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Argentina
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
47
Citations
9875
World Ranking
6377
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2003 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Ana Belén Elgoyhen is affiliated with the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields such as Sensory Systems, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The main topics addressed in their work include Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, and Genetics; Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study; Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation; Ion Channels and Receptors; Connexins and lens biology; Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling; and the Neuroscience of respiration and sleep.

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Purinergic Signaling Controls Spontaneous Activity in the Auditory System throughout Early Development," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Towards a unification of treatments and interventions for tinnitus patients: The EU research and innovation action UNITI," 2021, Progress in brain research
  • "Preventing presbycusis in mice with enhanced medial olivocochlear feedback," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Predicting pathogenicity for novel hearing loss mutations based on genetic and protein structure approaches," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "(E)-3-Furan-2-yl-N-p-tolyl-acrylamide and its Derivative DM489 Decrease Neuropathic Pain in Mice Predominantly by α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Potentiation," 2020, ACS Chemical Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Paula I. Buonfiglio, Viviana Dalamón, Marcelo J. Moglie, Irina Marcovich, and Sofía Gallino.

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuroscience, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, Genes, and Trends in Neurosciences.

An aspect of their academic recognition includes being named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2014 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2003.

Best Publications

  • α9: An acetylcholine receptor with novel pharmacological properties expressed in rat cochlear hair cells

    Ana B. Elgoyhen;David S. Johnson;Jim Boulter;Douglas E. Vetter

  • α10: A determinant of nicotinic cholinergic receptor function in mammalian vestibular and cochlear mechanosensory hair cells

    Ana Belen Elgoyhen;Douglas E. Vetter;Eleonora Katz;Carla Rothlin

  • Phantom percepts: Tinnitus and pain as persisting aversive memory networks

    Dirk De Ridder;Ana Belen Elgoyhen;Ranulfo Romo;Berthold Langguth

  • An integrative model of auditory phantom perception: tinnitus as a unified percept of interacting separable subnetworks.

    Dirk De Ridder;Sven Vanneste;Nathan Weisz;Alain Londero

  • Tinnitus: perspectives from human neuroimaging

    Ana Belén Elgoyhen;Berthold Langguth;Dirk De Ridder;Sven Vanneste

  • Role of α9 Nicotinic ACh Receptor Subunits in the Development and Function of Cochlear Efferent Innervation

    Douglas E Vetter;M.Charles Liberman;Jeffrey Mann;Jacques Barhanin

  • Tinnitus and tinnitus disorder: Theoretical and operational definitions (an international multidisciplinary proposal)

    Dirk De Ridder;Winfried Schlee;Sven Vanneste;Alain Londero

  • alpha-Conotoxin ImI exhibits subtype-specific nicotinic acetylcholine receptor blockade: preferential inhibition of homomeric alpha 7 and alpha 9 receptors.

    D S Johnson;J Martinez;A B Elgoyhen;S F Heinemann

  • Developmental Regulation of Nicotinic Synapses on Cochlear Inner Hair Cells

    Eleonora Katz;Ana Belén Elgoyhen;María E. Gómez-Casati;Marlies Knipper

  • α-RgIA: A Novel Conotoxin That Specifically and Potently Blocks the α9α10 nAChR<sup>,</sup>

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  • Alpha9 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and the treatment of pain.

    J. Michael McIntosh;Nathan Absalom;Mary Chebib;Ana Belén Elgoyhen

  • Mixed nicotinic–muscarinic properties of the α9 nicotinic cholinergic receptor

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  • A novel α-conotoxin, PeIA, cloned from Conus pergrandis discriminates between rat α9α10 and α7 nicotinic cholinergic receptors

    J. Michael McIntosh;Paola V. Plazas;Maren Watkins;María E. Gomez-Casati

  • Emerging pharmacotherapy of tinnitus

    Berthold Langguth;Richard Salvi;Ana Belén Elgoyhen

  • Molecular cloning and chromosomal localization of the human α7-nicotinic receptor subunit gene (CHRNA7)

    Bice Chini;Elena Raimond;Ana Belen Elgoyhen;Daniela Moralli

  • High calcium permeability and calcium block of the α9 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Eleonora Katz;Miguel Verbitsky;Carla V. Rothlin;Douglas E. Vetter

  • The α10 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit is required for normal synaptic function and integrity of the olivocochlear system

    Douglas E. Vetter;Eleonora Katz;Eleonora Katz;Stéphane F. Maison;Stéphane F. Maison;Julia N. Taranda;Julia N. Taranda

  • A point mutation in the hair cell nicotinic cholinergic receptor prolongs cochlear inhibition and enhances noise protection.

    Julian Taranda;Stéphane F Maison;Jimena A Ballestero;Eleonora Katz

  • Current pharmacological treatments for tinnitus.

    Berthold Langguth;Ana Belén Elgoyhen

  • Cochlear hair cells: The sound‐sensing machines

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  • The α9α10 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor is permeable to and is modulated by divalent cations

    Noelia Weisstaub;Douglas E Vetter;Ana Belén Elgoyhen;Eleonora Katz;Eleonora Katz

  • Tinnitus: network pathophysiology-network pharmacology.

    Ana Belen Elgoyhen;Berthold Langguth;Sven Vanneste;Dirk De Ridder

  • Identification of the subunits of the nicotinic cholinergic receptors in the rat cochlea using RT-PCR and in situ hybridization

    Barbara J. Morley;Ha Sheng Li;Hakim Hiel;Dennis G. Drescher

Frequent Co-Authors

Berthold Langguth
Berthold Langguth University of Regensburg
Paul Albert Fuchs
Paul Albert Fuchs Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dirk De Ridder
Dirk De Ridder University of Otago
Sven Vanneste
Sven Vanneste Trinity College Dublin
Stephen F. Heinemann
Stephen F. Heinemann Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Martin Schecklmann
Martin Schecklmann University of Regensburg
Winfried Schlee
Winfried Schlee University of Regensburg
Richard Salvi
Richard Salvi University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Dwight E. Bergles
Dwight E. Bergles Johns Hopkins University
Elisabeth Glowatzki
Elisabeth Glowatzki Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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