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Kazuya Sakai is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Safety Research. Additional subfields include Cancer Research and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics in Sakai's work emphasize Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research, Child Welfare and Adoption, Sleep and related disorders, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, and mechanisms related to Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity.

Among Sakai's recent scientific publications are:

  • Testicular histone hyperacetylation in mice by valproic acid administration affects the next generation by changes in sperm DNA methylation, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Potential of sperm small non-coding RNAs as biomarkers of testicular toxicity in a doxorubicin-induced mouse model, 2021, Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports

Sakai has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Kentaro Kawanaka and Yasuki Higaki, each with six joint publications. Other frequent co-authors are Masaki Kusano with five collaborations, and Yuki Tomiga and Ai Ito, both with four shared publications.

The preferred venues for Sakai's research publications include Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Cell, The FASEB Journal, PLoS ONE, and Neuroscience Letters. These journals represent diverse scopes reflecting Sakai's multidisciplinary research activities.

Best Publications

  • Unitary characteristics of presumptive cholinergic tegmental neurons during the sleep-waking cycle in freely moving cats.

    M el Mansari;K Sakai;M Jouvet

  • Neuronal Activity of Histaminergic Tuberomammillary Neurons During Wake–Sleep States in the Mouse

    Kazumi Takahashi;Jian-Sheng Lin;Kazuya Sakai

  • Evidence for histaminergic arousal mechanisms in the hypothalamus of cat

    J.-S. Lin;K. Sakai;M. Jouvet

  • Afferent projections to the cat locus coeruleus as visualized by the horseradish peroxidase technique

    K. Sakai;M. Touret;D. Salvert;L. Leger

  • A critical role of the posterior hypothalamus in the mechanisms of wakefulness determined by microinjection of muscimol in freely moving cats

    Jian-Sheng Lin;Kazuya Sakai;Giovanna Vanni-Mercier;Michel Jouvet

  • Involvement of histaminergic neurons in arousal mechanisms demonstrated with H3-receptor ligands in the cat

    Jian-Sheng Lin;Kazuya Sakai;Giovanna Vanni-Mercier;Jean-Michel Arrang

  • Afferent connections of the nucleus raphe dorsalis in the cat as visualized by the horseradish peroxidase technique.

    Kazuya Sakai;Denise Salvert;Monique Touret;Michel Jouvet

  • Spinal projections from the lower brain stem in the cat as demonstrated by the horseradish peroxidase technique. I. Origins of the reticulospinal tracts and their funicular trajectories

    Masaya Tohyama;Kazuya Sakai;Denise Salvert;Monique Touret

  • Tegmentoreticular projections with special reference to the muscular atonia during paradoxical sleep in the cat: An HRP study

    K. Sakai;J.P. Sastre;D. Salvert;M. Touret

  • Mapping of cholinoceptive brainstem structures responsible for the generation of paradoxical sleep in the cat.

    G Vanni-Mercier;K Sakai;J S Lin;M Jouvet

  • Histaminergic descending inputs to the mesopontine tegmentum and their role in the control of cortical activation and wakefulness in the cat

    Jian-Sheng Lin;Yiping Hou;K. Sakai;M. Jouvet

  • Discharge patterns of the nucleus parabrachialis lateralis neurons of the cat during sleep and waking

    Hiroshi Saito;Kazuya Sakai;Michel Jouvet

  • Executive mechanisms of paradoxical sleep.

    K. Sakai

  • Cells of a common developmental origin regulate REM/non-REM sleep and wakefulness in mice

    Yu Hayashi;Yu Hayashi;Mitsuaki Kashiwagi;Kosuke Yasuda;Reiko Ando

  • Spinal projections from the lower brain stem in the cat as demonstrated by the horseradish peroxidase technique. II. projections from the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum and raphe nuclei

    Masaya Tohyama;Kazuya Sakai;Monique Touret;Denise Salvert

  • Brain stem PGO-on cells projecting directly to the cat dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus

    Kazuya Sakai;Michel Jouvet

  • Neuronal activity specific to paradoxical sleep in the ventromedial medullary reticular formation of unrestrained cats

    Norio Kanamori;Kazuya Sakai;Michel Jouvet

  • Are the gigantocellular tegmental field neurons responsible for paradoxical sleep

    Jean-Pierre Sastre;Kazuya Sakai;Michel Jouvet

  • Characterization and mapping of sleep-waking specific neurons in the basal forebrain and preoptic hypothalamus in mice.

    Kasumi Takahashi;Jian-Sheng Lin;Kazuya Sakai

  • Hypersomnie par lésion isthmique chez le chat. II.Étude neurophysiologique et pharmacologique

    Françoise Petitjean;Kazuya Sakai;Chantal Blondaux;Michel Jouvet

  • The nuclei of origin of monoaminergic, peptidergic, and cholinergic afferents to the cat nucleus reticularis magnocellularis: a double-labeling study with cholera toxin as a retrograde tracer.

    Pierre‐Hervé Luppi;Kazuya Sakai;Patrice Fort;Denise Salvert

  • Bulbo-thalamic neurons related to thalamocortical activation processes during paradoxical sleep

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Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Jouvet
Michel Jouvet Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Denise Salvert
Denise Salvert Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Jian-Sheng Lin
Jian-Sheng Lin Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Sylvain Crochet
Sylvain Crochet École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Pierre-Hervé Luppi
Pierre-Hervé Luppi Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Patrice Fort
Patrice Fort University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kunio Kitahama
Kunio Kitahama Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
Toshihiro Maeda
Toshihiro Maeda Osaka University
Lucienne Léger
Lucienne Léger Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Anne Bérod
Anne Bérod Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

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