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Koichi Noguchi is affiliated with Hyogo College of Medicine in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the field of medicine with specific attention to physiology, gastroenterology, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and surgery. Noguchi's work addresses a broad range of topics with a significant emphasis on pain mechanisms and treatments, gastrointestinal motility and disorders, ion channels and receptors, ion channel regulation and function, gastroesophageal reflux and treatments, pain management and placebo effect, and inflammatory bowel disease.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Kv4.3 Channel Dysfunction Contributes to Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain Manifested with Orofacial Cold Hypersensitivity in Rats (2021, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • Daikenchuto attenuates visceral pain and suppresses eosinophil infiltration in inflammatory bowel disease in murine models (2020, JGH Open)
  • Role of Rho-associated coiled-coil containing protein kinase in the spinal cord injury induced neuropathic pain (2020, The Spine Journal)
  • Localization of prostaglandin E2 synthases and E-prostanoid receptors in the spinal cord in a rat model of neuropathic pain (2020, Brain Research)
  • Atractylodin Produces Antinociceptive Effect through a Long-Lasting TRPA1 Channel Activation (2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)

Koichi Noguchi has collaborated frequently with co-authors including Hirosato Kanda, Yi Dai, Yoko Kogure, Hiroki Yamanaka, and Kimiko Kobayashi. This network reflects a strong interdisciplinary approach spanning molecular mechanisms and clinical aspects of pain and gastrointestinal disorders.

Their studies are regularly published in journals such as the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Neuroscience Letters, Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society, Journal of Neuroscience, and Pain. Notably, the International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Neuroscience Letters each contain multiple publications by Noguchi.

Their research contributions cover a total of 41 publications within the broader domain of medicine, emphasizing experimental and clinical investigations related to physiology and gastroenterology.

Best Publications

  • Targeted disruption of the mouse Stat3 gene leads to early embryonic lethality

    Kiyoshi Takeda;Koichi Noguchi;Wei Shi;Takashi Tanaka

  • Activating Transcription Factor 3 (ATF3) Induction by Axotomy in Sensory and Motoneurons: A Novel Neuronal Marker of Nerve Injury

    Hiroaki Tsujino;Eiji Kondo;Tetsuo Fukuoka;Yi Dai

  • Distinct expression of TRPM8, TRPA1, and TRPV1 mRNAs in rat primary afferent neurons with aδ/c‐fibers and colocalization with trk receptors

    Kimiko Kobayashi;Tetsuo Fukuoka;Koichi Obata;Hiroki Yamanaka

  • TRPA1 induced in sensory neurons contributes to cold hyperalgesia after inflammation and nerve injury

    Koichi Obata;Hirokazu Katsura;Toshiyuki Mizushima;Hiroki Yamanaka

  • Sensitization of TRPA1 by PAR2 contributes to the sensation of inflammatory pain

    Yi Dai;Shenglan Wang;Makoto Tominaga;Satoshi Yamamoto

  • Phosphorylation of Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase in Primary Afferent Neurons by Noxious Stimuli and Its Involvement in Peripheral Sensitization

    Yi Dai;Koichi Iwata;Tetsuo Fukuoka;Eiji Kondo

  • MAPK activation in nociceptive neurons and pain hypersensitivity

    Koichi Obata;Koichi Noguchi

  • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor increases in the uninjured dorsal root ganglion neurons in selective spinal nerve ligation model.

    Tetsuo Fukuoka;Eiji Kondo;Yi Dai;Norio Hashimoto

  • 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

  • Role of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Activation in Injured and Intact Primary Afferent Neurons for Mechanical and Heat Hypersensitivity after Spinal Nerve Ligation

    Koichi Obata;Hiroki Yamanaka;Kimiko Kobayashi;Yi Dai

  • Proteinase-activated receptor 2-mediated potentiation of transient receptor potential vanilloid subfamily 1 activity reveals a mechanism for proteinase-induced inflammatory pain.

    Yi Dai;Tomoko Moriyama;Tomohiro Higashi;Kazuya Togashi

  • P2Y12 Receptor Upregulation in Activated Microglia Is a Gateway of p38 Signaling and Neuropathic Pain

    Kimiko Kobayashi;Hiroki Yamanaka;Tetsuo Fukuoka;Yi Dai

  • Phospholipase C and protein kinase A mediate bradykinin sensitization of TRPA1: a molecular mechanism of inflammatory pain.

    Shenglan Wang;Yi Dai;Tetsuo Fukuoka;Hiroki Yamanaka

  • Interleukin-18-Mediated Microglia/Astrocyte Interaction in the Spinal Cord Enhances Neuropathic Pain Processing after Nerve Injury

    Kan Miyoshi;Koichi Obata;Takashi Kondo;Haruki Okamura

  • Contribution of injured and uninjured dorsal root ganglion neurons to pain behavior and the changes in gene expression following chronic constriction injury of the sciatic nerve in rats.

    Koichi Obata;Hiroki Yamanaka;Tetsuo Fukuoka;Dai Yi

  • Possible Involvement of P2Y2 Metabotropic Receptors in ATP-Induced Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid Receptor 1-Mediated Thermal Hypersensitivity

    Tomoko Moriyama;Tohko Iida;Kimiko Kobayashi;Tomohiro Higashi

  • Differential Activation of Extracellular Signal-Regulated Protein Kinase in Primary Afferent Neurons Regulates Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Expression after Peripheral Inflammation and Nerve Injury

    Koichi Obata;Hiroki Yamanaka;Yi Dai;Toshiya Tachibana

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

    Emiko Senba;Keiji Matsunaga;Masaya Tohyama;Koichi Noguchi

  • BDNF in sensory neurons and chronic pain.

    Koichi Obata;Koichi Noguchi

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi Dai
Yi Dai Hyogo University of Health Sciences
Hiroki Yamanaka
Hiroki Yamanaka Hyogo College of Medicine
Koichi Obata
Koichi Obata Hyogo College of Medicine
Atsushi Tokunaga
Atsushi Tokunaga Hyogo College of Medicine
Emiko Senba
Emiko Senba Osaka University
Takashi Mashimo
Takashi Mashimo Osaka University
Koichi Iwata
Koichi Iwata Nihon University
Makoto Sato
Makoto Sato University of Fukui
Larry W. Swanson
Larry W. Swanson University of Southern California
Kazue Mizumura
Kazue Mizumura Nihon University

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