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Overview

Shigemi Mori is affiliated with the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan. Their research contributions span multiple areas within biology, focusing particularly on topics related to cephalopods, marine biology, planarian biology, electrostimulation, neurobiology, and insect physiology.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Model systems for discovering evolutionary singularity of bilaterian physiological regulation: lessons from studies on simple/primitive flatworms, 2024, Biophysics and Physicobiology
  • Panic findings in the gastrointestinal tract area, 2025, Choonpa Igaku

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Aoshi Kobayashi
  • Hirotaka Sakamoto
  • Mayuko Hamada
  • Tatsuya Sakamoto
  • Ryô Nakamura

Shigemi Mori has published primarily in the following venues:

  • Biophysics and Physicobiology
  • Choonpa Igaku

Their research fields include subfields such as:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

The main topics of Mori's work are:

  • Cephalopods and Marine Biology
  • Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Best Publications

  • Integration of posture and locomotion in acute decerebrate cats and in awake, freely moving cats

    Shigemi Mori

  • Locomotor role of the corticoreticular-reticulospinal-spinal interneuronal system.

    Kiyoji Matsuyama;Futoshi Mori;Katsumi Nakajima;Trevor Drew

  • Stabilization of body position as the main task of postural regulation.

    V S Gurfinkel;M I Lipshits;S Mori;K E Popov

  • Site-specific postural and locomotor changes evoked in awake, freely moving intact cats by stimulating the brainstem

    S. Mori;T. Sakamoto;Y. Ohta;K. Takakusaki

  • Stimulation of a Restricted Region in the Midline Cerebellar White Matter Evokes Coordinated Quadrupedal Locomotion in the Decerebrate Cat

    Shigemi Mori;Toshihiro Matsui;Bunya Kuze;Mitsuru Asanome

  • Setting and resetting of level of postural muscle tone in decerebrate cat by stimulation of brain stem.

    S Mori;K Kawahara;T Sakamoto;M Aoki

  • Medullary reticulospinal tract mediating the generalized motor inhibition in cats: parallel inhibitory mechanisms acting on motoneurons and on interneuronal transmission in reflex pathways.

    K Takakusaki;J Kohyama;K Matsuyama;S Mori

  • Electrical and chemical stimulations of the pontine micturition center.

    Kimio Sugaya;Kiyoji Matsuyama;Kaoru Takakusaki;Shigemi Mori

  • Single medullary reticulospinal neurons exert postsynaptic inhibitory effects via inhibitory interneurons upon alpha-motoneurons innervating cat hindlimb muscles

    K. Takakusaki;Y. Ohta;S. Mori

  • Lumbar commissural interneurons with reticulospinal inputs in the cat: morphology and discharge patterns during fictive locomotion.

    Kiyoji Matsuyama;Katsumi Nakajima;Futoshi Mori;Mamoru Aoki

  • Discharge properties of medullary reticulospinal neurons during postural changes induced by intrapontine injections of carbachol, atropine and serotonin, and their functional linkages to hindlimb motoneurons in cats.

    Kaoru Takakusaki;Naotake Shimoda;Kiyoji Matsuyama;Shigemi Mori

  • Ascending and descending projections of the nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis in the cat demonstrated by the anterograde neural tracer, Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin (PHA-L).

    Kiyoji Matsuyama;Yoshihiro Ohta;Shigemi Mori

  • Morphology of single pontine reticulospinal axons in the lumbar enlargement of the cat: a study using the anterograde tracer PHA-L.

    Kiyoji Matsuyama;Futoshi Mori;Bunya Kuze;Shigemi Mori

  • Generation of spontaneous respiratory rhythm in high spinal cats.

    Mamoru Aoki;Shigemi Mori;Koichi Kawahara;Hiroaki Watanabe

  • Cerebellar‐induced Locomotion: Reticulospinal Control of Spinal Rhythm Generating Mechanism in Catsa

    Shigemi Mori;Toshihiro Matsui;Bunya Kuze;Mitsuru Asanome

  • Supraspinal sites that induce locomotion in the vertebrate central nervous system.

    Shigemi Mori;Kiyoji Matsuyama;Futoshi Mori;Katsumi Nakajima

  • Neuronal constituents of postural and locomotor control systems and their interactions in cats.

    S Mori;K Matsuyama;J Kohyama;Y Kobayashi

  • Developmental changes in the serotoninergic innervation of hindlimb extensor motoneurons in neonatal rats.

    Hajime Tanaka;Shigemi Mori;Hiroshi Kimura

  • Sneeze-evoking region within the brainstem.

    S Nonaka;T Unno;Y Ohta;S Mori

  • Fastigiofugal projection to the brainstem nuclei in the cat: an anterograde PHA-L tracing study

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  • Termination mode and branching patterns of reticuloreticular and reticulospinal fibers of the nucleus reticularis pontis oralis in the cat: an anterograde PHA-L tracing study

    Kiyoji Matsuyama;Yoshifumi Kobayashi;Kaoru Takakusaki;Shigemi Mori

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaoru Takakusaki
Kaoru Takakusaki Asahikawa Medical University
Masahiko Inase
Masahiko Inase Kindai University
Atsushi Nambu
Atsushi Nambu The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Yat Li
Yat Li University of California, Santa Cruz
Grigori N. Orlovsky
Grigori N. Orlovsky Karolinska Institute
Hideo Tsukada
Hideo Tsukada Hamamatsu Photonics (Japan)
Trevor Drew
Trevor Drew University of Montreal
Yu. I. Arshavsky
Yu. I. Arshavsky University of California, San Diego
Árpád Dobolyi
Árpád Dobolyi Eötvös Loránd University
Victor S. Gurfinkel
Victor S. Gurfinkel Oregon Health & Science University

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