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Fernando Cervero

Fernando Cervero

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Neuroscience

D-Index
66
Citations
12901
World Ranking
3044
National Ranking
176

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Fernando Cervero is affiliated with the University of Alcalá in Spain. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with notable contributions across several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

The scientist's work centers on key topics such as Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, Empathy and Medical Education, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, and Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies. These topics reflect a broad and interdisciplinary approach within both clinical and experimental pain research.

Among the recent papers authored, one publication stands out:

  • Future perspectives: the next fifty years of the International Association for the Study of Pain, 2023, published in Pain

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fernando Cervero include:

  • Claudia Sommer
  • Margarita Calvo
  • John D. Loeser
  • Rolf-Detlef Treede

Research outputs have been predominantly published in the journal Pain, underscoring a thematic focus on pain-related topics.

In recognition of contributions to science, Fernando Cervero was awarded membership in the Academia Europaea in 1995.

Best Publications

  • Altered nociception, analgesia and aggression in mice lacking the receptor for substance P.

    Carmen De Felipe;Juan F. Herrero;John A. O'Brien;James A. Palmer

  • Sensory innervation of the viscera: peripheral basis of visceral pain.

    Unknown

  • A new model of visceral pain and referred hyperalgesia in the mouse

    Jennifer M. A. Laird;L. Martinez-Caro;E. Garcia-Nicas;F. Cervero

  • Mechanisms of touch-evoked pain (allodynia): a new model

    Fernando Cervero;Jennifer M.A. Laird

  • Deficits in visceral pain and referred hyperalgesia in Nav1.8 (SNS/PN3)-null mice.

    Jennifer M. A. Laird;Veronika Souslova;John N. Wood;Fernando Cervero

  • Neurobiology of Nociceptors

    Carlos Belmonte;Fernando Cervero

  • Chloride Regulation in the Pain Pathway

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

  • Deficits in visceral pain and hyperalgesia of mice with a disruption of the tachykinin NK1 receptor gene.

    J.M.A. Laird;T. Olivar;C. Roza;C. De Felipe

  • The tetrodotoxin-resistant Na+ channel Nav1.8 is essential for the expression of spontaneous activity in damaged sensory axons of mice

    Carolina Roza;Jennifer M.A. Laird;Veronika Souslova;John N. Wood

  • Visceral nociceptors: a new world order?

    Fernando Cervero;Wilfrid Jänig

  • Nociceptor-driven dorsal horn neurones in the lumbar spinal cord of the cat

    Unknown

  • Changes in tonic descending inhibition of spinal neurons with articular input during the development of acute arthritis in the cat

    H. G. Schaible;V. Neugebauer;F. Cervero;R. F. Schmidt

  • Role of cation-chloride-cotransporters (CCC) in pain and hyperalgesia.

    Theodore J. Price;Fernando Cervero;Yves de Koninck

  • Visceral pain: mechanisms of peripheral and central sensitization.

    Fernando Cervero

  • In vivo recruitment by painful stimuli of AMPA receptor subunits to the plasma membrane of spinal cord neurons

    Unknown

  • Tonic descending inhibition of spinal cord neurones driven by joint afferents in normal cats and in cats with an inflamed knee joint

    F Cervero;H G Schaible;R F Schmidt

  • Extracellular signaling-regulated kinase-1 and -2 (ERK 1/2) mediate referred hyperalgesia in a murine model of visceral pain.

    Alba Galan;Fernando Cervero;Jennifer M.A. Laird

  • Somatic and visceral primary afferents in the lower thoracic dorsal root ganglia of the cat.

    F. Cervero;F. Cervero;Lynne A. Connell;Sally N. Lawson

  • Presynaptic α2-GABAA Receptors in Primary Afferent Depolarization and Spinal Pain Control

    Robert Witschi;Pradeep Punnakkal;Jolly Paul;Jean Sébastien Walczak

  • Understanding the signaling and transmission of visceral nociceptive events.

    Unknown

  • Presynaptic {alpha}2-GABAA receptors in primary afferent depolarization and spinal pain control

    R Witschi;P Punnakkal;J Paul;J S Walczak

  • Activation of spinal extracellular signaling-regulated kinase-1 and -2 by intraplantar carrageenan in rodents.

    Alba Galan;J.Antonio Lopez-Garcia;Fernando Cervero;Jennifer M.A. Laird

  • Supraspinal influences on the facilitation of rat nociceptive reflexes induced by carrageenan monoarthritis

    Juan F. Herrero;Fernando Cervero

  • (127) Decreased nociceptive sensitization in mice lacking the fragile X mental retardation protein: Role of mGluR1/5 and mTOR

    T. Price;M. Rashid;M. Millecamps;R. Sanoja

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Belmonte
Carlos Belmonte Miguel Hernandez University
John Wood
John Wood University College London
Stephen P. Hunt
Stephen P. Hunt University College London
Jens Schouenborg
Jens Schouenborg Lund University
Richard A. Meyer
Richard A. Meyer Johns Hopkins University
Han-Rong Weng
Han-Rong Weng University of Georgia
James N. Campbell
James N. Campbell Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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