2026 Erin D. Milligan: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	53	5029	4621	2255	2036	107	14474

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

1665
Citations
Glial activation: a driving force for pathological pain.

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

1412
Citations
Spinal Glia and Proinflammatory Cytokines Mediate Mirror-Image Neuropathic Pain in Rats

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

876
Citations
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

838
Citations
Spinal cord glia: new players in pain.

Linda R Watkins;Erin D Milligan;Steven F Maier

506
Citations
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

495
Citations
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

468
Citations
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

438
Citations
Glial proinflammatory cytokines mediate exaggerated pain states: implications for clinical pain.

Linda R Watkins;Erin D Milligan;Steven F Maier

422
Citations
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

415
Citations
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

376
Citations
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

356
Citations
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

351
Citations
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

343
Citations
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

264
Citations
“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

230
Citations
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

227
Citations
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

211
Citations
Spinal gap junctions: Potential involvement in pain facilitation

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

204
Citations
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

197
Citations