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Overview

Toshiya Funabashi is affiliated with St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Japan. Their research focuses primarily on Medicine, with significant contributions to related fields such as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work encompasses several subfields, including Physiology, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Oncology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. The main topics covered in their research are:

  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Muscle metabolism and nutrition
  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments

Funabashi has published in various academic journals, with frequent appearances in these venues:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Skeletal Muscle
  • Brain Research
  • The FASEB Journal

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Ketogenic diet feeding improves aerobic metabolism property in extensor digitorum longus muscle of sedentary male rats, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Transcription factor signal transducer and activator of transcription 6 (STAT6) is an inhibitory factor for adult myogenesis, 2021, Skeletal Muscle
  • Sex differences in pain-induced modulation of corticotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the dorsolateral part of the stria terminalis in mice, 2021, Brain Research
  • Four-week Ketogenic Diet Improves Aerobic Metabolic Capacity in Extensor Digitrum Longus Muscle of Sedentary Male Rats, 2020, The FASEB Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research include Yuji Ogura, Mitsutoshi Kurosaka, Chiaki Kakehashi, Toshinori Yoshihara, and Ryo Kakigi. These coauthors have jointly contributed to multiple publications, reflecting collaborative efforts in their areas of study.

Best Publications

  • Intracerebroventricular administration of ghrelin rapidly suppresses pulsatile luteinizing hormone secretion in ovariectomized rats.

    Miyako Furuta;Toshiya Funabashi;Fukuko Kimura

  • Obese gene expression: reduction by fasting and stimulation by insulin and glucose in lean mice, and persistent elevation in acquired (diet-induced) and genetic (yellow agouti) obesity.

    Tooru M. Mizuno;Hugo Bergen;Toshiya Funabashi;Steven P. Kleopoulos

  • Sex differences in the basolateral amygdala: the extracellular levels of serotonin and dopamine, and their responses to restraint stress in rats.

    Dai Mitsushima;Kaori Yamada;Kenkichi Takase;Toshiya Funabashi

  • Changes in neurotransmitter levels and proinflammatory cytokine mRNA expressions in the mice olfactory bulb following nanoparticle exposure.

    Tin-Tin-Win-Shwe;Dai Mitsushima;Shoji Yamamoto;Atsushi Fukushima

  • Naloxone increases the frequency of the electrical activity of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone pulse generator in long-term ovariectomized rats.

    Fukuko Kimura;Masugi Nishihara;Hiromi Hiruma;Toshiya Funabashi

  • Exposure to bisphenol A during gestation and lactation causes loss of sex difference in corticotropin-releasing hormone-immunoreactive neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis of rats

    Toshiya Funabashi;Maiko Kawaguchi;Miyako Furuta;Atsushi Fukushima

  • Changes in estrogenic regulation of estrogen receptor α mRNA and progesterone receptor mRNA in the female rat hypothalamus during aging: an in situ hybridization study

    Toshiya Funabashi;Steven P Kleopoulos;Philip J Brooks;Philip J Brooks;Fukuko Kimura

  • Gonadotropin-releasing hormone exhibits circadian rhythm in phase with arginine-vasopressin in co-cultures of the female rat preoptic area and suprachiasmatic nucleus.

    T. Funabashi;K. Shinohara;D. Mitsushima;F. Kimura

  • GABAergic modulation of gap junction communication in slice cultures of the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus.

    K. Shinohara;H. Hiruma;T. Funabashi;F. Kimura

  • Differential gene expression of TGF-β isoforms and TGF-β receptors during the first trimester of pregnancy at the human maternal-fetal interface

    Noriko Ando;Fumiki Hirahara;Jun Fukushima;Susumu Kawamoto

  • Intraventricular injection of antiserum to nerve growth factor delays the development of amygdaloid kindling

    Toshiya Funabashi;Hiromi Sasaki;Fukuko Kimura

  • GABA release in the medial preoptic area of cyclic female rats.

    D Mitsushima;T.-T.-W Shwe;T Funabashi;K Shinohara

  • Pulsatile Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Secretion Is an Inherent Function of GnRH Neurons, as Revealed by the Culture of Medial Olfactory Placode Obtained from Embryonic Rats

    Toshiya Funabashi;Shigeo Daikoku;Kazuyuki Shinohara;Fukuko Kimura

  • Suppressive action of orexin A on pulsatile luteinizing hormone secretion is potentiated by a low dose of estrogen in ovariectomized rats

    Miyako Furuta;Toshiya Funabashi;Fukuko Kimura

  • Effects of gap junction blocker on vasopressin and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide rhythms in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus in vitro.

    Kazuyuki Shinohara;Toshiya Funabashi;Dai Mitushima;Fukuko Kimura

  • Intracerebroventricular injection of arginine-vasopressin V1 receptor antagonist attenuates the surge of luteinizing hormone and prolactin secretion in proestrous rats.

    Toshiya Funabashi;Sachiko Aiba;Akane Sano;Kazuyuki Shinohara

  • Effect of estrogen on the expression of Cry1 and Cry2 mRNAs in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of female rats.

    Takahiro J Nakamura;Kazuyuki Shinohara;Kazuyuki Shinohara;Toshiya Funabashi;Fukuko Kimura

  • Temporal profiles of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide precursor mRNA and its receptor mRNA in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus

    Kazuyuki Shinohara;Toshiya Funabashi;Fukuko Kimura

  • Gonadal steroids maintain 24 h acetylcholine release in the hippocampus: organizational and activational effects in behaving rats.

    Dai Mitsushima;Kenkichi Takase;Toshiya Funabashi;Fukuko Kimura

  • Two Subgroups of Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Neurons Control Gonadotropin Secretion in Rats.

    Fukuko Kimura;Toshiya Funabashi

  • Effects of glucose and related substrates on the recovery of the electrical activity of gonadotropin-releasing hormone pulse generator which is decreased by insulin-induced hypoglycemia in the estrogen-primed ovariectomized rat.

    Deqin He;Toshiya Funabashi;Akane Sano;Tsuguo Uemura

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald W. Pfaff
Donald W. Pfaff Rockefeller University
Yoshio Goshima
Yoshio Goshima Yokohama City University
Manabu Abe
Manabu Abe Niigata University
Masako Okawa
Masako Okawa Shiga University of Medical Science
Yoshimi Misu
Yoshimi Misu Yokohama City University
Kenji Sakimura
Kenji Sakimura Niigata University
Shigenobu Shibata
Shigenobu Shibata Waseda University
Lee-Ming Kow
Lee-Ming Kow Rockefeller University

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