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Fumimasa Amaya

Researcher at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

Publications -  92
Citations -  5175

Fumimasa Amaya is an academic researcher from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dorsal root ganglion & Hyperalgesia. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 85 publications receiving 4730 citations. Previous affiliations of Fumimasa Amaya include Harvard University.

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Nociceptors are interleukin-1beta sensors

TL;DR: It is shown that the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-1 β (IL-1β), in addition to producing inflammation and inducing synthesis of several nociceptor sensitizers, also rapidly and directly activates nocICEptors to generate action potentials and induce pain hypersensitivity.
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Neurotrophins: Peripherally and centrally acting modulators of tactile stimulus-induced inflammatory pain hypersensitivity

TL;DR: BDNF, by virtue of its nerve growth factor regulation in sensory neurons including novel expression in A fibers, has a role as a central modulator of tactile stimulus-induced inflammatory pain hypersensitivity.
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Contributions of high mobility group box protein in experimental and clinical acute lung injury

TL;DR: Examination of the putative role of high mobility group box (HMGB) protein in the pathogenesis of acute lung injury suggests that it also plays a physiologic role in the lung and extracellular HMGB1 expression in normal airways is noteworthy and suggests this protein may play a key role in clinical and experimental ALI.
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The Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Nav1.9 Is an Effector of Peripheral Inflammatory Pain Hypersensitivity

TL;DR: Nav1.9 is, it is concluded, an effector of the hypersensitivity produced by multiple inflammatory mediators on nociceptor peripheral terminals and therefore plays a key role in mediating peripheral sensitization.