Colin A. Nurse

Colin A. Nurse publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colin A. Nurse sits on this spectrum.

Colin A. Nurse D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colin A. Nurse sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Oxygen sensing in airway chemoreceptors

  Charlotte Youngson;Colin Nurse;Herman Yeger;Ernest Cutz

  522
  Citations

• Co‐release of ATP and ACh mediates hypoxic signalling at rat carotid body chemoreceptors

  Min Zhang;Huijun Zhong;Cathy Vollmer;Colin A. Nurse

  342
  Citations

• Neuroepithelial oxygen chemoreceptors of the zebrafish gill

  Michael G. Jonz;Ian M. Fearon;Colin A. Nurse

  227
  Citations

• Neurotransmission and neuromodulation in the chemosensory carotid body.

  Colin A. Nurse

  225
  Citations

• NADPH oxidase is an O2 sensor in airway chemoreceptors: Evidence from K+ current modulation in wild-type and oxidase-deficient mice

  Xiao Wen Fu;Dashou Wang;Colin A. Nurse;Mary C. Dinauer

  223
  Citations

• Neurotransmitter and neuromodulatory mechanisms at peripheral arterial chemoreceptors.

  Colin A. Nurse

  210
  Citations

• Neuroepithelial cells and associated innervation of the zebrafish gill: a confocal immunofluorescence study.

  Michael G. Jonz;Colin A. Nurse

  207
  Citations

• Development of oxygen sensing in the gills of zebrafish.

  Michael G. Jonz;Colin A. Nurse

  183
  Citations

• Developmental loss of hypoxic chemosensitivity in rat adrenomedullary chromaffin cells.

  R J Thompson;A Jackson;C A Nurse

  180
  Citations

• Expression of P2X2 and P2X3 receptor subunits in rat carotid body afferent neurones: role in chemosensory signalling

  Mona Prasad;Ian M. Fearon;Min Zhang;Michael Laing

  177
  Citations

• Whole-cell and perforated-patch recordings from O2-sensitive rat carotid body cells grown in short- and long-term culture.

  A. Stea;C. A. Nurse

  174
  Citations

• Hypoxia‐induced secretion of serotonin from intact pulmonary neuroepithelial bodies in neonatal rabbit

  X. W. Fu;C. A. Nurse;V. Wong;E. Cutz

  153
  Citations

• Formation of cholinergic synapses between dissociated sympathetic neurons and skeletal myotubes of the rat in cell culture

  Colin A. Nurse;Paul H. O'Lague

  140
  Citations

• Synaptic and paracrine mechanisms at carotid body arterial chemoreceptors

  Colin A. Nurse

  132
  Citations

• Detection of hypoxia-evoked ATP release from chemoreceptor cells of the rat carotid body

  Josef Buttigieg;Colin A. Nurse

  130
  Citations

• Signal processing at mammalian carotid body chemoreceptors.

  Colin A. Nurse;Nikol A. Piskuric

  119
  Citations

• Neurotransmitter mechanisms mediating low-glucose signalling in cocultures and fresh tissue slices of rat carotid body

  Min Zhang;Josef Buttigieg;Colin A. Nurse

  112
  Citations

• Expression of P2X2 and P2X3 receptor subunits in rat carotid body afferent neurones: role in chemosensory signalling

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  110
  Citations

• P2Y2 receptor activation opens pannexin‐1 channels in rat carotid body type II cells: potential role in amplifying the neurotransmitter ATP

  Min Zhang;Nikol A. Piskuric;Cathy Vollmer;Colin A. Nurse

  106
  Citations

• Comparative study of gill neuroepithelial cells and their innervation in teleosts and Xenopus tadpoles

  Heather A. Saltys;Michael G. Jonz;Michael G. Jonz;Colin A. Nurse

  106
  Citations