Isaura Tavares

Overview

Best Publications

• Descending control of nociception: Specificity, recruitment and plasticity.

  M M Heinricher;I Tavares;I Tavares;J L Leith;B M Lumb

  1127
  Citations

• GABA decreases in the spinal cord dorsal horn after peripheral neurectomy

  JoséM. Castro-Lopes;Isaura Tavares;Antonio Coimbra

  321
  Citations

• Amidated and Ibuprofen-Conjugated Kyotorphins Promote Neuronal Rescue and Memory Recovery in Cerebral Hypoperfusion Dementia Model.

  Sónia Sá Santos;Sara M. Santos;Antónia R. T. Pinto;Vasanthakumar G. Ramu

  254
  Citations

• Increase in GABAergic Cells and GABA Levels in the Spinal Cord in Unilateral Inflammation of the Hindlimb in the Rat.

  J. M. Castro-Lopes;Isaura Tavares;T. R. Tölle;Ana Coito

  117
  Citations

• Carrageenan-induced inflammation of the hind foot provokes a rise of GABA-immunoreactive cells in the rat spinal cord that is prevented by peripheral neurectomy or neonatal capsaicin treatment

  J M Castro-Lopes;I Tavares;T R Tölle;A Coimbra

  114
  Citations

• Reticular Formation and Pain: The Past and the Future.

  Isabel Martins;Isaura Tavares

  112
  Citations

• “Hotheaded”: The role OF TRPV1 in brain functions

  D. Martins;I. Tavares;C. Morgado;C. Morgado

  98
  Citations

• Minocycline completely reverses mechanical hyperalgesia in diabetic rats through microglia-induced changes in the expression of the potassium chloride co-transporter 2 (KCC2) at the spinal cord.

  C. Morgado;P. Pereira-Terra;C. D. Cruz;I. Tavares

  97
  Citations

• Neurons in the superficial dorsal horn of the rat spinal cord projecting to the medullary ventrolateral reticular formation express c-fos after noxious stimulation of the skin.

  I. Tavares;D. Lima;A. Coimbra

  90
  Citations

• Descending projections from the medullary dorsal reticular nucleus make synaptic contacts with spinal cord lamina I cells projecting to that nucleus: An electron microscopic tracer study in the rat

  A. Almeida;I. Tavares;D. Lima;A. Coimbra

  86
  Citations

• Descending projections from the caudal medulla oblongata to the superficial or deep dorsal horn of the rat spinal cord.

  I. Tavares;D. Lima

  81
  Citations

• Participation of μ-opioid, GABAB, and NK1 receptors of major pain control medullary areas in pathways targeting the rat spinal cord: Implications for descending modulation of nociceptive transmission

  Marta Pinto;Marta Sousa;Marta Sousa;Deolinda Lima;Deolinda Lima;Isaura Tavares;Isaura Tavares

  80
  Citations

• Brain afferents to the medullary dorsal reticular nucleus: a retrograde and anterograde tracing study in the rat.

  Armando Almeida;Angeles Cobos;Isaura Tavares;Deolinda Lima

  78
  Citations

• The caudal ventrolateral medulla as an important inhibitory modulator of pain transmission in the spinal cord.

  Isaura Tavares;Deolinda Lima

  77
  Citations

• Projection sites of superficial and deep spinal dorsal horn cells in the nucleus tractus solitarii of the rat

  Filomena O Gamboa-Esteves;Isaura Tavares;Armando Almeida;Trevor F.C Batten

  72
  Citations

• Neuronal hyperactivity at the spinal cord and periaqueductal grey during painful diabetic neuropathy: Effects of gabapentin

  Carla Morgado;Patrícia Pereira Terra;Isaura Tavares

  67
  Citations

• Diabetes affects the expression of GABA and potassium chloride cotransporter in the spinal cord: a study in streptozotocin diabetic rats.

  Carla Morgado;Filipa Pinto-Ribeiro;Isaura Tavares;Isaura Tavares

  64
  Citations

• The ventrolateral medulla of the rat is connected with the spinal cord dorsal horn by an indirect descending pathway relayed in the A5 noradrenergic cell group.

  Isaura Tavares;Deolinda Lima;Antonio Coimbra

  63
  Citations

• Reversal of neuropathic pain by HSV-1-mediated decrease of noradrenaline in a pain facilitatory area of the brain

  I Martins;S Costa-Araújo;J Fadel;S P Wilson

  63
  Citations

• Changes in serotoninergic and noradrenergic descending pain pathways during painful diabetic neuropathy: the preventive action of IGF1.

  Carla Morgado;Liliana Silva;Patrícia Pereira-Terra;Isaura Tavares

  63
  Citations