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Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen

Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen

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Neuroscience

D-Index
52
Citations
11120
World Ranking
5286
National Ranking
63

Overview

Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their research focuses mainly on environmental science and immunology and microbiology, with specific work in the subfields of ecology, immunology, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist has contributed to topics including physiological and biochemical adaptations, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, as well as fish biology, ecology, and behavior.

Their recent publication record includes the paper titled Endocrine and scavenging cell functions of a juvenile fish heart atrium: Fine structure aspects and translating conjectures, published in 2023 in the journal Translational Research in Anatomy.

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  • Translational Research in Anatomy (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Aggressiveness, hypoalgesia and high blood pressure in mice lacking the adenosine A2a receptor.

    Catherine Ledent;Jean-Marie Vaugeois;Serge N. Schiffmann;Thierry Pedrazzini

  • Distribution of neuronal cannabinoid receptor in the adult rat brain: a comparative receptor binding radioautography and in situ hybridization histochemistry.

    Pierre Mailleux;Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen

  • Striatal restricted adenosine A2 receptor (RDC8) is expressed by enkephalin but not by substance P neurons: an in situ hybridization histochemistry study.

    Serge N. Schiffmann;Olivier Jacobs;Jean‐Jacques Vanderhaeghen

  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity in Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis

    J M Vanderwinden;P Mailleux;S N Schiffmann;J J Vanderhaeghen

  • The orphan receptor cDNA RDC7 encodes an A1 adenosine receptor.

    Frédérick Libert;Serge N. Schiffmann;Anne Lefort;Marc Parmentier

  • Fatal familial insomnia: Clinical and pathologic study of five new cases

    V. Manetto;R. Medori;P. Cortelli;P. Montagna

  • Distribution of adenosine A2 receptor mRNA in the human brain.

    Serge N. Schiffmann;Frédérick Libert;Gilbert Vassart;Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen

  • Distribution of cells containing mRNA encoding cholecystokinin in the rat central nervous system.

    Serge N. Schiffmann;Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen

  • Dopaminergic regulation of cannabinoid receptor mRNA levels in the rat caudate-putamen: an in situ hybridization study.

    Pierre Mailleux;Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen

  • Localization of cannabinoid receptor in the human developing and adult basal ganglia. Higher levels in the striatonigral neurons

    Pierre Mailleux;Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen

  • Extracellular matrix of central nervous system white matter: demonstration of an hyaluronate-protein complex.

    Richard R. Asher;George G. Perides;Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen;Amico A. Bignami

  • Distribution of cannabinoid receptor messenger RNA in the human brain: an in situ hybridization histochemistry with oligonucleotides.

    Philippe Mailleux;Marc Parmentier;Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen

  • Coexistence of cholecystokinin and oxytocin-neurophysin in some magnocellular hypothalamo-hypophyseal neurons.

    Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen;Françoise Lotstra;Frans Vandesande;Karen M E Dierickx

  • Cellular distribution of the new growth factor pleiotrophin (HB-GAM) mRNA in developing and adult rat tissues.

    Jean-Marie Vanderwinden;Pierre Mailleux;Serge N. Schiffmann;Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen

  • Demonstration of biological activity of brain gastrin-like peptidic material in the human: its relationship with the COOH-terminal octapeptide of cholecystokinin.

    P Robberecht;M Deschodt-Lanckman;J J Vanderhaeghen

  • Nitric oxide synthase distribution in the enteric nervous system of Hirschsprung's disease

    Jean Marie Vanderwinden;Marc Henri De Laet;Serge N. Schiffmann;Pierre Mailleux

  • Processing of proenkephalin is tissue-specific

    Dane Liston;Gilles Patey;Jean Rossier;Paul Verbanck

  • Presence in brain of synenkephalin, a proenkephalin-immunoreactive protein which does not contain enkephalin

    Dane R. Liston;Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen;Jean Rossier

  • Substance P, enkephalins, somatostatin, cholecystokinin, oxytocin, and vasopressin in human spinal cord

    J Schoenen;Françoise Lotstra;Godelieve Vierendeels;M Reznik

  • A cloned G protein-coupled protein with a distribution restricted to striatal medium-sized neurons. Possible relationship with D1 dopamine receptor.

    Serge N. Schiffmann;Frédérick Libert;Gilbert Vassart;Jacques Dumont

  • Cerebral amyloid angiopathy as a cause of multiple intracerebral hemorrhages.

    Christian Gilles;Jean Marie Brucher;P. Khoubesserian;Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge N. Schiffmann
Serge N. Schiffmann Université Libre de Bruxelles
Guy A. Orban
Guy A. Orban University of Parma
Wim Vanduffel
Wim Vanduffel Harvard University
Kjell Fuxe
Kjell Fuxe Karolinska Institute
Lothar Jennes
Lothar Jennes University of Kentucky
Paul Verbanck
Paul Verbanck Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jérôme Rossier
Jérôme Rossier University of Lausanne
Pasquale Montagna
Pasquale Montagna University of Bologna
Julien Mendlewicz
Julien Mendlewicz Université Libre de Bruxelles

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