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Chengru Shao

Hokkaido UniversityORCID 0000-0002-9547-8255Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Organism:multiple species· 1 Organism:rat· 1

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Yoshifumi YamaguchiiD· 2 shared Akari YamauchiiD· 1 shared Akihiro YamanakaiD· 1 shared Akinobu Ohba· 1 shared Chijung Hung· 1 shared Daisuke OnoiD· 1 shared Dooseon ChoiD· 1 shared Genshiro A. SunagawaiD· 1 shared

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A single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Syrian hamster preoptic area across hibernation states

Haruaki Sato, Hikaru Sugimoto, Chengru Shao, Akari Yamauchi, Masafumi Tsurutani, Teppei Goto, Mitsue Hagihara, Dooseon Cho, Naoko Shimada, Mitsutaka Kadota, Takefumi Kondo, Shinya Kuroda, Genshiro A. Sunagawa, Hiroshi Kiyonari, Yoshifumi Yamaguchi, Kazunari Miyamichi

This study creates a transcriptomic atlas of the Syrian hamster preoptic area using snRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics, comparing seasonal and hibernation states.

bioRxiv · Sep 10, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

A preoptic circuit triggers rewarming from torpor

Akinobu Ohba, Madoka Narushima, Chengru Shao, Chijung Hung, Hiroko Uchida, Noriaki Fukatsu, Uyanga Angarag, Sayaka Takemoto‐Kimura, Akihiro Yamanaka, Kazuki Tainaka, Daisuke Ono, Yoshifumi Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Wake, Hiroshi Yamaguchi

This paper identifies a preoptic circuit involving Crh-expressing neurons that initiates rewarming from torpor in mice and shows similar activation in hibernators.

bioRxiv · May 5, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience