Masanori Otsuka

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

  Masanori Otsuka;Shiro Konishi

  401
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• 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
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• Capsaicin-evoked release of substance P from primary sensory neurons

  Elizabeth Theriault;Masanori Otsuka;Thomas Jessell

  313
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• The effects of substance P and other peptides on spinal neurons of the frog.

  Shiro Konishi;Masanori Otsuka

  284
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• Measurement of gamma-aminobutyric acid in isolated nerve cells of cat central nervous system.

  M Otsuka;K Obata;Y Miyata;Yuriko Tanaka

  268
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• Enkephalins presynaptically inhibit cholinergic transmission in sympathetic ganglia.

  Shiro Konishi;Akinobu Tsunoo;Masanori Otsuka

  258
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• Excitatory action of hypothalamic substance P on spinal motoneurones of newborn rats.

  Shiro Konishi;Masanori Otsuka

  253
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• Antagonism between Lioresal and substance P in rat spinal cord

  Koji Saito;Shiro Konishi;Masanori Otsuka

  246
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• Substance P as an excitatory transmitter of primary afferent neurons in guinea-pig sympathetic ganglia.

  A. Tsunoo;S. Konishi;M. Otsuka

  228
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• Enkephalin as a transmitter for presynaptic inhibition in sympathetic ganglia

  Shiro Konishi;Akinobu Tsunoo;Masanori Otsuka

  212
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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