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UMBC Biological Sciences
Tatsuya Ogura
Contact Information
Office: BS 209
Phone: 410-455-2285
Tatsuya Ogura
Research Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral, Colorado State University, 2000; Ph.D., Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 1993
Selected publications

Lin W, Ogura T, Margolskee RF, Finger TE, Restrepo D. TRPM5-expressing solitary chemosensory cells respond to odorous irritants. J Neurophysiol. (2008) in press.
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Ogura T, Margolskee RF, Tallini YN, Shui B, Kotlikoff MI, Lin W.   
Immuno-localization of vesicular acetylcholine transporter in mouse taste cells and adjacent nerve fibers: indication of acetylcholine release. Cell Tissue Res. (2007) Oct;330(1):17-28. Epub 2007 Aug 18.

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Kataoka S, Toyono T, Seta Y, Ogura T, Toyoshima K. Expression of P2Y1 receptors in rat taste buds.  Histochem. Cell Biol. (2004) 121:419-426.

Warashina A, Ogura T . Modeling of stimulation-secretion coupling in a chromaffin cell. Pfluger Arch Eur J Physiol. (2004) 448:161-174
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Pérez CA, Margolskee RF, Kinnamon SC, Ogura T. (2003) Making sense with TRP channels: Store-operated calcium entry and the ion channel Trpm5 in taste receptor cells.  Cell Calcium 33:541-549.
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Lin W, Ogura T, Kinnamon SC. Responses to di-sodium guanosine 5’-monophosphate and monosodium L-glutamate in taste receptor cells of rat fungiform papillae. J. Neurophysiol. (2003) 89:1434-1439.
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Lin W, Ogura T, Kinnamon SC. Acid-activated cation currents in rat vallate taste receptor cells.  J. Neurophysiol. (2002) 88:133-141
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Ogura T, Margolskee RF, Kinnamon SC. Taste receptor cell responses to the bitter stimulus denatonium involve Ca2+ influx via store-operated channels.  J. Neurophysiol. (2002) 87:3152-3155
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Ogura T. Acetylcholine increases intracellular Ca2+ in taste cells via activation of muscarinic receptors. J. Neurophysiol. (2002) 87:2643-2649
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Ogura T, Kinnamon SC (1999) IP3-independent release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores: A novel mechanism for transduction for bitter stimuli.  J Neurophys, 82, 2657-2666. 
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Nakai J, Ogura T, Protasi F, Franzini-Armstrong C, Allen PD, Beam KG. (1997) Functional nonequality of the cardiac and skeletal ryanodine receptors.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 94, 1019-1022.
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Ogura T, Mackay-Sim A, Kinnamon SC (1997) Bitter taste transduction of denatonium in the mudpuppy, Necturus maculosus.  J Neurosci, 17 (10) 3580-3587.
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