Ryokuya Ban

Electrical stimulation to the trigeminal proprioceptive fibres that innervate the mechanoreceptors in Müller's muscle induces involuntary reflex contraction of the frontalis muscles

Kiyoshi Matsuo, Yoshiro Osada, Ryokuya Ban · Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery · 2012 · 33 citations · Full text

Trigeminal Proprioceptive Fibres, Muscle Function, Motor Control +20

Reflexive contraction of the levator palpebrae superioris muscle to involuntarily sustain the effective eyelid retraction through the transverse trigeminal proprioceptive nerve on the proximal Mueller's muscle: verification with evoked electromyography

Ryokuya Ban, Kiyoshi Matsuo, Yoshiro Osada et al. · Journal of Plastic Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery · 2008 · 32 citations

Effective Eyelid Retraction, Kinesiology, Ophthalmology +8

Eyelid Opening with Trigeminal Proprioceptive Activation Regulates a Brainstem Arousal Mechanism

Kiyoshi Matsuo, Ryokuya Ban, Yuki Hama et al. · PLoS ONE · 2015 · 30 citations · Full text

Brain Mechanism, Prefrontal Cortex, Affective Neuroscience +29

Surgical desensitisation of the mechanoreceptors in Müller's muscle relieves chronic tension-type headache caused by tonic reflexive contraction of the occipitofrontalis muscle in patients with aponeurotic blepharoptosis

Kiyoshi Matsuo, Ryokuya Ban · Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery · 2012 · 23 citations · Full text

Muscle Function, Chronic Tension-type Headache, Social Sciences +16

A Contractile Network of Interstitial Cells of Cajal in the Supratarsal Mueller's Smooth Muscle Fibers With Sparse Sympathetic Innervation.

Shunsuke Yuzuriha, Kiyoshi Matsuo, Ryokuya Ban et al. · PubMed · 2012 · 10 citations · Full text