| Body temperature measurements for metabolic phenotyping in mice CW Meyer, Y Ootsuka, AA Romanovsky Frontiers in physiology 8, 520, 2017 | 126 | 2017 |
| Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis heats brain and body as part of the brain-coordinated ultradian basic rest-activity cycle Y Ootsuka, RC de Menezes, DV Zaretsky, A Alimoradian, J Hunt, ... Neuroscience 164 (2), 849-861, 2009 | 115 | 2009 |
| Inhibition of rostral medullary raphe neurons prevents cold-induced activity in sympathetic nerves to rat tail and rabbit ear arteries Y Ootsuka, WW Blessing, RM McAllen Neuroscience letters 357 (1), 58-62, 2004 | 90 | 2004 |
| Activation of 5-HT1A receptors in the medullary raphe reduces cardiovascular changes elicited by acute psychological and inflammatory stresses in rabbits E Nalivaiko, Y Ootsuka, WW Blessing American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative …, 2005 | 83 | 2005 |
| Clozapine reverses hyperthermia and sympathetically mediated cutaneous vasoconstriction induced by 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) in rabbits and rats WW Blessing, B Seaman, NP Pedersen, Y Ootsuka Journal of Neuroscience 23 (15), 6385-6391, 2003 | 82 | 2003 |
| Leptin injection into white adipose tissue elevates renal sympathetic nerve activity dose-dependently through the afferent nerves pathway in rats M Tanida, S Iwashita, Y Ootsuka, N Terui, M Suzuki Neuroscience letters 293 (2), 107-110, 2000 | 82 | 2000 |
| Control of cutaneous blood flow by central nervous system Y Ootsuka, M Tanaka Temperature 2 (3), 392-405, 2015 | 76 | 2015 |
| Fever response to intravenous prostaglandin E2 is mediated by the brain but does not require afferent vagal signaling Y Ootsuka, WW Blessing, AA Steiner, AA Romanovsky American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative …, 2008 | 74 | 2008 |
| Comparison between two rat sympathetic pathways activated in cold defense Y Ootsuka, RM McAllen American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative …, 2006 | 69 | 2006 |
| Heating and eating: Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis precedes food ingestion as part of the ultradian basic rest–activity cycle in rats W Blessing, M Mohammed, Y Ootsuka Physiology & behavior 105 (4), 966-974, 2012 | 66 | 2012 |
| Direct measurement of renal sympathetic nervous activity in high-fat diet-related hypertensive rats S Iwashita, M Tanida, N Terui, Y Ootsuka, M Shu, D Kang, M Suzuki Life sciences 71 (5), 537-546, 2002 | 65 | 2002 |
| Timing of activities of daily life is jaggy: how episodic ultradian changes in body and brain temperature are integrated into this process W Blessing, Y Ootsuka Temperature 3 (3), 371-383, 2016 | 59 | 2016 |
| Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis contributes to emotional hyperthermia in a resident rat suddenly confronted with an intruder rat M Mohammed, Y Ootsuka, W Blessing American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative …, 2014 | 59 | 2014 |
| Selective blockade of 5-HT2A receptors attenuates the increased temperature response in brown adipose tissue to restraint stress in rats Y Ootsuka, WW Blessing, E Nalivaiko Stress 11 (2), 125-133, 2008 | 59 | 2008 |
| Thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue: increase by 5-HT2A receptor activation and decrease by 5-HT1A receptor activation in conscious rats Y Ootsuka, WW Blessing Neuroscience letters 395 (2), 170-174, 2006 | 58 | 2006 |
| 5‐Hydroxytryptamine 1A receptors inhibit cold‐induced sympathetically mediated cutaneous vasoconstriction in rabbits Y Ootsuka, WW Blessing The Journal of physiology 552 (1), 303-314, 2003 | 57 | 2003 |
| Clozapine reverses increased brown adipose tissue thermogenesis induced by 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine and by cold exposure in conscious rats WW Blessing, A Zilm, Y Ootsuka Neuroscience 141 (4), 2067-2073, 2006 | 56 | 2006 |
| Spinal 5-HT2A receptors regulate cutaneous sympathetic vasomotor outflow in rabbits and rats; relevance for cutaneous vasoconstriction elicited by MDMA (3, 4 … Y Ootsuka, E Nalivaiko, WW Blessing Brain research 1014 (1-2), 34-44, 2004 | 53 | 2004 |
| Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate the somato-sympathetic inhibitory reflex response via GABA receptors in the rostral ventrolateral medulla N Masuda, Y Ootsuka, N Terui Journal of the autonomic nervous system 40 (2), 91-98, 1992 | 52 | 1992 |
| Activation of 5-HT1A receptors in rostral medullary raphe inhibits cutaneous vasoconstriction elicited by cold exposure in rabbits Y Ootsuka, WW Blessing Brain research 1073, 252-261, 2006 | 49 | 2006 |
