Publications
Communications Biology
2026
Early-life maternal care is required for the typical development of calming responses to back stroking
Sachine Yoshida, Akiko Harauma, Toru Moriguchi, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Kimiya Narikiyo, Kazuya Miyanishi, Makoto Kashima, Makoto Wada, Yu Hayashi, Hiromasa Funato
Histochemistry and Cell Biology
2026
Methodological Framework for Chromogenic mRNA Detection Using in situ Hybridization Chain Reaction
Mitsuru Yashiro, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Yusuke Atsumi, Aki Makanae, Hiromasa Funato
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
2025
Nest-Building Behavior in Laboratory Mice: Multifunctional Roles and Neural Mechanisms
Natsuki Tagawa, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Hiromasa Funato
Aging Brain
2024
Sleep-dependent memory consolidation in young and aged brains
Deependra Kumar, Masashi Yanagisawa, Hiromasa Funato
Scientific Reports
2024
Activation of lateral preoptic neurons is associated with nest-building in male mice
Natsuki Tagawa, Keita Mori, Michinori Koebis, Atsu Aiba, Yuichi Iino, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Hiromasa Funato
eNeuro
2024
Whole brain mapping of orexin receptor mRNA expression visualized by branched in situ hybridization chain reaction
Yousuke Tsuneoka, Hiromasa Funato
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
2023
D1-and D2-type dopamine receptors are immunolocalized in pial and layer I astrocytes in the rat cerebral cortex
Satoko Oda, Hiromasa Funato
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2023
SIK3-HDAC4 in the suprachiasmatic nucleus regulates the timing of arousal at the dark onset and circadian period in mice
Fuyuki Asano, Staci J Kim, Tomoyuki Fujiyama, Chika Miyoshi, Noriko Hotta-Hirashima, Nodoka Asama, Kanako Iwasaki, Miyo Kakizaki, Seiya Mizuno, Michihiro Mieda, Fumihiro Sugiyama, Satoru Takahashi, Shoi Shi, Arisa Hirano, Hiromasa Funato, Masashi Yanagisawa
Neuroscience Letters
2023
Characterization of TRPM8-expressing neurons in the adult mouse hypothalamus
Yousuke Tsuneoka, Taichi Nishikawa, Eriko Furube, Kaho Okamoto, Ryoichi Yoshimura, Hiromasa Funato, Seiji Miyata
Nature
2022
Kinase signalling in excitatory neurons regulates sleep quantity and depth
Staci J. Kim, Noriko Hotta-Hirashima, Fuyuki Asano, Tomohiro Kitazono, Kanako Iwasaki, Shinya Nakata, Haruna Komiya, Nodoka Asama, Taeko Matsuoka, Tomoyuki Fujiyama, Aya Ikkyu, Miyo Kakizaki, Satomi Kanno, Jinhwan Choi, Deependra Kumar, Takumi Tsukamoto, Asmaa Elhosainy, Seiya Mizuno, Shinichi Miyazaki, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Fumihiro Sugiyama, Satoru Takahashi, Yu Hayashi, Masafumi Muratani, Qinghua Liu, Chika Miyoshi, Masashi Yanagisawa, Hiromasa Funato
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
2022
Fluorescence quenching by high-power LEDs for highly sensitive fluorescence in situ hybridization
Yousuke Tsuneoka, Hiromasa Funato
iScience
2021
Physical contact in parent-infant relationship and its effect on fostering a feeling of safety
Sachine Yoshida, Hiromasa Funato
Frontiers in Neuroscience
2021
Cellular composition of the preoptic area regulating sleep, parental, and sexual behavior
Yousuke Tsuneoka, Hiromasa Funato
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
2020
Modified in situ hybridization chain reaction using short hairpin DNAs
Yousuke Tsuneoka, Hiromasa Funato
Nature Neuroscience
2020
The claustrum coordinates cortical slow-wave activity
Kimiya Narikiyo, Rumiko Mizuguchi, Ayako Ajima, Momoko Shiozaki, Hiroki Hamanaka, Joshua P. Johansen, Kensaku Mori, Yoshihiro Yoshihara
iScience
2020
Infants show physiological responses specific to parental hugs
Sachine Yoshida, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Takuya Sasatani, Ken Kiyono, Yo Kobayashi, Hiromasa Funato
Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Ser. B, Physical and Biological Sciences
2020
Forward genetic approach for behavioral neuroscience using animal models
Hiromasa Funato
iScience
2019
Differential Roles of Each Orexin Receptor Signaling in Obesity
Miyo Kakizaki, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Kenkichi Takase, Staci J. Kim, Jinhwan Choi, Aya Ikkyu, Manabu Abe, Kenji Sakimura, Masashi Yanagisawa, Hiromasa Funato
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2019
Methodology and theoretical basis of forward genetic screening for sleep/wakefulness in mice
Chika Miyoshi, Staci J. Kim, Takahiro Ezaki, Aya Ikkyu, Noriko Hotta-Hirashima, Satomi Kanno, Miyo Kakizaki, Mana Yamada, Shigeharu Wakana, Masashi Yanagisawa, Hiromasa Funato
Anatomical Science International
2019
Molecular neuroanatomy of the mouse medial preoptic area with reference to parental behavior
Yousuke Tsuneoka
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab
2018
Mechanisms of hepatic steatosis and insulin resistance induced by sleep deprivation in mice
Fumika Shigiyama, Naoki Kumashiro, Hiroyuki Igarashi, Fukumi Yoshikawa, Saori Kakehi, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Hiromasa Funato, Takahisa Hirose
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
2018
Corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 in the anterior cingulate cortex mediates maternal absence-induced attenuation of Transport Response in mouse pups
Sachine Yoshida, Ryuko Ohnishi, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Yuka Yamamoto-Mimura, Reiko Muramatsu, Tadafumi Kato, Hiromasa Funato, Kumi O. Kuroda
Cell Reports
2018
Forebrain Ptf1a is required for sexual differentiation of the brain
Tomoyuki Fujiyama, Satoshi Miyashita, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Kazumasa Kanemaru, Miyo Kakizaki, Satomi Kanno, Yukiko Ishikawa, Mariko Yamashita, Tomoo Owa, Mai Nagaoka, Yoshiya Kawaguchi, Yuchio Yanagawa, Mark A. Magnuson, Masafumi Muratani, Akira Shibuya, Yo-ichi Nabeshima, Masashi Yanagisawa, Hiromasa Funato, Mikio Hoshino
Nature
2018
Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis of the molecular substrates of sleep need
Zhiqiang Wang, Jing Ma, Chika Miyoshi, Yuxin Li, Makito Sato, Yukino Ogawa, Tingting Lou, Chengyuan Ma, Xue Gao, Chiyu Lee, Tomoyuki Fujiyama, Xiaojie Yang, Shuang Zhou, Noriko Hotta-Hirashima, Daniela Klewe-Nebenius, Aya Ikkyu, Miyo Kakizaki, Satomi Kanno, Liqin Cao, Satoru Takahashi, Junmin Peng, Yonghao Yu, Hiromasa Funato, Masashi Yanagisawa, Qinghua Liu
Journal of Comparative Neurology
2018
Immunolocalization of muscarinic M1 receptor in the rat medial prefrontal cortex
Satoko Oda, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Sachine Yoshida, Satomi Adachi-Akahane, Masanori Ito, Masaru Kuroda, Hiromasa Funato
Scientific Reports
2017
Neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in gonadal steroid receptor-expressing cells in medial preoptic area subregions of the male mouse
Yousuke Tsuneoka, Sachine Yoshida, Kenkichi Takase, Satoko Oda, Masaru Kuroda, Hiromasa Funato
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
2017
Moxd1 is a marker for sexual dimorphism in the medial preoptic area, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and medial amygdala
Yousuke Tsuneoka, Shinji Tsukahara, Sachine Yoshida, Kenkichi Takase, Satoko Oda, Masaru Kuroda, Hiromasa Funato
Journal of Physiological Sciences
2016
Sleep as a biological problem: an overview of frontiers in sleep research
Takeshi Kanda, Natsuko Tsujino, Eriko Kuramoto, Yoshimasa Koyama, Etsuo A. Susaki, Sachiko Chikahisa, Hiromasa Funato
Nature
2016
Identification of mutations through dominant screening for obesity using C57BL/6 substrains
Mohammad Sarowar Hossain, Fuyuki Asano, Tomoyuki Fujiyama, Chika Miyoshi, Makito Sato, Aya Ikkyu, Satomi Kanno, Noriko Hotta, Miyo Kakizaki, Takato Honda, Staci J. Kim, Haruna Komiya, Ikuo Miura, Tomohiro Suzuki, Kimio Kobayashi, Hideki Kaneda, Vivek Kumar, Joseph S. Takahashi, Shigeharu Wakana, Hiromasa Funato, Masashi Yanagisawa
Nature
2016
Forward-genetics analysis of sleep in randomly mutagenized mice
Hiromasa Funato, Chika Miyoshi, Tomoyuki Fujiyama, Takeshi Kanda, Makito Sato, Zhiqiang Wang, Jing Ma, Shin Nakane, Jun Tomita, Aya Ikkyu, Miyo Kakizaki, Noriko Hotta-Hirashima, Satomi Kanno, Haruna Komiya, Fuyuki Asano, Takato Honda, Staci J. Kim, Kanako Harano, Hiroki Muramoto, Toshiya Yonezawa, Seiya Mizuno, Shinichi Miyazaki, Linzi Connor, Vivek Kumar, Ikuo Miura, Tomohiro Suzuki, Atsushi Watanabe, Manabu Abe, Fumihiro Sugiyama, Satoru Takahashi, Kenji Sakimura, Yu Hayashi, Qinghua Liu, Kazuhiko Kume, Shigeharu Wakana, Joseph S Takahashi, Masashi Yanagisawa
Obesity
2016
High-fat diet feeding alters olfactory-, social-, and reward-related behaviors of mice independent of obesity
Kenkichi Takase, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Satoko Oda, Masaru Kuroda, Hiromasa Funato
EMBO Journal
2015
Distinct preoptic-BST nuclei dissociate paternal and infanticidal behavior in mice
Yousuke Tsuneoka, Kenichi Tokita, Chihiro Yoshihara, Taiju Amano, Gianluca Esposito, Arthur J Huang, Lily MY Yu, Yuri Odaka, Kazutaka Shinozuka, Thomas J McHugh, Kumi O Kuroda
PLoS One
2014
Meta-analysis of melanin-concentrating hormone signaling-deficient mice on behavioral and metabolic phenotypes
Kenkichi Takase, Kenichi Kikuchi, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Satoko Oda, Masaru Kuroda, Hiromasa Funato
Journal of Comparative Neurology
2014
A subset of thalamocortical projections to the retrosplenial cortex possesses two vesicular glutamate transporter isoforms, VGluT1 and VGluT2, in axon terminals and somata
Satoko Oda, Hiromasa Funato, Fumi Sato, Satomi Adachi-Akahane, Masanori Ito, Kenkichi Takase, Masaru Kuroda
PLoS One
2013
Monoaminergic and neuropeptidergic neurons have distinct expression profiles of histone deacetylases
Kenkichi Takase, Satoko Oda, Masaru Kuroda, Hiromasa Funato
Current Biology
2013
Infant calming responses during maternal carrying in humans and mice
Gianluca Esposito, Sachine Yoshida, Ryuko Ohnishi, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Maria del Carmen Rostagno, Susumu Yokota, Shota Okabe, Kazusaku Kamiya, Mikio Hoshino, Masaki Shimizu, Paola Venuti, Takafumi Kikusui, Tadafumi Kato, Kumi O Kuroda
Journal of Comparative Neurology
2013
Functional, anatomical, and neurochemical differentiation of medial preoptic area subregions in relation to maternal behavior in the mouse
Yousuke Tsuneoka, Teppo Maruyama, Sachine Yoshida, Katsuhiko Nishimori, Tadafumi Kato, Michael Numan, Kumi O Kuroda
PLoS One
2011
Fasting and high-fat diet alter histone deacetylase expression in the medial hypothalamus
Hiromasa Funato, Satoko Oda, Junko Yokofujita, Hiroaki Igarashi, Masaru Kuroda
Brain Research
2010
Dopamine D5 receptor immunoreactivity is differentially distributed in GABAergic interneurons and pyramidal cells in the rat medial prefrontal cortex.
Satoko Oda, Hiromasa Funato, Satomi Adachi-Akahane, Masanori Ito, Akiko Okada, Hiroaki Igarashi, Junko Yokofujita, Masaru Kuroda
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2010
Loss of Goosecoid-like and DiGeorge syndrome critical region 14 in interpeduncular nucleus results in altered regulation of rapid eye movement sleep
Hiromasa Funato, Makito Sato, Christopher M. Sinton, Laurent Gautron, S. Clay Williams, Amber Skach, Joel K. Elmquist, Arthur I. Skoultchi, Masashi Yanagisawa
Cell Metabolism
2009
Enhanced orexin receptor-2 signaling prevents diet-induced obesity and improves leptin sensitivity
Hiromasa Funato, Allen L. Tsai, Jon T. Willie, Yasushi Kisanuki, S. Clay Williams, Takeshi Sakurai, Masashi Yanagisawa