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Bradley K. Taylor is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research focuses on areas such as physiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, pharmacology, molecular biology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Anesthesia and Pain Management
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Bradley K. Taylor has published multiple papers in prominent journals, demonstrating a particular focus on pain and neurobiology. Some recent papers include:

  • Targeting spinal neuropeptide Y1 receptor-expressing interneurons to alleviate chronic pain and itch, 2020, Progress in Neurobiology
  • Spinal neuropeptide Y Y1 receptor-expressing neurons are a pharmacotherapeutic target for the alleviation of neuropathic pain, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A Parabrachial-to-Amygdala Circuit That Determines Hemispheric Lateralization of Somatosensory Processing, 2022, Biological Psychiatry
  • Effect of Sex on Motor Function, Lesion Size, and Neuropathic Pain after Contusion Spinal Cord Injury in Mice, 2020, Journal of Neurotrauma
  • Endogenous µ-opioid receptor activity in the lateral and capsular subdivisions of the right central nucleus of the amygdala prevents chronic postoperative pain, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience Research

They have frequently published research in venues such as:

  • Journal of Pain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Anesthesiology
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Bradley K. Taylor works collaboratively with a number of co-authors, including Pranav Prasoon, Tyler S. Nelson, Paramita Basu, Diogo Francisco da Silva dos Santos, and Heather N. Allen. The extent of collaboration varies, with the highest number of joint publications being with Pranav Prasoon.

Best Publications

  • Epidermal growth factor receptor inhibition attenuates liver fibrosis and development of hepatocellular carcinoma.

    Bryan C. Fuchs;Yujin Hoshida;Tsutomu Fujii;Lan Wei

  • Constitutive μ-opioid receptor activity leads to long-term endogenous analgesia and dependence.

    Gregory Corder;Suzanne Doolen;Renee R. Donahue;Michele K Winter

  • Differential contribution of the two phases of the formalin test to the pattern of c-fos expression in the rat spinal cord: studies with remifentanil and lidocaine

    Catherine Abbadie;Bradley K Taylor;M.Alex Peterson;Allan I Basbaum

  • Extended Swimming Exercise Reduces Inflammatory and Peripheral Neuropathic Pain in Rodents

    Karen E. Kuphal;Karen E. Kuphal;Eugene E. Fibuch;Bradley K. Taylor;Bradley K. Taylor

  • Mesenchymal stem cells alone or ex vivo gene modified with endothelial nitric oxide synthase reverse age-associated erectile dysfunction.

    Trinity J. Bivalacqua;Weiwen Deng;Muammer Kendirci;Mustafa F. Usta

  • Effects of Mitochondrial Transplantation on Bioenergetics, Cellular Incorporation, and Functional Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury.

    Jenna L. Gollihue;Samir P. Patel;Khalid C. Eldahan;David H. Cox

  • Persistent cardiovascular and behavioral nociceptive responses to subcutaneous formalin require peripheral nerve input

    BK Taylor;MA Peterson;AI Basbaum

  • Stimulation of dopamine D2 receptors in the nucleus accumbens inhibits inflammatory pain

    Bradley K. Taylor;Chetan Joshi;Harmeeth Uppal

  • Tonic inhibition of chronic pain by neuropeptide Y

    Brian Solway;Soma C. Bose;Gregory Corder;Renee R. Donahue

  • The noradrenergic locus coeruleus as a chronic pain generator

    Bradley K. Taylor;Karin N. Westlund

  • Noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus contribute to neuropathic pain.

    Jennifer J. Brightwell;Bradley K. Taylor

  • Spinal 12-lipoxygenase-derived hepoxilin A3 contributes to inflammatory hyperalgesia via activation of TRPV1 and TRPA1 receptors

    Ann M. Gregus;Suzanne Doolen;Darren S. Dumlao;Matthew W. Buczynski

  • Intrathecal Rosiglitazone Acts at Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptor-γ to Rapidly Inhibit Neuropathic Pain in Rats

    Sajay B. Churi;Omar S. Abdel-Aleem;Kiranjeet K. Tumber;Heather Scuderi-Porter

  • Pituitary-adrenocortical responses to persistent noxious stimuli in the awake rat: Endogenous corticosterone does not reduce nociception in the formalin test

    Bradley K Taylor;S. F. Akana;M. A. Peterson;M. F. Dallman

  • Intrathecal neuropeptide Y reduces behavioral and molecular markers of inflammatory or neuropathic pain.

    A. B. Intondi;M. N. Dahlgren;M. A. Eilers;B. K. Taylor

  • Antihyperalgesic effects of intrathecal neuropeptide Y during inflammation are mediated by Y1 receptors

    Oludare B. Taiwo;Bradley K. Taylor

  • Spinal mechanisms of NPY analgesia

    Peter A. Smith;Timothy D. Moran;Fuad Abdulla;Kiranjeet K. Tumber

  • PPARγ activation blocks development and reduces established neuropathic pain in rats.

    Jenny Morgenweck;Ryan B Griggs;Renee R. Donahue;James E Zadina

  • Spinal inhibitory neurotransmission in neuropathic pain.

    Bradley K. Taylor

  • Activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ in brain inhibits inflammatory pain, dorsal horn expression of Fos, and local edema

    Jenny Morgenweck;Omar D Abdel-aleem;Katelyn C McNamara;Renee R. Donahue

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan I. Basbaum
Allan I. Basbaum University of California, San Francisco
Bret N. Smith
Bret N. Smith University of Kentucky
James E. Zadina
James E. Zadina Tulane University
Kenneth E. McCarson
Kenneth E. McCarson University of Kansas
Ernst Brodin
Ernst Brodin Karolinska Institute
John C. Gensel
John C. Gensel University of Kentucky
Olivier Thibault
Olivier Thibault University of Kentucky
Alexander G. Rabchevsky
Alexander G. Rabchevsky University of Kentucky
Howard J. Jacob
Howard J. Jacob AbbVie (United States)
Stacey Gabriel
Stacey Gabriel Broad Institute

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