest in methodological advancements applicable to neuroscience and genetics research.

Best Publications

REDOX REGULATION OF CELLULAR ACTIVATION

Hajime Nakamura;Kazuhiro Nakamura;Junji Yodoi

1666
Citations
Central neural pathways for thermoregulation.

Shaun F Morrison;Kazuhiro Nakamura

740
Citations
Central circuitries for body temperature regulation and fever

Kazuhiro Nakamura

622
Citations
A thermosensory pathway that controls body temperature

Kazuhiro Nakamura;Shaun F Morrison

567
Citations
Central control of thermogenesis in mammals.

Shaun F. Morrison;Kazuhiro Nakamura;Christopher J. Madden

507
Citations
Central Mechanisms for Thermoregulation

S F Morrison;K Nakamura

501
Citations
Thiol-mediated redox regulation of apoptosis. Possible roles of cellular thiols other than glutathione in T cell apoptosis.

N Sato;S Iwata;K Nakamura;T Hori

346
Citations
Identification of sympathetic premotor neurons in medullary raphe regions mediating fever and other thermoregulatory functions.

Kazuhiro Nakamura;Kiyoshi Matsumura;Thomas Hübschle;Yoshiko Nakamura

321
Citations
The Rostral Raphe Pallidus Nucleus Mediates Pyrogenic Transmission from the Preoptic Area

Kazuhiro Nakamura;Kiyoshi Matsumura;Takeshi Kaneko;Shigeo Kobayashi

294
Citations
The Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid-1 Channel in Thermoregulation: A Thermosensor It Is Not

Andrej A. Romanovsky;Maria C. Almeida;Andras Garami;Alexandre A. Steiner;Alexandre A. Steiner

281
Citations
A thermosensory pathway mediating heat-defense responses.

Kazuhiro Nakamura;Kazuhiro Nakamura;Shaun F. Morrison

276
Citations
Central efferent pathways mediating skin cooling-evoked sympathetic thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue

Kazuhiro Nakamura;Shaun F. Morrison

272
Citations
Psychological stress activates a dorsomedial hypothalamus-medullary raphe circuit driving brown adipose tissue thermogenesis and hyperthermia.

Naoya Kataoka;Hiroyuki Hioki;Takeshi Kaneko;Kazuhiro Nakamura;Kazuhiro Nakamura

263
Citations
Central efferent pathways for cold-defensive and febrile shivering

Kazuhiro Nakamura;Shaun F. Morrison

254
Citations
Redox control of resistance to cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (CDDP): protective effect of human thioredoxin against CDDP-induced cytotoxicity.

T Sasada;S Iwata;N Sato;Y Kitaoka

248
Citations
Immunohistochemical localization of prostaglandin EP3 receptor in the rat nervous system.

Kazuhiro Nakamura;Takeshi Kaneko;Yoko Yamashita;Hiroshi Hasegawa

231
Citations
Pyramidal neurons of upper cortical layers generated by NEX-positive progenitor cells in the subventricular zone

Sheng Xi Wu;Sandra Goebbels;Kouichi Nakamura;Kazuhiro Nakamura

216
Citations
Selective eosinophil adhesion to fibroblast via IFN-gamma-induced galectin-9.

Hirofumi Asakura;Yumiko Kashio;Kazuhiro Nakamura;Masako Seki

195
Citations
Direct pyrogenic input from prostaglandin EP3 receptor‐expressing preoptic neurons to the dorsomedial hypothalamus

Yoshiko Nakamura;Kazuhiro Nakamura;Kiyoshi Matsumura;Shigeo Kobayashi

188
Citations
A central master driver of psychosocial stress responses in the rat

Naoya Kataoka;Yuta Shima;Keisuke Nakajima;Kazuhiro Nakamura

165
Citations
Preoptic mechanism for cold-defensive responses to skin cooling.

Kazuhiro Nakamura;Shaun F. Morrison

146
Citations