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Complete list of Publications/PubMed

Selected Publications

 

Malmberg, A.B., Chen, C., Tonegawa, S. and Basbaum, A.I. 1997 Preserved acute pain and reduced neuropathic pain in mice lacking PKCg. Science 278: 279-283.

Liu, H., Mantyh, P.W. and Basbaum, A.I. 1997 NMDA-receptor regulation of substance P release from primary afferent nociceptors. Nature (Lond.) 386:721-724.

Cao, Y.Q., Mantyh, P.W., Carlson, E.J., Gillespie, A.-M., Epstein, C.J. and Basbaum, A.I. 1998 Primary afferent tachykinins are required to experience moderate to intense pain. Nature (Lond.), 392: 390-394.

Caterina, M.J., Leffler, A., Malmberg, A.B., Martin, W.F., Trafton, J.A., Petersen-Zeitz, K,R., Koltzenburg, M., Basbaum, A.I. and Julius, D. 2000 Impaired nociception and pain sensation in mice lacking the capsaicin receptor. Science 288: 306-313.

Trafton, J.A., Abbadie, C., Marek, K. and Basbaum, A.I. 2000 Postsynaptic signaling via the µ opioid receptor: Responses of dorsal horn neurons to exogenous opioids and noxious stimulation. J. Neurosci. 20: 8578-8584.

Neumann S., Bradke F., Tessier-Lavigne M. and Basbaum, A.I. 2002 Regeneration of sensory axons within the injured spinal cord induced by intraganglionic cAMP elevation. Neuron 34: 885-893.

Braz, J.M., Nassar, M.A., Wood, J.N. and Basbaum, A.I. 2005 Parallel "pain" pathways arise from subpopulations of primary afferent nociceptor. Neuron 47: 797-93.

Ahn, A.H. and Basbaum, A.I. 2006 Tissue injury regulates serotonin 1D receptor expression: implications for the control of migraine and inflammatory pain. J Neurosci. 226: 8332-8338.

Bautista, D.M., Jordt, S.E., Nikai, T., Tsuruda, P.R., Read, A.J., Poblete, J., Yamoah, E.H., Basbaum, A.I. and Julius, D. 2006 TRPA1 mediates the inflammatory actions of environmental irritants and proalgesic agents. Cell 124: 1269-1282.

Campbell, J.N., Basbaum, A.I., Dray, A., Dubner, A., Dworkin, R.H., Sang, C.N. (Eds) Emerging strategies for the treatment of neuropathic pain. 2006, IASP Press, Seattle, WA.  pp. 1-514.

Mazario J, Basbaum AI.  2007 Contribution of substance P and neurokinin A to the differential injury-induced thermal and mechanical responsiveness of laminae I and V neurons. J Neurosci. 27: 762-770.

Shields SD, Mazario J, Skinner K, Basbaum AI. 2007 Anatomical and functional analysis of aquaporin 1, a water channel in primary afferent neurons Pain 131: 8-20.

Trevisani, M., Siemens, J., Materazzi, S., Bautista, D.M., Nassini, R., Campi, B., Imamachi, N., Andrè, E., Patacchini, R., Cottrell, G.S., Gatti, R., Basbaum, A.I., Bunnett, N.W., Julius, D., Geppetti, P. 2007   4-Hydroxynonenal, an endogenous aldehyde, causes pain and neurogenic inflammation through activation of the irritant receptor TRPA1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 104: 13519-13524.

Bautista DM, Siemens J, Glazer JM, Tsuruda PR, Basbaum AI, Stucky CL, Jordt SE, Julius D. 2007 The menthol receptor TRPM8 is the principal detector of environmental cold. Nature 448:204-208.

Braz JM, Basbaum AI. 2008 Genetically expressed transneuronal tracer reveals direct and indirect serotonergic descending control circuits. J Comp Neurol. 507:1990-2003.

 Akopians AL, Babayan AH, Beffert U, Herz J, Basbaum AI, Phelps PE. 2008 Contribution of the Reelin signaling pathways to nociceptive processing. Eur J Neurosci.  27:523-537

Lewinter RD, Scherrer G, Basbaum AI. 2008 Dense transient receptor potential cation channel, vanilloid family, type 2 (TRPV2) immunoreactivity defines a subset of motoneurons in the dorsal lateral nucleus of the spinal cord, the nucleus ambiguus and the trigeminal motor nucleus in rat. Neuroscience 151: 164-173.

 Braz JM, Basbaum AI. 2008 Genetically expressed transneuronal tracer reveals direct and indirect serotonergic descending control circuits.
J Comp Neurol. 507:1990-2003.

Key Reviews:

Basbaum, A.I. and Fields, H.L.  1984. Endogenous pain control systems: Bulbospinal pathways and endorphin circuitry.  Ann. Rev. Neurosci. 7:309-338.

Basbaum, A.I. and Fields, H.L. 1978 Endogenous pain control mechanisms: Review and hypothesis. Ann. Neurol. 4:451-462.

Mogil J.S., Yu L., Basbaum A.I. 2000 Pain Genes?: natural variation and transgenic mutants. Annu. Rev. Neuroscience 23:777-811.

Julius, D. and Basbaum, A.I. 2001 Molecular mechanisms of nociception. Nature (Lond.) 413: 203-210.

Basbaum, A.I. and Julius, D. 2006 Toward better pain control. Scientific Amer., 294: 60-67.