Takaaki Mizuguchi

Dr. Takaaki Mizuguchi

Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan
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Academic Career Length

18Years (2009-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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17 February 2016 in ChemMedChem
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NONami Ohashi
Nami Ohashi
SHShigeyoshi Harada
Shigeyoshi Harada
TMTakaaki Mizuguchi
Takaaki Mizuguchi
YIYu Irahara
Yu Irahara
YYYuko Yamada
Yuko Yamada
Hirokazu TamamuraHirokazu Tamamura
Hirokazu Tamamura

1 June 2009 in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
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TMTakaaki Mizuguchi
Takaaki Mizuguchi
HUHiromasa Uchimura
Hiromasa Uchimura
TKTaeko Kakizawa
Taeko Kakizawa
TKTooru Kimura
Tooru Kimura
SYShigeyuki Yokoyama
Shigeyuki Yokoyama
KSKazuki Saito
Kazuki Saito

1 January 2016 in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
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TMTakaaki Mizuguchi
Takaaki Mizuguchi
SHShigeyoshi Harada
Shigeyoshi Harada
TMTomoyuki Miura
Tomoyuki Miura
NONami Ohashi
Nami Ohashi
TNTetsuo Narumi
Tetsuo Narumi
Hirokazu TamamuraHirokazu Tamamura
Hirokazu Tamamura

1 October 2012 in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
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TMTakaaki Mizuguchi
Takaaki Mizuguchi
NONaho Ohara
Naho Ohara
MIMika Iida
Mika Iida
RNRyunosuke Ninomiya
Ryunosuke Ninomiya
SWShinji Wada
Shinji Wada
KAKenichi Akaji
Kenichi Akaji

4 October 2021 in Cells
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KMKanako Miyano
Kanako Miyano
YYYuki Yoshida
Yuki Yoshida
SHShigeto Hirayama
Shigeto Hirayama
HTHideki Takahashi
Hideki Takahashi
HOHaruka Ono
Haruka Ono
YUYasuhito Uezono
Yasuhito Uezono
Oxytocin (OT) influences various physiological functions such as uterine contractions, maternal/social behavior, and analgesia. Opioid signaling pathways are involved in one of the analgesic mechanisms of OT. We previously showed that OT acts as a positive allosteric modulator (PAM) and enhances μ-opioid receptor (MOR) activity. In this study, which focused on other opioid receptor (OR) subtypes, we investigated whether OT influences opioid signaling pathways as a PAM for δ-OR (DOR) or κ-OR (KOR) using human embryonic kidney-293 cells expressing human DOR or KOR, respectively. The CellKeyTM results showed that OT enhanced impedance induced by endogenous/exogenous KOR agonists on KOR-expressing cells. OT did not affect DOR activity induced by endogenous/exogenous DOR agonists. OT potentiated the KOR agonist-induced Gi/o protein-mediated decrease in intracellular cAMP, but did not affect the increase in KOR internalization caused by the KOR agonists dynorphin A and (-)-U-50488 hydrochloride (U50488). OT did not bind to KOR orthosteric binding sites and did not affect the binding affinities of dynorphin A and U50488 for KOR. These results suggest that OT is a PAM of KOR and MOR and enhances G protein signaling without affecting β-arrestin signaling. Thus, OT has potential as a specific signaling-biased PAM of KOR.

29 January 2017 in Peptide Science
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TMTakaaki Mizuguchi
Takaaki Mizuguchi
NONami Ohashi
Nami Ohashi
DMDaichi Matsumoto
Daichi Matsumoto
CHChie Hashimoto
Chie Hashimoto
WNWataru Nomura
Wataru Nomura
Hirokazu TamamuraHirokazu Tamamura
Hirokazu Tamamura