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Overview

David F. Cechetto is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, contributing to a variety of fields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Clinical Psychology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Physiology, and Neurology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics in healthcare and biomedical research, such as:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Global Health and Surgery
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Maternal and fetal healthcare

Key publications by David F. Cechetto include:

  • "White matter inflammation and cognitive function in a co-morbid metabolic syndrome and prodromal Alzheimer's disease rat model," published in 2020 in the Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • "Developing and implementing a novel mentorship model (4+ 1) for maternal, newborn and child health in Rwanda," published in 2020 in BMC Health Services Research
  • "I cannot say no when a pregnant woman needs my support to get to the health centre": involvement of community health workers in Rwanda's maternal health," published in 2020 in BMC Health Services Research
  • "Developing and implementing a model of equitable distribution of mentorship in districts with spatial inequities and maldistribution of human resources for maternal and newborn care in Rwanda," published in 2021 in BMC Health Services Research
  • "Microglial Inflammation and Cognitive Dysfunction in Comorbid Rat Models of Striatal Ischemic Stroke and Alzheimer's Disease: Effects of Antioxidant Catalase-SKL on Behavioral and Cellular Pathology," published in 2022 in Neuroscience

Frequent publication venues where the scientist's work appears include:

  • BMC Health Services Research
  • Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • Neuroscience
  • BMJ Open
  • International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship

Among regular collaborators, David F. Cechetto often coauthors with:

  • Anaclet Ngabonzima
  • Celestin Hategeka
  • Isaac Luginaah
  • Cynthia Kenyon
  • Panagiota Tryphonopoulos

Best Publications

  • Evidence for a viscerotopic sensory representation in the cortex and thalamus in the rat

    David F. Cechetto;Clifford B. Saper

  • Organization of visceral and limbic connections in the insular cortex of the rat.

    Gary V. Allen;Clifford B. Saper;Karen M. Hurley;David F. Cechetto

  • Autonomic responses and efferent pathways from the insular cortex in the rat.

    Y Yasui;C D Breder;C B Saper;C B Saper;D F Cechetto;D F Cechetto

  • Neurochemical organization of the hypothalamic projection to the spinal cord in the rat.

    David F. Cechetto;Clifford B. Saper

  • Spinal and trigeminal dorsal horn projections to the parabrachial nucleus in the rat.

    David F. Cechetto;David G. Standaert;Clifford B. Saper

  • Cerebrogenic Cardiac Arrhythmias: Cerebral Electrocardiographic Influences and Their Role in Sudden Death

    Stephen M. Oppenheimer;David F. Cechetto;Vladimir C. Hachinski

  • Insular cortex stimulation produces lethal cardiac arrhythmias: a mechanism of sudden death?

    Stephen M. Oppenheimer;John X. Wilson;Collette Guiraudon;David F. Cechetto;David F. Cechetto

  • Cardiac chronotropic organization of the rat insular cortex

    Stephen M. Oppenheimer;David F. Cechetto;David F. Cechetto

  • Functional and anatomical organization of cardiovascular pressor and depressor sites in the lateral hypothalamic area: I. descending projections

    Gary V. Allen;David F. Cechetto;David F. Cechetto

  • Cerebral Hemispheric Lateralization in Cardiac Autonomic Control

    Byung-Woo Yoon;Carlos A. Morillo;David F. Cechetto;Vladimir Hachinski

  • Connexin43 null mutation increases infarct size after stroke

    Ramin Siushansian;John F. Bechberger;David F. Cechetto;Vladimir C. Hachinski

  • Human forebrain activation by visceral stimuli.

    Andrew B. King;Ravi S. Menon;Ravi S. Menon;Vladimir Hachinski;Vladimir Hachinski;David F. Cechetto

  • Subcortical sites mediating sympathetic responses from insular cortex in rats.

    D. F. Cechetto;Shu Jun Chen

  • Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) immunoreactive projections from the thalamus to the striatum and amygdala in the rat.

    Yukihiko Yasui;Clifford B. Saper;David F. Cechetto;David F. Cechetto

  • The Insular Cortex and the Regulation of Cardiac Function.

    Stephen Oppenheimer;David Cechetto

  • Asymmetry of sympathetic consequences of experimental stroke.

    Vladimir C. Hachinski;Stephen M. Oppenheimer;John X. Wilson;Colette Guiraudon

  • Calcitonin gene-related peptide immunoreactivity in the visceral sensory cortex, thalamus, and related pathways in the rat.

    Yukihiko Yasui;Clifford B. Saper;David F. Cechetto

  • Autonomic and myocardial changes in middle cerebral artery occlusion: stroke models in the rat.

    David F. Cechetto;John X. Wilson;Karen E. Smith;Darryl Wolski

  • Propofol Anesthesia Compared to Awake Reduces Infarct Size in Rats

    Adrian W. Gelb;Nestor A. Bayona;John X. Wilson;David F. Cechetto

  • Inhibition of the firing of vasopressin neurons by atriopeptin

    David G. Standaert;David F. Cechetto;Philip Needleman;Clifford B. Saper

Frequent Co-Authors

Ravi S. Menon
Ravi S. Menon University of Western Ontario
Robert J. McDonald
Robert J. McDonald University of Lethbridge
Robert Bartha
Robert Bartha University of Western Ontario
Clifford B. Saper
Clifford B. Saper Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
John Ciriello
John Ciriello University of Western Ontario
J. Martin Wojtowicz
J. Martin Wojtowicz University of Toronto
David Westaway
David Westaway University of Alberta
Adam M. Brickman
Adam M. Brickman Columbia University
Julie A. Schneider
Julie A. Schneider Rush University Medical Center
Lenore J. Launer
Lenore J. Launer National Institutes of Health

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