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Erin D. Milligan

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Neuroscience

D-Index
53
Citations
14474
World Ranking
5029
National Ranking
2254

Erin D. Milligan 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 Erin D. Milligan sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 107 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Erin D. Milligan 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 Erin D. Milligan sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Erin D. Milligan is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and neuroscience. Their work primarily focuses on pediatric health, physiology, and behavioral neuroscience, with an emphasis on the effects of prenatal substance exposure and related health outcomes.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Their subfields of research cover:

  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Physiology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Pharmacology

Erin D. Milligan's research topics involve:

  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "The maternal-placental-fetal interface: Adaptations of the HPA axis and immune mediators following maternal stress and prenatal alcohol exposure," 2022, Experimental Neurology
  • "The LFA-1 antagonist BIRT377 reverses neuropathic pain in prenatal alcohol-exposed female rats via actions on peripheral and central neuroimmune function in discrete pain-relevant tissue regions," 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • "Peripheral versus central mechanisms of the cannabinoid type 2 receptor agonist AM1710 in a mouse model of neuropathic pain," 2020, Brain and Behavior
  • "Peripherally administered cannabinoid receptor 2 (CB2R) agonists lose anti-allodynic effects in TRPV1 knockout mice, while intrathecal administration leads to anti-allodynia and reduced GFAP, CCL2 and TRPV1 expression in the dorsal spinal cord and DRG," 2021, Brain Research
  • "Prenatal alcohol exposure alters mRNA expression for stress peptides, glucocorticoid receptor function and immune factors in acutely stressed neonatal brain," 2023, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

  • Experimental Neurology
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Brain and Behavior
  • Brain Research

The scientist has collaborated multiple times with several co-authors, such as:

  • Shahani Noor
  • Melody S. Sun
  • Daniel D. Savage
  • C. Fernando Valenzuela
  • Chaselyn D. Ruffaner-Hanson

Best Publications

  • Pathological and protective roles of glia in chronic pain

    Erin D. Milligan;Linda R. Watkins

  • Glial activation: a driving force for pathological pain.

    Linda R. Watkins;Erin D. Milligan;Steven F. Maier

  • Spinal Glia and Proinflammatory Cytokines Mediate Mirror-Image Neuropathic Pain in Rats

    Erin D. Milligan;Carin Twining;Marucia Chacur;Joseph Biedenkapp

  • Minocycline attenuates mechanical allodynia and proinflammatory cytokine expression in rat models of pain facilitation.

    Annemarie Ledeboer;Evan M. Sloane;Erin D. Milligan;Matthew G. Frank

  • Spinal cord glia: new players in pain.

    Linda R Watkins;Erin D Milligan;Steven F Maier

  • A Role for Proinflammatory Cytokines and Fractalkine in Analgesia, Tolerance, and Subsequent Pain Facilitation Induced by Chronic Intrathecal Morphine

    Ian N. Johnston;Erin D. Milligan;Julie Wieseler-Frank;Matthew G. Frank

  • Fractalkine (CX3CL1) and fractalkine receptor (CX3CR1) distribution in spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia under basal and neuropathic pain conditions.

    Gail M. Verge;Erin D. Milligan;Steve F. Maier;Linda R. Watkins

  • Glia as the “bad guys”: Implications for improving clinical pain control and the clinical utility of opioids

    Linda R. Watkins;Mark R. Hutchinson;Annemarie Ledeboer;Julie Wieseler-Frank

  • Glial proinflammatory cytokines mediate exaggerated pain states: implications for clinical pain.

    Linda R Watkins;Erin D Milligan;Steven F Maier

  • Intrathecal HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein gp120 Induces Enhanced Pain States Mediated by Spinal Cord Proinflammatory Cytokines

    Erin D. Milligan;Kevin A. O'Connor;Kien T. Nguyen;Charles B. Armstrong

  • A new model of sciatic inflammatory neuritis (SIN): induction of unilateral and bilateral mechanical allodynia following acute unilateral peri-sciatic immune activation in rats

    Marucia Chacur;Erin D Milligan;Lawrence S Gazda;Charles Armstrong

  • Evidence that exogenous and endogenous fractalkine can induce spinal nociceptive facilitation in rats.

    E. D. Milligan;V. Zapata;V. Zapata;M. Chacur;M. Chacur;D. Schoeniger

  • Intrathecal interleukin-10 gene therapy attenuates paclitaxel-induced mechanical allodynia and proinflammatory cytokine expression in dorsal root ganglia in rats.

    Annemarie Ledeboer;Brian M. Jekich;Evan M. Sloane;John H. Mahoney

  • Thermal hyperalgesia and mechanical allodynia produced by intrathecal administration of the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein, gp120

    Erin D. Milligan;Kristin K. Mehmert;Justin L. Hinde;Lewis O. Harvey

  • Controlling pathological pain by adenovirally driven spinal production of the anti-inflammatory cytokine, interleukin-10.

    Erin D. Milligan;Stephen J. Langer;Evan M. Sloane;Lin He

  • “Listening” and “talking” to neurons: Implications of immune activation for pain control and increasing the efficacy of opioids

    Linda R. Watkins;Mark R. Hutchinson;Erin D. Milligan;Steven F. Maier

  • Controlling neuropathic pain by adeno-associated virus driven production of the anti-inflammatory cytokine, interleukin-10.

    Erin D Milligan;Evan M Sloane;Stephen J Langer;Pedro E Cruz

  • An initial investigation of spinal mechanisms underlying pain enhancement induced by fractalkine, a neuronally released chemokine.

    E. Milligan;V. Zapata;V. Zapata;D. Schoeniger;M. Chacur;M. Chacur

  • Spinal gap junctions: Potential involvement in pain facilitation

    Leah E. Spataro;Evan M. Sloane;Erin D. Milligan;Julie Wieseler-Frank

  • Repeated intrathecal injections of plasmid DNA encoding interleukin-10 produce prolonged reversal of neuropathic pain.

    Erin D. Milligan;Evan M. Sloane;Stephen J. Langer;Travis S. Hughes

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda R. Watkins
Linda R. Watkins University of Colorado Boulder
Steven F. Maier
Steven F. Maier University of Colorado Boulder
Leslie A. Leinwand
Leslie A. Leinwand University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen Poole
Stephen Poole National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
Alexandros Makriyannis
Alexandros Makriyannis Northeastern University
Monika Fleshner
Monika Fleshner University of Colorado Boulder
Kevin J. Tracey
Kevin J. Tracey Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Mark R. Hutchinson
Mark R. Hutchinson University of Adelaide
Pedro E. Cruz
Pedro E. Cruz University of Florida
John Forsayeth
John Forsayeth University of California, San Francisco

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