Tokunaga Ryota

トクナガリョウタ | Tokunaga Ryota

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Research keywords (4)： Somatosensory , amygdala , Electrophysiology , Pain

Research theme for competitive and other funds (4)：

2023 - 2026 Descending pain control system plasticity and the effects of exercise therapy in rodents with chronic inframatory back pain.
2024 - 2025 皮質-扁桃体神経回路の疼痛調節機構とそのニューロモジュレーション効果
2020 - 2022 Identification of brain networks involved in exacerbation and persistence of chronic low back pain
2018 - 2020 Mechanism of widespread mechanical hyperalgesia in rat model of chronic back pain

Papers (14)：

Ryota Tokunaga, Hideshi Shibata, Mieko Kurosawa. Alteration of serotonin release response in the central nucleus of the amygdala to noxious and non-noxious mechanical stimulation in a neuropathic pain model rat. The Journal of Physiological Sciences. 2024
Ryota Tokunaga, Yukari Takahashi, Sara Touj, Harumi Hotta, Hugues Leblond, Fusao Kato, Mathieu Piché. Attenuation of widespread hypersensitivity to noxious mechanical stimuli by inhibition of GABAergic neurons of the right amygdala in a rat model of chronic back pain. European Journal of Pain. 2022. 26. 4. 911-928
Ryota Tokunaga, Thierry Paquette, Tomokazu Tsurugizawa, Hugues Leblond, Mathieu Piché. Fasting prevents medetomidine-induced hyperglycaemia and alterations of neurovascular coupling in the somatosensory cortex of the rat during noxious stimulation. European Journal of Neuroscience. 2021. 54. 3. 4906-4919
Mariko Sugimoto, Yukari Takahashi, Yae K Sugimura, Ryota Tokunaga, Manami Yajima, Fusao Kato. Active role of the central amygdala in widespread mechanical sensitization in rats with facial inflammatory pain. Pain. 2021. 162. 8. 2273-2286
Thierry Paquette, Ryota Tokunaga, Sara Touj, Hugues Leblond, Mathieu Piché. Regulation of cortical blood flow responses by the nucleus basalis of Meynert during nociceptive processing. Neuroscience research. 2019. 149. 22-28

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MISC (3)：

黒澤美枝子, 徳永亮太, 下重里江. 【痛みと情動】体性感覚刺激による扁桃体中心核セロトニン放出反応. 脳神経内科. 2020. 93. 3. 322-328
黒澤美枝子, 下重里江, 徳永亮太. 自律機能ならびに情動とかかわる脳神経伝達物質放出に及ぼす体性感覚刺激の影響. 理学療法学. 2015. 42. 8. 661-662
黒澤美枝子, 下重里江, 徳永亮太. 【中脳被蓋野の神経学update】脳内報酬系中枢としての中脳腹側被蓋野. 神経内科. 2013. 78. 2. 174-179

Lectures and oral presentations (26)：

慢性疼痛における扁桃体神経可塑的変化
(第77回日本自律神経学会総会 2024)
体性感覚刺激が扁桃体セロトニン放出に及ぼす影響(Effects of cutaneous stimulation on serotonin release in the central nucleus of the amygdala)
(The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2021)
Functional relationships among the sensation, the emotion and the motion from anatomical and physiological view 炎症による痛みネットワーク可塑的変化における扁桃体の役割(The role of the central nucleus of the amygdala in inflammation-induced pain-network plasticity)
(The Journal of Physiological Sciences 2021)
Neurovascular coupling in the somatosensory cortex of the rat under isoflurane and medetomidine anesthesia during noxious stimulation.
(The 44th annual meeting of the Japan neuroscience society/The 1st CJK international meeting 2021)
侵害受容情報特異的な腕傍核-扁桃体投射の functional synaptomics
(第 250 回生理学東京談話会 2020)

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Work history (6)：

2022/10 - 現在 Niigata University of Health and Welfare
2022/09 - 現在 Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Department of Anatomy Adjunct Professor
2022/04 - 2022/09 Niigata University of Health and Welfare Undergraduate School Faculty of Health Sciences
2020/04 - 2022/03 Jikei University
2019/06 - 2020/03 Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Département d'anatomie Postdoctoral Fellow

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Awards (1)：

2015/10 - Japan Society of Neurovegetative Research Japan Society of Neurovegetative Research Outstanding Paper Award

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