Original Articles
Oku Y Okada M. Periodic breathing and dysphagia associated with a very localized lateral medullary infarction. Respirology, 13: 608-610, 2008.

Oku Y, Kimura N, Masumiya H, Okada Y. Spatiotemporal organization of frog respiratory neurons visualized on the ventral medullary surface. Respir Physiol Neurobiol, 161: 281-290, 2008.

Okada Y, Kuwana S, Masumiya H, Kimura N, Chen Z, and Oku Y. Chemosensitive neuronal network organization in the ventral medulla analyzed by dynamic voltage-imaging. Adv Exp Biol Med, 605: 353-358, 2008.

Takeda H, Tsujita J, Kaya M, Takemura M, Oku Y. Differences between the physiologic and psychologic effects of aromatherapy body treatment. J Altern Complement Med. 14: 655-61, 2008.

Oku Y, Okabe A, Hayakawa T, Okada Y. A respiratory neuron group in the high cervical spinal cord discovered by optical imaging. Neuroreport 19, 1739-1743, 2008.

     Conference Presentations
Kawai, S., Oku, Y., Okada, Y., Miwakeichi, F., and Ishiguro, M. (2008) Parametric modeling approach to optical imaging data finds close input output relation between the central neuronal activity and the respiratory motor output in the neonatal rat brainstem. Conference on Computational Neuroscience 2008, 2.20-21, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.

Miwakeichi, F., Oku, Y., Okada, Y., Kawai, S., Tamura, Y., Ishiguro, M. (2008) Innovation approach to detect the respiratory related neuronal activity in the brainstem based on optical imaging data. 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 6.15-19, Melbourne, Australia.

Oku, Y., Miwakeichi, F., Kawai, S., Okada, Y., Ishiguro, M, Tamura, Y. (2008) Autoregressive and parametric modeling approaches to optical imaging data characterize the dynamic process of the respiratory central pattern generator in the neonatal rat brainstem. 6th FENS Forum of European Neuroscience, 7.12-16, Geneva, Switzerland.

Shinozaki, Y., Okada, Y., Aoyama, R., Nakamura, M., Yokota, S., Yasui, Y., Oku, Y., Chiba, K., Toyama, Y. (2008) Voltage-imaging analysis of the respiratory neuronal responses to CO2 at the level of the phrenic nucleus in the rat spinal cord. XVIIth International Society for Arterial Chemoreception (ISAC) Meeting, 7.1-5, Valladolid, Spain.

Lal, A., Oku, Y., Fresemann, J., Hülsmann, S., Okada, Y., Miwakeichi, F.,  Kawai, S., Tamura, Y., Ishiguro, M. (2008) Desynchronization of bursting neurons in the preBötzinger complex may produce quantal slowing of the respiratory rhythm. The International Discussion Forum & the 242nd Tokyo Discussion Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, 10.26, Tokyo, Japan.

Oku, Y., Okabe, A., Hayakawa, T., Okada, Y. (2008) A novel respiratory neuron group in the high cervical spinal cord discovered by optical imaging. The International Discussion Forum & the 242nd Tokyo Discussion Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, 10.26, Tokyo, Japan.

Koshiya, N., Oku, Y., Okada, Y. (2008) Chaotic dynamics within a breath: Recruitment of single inspirations imaged in the pre-Bötzinger complex (pBC) of the rat breathing slice. The 38^th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 11.15-19, Washington DC, U.S.A.

Oku Y., Miwakeichi, F., Kawai, S., Okada, Y., Tamura, Y., Ishiguro, M. (2008) Assumption free and structural methods that characterize dynamics of optically recorded respiratory neuronal activity without averaging. International Symposium on Respiratory Control 12.1-4, St Maximin, France.

Kimura, N., Oku, Y., Okada, Y. (2008) Fictive intermittent lung ventilation in the isolated brainstem preparation of the aquatic frog, Xenopus laevis. 第85回日本生理学会大会，3.25-27，東京．

Masumiya, H., Okada, Y., Oku, Y. (2008) Dynamic imaging analysis of the pacemaker activity withing the rabbit sino-atrial node. 第85回日本生理学会大会，3.25-27，東京．

Shinozaki, Y., Okada, Y., Aoyama, R., Nakamura, M., Oku, Y., Chiba, K., Toyama, Y. (2008) Spatiotemporal activity profile of the phrenic motoneuron population analyzed by voltage-imaging in the newborn rat. 第85回日本生理学会大会，3.25-27，東京．

Okada, Y., Shinozaki, Y., Aoyama, R., Nakamura, M., Oku, Y., Chiba, K., Toyama, Y. (2008) Dynamic functional anatomy of the phrenic motoneuron population: analysis by voltage-imaging in the neonatal rat brainstem-spinal cord preparation. 第48回日本呼吸器学会学術講演会(English session)，6.15-17, 神戸.

Miwakeichi, F., Oku, Y., Okada, Y., Kawai, S., Tamura, Y., Ishiguro, M. (2008) Innovation approach to detect the respiratory related neuronal activity in the brainstem based on optical imaging data. 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 6.15-19, Melbourne, Australia.

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