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Michael Lazarus

Michael Lazarus

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Neuroscience

D-Index
52
Citations
7819
World Ranking
5402
National Ranking
167

Overview

Michael Lazarus is affiliated with the University of Tsukuba in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Neuroscience as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans 53 publications in Neuroscience and 19 in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, reflecting a broad expertise across these major scientific disciplines.

Their work delves into several subfields of study, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Physiology. This interdisciplinary approach supports a detailed understanding of brain function and its molecular mechanisms.

Main research topics covered by Michael Lazarus include Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Circadian rhythm and melatonin, Sleep and related disorders, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling, Neuroscience of respiration and sleep, and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling. These topics illustrate a focus on biological rhythms, neural signaling pathways, and sleep physiology.

Frequent co-authors in their published work include:

  • Yoan Chérasse
  • Zhi-Li Huang
  • Yadong Li
  • Yan-Jia Luo
  • Wei-Min Qu

Michael Lazarus has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • iScience
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Among their notable recent publications are:

  • Hypothalamic modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mice confers activity-dependent regulation of memory and anxiety-like behavior, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Ventral pallidal GABAergic neurons control wakefulness associated with motivation through the ventral tegmental pathway, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Supramammillary nucleus synchronizes with dentate gyrus to regulate spatial memory retrieval through glutamate release, 2020, eLife
  • Activation of EphA2-EGFR signaling in oral epithelial cells by Candida albicans virulence factors, 2021, PLoS Pathogens
  • Lateral habenula glutamatergic neurons projecting to the dorsal raphe nucleus promote aggressive arousal in mice, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • EP3 prostaglandin receptors in the median preoptic nucleus are critical for fever responses.

    Michael Lazarus;Kyoko Yoshida;Roberto Coppari;Roberto Coppari;Caroline E Bass

  • Arousal Effect of Caffeine Depends on Adenosine A2A Receptors in the Shell of the Nucleus Accumbens

    Michael Lazarus;Hai Ying Shen;Yoan Cherasse;Wei Min Qu

  • Glutamatergic Signaling from the Parabrachial Nucleus Plays a Critical Role in Hypercapnic Arousal

    Satvinder Kaur;Nigel P. Pedersen;Shigefumi Yokota;Elizabeth E. Hur

  • Nucleus accumbens controls wakefulness by a subpopulation of neurons expressing dopamine D 1 receptors

    Yan-Jia Luo;Ya-Dong Li;Lu Wang;Su-Rong Yang

  • Biotransformations with Peroxidases

    Waldemar Adam;Michael Lazarus;Chantu R. Saha-Möller;Oliver Weichold

  • Slow-wave sleep is controlled by a subset of nucleus accumbens core neurons in mice.

    Yo Oishi;Qi Xu;Qi Xu;Lucun Wang;Bin Jia Zhang

  • Dominant localization of prostaglandin D receptors on arachnoid trabecular cells in mouse basal forebrain and their involvement in the regulation of non-rapid eye movement sleep

    Akira Mizoguchi;Naomi Eguchi;Kazushi Kimura;Yoshimoto Kiyohara

  • A key role for old yellow enzyme in the metabolism of drugs by Trypanosoma cruzi.

    Bruno Kilunga Kubata;Zakayi Kabututu;Zakayi Kabututu;Tomoyoshi Nozaki;Craig J. Munday

  • COX2 in CNS neural cells mediates mechanical inflammatory pain hypersensitivity in mice

    Daniel Vardeh;Dairong Wang;Michael Costigan;Michael Lazarus

  • Genetic inactivation of glutamate neurons in the rat sublaterodorsal tegmental nucleus recapitulates REM sleep behaviour disorder.

    Sara Valencia Garcia;Sara Valencia Garcia;Paul-Antoine Libourel;Paul-Antoine Libourel;Michael Lazarus;Daniela Grassi

  • Cellular localization of lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase (beta-trace) in the central nervous system of the adult rat.

    Carsten T. Beuckmann;Michael Lazarus;Dmitry Gerashchenko;Akira Mizoguchi

  • Parallel preoptic pathways for thermoregulation.

    Kyoko Yoshida;Xiaodong Li;Xiaodong Li;Georgina Cano;Georgina Cano;Michael Lazarus;Michael Lazarus

  • Role of the basal ganglia in the control of sleep and wakefulness

    Michael Lazarus;Jiang-Fan Chen;Yoshihiro Urade;Yoshihiro Urade;Zhi-Li Huang;Zhi-Li Huang

  • A Genetically Defined Circuit for Arousal from Sleep during Hypercapnia.

    Satvinder Kaur;Joshua L. Wang;Loris Ferrari;Stephen Thankachan

  • The control of sleep and wakefulness by mesolimbic dopamine systems

    Yo Oishi;Michael Lazarus

  • How do the basal ganglia regulate sleep-wake behavior?

    Michael Lazarus;Zhi-Li Huang;Zhi-Li Huang;Jun Lu;Yoshihiro Urade

  • Concurrent and robust regulation of feeding behaviors and metabolism by orexin neurons.

    Ayumu Inutsuka;Azusa Inui;Sawako Tabuchi;Tomomi Tsunematsu

  • Hypothalamic modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mice confers activity-dependent regulation of memory and anxiety-like behavior

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  • Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Neurons Primarily Contribute to Inhibition of Electroencephalogram Delta Activity, Rather Than Inducing Behavioral Wakefulness in Mice.

    Li Chen;Dou Yin;Tian Xiao Wang;Wei Guo

  • Activation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons produces wakefulness through dopamine D2-like receptors in mice.

    Yo Oishi;Yoshiaki Suzuki;Koji Takahashi;Toshiya Yonezawa

  • Striatal adenosine A2A receptor neurons control active-period sleep via parvalbumin neurons in external globus pallidus.

    Xiang-Shan Yuan;Lucun Wang;Hui H Dong;Wei-Min Qu

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhi-Li Huang
Zhi-Li Huang Fudan University
Clifford B. Saper
Clifford B. Saper Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jiang-Fan Chen
Jiang-Fan Chen Boston University
Serge N. Schiffmann
Serge N. Schiffmann Université Libre de Bruxelles
Patrick M. Fuller
Patrick M. Fuller Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Pierre-Hervé Luppi
Pierre-Hervé Luppi Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Patrice Fort
Patrice Fort University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kaspar E. Vogt
Kaspar E. Vogt University of Tsukuba
Tomoyoshi Nozaki
Tomoyoshi Nozaki University of Tokyo
Jun Lu
Jun Lu Zhejiang University

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