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Kondo Y, Suzuki K, Sakuma Y: Estrogen alleviates cognitive dysfunction following transient brain
ischemia in ovariectomized gerbils. Neuroscience Letters 238(1/2):45-48, 1997.
Kato M, Sakuma Y: Regulation by GH releasing hormone and somatostatin of a Na+ current in the
primary cultured rat somatotroph. Endocrinology 138(12): 5096-5100, 1997.
Parhar IS, Sakuma Y: Regulation of forebrain and midbrain GnRH neurons in juvenile teleosts.
Fish Physiology & Biochemistry 17: 81-84, 1997.
Kondo Y, Sachs BD, Sakuma Y: Importance of the medial amygdala in rat penile erection evoked by
remote stimuli from estrous females. Behavioural Brain Research 88(2): 153-160, 1997.
Sakuma Y, Suga S: GnRH and sexual behavior. In: GnRH Neurons: Gene to Behavior, ed by I
Parhar, Y Sakuma, pp.389-400, Brain Shuppan, Tokyo, 1997.
Sakuma Y: Neural control of reproductive behavior: A bird's eye view. In: Neural Control of
Reproduction: Physiology and Behavior, ed by K-I Maeda, H Tsukamura, A Yokoyama, pp.155-
164, Japan Scientific Societies Press, Tokyo/S Karger, Basel, 1997.
Suga S, Akaishi T, Sakuma Y: GnRH Inhibits neuronal activity in the ventral tegmental area of the
estrogen-primed ovariectomized rat. Neuroscience Letters 228(1): 13-16, 1997.
Nakano K, Suga S, Kondo Y, Sato T, Sakuma Y: Estrogen-excitable forebrain projections to the
ventral premammillary nucleus of the female rat. Neuroscience Letters 225(1): 17-20, 1997.
Parhar IS, Soga T, Sakuma Y: In situ hybridization of two differentially expressed GnRH genes
following estrogen and triiodothyronine treatment in the brains of juvenile tilapia (cichlid), Neuroscience Letters 218(1): 135-138, 1996.
Orikasa C, Mizuno K, Sakuma Y and Hayashi S, Exogenous estrogen acts differently on production
of estrogen receptor in the preoptic area and the mediobasal hypothalamic nuclei in the newborn rat. Neuroscience Research 25 (3): 247-254, 1996.
Sakuma Y, Differential control of proceptive and receptive components of female rat sexual behavior
by the preoptic area. Japanese Journal of Physiology 45(3): 211-228, 1995.
Takeo T and Sakuma Y, Diametrically opposite effects of estrogen on the excitability of female rat
medial and lateral preoptic neurons with axons to the midbrain locomotor region. Neuroscience Research 22(1): 73-80, 1995.
Takeo T, Kudo M and Sakuma Y, Stria terminalis conveys facilitatory estrogen effect on female rat
lordosis reflex. Neuroscience Letters 184(2): 79-81, 1995.
Sakuma Y, Estrogen-induced changes in the neural impulse flow from the female rat preoptic region.
Hormones and Behavior 28(4): 438-444, 1994.
Yoshida M, Suga S and Sakuma Y, Estrogen reduces the excitability of the female rat medial
amygdala afferents from the medial preoptic area but not those from the lateral septum. Experimental Brain Research 101(1): 1-7, 1994.
Hoshina Y, Takeo T, Nakano K, Sato T and Sakuma Y, Axon-sparing lesion of the preoptic area
enhances receptivity and diminishes proceptivity among components of female rat sexual behavior.
Behavioural Brain Research 61(2): 197-204, 1994.
Suga S and Sakuma Y, Dihydrotestosterone-sensitive neurons in the male rat ventromedial
hypothalamus. Brain Research Bulletin 33(2): 205-210, 1994.
Sakamoto Y, Suga S and Sakuma Y, Estrogen-sensitive neurons in the female rat ventral tegmental
area: A dual route for the hormone action. Journal of Neurophysiology 70(4): 1469-1475, 1993.
Hasegawa T and Sakuma Y, Developmental effect of androgen on estrogen sensitivity of the rat
preoptic neurons with axons to the ventral midbrain. Brain Research 611(1): 1-6, 1993.
Takeo T, Chiba Y and Sakuma Y, Suppression of the lordosis reflex of female rats by efferents of the
medial preoptic area. Physiology and Behavior 53(5): 831-838, 1993.
Sakuma Y, Brain control of female sexual behavior. In: Brain Control of the Reproductive System,
ed by A Yokoyama, Japan Scientific Societies Press, Tokyo/CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp.141-163, 1992.
Sakuma Y, Nerve growth factor-mediated behavioral, but not endocrine, defeminization of the
neonatal rat. In: Molecular Basis of Neuronal Connectivity, ed by M Satake, K Obata, H Hatanaka, E Miyamoto, T Okuyama, Kohkodo, Niigata, pp.91-93, 1992.

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