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Morita, Takeshi
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Assistant Professor
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Biological Sciences
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College of Arts, Sciences & Education
tmorita@fiu.edu
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Article
2025
A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult
Aedes
aegypti
mosquito
Full Text via DOI:
10.1016/j.cell.2025.10.008
Web of Science:
001641158700001
2025
Drosophila
epidermal cells are intrinsically mechanosensitive and modulate nociceptive behavioral outputs
.
ELIFE
. 13.
Full Text via DOI:
10.7554/eLife.95379
Web of Science:
001486583000001
2025
Drosophila epidermal cells are intrinsically mechanosensitive and modulate nociceptive behavioral outputs
.
ELIFE
. 13.
Full Text via DOI:
10.7554/elife.95379.3
2025
Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans
.
SCIENCE ADVANCES
. 11.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1126/sciadv.adn5758
Web of Science:
001386432700011
2024
A cell atlas of the larval
Aedes aegypti
ventral nerve cord
Full Text via DOI:
10.1186/s13064-023-00178-8
Web of Science:
001155432600001
2022
Differential mosquito attraction to humans is associated with skin-derived carboxylic acid levels
Full Text via DOI:
10.1016/j.cell.2022.09.034
Web of Science:
000881848000002
2022
Non-canonical odor coding in the mosquito
Full Text via DOI:
10.1016/j.cell.2022.07.024
Web of Science:
000849994300001
2020
Fruitless
mutant male mosquitoes gain attraction to human odor
.
ELIFE
. 9.
Full Text via DOI:
10.7554/eLife.63982
Web of Science:
000610890200001
2018
S1PR3 Mediates Itch and Pain via Distinct TRP Channel-Dependent Pathways
.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
. 38:7833-7843.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1266-18.2018
Web of Science:
000443711100009
2018
The signaling lipid sphingosine 1-p hosphate regulates mechanical pain
.
ELIFE
. 7.
Full Text via DOI:
10.7554/eLife.33285
Web of Science:
000429403000001
2015
HTR7 Mediates Serotonergic Acute and Chronic Itch
.
NEURON
. 87:124-138.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1016/j.neuron.2015.05.044
Web of Science:
000360977400013
2015
Paraoxonase 2 Serves a Proapopotic Function in Mouse and Human Cells in Response to the
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Quorum-sensing Molecule
N
-(3-Oxododecanoyl)-homoserine Lactone
Full Text via DOI:
10.1074/jbc.M114.620039
Web of Science:
000350991500053
2013
The Ion Channel TRPA1 Is Required for Chronic Itch
.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
. 33:9283-9294.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5318-12.2013
Web of Science:
000319566300006
2013
The Star-Nosed Mole Reveals Clues to the Molecular Basis of Mammalian Touch
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PLOS ONE
. 8.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0055001
Web of Science:
000315563800098
2011
Psychometric Curve and Behavioral Strategies for Whisker-Based Texture Discrimination in Rats
.
PLOS ONE
. 6.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0020437
Web of Science:
000291309900019
Conference
2023
Differential mosquito attraction to humans is associated with skin-derived carboxylic acid levels
.
CHEMICAL SENSES
.
Web of Science:
001110801400312
2013
THE ION CHANNEL TRPA1 IS REQUIRED FOR CHRONIC ITCH
. 619-620.
Web of Science:
000330327200088
Preprint
2025
A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1101/2025.02.25.639765
2025
Heat-off responses of epidermal cells sensitize Drosophila larvae to noxious inputs.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1101/2025.05.30.656957
2025
Drosophila epidermal cells are intrinsically mechanosensitive and modulate nociceptive behavioral outputs
Full Text via DOI:
10.7554/elife.95379.2
2024
Drosophila epidermal cells are intrinsically mechanosensitive and modulate nociceptive behavioral outputs
Full Text via DOI:
10.7554/elife.95379.1
2023
Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans
Full Text via DOI:
10.1101/2023.10.10.561721
A cell atlas of the larval Aedes aegypti ventral nerve cord
Full Text via DOI:
10.1101/2023.09.08.556941
Differential mosquito attraction to humans is associated with skin-derived carboxylic acid levels
Full Text via DOI:
10.1101/2022.01.05.475088
Drosophila epidermal cells are intrinsically mechanosensitive and modulate nociceptive behavioral outputs
Full Text via DOI:
10.1101/2022.10.07.511265
Non-Canonical Odor Coding in the Mosquito
Full Text via DOI:
10.1101/2020.11.07.368720
S1PR3 mediates inflammatory pain and itch via distinct TRP channel-dependent pathways
Full Text via DOI:
10.1101/235614
The signaling lipid sphingosine 1-phosphate regulates mechanical pain
Full Text via DOI:
10.1101/236778
fruitless mutant male mosquitoes gain attraction to human odor
Full Text via DOI:
10.1101/2020.09.04.282434
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