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The role of lipid mediators in the reproductive organs: synthesis and action of steroids, eicosanoids and lysophospholipids. Ovarian feedback and pituitary intracellular molecular mechanisms regulating the reproductive cycle, ovulation and pregnancy. Local action of the neuropeptide GnRH in testes and retractile mammary glands.

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Research Achievements

Academic paper]
・Takeda T, Shirasaka M, Sugiyama M, Terashima R, Kawaminami M, *Kurusu S. 2018. In vivo evidence for possible up-regulating roles of lysophosphatidic acid around fertilization in rats. regulating roles of lysophosphatidic acid around fertilization in rats. J. Vet. Med. Sci. 80(1):41-48.
・Fungbun N, Doungrut T, Terashima R, Kurusu S, Kawaminami M. 2018. Annexin A1 is a novel target gene of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) in LβT2 gonadotrope cells. J. Vet. Med. Sci. 80(1):116-124.
・Doungrut T, Fungbun N, Laoharatchatathanin T, Terashima R, Kurusu S, Kawaminami M. 2018. Effects of gondadotropin-releasing hormone agonist on human chorionic gonadotropin activity in granulosa cells of immature female rats. Reprod. Dev. 64(2):129-134: 2018
・Funahashi R, Sakamoto T, Taguchi N, Naiki R, Terashima R, Kawaminami M, *Kurusu S. 2017. Possible role of PPAR? in the negative regulation of ovulatory cascade and luteal development in rats. J. Vet. Med. Sci. 79:1043-1051.
・Hasegawa R, Kiyota H, Kurusu S, Yoshikawa Y, Orino K. 2017. Change in anti-ferritin autoantibody during pregnancy in rats . EMS Vet. Sci. J. 1(1):001.
・Rieanrakwong D, Laoharatchatathanin T, Terashima R, Yonezawa T, Kurusu S, Hasegawa Y, Kawaminami M. 2016. Prolactin suppression of gonadotropin-releasing hormone initiation of mammary gland involution in female rats. Endocrinology Endocrinology 157:2750-2758.
・Terashima R, Laoharatchatathanin T, Kurusu S, Kawaminami M. 2016. Augmentation of gonadotropin- releasing hormone receptor expression in the releasing hormone receptor expression in the post-lactational mammary tissues of rats. J. Reprod. Dev. 62:495-499.
・ Satoh H, Yoshio H, Kawaminami M, *Kurusu S. 2016. Type-dependent difference in Fas expression and phagocytes distribution in rat corpora lutea during Natural regression: An immunohistochemical evidence. J. Vet. Med. Sci. 78:1771-1777.
・Laoharatchatathanin T, Terashima R, Yonezawa T, Kurusu S, Kawaminami M. 2015. Augmentation of metastin/kisspeptin mRNA expression by the proestrous luteinizing hormone Surge in granulosa cells of rats: implications for luteinization. Biol. Reprod. 93:15.
・Yonezawa T, Watanabe A, Kurusu S, Kawaminami M. 2015. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone is a prerequisite for the constitutive expression of pituitary annexin A5. Endocr. J. 62:1127-1132 .
[Review and others]
・Kurume, Shiro 2017. Maintenance of pregnancy and regulation of parturition by autotaxin. BIO Clinica, Chronic Inflammation and Disease "Obstetrics and Gynecology and Inflammation" 6(4);139- 144.
・Kurushishiro: Analysis of the production and action of lipid mediators during reproduction and pathogenesis 25 Years of Progress: 25th Anniversary of Nakayama Science Foundation pp239-240. October 2016
[Publications and Translations]
-Shiro Kururu Neurophysiology, Chapters 1-3 2020. Dukes Veterinary Physiology, 13th Edition (General Supervisor) Koetsu Suzuki p3-39.(Translation, Contribution) Gakusensha
・T. Tanaka and S. Kururu: Implantation, Maintenance of Pregnancy and Parturition, Chapter 5, Section 5 2020. Reproductive Biology, 2nd Edition, The Japanese Society of Reproductive Biology (ed.) p246-262. Interzoo

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