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Donna L. Hammond is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States and has a scholarly focus primarily within the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their subfields of study include Physiology, Oncology, Dermatology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pharmaceutical Science.

The scientist's research topics encompass Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology, Chemotherapy-related skin toxicity, Ocular Surface and Contact Lens, Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery, Glaucoma and retinal disorders, and Ion channel regulation and function.

Donna L. Hammond has contributed to multiple journals, with publications appearing frequently in:

  • Pain
  • Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
  • Brain Research
  • Neurotherapeutics

Their recent papers include:

  • "Nicotinamide riboside relieves paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy and enhances suppression of tumor growth in tumor-bearing rats," 2020, Pain
  • "Nicotinamide Riboside Alleviates Corneal and Somatic Hypersensitivity Induced by Paclitaxel in Male Rats," 2022, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
  • "CaMKII binding to GluN2B at S1303 has no role in acute or inflammatory pain," 2020, Brain Research
  • "Allan Basbaum: third Editor-in-Chief of PAIN and finding joy in pain research," 2025, Pain
  • "Meeting the Challenges in Pain Therapeutics Development," 2025, Neurotherapeutics

Donna L. Hammond has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Marta V. Hamity
  • Stephanie R. White
  • Christopher Blum
  • Katherine N. Gibson-Corley
  • Sandra J. Kolker

Best Publications

  • Chemokines and Glycoprotein120 Produce Pain Hypersensitivity by Directly Exciting Primary Nociceptive Neurons

    Seog Bae Oh;Phuong B. Tran;Samantha E. Gillard;Robert W. Hurley

  • Chloride Regulation in the Pain Pathway

    Theodore J. Price;Fernando Cervero;Michael S. Gold;Donna L. Hammond

  • Peripheral and central substrates involved in the rostrad transmission of nociceptive information.

    Tony L. Yaksh;Donna L. Hammond

  • The Analgesic Effects of Supraspinal μ and δ Opioid Receptor Agonists Are Potentiated during Persistent Inflammation

    Robert W. Hurley;Donna L. Hammond

  • Gabapentin and Pregabalin Can Interact Synergistically with Naproxen to Produce Antihyperalgesia

    Robert W. Hurley;Debika Chatterjea;Meihua Rose Feng;Charles P. Taylor

  • Efflux of 5-hydroxytryptamine and noradrenaline into spinal cord superfusates during stimulation of the rat medulla.

    D L Hammond;G M Tyce;T L Yaksh

  • Morphine or U-50,488 suppresses Fos protein-like immunoreactivity in the spinal cord and nucleus tractus solitarii evoked by a noxious visceral stimulus in the rat.

    Donna L. Hammond;Robert Presley;K. R. Gogas;Allan I. Basbaum

  • Antagonism of stimulation-produced antinociception by intrathecal administration of methysergide or phentolamine

    Donna L. Hammond;Tony L. Yaksh

  • Changes in expression of sensory organ-specific microRNAs in rat dorsal root ganglia in association with mechanical hypersensitivity induced by spinal nerve ligation

    Benjamin T. Aldrich;Eli P. Frakes;Junko Kasuya;Donna L. Hammond

  • Inhibitory actions of delta 1-, delta 2-, and mu-opioid receptor agonists on excitatory transmission in lamina II neurons of adult rat spinal cord

    Steven R. Glaum;Richard J. Miller;Donna L. Hammond

  • Alterations in nociceptirve threshold and morphine-induced analgesia produced by intrathecally administered amine antagonists

    Herbert K. Proudfit;Herbert K. Proudfit;Donna L. Hammond;Donna L. Hammond

  • Pharmacological antagonism of the antinociceptive effects of serotonin in the rat spinal cord

    Claudia Schmauss;Donna L. Hammond;James W. Ochi;Tony L. Yaksh

  • Effects of intrathecally administered THIP, baclofen and muscimol on nociceptive threshold

    Donna L. Hammond;Edward J. Drower

  • Effects of intrathecally administered methysergide and yohimbine on microstimulation-produced antinociception in the rat

    Nicholas M. Barbaro;Donna L. Hammond;Howard L. Fields

  • ROLE OF SPINAL GAMMA -AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDA RECEPTORS IN FORMALIN-INDUCED NOCICEPTION IN THE RAT

    Megumi Kaneko;Donna L. Hammond

  • GABAergic modulation of nociceptive threshold: effects of THIP and bicuculline microinjected in the ventral medulla of the rat

    Edward J. Drower;Donna L. Hammond

  • Developmental alterations in nociceptive threshold, immunoreactive calcitonin gene-related peptide and substance P, and fluoride-resistant acid phosphatase in neonatally capsaicin-treated rats

    Donna L. Hammond;M. A. Ruda

  • Control Systems for Nociceptive Afferent Processing

    Donna L. Hammond

  • Functional aspects of bulbospinal monoaminergic projections in modulating processing of somatosensory information.

    Yaksh Tl;Hammond Dl;Tyce Gm

  • Contribution of Endogenous Enkephalins to the Enhanced Analgesic Effects of Supraspinal μ Opioid Receptor Agonists after Inflammatory Injury

    Robert W. Hurley;Donna L. Hammond

  • Systemic analgesic activity and .delta.-opioid selectivity in [2,6-dimethyl-Tyr1, D-Pen2, D-Pen5]enkephalin

    Donald W. Hansen;Awilda Stapelfeld;Michael A. Savage;Melvin Reichman

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert K. Proudfit
Herbert K. Proudfit University of Iowa
Gregg E. Homanics
Gregg E. Homanics University of Pittsburgh
Allan I. Basbaum
Allan I. Basbaum University of California, San Francisco
Anne Z. Murphy
Anne Z. Murphy Georgia State University
Howard L. Fields
Howard L. Fields University of California, San Francisco
Seog Bae Oh
Seog Bae Oh Seoul National University
Theodore J. Price
Theodore J. Price The University of Texas at Dallas
Jean-Marc Fritschy
Jean-Marc Fritschy University of Zurich
Nicholas M. Barbaro
Nicholas M. Barbaro The University of Texas at Austin
Michael S. Gold
Michael S. Gold University of Pittsburgh

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