Publications

Complete publication lists can be found at the following links;

Prof Andrew J. Todd

Prof John S. Riddell

Dr Junichi Hachisuka

Dr David I. Hughes

Dr Gregory A. Weir

Prof David J. Maxwell


Recent publications

2022

Trendafilova, T. et al. (2022) Sodium-calcium exchanger-3 regulates pain "wind-up": from human psychophysics to spinal mechanisms. Neuron, 110(16), 2571-2587.e13. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.05.017) (PMID:35705078)

Hughes, D. I. and Todd, A. J. (2022) Visualizing synaptic connectivity using confocal and electron microscopy: neuroanatomical approaches to define spinal circuits. In: Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Pain. Series: Neuromethods, 178. Humana: New York, pp. 181-201. ISBN 9781071620380 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2039-7_11)

Polgár, E. et al. (2022) Grpr expression defines a population of superficial dorsal horn vertical cells that have a role in both itch and pain. Pain, (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002677) (PMID:35543635) (Early Online Publication)

El Khoueiry, C., Alba-Delgado, C., Antri, M., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M. , Todd, A. J. , Artola, A. and Dallel, R. (2022) GABAA and glycine receptor-mediated inhibitory synaptic transmission onto adult rat lamina IIi PKCγ-interneurons: pharmacological but not anatomical specialization. Cells, 11(8), 1356. (doi: 10.3390/cells11081356) (PMID:35456035)

Todd, A. J. (2022) An historical perspective: the second order neuron in the pain pathway. Frontiers in Pain Research, 3, 845211. (doi: 10.3389/fpain.2022.845211) (PMID:35295811)

Kókai, É., Alsulaimain, W. A.A., Dickie, A. C., Bell, A. M. , Goffin, L., Watanabe, M., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M. and Todd, A. J. (2022) Characterisation of deep dorsal horn projection neurons in the spinal cord of the Phox2a::Cre mouse line. Molecular Pain, 18, p. 17448069221119614. (doi: 10.1177/17448069221119614) (PMID:36000342)

Williams, J. A., Huesa, C., Windmill, J. F. C., Purcell, M., Reid, S., Coupaud, S. and Riddell, J. S. (2022) Spatiotemporal responses of trabecular and cortical bone to complete spinal cord injury in skeletally mature rats. Bone Reports, 16, 101592. (doi: 10.1016/j.bonr.2022.101592) (PMID:35637974)

Warwick, C., Salsovic, J., Hachisuka, J. , Smith, K. M., Sheahan, T. D., Chen, H., Ibinson, J., Koerber, H. R. and Ross, S. E. (2022) Cell type-specific calcium imaging of central sensitization in mouse dorsal horn. Nature Communications, 13, 5199. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32608-2) (PMID:36057681)

Gradwell, M. A., Smith, K. M., Dayas, C. V., Smith, D. W., Hughes, D. I. , Callister, R. J. and Graham, B. A. (2022) Altered intrinsic properties and inhibitory connectivity in aged parvalbumin-expressing dorsal horn neurons. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 16, 834173. (doi: 10.3389/fncir.2022.834173) (PMID:35874431)

Gradwell, M. A. et al. (2022) Diversity of inhibitory and excitatory parvalbumin interneuron circuits in the dorsal horn. Pain, 163(3), e432-e452. (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002422) (PMID:34326298)


2021

Alsulaiman, W. A.A. et al. (2021) Characterisation of lamina I anterolateral system neurons that express Cre in a Phox2a-Cre mouse line. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 17912. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-97105-w) (PMID:34504158)

Chisholm, K. I., Lo Re, L., Polgár, E., Gutierrez-Mecinas, M. , Todd, A. J. and McMahon, S. B. (2021) Encoding of cutaneous stimuli by lamina I projection neurons. Pain, 162(9), pp. 2405-2417. (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002226) (PMID:33769365)

Browne, T. J., Smith, K. M., Gradwell, M. A., Iredale, J. A., Dayas, C. V., Callister, R. J., Hughes, D. I. and Graham, B. A. (2021) Spinoparabrachial projection neurons form distinct classes in the mouse dorsal horn. Pain, 162(7), pp. 1977-1994. (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002194) (PMID:33779126)

Chrysostomidou, L., Cooper, A. H. and Weir, G. A. (2021) Cellular models of pain: new technologies and their potential to progress preclinical research. Neurobiology of Pain, 10, 100063. (doi: 10.1016/j.ynpai.2021.100063)

Warwick, C. et al. (2021) MrgprdCre lineage neurons mediate optogenetic allodynia through an emergent polysynaptic circuit. Pain, 162(7), pp. 2120-2131. (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002227) (PMID:34130311)

Nguyen, E., Lim, G., Ding, H., Hachisuka, J. , Ko, M.-C. and Ross, S. E. (2021) Morphine acts on spinal dynorphin neurons to cause itch through disinhibition. Science Translational Medicine, 13(579), eabc3774. (doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abc3774)

Middleton, S. J. et al. (2021) Nav1.7 is required for normal C-low threshold mechanoreceptor function in humans and mice. Brain, (doi: 10.1093/brain/awab482) (PMID:34957475) (Early Online Publication)

2020

Choi, S. et al. (2020) Parallel ascending spinal pathways for affective touch and pain. Nature, 587, pp. 258-263. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2860-1) (PMID:33116307)

Hachisuka, J. , Koerber, H. R. and Ross, S. E. (2020) Selective-cold output through a distinct subset of lamina I spinoparabrachial neurons. Pain, 161(1), pp. 185-194. (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001710) (PMID:31577643)

Polgár, E., Bell, A. M. , Gutierrez-Mecinas, M. , Dickie, A. C., Akar, O., Costreie, M., Watanabe, M. and Todd, A. J. (2020) Substance P-expressing neurons in the superficial dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord: insights into their functions and their roles in synaptic circuits. Neuroscience, 450, pp. 113-125. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.06.038) (PMID:32634530)

Bell, A. M. , Gutierrez-Mecinas, M. , Stevenson, A., Casas-Benito, A., Wildner, H., West, S. J., Watanabe, M. and Todd, A. J. (2020) Expression of green fluorescent protein defines a specific population of lamina II excitatory interneurons in the GRP::eGFP mouse. Scientific Reports, 10, 13176. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-69711-7) (PMID:32764601)

Hughes, D. I. and Todd, A. (2020) Central nervous system targets: inhibitory interneurons in the spinal cord. Neurotherapeutics, 17(3), pp. 874-885. (doi: 10.1007/s13311-020-00936-0) (PMID:33029722)

Tran, M., Braz, J. M., Hamel, K., Kuhn, J., Todd, A. J. and Basbaum, A. I. (2020) Ablation of spinal cord estrogen receptor α-expressing interneurons reduces chemically induced modalities of pain and itch. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 528(10), pp. 1629-1643. (doi: 10.1002/cne.24847) (PMID:31872868)

Peirs, C., Dallel, R. and Todd, A. J. (2020) Recent advances in our understanding of the organization of dorsal horn neuron populations and their contribution to cutaneous mechanical allodynia. Journal of Neural Transmission, 127, pp. 505-525. (doi: 10.1007/s00702-020-02159-1) (PMID:32239353)

Browne, T. J., Hughes, D. I. , Dayas, C. V., Callister, R. J. and Graham, B. A. (2020) Projection neuron axon collaterals in the dorsal horn: placing a new player in spinal cord pain processing. Frontiers in Physiology, 11, 560802. (doi: 10.3389/fphys.2020.560802) (PMID:33408637)

Graham, B. A. and Hughes, D. I. (2020) Defining populations of dorsal horn interneurons. Pain, 161(11), pp. 2434-2436. (doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002067) (PMID:33065697)

Madden, J.F., Davis, O.C., Boyle, K.A., Iredale, J.A., Browne, T.J., Callister, R.J., Smith, D.W., Jobling, P., Hughes, D.I. and Graham, B.A. (2020) Functional and molecular analysis of proprioceptive sensory neuron excitability in mice. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 13, 36. (doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2020.00036) (PMID:32477061)

Browne, T. J., Gradwell, M. A., Iredale, J. A., Madden, J. F., Hughes, D. I. , Callister, R. J., Dayas, C. V. and Graham, B. A. (2020) Transgenic cross-referencing of inhibitory and excitatory interneuron populations to dissect neuronal heterogeneity in the dorsal horn. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 13, 32. (doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2020.00032) (PMID:32362812)

Hosseinzadeh, S., Lindsay, S. L., Gallagher, A. G., Wellings, D. A., Riehle, M. O. , Riddell, J. S. and Barnett, S. C. (2020) A novel poly-ε-lysine based implant, Proliferate®, for promotion of CNS repair following spinal cord injury. Biomaterials Science, 8(13), pp. 3611-3627. (doi: 10.1039/D0BM00097C) (PMID:32515439)

2019

Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Bell, A. M., Shepherd, F., Polgar, E., Watanabe, M., Furuta, T. and Todd, A. J. (2019) Expression of cholecystokinin by neurons in mouse spinal dorsal horn. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 527(11), pp. 1857-1871. (doi: 10.1002/cne.24657) (PMID:30734936)

Graham, B. A. and Hughes, D. I. (2019) Rewards, perils and pitfalls of untangling spinal pain circuits. Current Opinion in Physiology, 11, pp. 35-41. (doi:10.1016/j.cophys.2019.04.015)

Boyle, K. A. et al. (2019) Defining a spinal microcircuit that gates myelinated afferent input: implications for tactile allodynia. Cell Reports, 28(2), 526-540.e6. (doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2019.06.040) (PMID:31291586)

Dickie, A. C. et al. (2019) Morphological and functional properties distinguish the substance P and gastrin-releasing peptide subsets of excitatory interneuron in the spinal cord dorsal horn. Pain, 160(2), pp. 442-462. (doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001406) (PMID:30247267) (PMCID:PMC6330098)

Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Davis, O., Polgár, E., Shahzad, M., Navarro-Batista, K., Furuta, T., Watanabe, M., Hughes, D. I. and Todd, A. J. (2019) Expression of calretinin among different neurochemical classes of interneuron in the superficial dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord. Neuroscience, 398, pp. 171-181. (doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.12.009) (PMID:30553791) (PMCID:PMC6347472)

Brunton, E. K., Silveira, C., Rosenberg, J., Schiefer, M. A., Riddell, J. and Nazarpour, K. (2019) Temporal modulation of the response of sensory fibers to paired-pulse stimulation. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 27(9), pp. 1676-1683. (doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2019.2935813) (PMID:31425119)

Smith, K. M. et al. (2019) Calretinin positive neurons form an excitatory amplifier network in the spinal cord dorsal horn. eLife, 8, e49190. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.49190) (PMID:31713514) (PMCID:PMC6908433)

2018

Gutierrez-Mecinas, M., Polgár, E., Bell, A. M., Hérau, M. and Todd, A. J. (2018) Substance P-expressing excitatory interneurons in the mouse superficial dorsal horn provide a propriospinal input to the lateral spinal nucleus. Brain Structure and Function, 223(5), pp. 2377-2392. (doi:10.1007/s00429-018-1629-x) (PMID:29497838)

Huang J. et al (2018) Circuit dissection of the role of somatostatin in itch and pain. Nature Neuroscience, 21(5), pp. 707-716. (doi:10.1038/s41593-018-0119-z) (PMID:29556030)

Dawes JM. et al (2018) Immune or genetic-mediated disruption of CASPR2 causes pain hypersensitivity due to enhanced primary afferent excitability. Neuron, 97(4), 806-822.e10. (doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2018.01.033) (PMID:29429934)

2017

Boyle KA, Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Polgár E., Mooney N, O'Connor E, Furuta T, Watanabe M. and Todd AJ (2017) A quantitative study of neurochemically-defined populations of inhibitory interneurons in the superficial dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord. Neuroscience, 363, pp. 120-133. (doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.08.044) (PMID:28860091)

Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Bell AM, Marin A, Taylor R, Boyle KA, Furuta T, Watanabe M, Polgár E. and Todd AJ (2017) Preprotachykinin A (PPTA) is expressed by a distinct population of excitatory neurons in the mouse superficial spinal dorsal horn including cells that respond to noxious and pruritic stimuli. Pain, 158(3), pp. 440-456.(doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000778) (PMID:27902570)

Todd AJ (2017) Identifying functional populations among the interneurons in laminae I-III of the spinal dorsal horn. Molecular Pain, 13, pp. 1-19. (doi:10.1177/1744806917693003) (PMID:28326935)

Gradwell MA, Boyle KA, Callister RJ, Hughes DI. and Graham BA (2017) Heteromeric α/β glycine receptors regulate excitability in parvalbumin-expressing dorsal horn neurons through phasic and tonic glycinergic inhibition. Journal of Physiology, 595(23), pp. 7185-7202.(doi:10.1113/JP274926) (PMID:28905384)

Tae H-S. et al (2017) Gabapentin modulates HCN4 channel voltage-dependence. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 8, 554.(doi:10.3389/fphar.2017.00554) (PMID:28871229)

Flynn,JR, Conn V, Boyle K, Hughes DI, Watanabe M, Velasquez T, Goulding MD, Callister RJ and Graham BA (2017) Anatomical and molecular properties of long descending propriospinal neurons in mice. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 11, 5. (doi:10.3389/fnana.2017.00005)(PMID:28220062)

Abraira VE. et al (2017) The cellular and synaptic architecture of the mechanosensory dorsal horn. Cell, 168(1-2), 295-310.e19.(doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.12.010) (PMID:2804185)

Hulme CH, Brown SJ, Fuller HR, Riddell J, Osman A, Chowdhury J, Kumar N, Johnson WE and Wright KT (2017) The developing landscape of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for spinal cord injury in cerebrospinal fluid and blood. Spinal Cord, 55(2), pp. 114-125.(doi:10.1038/sc.2016.174) (PMID:27995945)

Lindsay SL, Toft A, Griffin J, Emraja AMM, Barnett SC and Riddell J (2017) Human olfactory mesenchymal stromal cell transplants promote remyelination and earlier improvement in gait co-ordination after spinal cord injury. Glia, 65(4), pp. 639-656. (doi:10.1002/glia.23117)(PMID:28144983)

O'Neill P, Lindsay SL, Pantiru A, Guimond SE, Fagoe N, Verhaagen J, Turnbull JE, Riddell JS and Barnett SC (2017) Sulfatase mediated manipulation of the astrocyte-Schwann cell interface. Glia, 65(1), pp. 19-33. (doi:10.1002/glia.23047) (PMID:27535874)

2016

Bell AM, Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Polgár E and Todd AJ (2016) Spinal neurons that contain gastrin-releasing peptide seldom express Fos or phosphorylate extracellular signal-regulated kinases in response to intradermal chloroquine. Molecular Pain, 12, pp. 1-9. (doi:10.1177/1744806916649602) (PMID:27270268)

Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Furuta T, Watanabe M. and Todd AJ (2016) A quantitative study of neurochemically-defined excitatory interneuron populations in laminae I-III of the mouse spinal cord. Molecular Pain, 12, pp. 1-18.(doi:10.1177/1744806916629065) (PMID:27030714)

Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Kuehn ED, Abraira VE, Polgár E, Watanabe M and Todd AJ (2016) Immunostaining for Homer reveals the majority of excitatory synapses in laminae I-III of the mouse spinal dorsal horn. Neuroscience, 329, pp. 171-181.(doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.05.009) (PMID:27185486)

Chiang MC, Hachisuka J, Todd AJ and Ross SE (2016) Insight into B5-I spinal interneurons and their role in the inhibition of itch and pain. Pain, 157(3), pp. 544-545. (doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000474) (PMID:26716996)

Iwagaki N, Ganley RP, Dickie A, Polgár E, Hughes DI, Del Rio P, Revina Y, Watanabe M, Todd AJ and Riddell JS (2016) A combined electrophysiological and morphological study of NPY-expressing inhibitory interneurons in the spinal dorsal horn of the mouse. Pain, 157(3), pp. 598-612. (doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000407) (PMID:26882346)

Smith KM, Boyle KA, Mustapa M, Jobling P, Callister RJ, Hughes DI and Graham BA (2016) Distinct forms of synaptic inhibition and neuromodulation regulate calretinin positive neuron excitability in the spinal cord dorsal horn. Neuroscience, 326, pp. 10-21.(doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.03.058) (PMID:27045594)

Mitchell EJ, Dewar D and Maxwell DJ (2016) Is remodelling of corticospinal tract terminations originating in the intact hemisphere associated with recovery following transient ischaemic stroke in the rat? PLoS ONE, 11(3), e0152176. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0152176)(PMID:27014870)

Mitchell EJ, McCallum S, Dewar D and Maxwell D (2016) Corticospinal and reticulospinal contacts on cervical commissural and long descending propriospinal neurons in the adult rat spinal cord; evidence for powerful reticulospinal connections. PLoS ONE, 11(3), e0152094.(doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0152094) (PMID:26999665)

2015

Ganley RP. et al (2015) Inhibitory interneurons that express GFP in the PrP-GFP mouse spinal cord are morphologically heterogeneous, innervated by several classes of primary afferent and include lamina I projection neurons among their postsynaptic targets. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(19), pp. 7626-7642. (doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0406-15.2015)(PMID:25972186)

Cameron D, Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Gomez-Lima M, Watanabe M, Polgár E and Todd AJ (2015) The organisation of spinoparabrachial neurons in the mouse. Pain, 156(10), pp. 2061-2071. (doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000270)(PMID:26101837)

Tadros MA, Lim R, Hughes DI, Brichta AM and Callister RJ (2015) Electrical maturation of spinal neurons in the human fetus: comparison of ventral and dorsal horn. Journal of Neurophysiology, 114(5), pp. 2661-2671. (doi:10.1152/jn.00682.2015) (PMID:26334015)

Smith KM, Boyle KA, Madden JF, Dickinson SA, Jobling P, Callister RJ, Hughes DI and Graham BA (2015) Functional heterogeneity of calretinin-expressing neurons in the mouse superficial dorsal horn: implications for spinal pain processing. Journal of Physiology, 593(19), pp. 4319-4339. (doi:10.1113/JP270855) (PMID:26136181)

Huma Z, Ireland K and Maxwell DJ (2015) The spino–bulbar–cerebellar pathway: activation of neurons projecting to the lateral reticular nucleus in the rat in response to noxious mechanical stimuli. Neuroscience Letters, 591, pp. 197-201. (doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2015.02.047)(PMID:25711799)

Huma Z and Maxwell DJ (2015) The spino-bulbar-cerebellar pathway: organization and neurochemical properties of spinal cells that project to the lateral reticular nucleus in the rat. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 9, 1. (doi:10.3389/fnana.2015.00001) (PMID:25657619)

2014

Baseer N, Al-Baloushi AS, Watanabe M, Shehab SAS and Todd AJ (2014) Selective innervation of NK1 receptor–lacking lamina I spinoparabrachial neurons by presumed nonpeptidergic Aδ nociceptors in the rat. Pain, 155(11), pp. 2291-2300.(doi:10.1016/j.pain.2014.08.023) (PMID:25168670)

Bhumbra GS, Bannatyne BA, Watanabe M, Todd AJ, Maxwell DJ and Beato M (2014) The recurrent case for the Renshaw cell. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(38), pp. 12919-12932. (doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0199-14.2014) (PMID:25232126)

Kardon AP. et al (2014) Dynorphin acts as a neuromodulator to inhibit itch in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Neuron, 82(3), pp. 573-586. (doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2014.02.046)

Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Watanabe M and Todd AJ (2014) Expression of gastrin-releasing peptide by excitatory interneurons in the mouse superficial dorsal horn. Molecular Pain, 10, 79. (doi:10.1186/1744-8069-10-79) (PMID:25496164)

Yasaka T, Tiong SYX, Polgár E, Watanabe M, Kumamoto E, Riddell JS and Todd AJ (2014) A putative relay circuit providing low-threshold mechanoreceptive input to lamina I projection neurons via vertical cells in lamina II of the rat dorsal horn. Molecular Pain, 10(1), p. 3. (doi:10.1186/1744-8069-10-3)

Smith KM, Madden JF, Callister RJ, Hughes DI and Graham BA (2014) The search for novel analgesics: re-examining spinal cord circuits with new tools. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 5(22), pp. 1-6. (doi:10.3389/fphar.2014.00022) (PMID:24616699)

Harris BM, Hughes DI, Bolton PS, Tadross MA, Callister RJ and Graham BA (2014) Contrasting alterations to synaptic and intrinsic properties in upper-cervical superficial dorsal horn neurons following acute neck muscle inflammation. Molecular Pain, 10(25), (doi:10.1186/1744-8069-10-25)

Huma Z, Du Beau A, Brown C and Maxwell DJ (2014) Origin and neurochemical properties of bulbospinal neurons projecting to the rat lumbar spinal cord via the medial longitudinal fasciculus and caudal ventrolateral medulla. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 8(Art 40), pp. 1-14.(doi:10.3389/fncir.2014.00040)

Gadalla KKE, Ross PD, Riddell JS, Bailey MES and Cobb SR (2014) Gait analysis in a Mecp2 knockout mouse model of Rett syndrome reveals early-onset and progressive motor deficits. PLoS ONE, 9(11), e112889. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112889) (PMID:25392929)

2013

Polgár E, Sardella TCP, Tiong SYX, Locke S, Watanabe M. and Todd AJ (2013) Functional differences between neurochemically defined populations of inhibitory interneurons in the rat spinal dorsal horn. Pain, 154(12), pp. 2606-2615.(doi:10.1016/j.pain.2013.05.001)

Szucs P, Luz LL, Pinho R, Aguiar P, Antal Z, Tiong SYX, Todd AJ and Safronov BV (2013) Axon diversity of lamina I local-circuit neurons in the lumbar spinal cord. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 521(12), pp. 2719-2741.(doi:10.1002/cne.23311)

Iwagaki N, Garzillo F, Polgár E, Riddell JS and Todd AJ (2013) Neurochemical characterisation of lamina II inhibitory interneurons that express GFP in the PrP-GFP mouse. Molecular Pain, 9(56), (doi:10.1186/1744-8069-9-56)

Polgár E, Durrieux C, Hughes DI and Todd AJ (2013) A quantitative study of inhibitory interneurons in laminae I-III of the mouse spinal dorsal horn. PLos ONE, 8(10), e78309. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078309) (PMID:24205193)

Hughes DI, Boyle K, Kinnon CM, Bilsland C, Quayle J, Callister RJ and Graham BA (2013) HCN4 subunit expression in fast-spiking interneurons of the rat spinal cord and hippocampus. Neuroscience, 237, pp. 7-18. (doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.01.028)

Beau AD, Shrestha SS, Bannatyne BA, Jalicy SM, Linnen S and Maxwell DJ (2013) Neurotransmitter phenotypes of descending systems in the rat lumbar spinal cord. Neuroscience, 227, pp. 67-69. (doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.09.037)

Brockett EF, Seenan PG, Bannatyne BA and Maxwell DJ (2013) Ascending and descending propriospinal pathways between lumbar and cervical segments in the rat: evidence for a substantial ascending excitatory pathway. Neuroscience, 240, pp. 83-97.(doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.02.039)

Shrestha SS, Bannatyne BA, Jankowska E, Hammar I, Nilsson E and Maxwell DJ (2013) Inhibitory inputs to four types of spinocerebellar tract neurons in the cat spinal cord. Neuroscience, 226, pp. 253-269. (doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.09.015)

Toft A, Tome M, Barnett SC and Riddell JS (2013) A comparative study of glial and non-neural cell properties for transplant-mediated repair of the injured spinal cord. Glia, 61(4), pp. 513-528. (doi:10.1002/glia.22452)

Ewing SG, Porr B, Riddell JS, Winter C and Grace AA (2013) SaBer DBS: a fully programmable, rechargeable, bilateral, charge-balanced preclinical microstimulator for long-term neural stimulation. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 213(2), pp. 228-235.(doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.12.008)

2012

Baseer N, Watanabe M, Furuta T, Kaneko T.and Todd AJ (2012) Projection neurons in lamina III of the rat spinal cord are selectively innervated by local dynorphin-containing excitatory neurons. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(34), pp. 11854-11863.(doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2707-12.2012)

Tappe-Theodor A. et al (2012) Gαq/11 signaling tonically modulates nociceptor function and contributes to activity-dependent sensitization. Pain, 153(1), pp. 184-196. (doi:10.1016/j.pain.2011.10.014)

Luo C. et al. (2012) Presynaptically localized cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase 1 is a key determinant of spinal synaptic potentiation and pain hypersensitivity. PLoS Biology, 10(3), e1001283. (doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001283)

Hughes DI, Sikander S, Kinnon CM, Boyle KA, Watanabe M, Callister RJ and Graham BA (2012) Morphological, neurochemical and electrophysiological features of parvalbumin-expressing cells: a likely source of axo-axonic inputs in the mouse spinal dorsal horn. Journal of Physiology, 590(16), pp. 3927-3951. (doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2012.235655)

Shrestha SS, Bannatyne BA, Jankowska E, Hammar I, Nilsson E and Maxwell DJ (2012) Excitatory inputs to four types of spinocerebellar tract neurons in the cat and the rat thoraco-lumbar spinal cord. Journal of Physiology, 590(7), pp. 1737-1755. (doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2011.226852)

Toft A, Tomé M, Lindsay SL, Barnett SC and Riddell JS (2012) Transplant-mediated repair properties of rat olfactory mucosal OM-I and OM-II sphere-forming cells. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 90(3), pp. 619-631. (doi:10.1002/jnr.22789)