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Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva

Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva

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Neuroscience

D-Index
64
Citations
10402
World Ranking
3331
National Ranking
195

Overview

Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and specializes primarily in the fields of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research extensively covers subfields such as Physiology, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, and Pharmacology.

The central topics in Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva's work include:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Pain Management and Treatment
  • Dermatology and Skin Diseases
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Recent publications by Ribeiro-da-Silva have appeared in high-profile scientific journals and address various aspects of pain and neural function. Notable papers include:

  • "Microglia-mediated degradation of perineuronal nets promotes pain" (2022), published in Science
  • "Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals time- and sex-specific responses of mouse spinal cord microglia to peripheral nerve injury and links ApoE to chronic pain" (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • "TACAN Is an Ion Channel Involved in Sensing Mechanical Pain" (2020), published in Cell
  • "Differential Coding of Itch and Pain by a Subpopulation of Primary Afferent Neurons" (2020), published in Neuron
  • "Enhancing neuronal chloride extrusion rescues α2/α3 GABAA-mediated analgesia in neuropathic pain" (2020), published in Nature Communications

Ribeiro-da-Silva has collaborated frequently with several researchers in the field, including Noosha Yousefpour, Arkady Khoutorsky, Jeffrey S. Mogil, Shannon Tansley, and Calvin Wong.

Academic output by Ribeiro-da-Silva is often published in venues such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Neuron
  • Pain
  • PAIN Reports

Best Publications

  • Dorsal Horn Parvalbumin Neurons Are Gate-Keepers of Touch-Evoked Pain after Nerve Injury

    Hugues Petitjean;Sophie Anne Pawlowski;Steven Li Fraine;Behrang Sharif

  • Nuclear localization of prostaglandin E2 receptors

    Mousumi Bhattacharya;Krishna G. Peri;Guillermina Almazan;Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva

  • Localization of functional prostaglandin E2 receptors EP3 and EP4 in the nuclear envelope

    Mousumi Bhattacharya;Krishna Peri;Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva;Guillermina Almazan

  • Two types of synaptic glomeruli and their distribution in laminae I–III of the rat spinal cord

    A. Ribeiro‐Da‐Silva;Antonio Coimbra

  • Neuroanatomical localisation of Substance P in the CNS and sensory neurons

    A. Ribeiro-da-Silva;T. Hökfelt

  • Microglia-mediated degradation of perineuronal nets promotes pain

    Unknown

  • Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals time- and sex-specific responses of mouse spinal cord microglia to peripheral nerve injury and links ApoE to chronic pain

    Unknown

  • Remote Optogenetic Activation and Sensitization of Pain Pathways in Freely Moving Mice

    I. Daou;A. H. Tuttle;G. Longo;J. S. Wieskopf

  • Repeated Vulvovaginal Fungal Infections Cause Persistent Pain in a Mouse Model of Vulvodynia

    Melissa A. Farmer;Anna M. Taylor;Andrea L. Bailey;Alexander H. Tuttle

  • Morphological characterization of substance P-like immunoreactive glomeruli in the superficial dorsal horn of the rat spinal cord and trigeminal subnucleus caudalis: a quantitative study.

    A. Ribeiro‐da‐silva;P. Tagari;A. C. Cuello

  • The amyloid pathology progresses in a neurotransmitter-specific manner

    Karen F.S. Bell;Adriana Ducatenzeiler;Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva;Karen Duff

  • Cholinergic nerve terminals establish classical synapses in the rat cerebral cortex: synaptic pattern and age-related atrophy.

    P Turrini;M.A Casu;T.P Wong;Y De Koninck

  • Sympathetic sprouting and changes in nociceptive sensory innervation in the glabrous skin of the rat hind paw following partial peripheral nerve injury

    Laurene D. Yen;Gary J. Bennett;Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva

  • Nerve growth factor treatment prevents dendritic atrophy and promotes recovery of function after cortical injury

    B Kolb;S Côté;A Ribeiro-da-Silva;A.C Cuello

  • TACAN Is an Ion Channel Involved in Sensing Mechanical Pain.

    Lou Beaulieu-Laroche;Marine Christin;Annmarie Donoghue;Francina Agosti

  • Nerve growth factor-induced synaptogenesis and hypertrophy of cortical cholinergic terminals.

    Unknown

  • Choline acetyltransferase-immunoreactive profiles are presynaptic to primary sensory fibers in the rat superficial dorsal horn

    Unknown

  • Reduced number of unmyelinated sensory axons in peripherin null mice.

    R. C. Larivière;M. D. Nguyen;A. Ribeiro-da-Silva;J.-P. Julien

  • Impact of the NGF Maturation and Degradation Pathway on the Cortical Cholinergic System Phenotype

    S. Allard;W. C. Leon;P. Pakavathkumar;M. A. Bruno

  • NK-1 Receptor Immunoreactivity in Distinct Morphological Types of Lamina I Neurons of the Primate Spinal Cord

    X. H. Yu;E.-T. Zhang;A. D. Craig;R. Shigemoto

  • Transient loss of terminals from non-peptidergic nociceptive fibers in the substantia gelatinosa of spinal cord following chronic constriction injury of the sciatic nerve.

    A.L. Bailey;A. Ribeiro-da-Silva

  • Neurotrophic factor changes in the rat thick skin following chronic constriction injury of the sciatic nerve

    Jennifer C Peleshok;Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva

  • Loss of presynaptic and postsynaptic structures is accompanied by compensatory increase in action potential-dependent synaptic input to layer V neocortical pyramidal neurons in aged rats.

    Tak Pan Wong;Giorgio Marchese;Maria Antonietta Casu;Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva

  • Nitric oxide signaling via nuclearized endothelial nitric-oxide synthase modulates expression of the immediate early genes iNOS and mPGES-1.

    Fernand Gobeil;Tang Zhu;Sonia Brault;Antoinette Geha

Frequent Co-Authors

A. Claudio Cuello
A. Claudio Cuello McGill University
Yves De Koninck
Yves De Koninck Université Laval
James L. Henry
James L. Henry McMaster University
Gary J. Bennett
Gary J. Bennett McGill University
Jeffrey S. Mogil
Jeffrey S. Mogil McGill University
Ryuichi Shigemoto
Ryuichi Shigemoto Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Tak Pan Wong
Tak Pan Wong McGill University
Catherine M. Cahill
Catherine M. Cahill University of California, Los Angeles
Laura S. Stone
Laura S. Stone McGill University
George L. Wilcox
George L. Wilcox University of Minnesota

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