Kunio Kitahama

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• Dominant expression of mRNA for prostaglandin D synthase in leptomeninges, choroid plexus, and oligodendrocytes of the adult rat brain.

  Yoshihiro Urade;Kunio Kitahama;Hitoshi Ohishi;Takeshi Kaneko

  337
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• Long-lasting insomnia induced by preoptic neuron lesions and its transient reversal by muscimol injection into the posterior hypothalamus in the cat.

  M. Sallanon;M. Denoyer;K. Kitahama;C. Aubert

  317
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• Importance of the ventrolateral region of the periaqueductal gray and adjacent tegmentum in the control of paradoxical sleep as studied by muscimol microinjections in the cat

  J.P Sastre;C Buda;K Kitahama;M Jouvet

  231
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• Demonstration of GABAergic cell bodies in the suprachiasmatic nucleus: in situ hybridization of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) mRNA and immunocytochemistry of GAD and GABA.

  Hitoshi Okamura;Anne Bérod;Jean-Francois Julien;Michel Geffard

  164
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• Neurons containing messenger RNA encoding glutamate decarboxylase in rat hypothalamus demonstrated by in situ hybridization, with special emphasis on cell groups in medial preoptic area, anterior hypothalamic area and dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus.

  H. Okamura;M. Abitbol;J.-F. Julien;S. Dumas

  159
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• l-DOPA-immunoreactive neurons in the rat hypothalamic tuberal region

  H. Okamura;K. Kitahama;N. Mons;Y. Ibata

  149
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• Increased paradoxical sleep in mice during acquisition of a shock avoidance task.

  Carlyle Smith;Carlyle Smith;Kunio Kitahama;Kunio Kitahama;Jean-Louis Valatx;Jean-Louis Valatx;Michel Jouvet;Michel Jouvet

  141
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• Adrenergic neurons in human brain demonstrated by immunohistochemistry with antibodies to phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PNMT): discovery of a new group in the nucleus tractus solitarius.

  K. Kitahama;J. Pearson;L. Denoroy;N. Kopp

  139
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• Anatomical distribution of prolactin-like immunoreactivity in the rat brain

  Luce Paut-Pagano;Rachida Roky;Jean-Louis Valatx;Kunio Kitahama

  129
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• Distribution of prolactin receptors in the rat forebrain. Immunohistochemical study.

  Rachida Roky;Luce Paut-Pagano;Vincent Goffin;Kunio Kitahama

  113
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• Dopamine- and dopa-immunoreactive neurons in the cat forebrain with reference to tyrosine hydroxylase-immunohistochemistry.

  Kunio Kitahama;Michel Geffard;Hitoshi Okamura;Ikuko Nagatsu

  111
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• Distribution of dopamine-immunoreactive fibers in the rat brainstem.

  K Kitahama;I Nagatsu;M Geffard;T Maeda

  109
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• Reversibility of Para-chlorophenylalanine-induced insomnia by intrahypothalamic microinjection of l-5-hydroxytryptophan

  M. Denoyer;M. Sallanon;K. Kitahama;C. Aubert

  105
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• Effect of ambient temperature on the sleep-waking cycle in two strains of mice.

  Bernard Roussel;Pascal Turrillot;Kunio Kitahama

  99
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• Neurotoxic lesion of the mesencephalic reticular formation and/or the posterior hypothalamus does not alter waking in the cat.

  Michel Denoyer;Marcelle Sallanon;Colette Buda;Kunio Kitahama

  97
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• l-3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine as a neurotransmitter candidate in the central nervous system

  Yoshimi Misu;Kunio Kitahama;Yoshio Goshima

  95
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• Demonstration of L-dopa decarboxylating neurons specific to human striatum

  Keiko Ikemoto;Kunio Kitahama;Anne Jouvet;Ryohachi Arai

  94
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• Localization of candidate genomic regions influencing paradoxical sleep in mice.

  Mehdi Tafti;Paul Franken;Kunio Kitahama;Alain Malafosse

  94
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• Comparative topography of dopamine- and tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive neurons in the rat arcuate nucleus.

  Hitoshi Okamura;Kunio Kitahama;Ikuko Nagatsu;Michel Geffard

  94
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• Origin of the dopaminergic innervation of the rat dorsal raphe nucleus.

  Christelle Peyron;Pierre-Hervé Luppi;Kunio Kitahama;Patrice Fort

  91
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