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51
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8306
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5584
National Ranking
2475

Overview

Anne Z. Murphy is affiliated with Georgia State University in the United States. Their research spans across medicine and neuroscience, reflecting a broad engagement with physiological and behavioral studies at molecular and cellular levels.

The scientist has contributed to various subfields, including physiology, social psychology, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and behavioral neuroscience. Their work covers a range of topics with a focus on pain mechanisms and treatments, stress responses and cortisol regulation, neuroendocrine control of behavior, neuropeptides and animal physiology, prenatal substance exposure effects, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, as well as receptor mechanisms and signaling pathways.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Hannah J. Harder, Christopher T. Searles, Myurajan Rubaharan, Evan F. Fullerton, and Mary C. Karom, with collaboration counts ranging from six to nine shared works.

The scientist has published in notable venues, such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), where they have nine publications, along with multiple papers in the Journal of Neuroinflammation and Hormones and Behavior. Additional frequent platforms include Frontiers in Pain Research and Neuropharmacology.

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope and topical interests of the research:

  • Considering sex as a biological variable will require a global shift in science culture, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Sex- and Gender-Based Pharmacological Response to Drugs, 2021, Pharmacological Reviews
  • Three-dimensional morphometric analysis reveals time-dependent structural changes in microglia and astrocytes in the central amygdala and hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of heart failure rats, 2020, Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • Altered PVN-to-CA2 hippocampal oxytocin pathway and reduced number of oxytocin-receptor expressing astrocytes in heart failure rats, 2022, Journal of Neuroendocrinology
  • Perinatal opioid exposure leads to decreased social play in adolescent male and female rats: Potential role of oxytocin signaling in brain regions associated with social reward, 2023, Hormones and Behavior

Best Publications

  • Studying sex and gender differences in pain and analgesia: a consensus report

    Joel D. Greenspan;Rebecca M. Craft;Linda LeResche;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

  • Considering sex as a biological variable will require a global shift in science culture.

    Rebecca M. Shansky;Anne Z. Murphy

  • Characterization of the oxytocin system regulating affiliative behavior in female prairie voles.

    Heather E. Ross;Charlene D. Cole;Charlene D. Cole;Yoland Smith;Yoland Smith;Inga D. Neumann

  • Ventral striatopallidal oxytocin and vasopressin V1a receptors in the monogamous prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster).

    Miranda M. Lim;Anne Z. Murphy;Larry J. Young

  • Sex Differences in μ-Opioid Receptor Expression in the Rat Midbrain Periaqueductal Gray Are Essential for Eliciting Sex Differences in Morphine Analgesia

    Dayna R. Loyd;Xioaya Wang;Anne Z. Murphy

  • Physiologic progesterone reduces mitochondrial dysfunction and hippocampal cell loss after traumatic brain injury in female rats.

    Courtney L. Robertson;April Puskar;Gloria E. Hoffman;Anne Z. Murphy

  • Blockade of Toll-like receptor 4 attenuates morphine tolerance and facilitates the pain relieving properties of morphine.

    Lori N. Eidson;Anne Z. Murphy

  • Sex Differences in Microglia Activity within the Periaqueductal Gray of the Rat: A Potential Mechanism Driving the Dimorphic Effects of Morphine.

    Hillary H. Doyle;Lori N. Eidson;David M. Sinkiewicz;Anne Z. Murphy

  • Ovarian steroid modulation of seizure severity and hippocampal cell death after kainic acid treatment.

    G E Hoffman;N Moore;G Fiskum;A Z Murphy

  • Sex differences in the anatomical and functional organization of the periaqueductal gray-rostral ventromedial medullary pathway in the rat: a potential circuit mediating the sexually dimorphic actions of morphine.

    Dayna R. Loyd;Anne Z. Murphy

  • Directionally specific changes in arterial pressure induce differential patterns of fos expression in discrete areas of the rat brainstem: a double-labeling study for Fos and catecholamines.

    A. Z. Murphy;M. Ennis;M. T. Shipley;M. M. Behbehani

  • Activation of μ-Opioid Receptors in the Dorsal Striatum is Necessary for Adult Social Attachment in Monogamous Prairie Voles

    James P Burkett;Lauren L Spiegel;Kiyoshi Inoue;Anne Z Murphy

  • Estrogen Modulates the Visceromotor Reflex and Responses of Spinal Dorsal Horn Neurons to Colorectal Stimulation in the Rat

    Yaping Ji;Anne Z. Murphy;Richard J. Traub

  • The organization of preoptic-medullary circuits in the male rat: evidence for interconnectivity of neural structures involved in reproductive behavior, antinociception and cardiovascular regulation.

    A.Z Murphy;T.A Rizvi;M Ennis;M.T Shipley

  • Distribution of gonadal steroid receptor-containing neurons in the preoptic-periaqueductal gray-brainstem pathway: a potential circuit for the initiation of male sexual behavior.

    Anne Z. Murphy;Gloria E. Hoffman

  • Toll-like Receptor 4 Mediates Morphine-Induced Neuroinflammation and Tolerance via Soluble Tumor Necrosis Factor Signaling.

    Lori N Eidson;Kiyoshi Inoue;Larry J Young;Malu G Tansey

  • The Role of the Periaqueductal Gray in the Modulation of Pain in Males and Females: Are the Anatomy and Physiology Really that Different?

    Dayna R. Loyd;Anne Z. Murphy

  • Female rats are more vulnerable to the long-term consequences of neonatal inflammatory injury

    Jamie L. LaPrairie;Anne Z. Murphy

  • Neonatal injury alters adult pain sensitivity by increasing opioid tone in the periaqueductal gray.

    Jamie L. LaPrairie;Anne Z. Murphy

  • Persistent Pain Model Reveals Sex Difference in Morphine Potency

    Xiaoya Wang;Richard J. Traub;Anne Z. Murphy

Frequent Co-Authors

Gloria E. Hoffman
Gloria E. Hoffman Morgan State University
Richard J. Traub
Richard J. Traub University of Maryland, Baltimore
Larry J. Young
Larry J. Young Emory University
Michael M. Behbehani
Michael M. Behbehani University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Michael T. Shipley
Michael T. Shipley University of Maryland, Baltimore
Karen J. Berkley
Karen J. Berkley Florida State University
Joel D. Greenspan
Joel D. Greenspan University of Maryland, Baltimore
Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Lars Arendt-Nielsen Aalborg University
Brandon J. Aragona
Brandon J. Aragona University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Susan S. Taylor
Susan S. Taylor University of California, San Diego

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