Masanori Otsuka

Masanori Otsuka publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

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Masanori Otsuka D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

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Best Publications

• Substance P: depletion in the dorsal horn of rat spinal cord after section of the peripheral processes of primary sensory neurons.

  Thomas Jessell;Akinobu Tsunoo;Ichiro Kanazawa;Ichiro Kanazawa;Masanori Otsuka

  655
  Citations

• Regional distribution of substance P in the spinal cord and nerve roots of the cat and the effect of dorsal root section.

  Tomoyuki Takahashi;Masanori Otsuka

  503
  Citations

• Release of substance P-like immunoreactivity from isolated spinal cord of newborn rat

  Masanori Otsuka;Shiro Konishi

  401
  Citations

• Electrophysiology of mammalian spinal cord in vitro.

  Masanori Otsuka;Shiro Konishi

  371
  Citations

• Substance P and excitatory transmitter of primary sensory neurons.

  Masanori Otsuka;Shiro Konishi

  333
  Citations

• Capsaicin-evoked release of substance P from primary sensory neurons

  Elizabeth Theriault;Masanori Otsuka;Thomas Jessell

  313
  Citations

• The effects of substance P and other peptides on spinal neurons of the frog.

  Shiro Konishi;Masanori Otsuka

  284
  Citations

• Measurement of gamma-aminobutyric acid in isolated nerve cells of cat central nervous system.

  M Otsuka;K Obata;Y Miyata;Yuriko Tanaka

  268
  Citations

• Enkephalins presynaptically inhibit cholinergic transmission in sympathetic ganglia.

  Shiro Konishi;Akinobu Tsunoo;Masanori Otsuka

  258
  Citations

• Excitatory action of hypothalamic substance P on spinal motoneurones of newborn rats.

  Shiro Konishi;Masanori Otsuka

  253
  Citations

• Antagonism between Lioresal and substance P in rat spinal cord

  Koji Saito;Shiro Konishi;Masanori Otsuka

  246
  Citations

• Substance P as an excitatory transmitter of primary afferent neurons in guinea-pig sympathetic ganglia.

  A. Tsunoo;S. Konishi;M. Otsuka

  228
  Citations

• Enkephalin as a transmitter for presynaptic inhibition in sympathetic ganglia

  Shiro Konishi;Akinobu Tsunoo;Masanori Otsuka

  212
  Citations

• Substance P- the first peptide neurotransmitter?

  Masanori Otsuka;Shiro Konishi

  200
  Citations

• Effect of a tachykinin antagonist on a nociceptive reflex in the isolated spinal cord-tail preparation of the newborn rat.

  M Otsuka;M Yanagisawa

  166
  Citations

• PEPTIDERGIC EXCITATORY AND INHIBITORY SYNAPSES IN MAMMALIAN SYMPATHETIC GANGLIA: ROLES OF SUBSTANCE P AND ENKEPHALIN

  Shiro Konishi;Akinobu Tsunoo;Noboru Yanaihara;Masanori Otsuka

  155
  Citations

• Identification of the motoneuron-depolarizing peptide in bovine dorsal root as hypothalamic substance P.

  Tomoyuki Takahashi;Tomoyuki Takahashi;Shiro Konishi;Shiro Konishi;David Powell;David Powell;Susan E. Leeman;Susan E. Leeman

  136
  Citations

• The role of substance P as a neurotransmitter in the reflexes of slow time courses in the neonatal rat spinal cord.

  Hiroyuki Akagi;Shiro Konishi;Masanori Otsuka;Mitsuhiko Yanagisawa

  132
  Citations

• Inhibitory effects of galanin on the isolated spinal cord of the newborn rat.

  Mitsuhiko Yanagisawa;Nobuyuki Yagi;Masanori Otsuka;Chizuko Yanaihara

  131
  Citations

• Actions of vasopressin, gastrin releasing peptide and other peptides on neurons of newborn rat spinal cord in vitro

  Toshihiko Suzue;Noboru Yanaihara;Masanori Otsuka

  129
  Citations

• THE EFFECTS OF SUBSTANCE P AND BACLOFEN ON MOTONEURONES OF ISOLATED SPINAL CORD OF THE NEWBORN RAT

  Masanori Otsuka;Mitsuhiko Yanagisawa

  115
  Citations