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Austria
2023

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Neuroscience

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64
Citations
17444
World Ranking
3227
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Jürgen Sandkühler is affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant emphasis on cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, and behavioral neuroscience. The subfields of their work also extend into molecular biology and neurology.

The main topics of Sandkühler's research include:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation

Sandkühler has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Molecular Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Pain
  • Glia

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Sandkühler are:

  • "GABAergic CaMKIIα+ Amygdala Output Attenuates Pain and Modulates Emotional-Motivational Behavior via Parabrachial Inhibition" (2022), published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Interferon-γ facilitates the synaptic transmission between primary afferent C-fibres and lamina I neurons in the rat spinal dorsal horn via microglia activation" (2020), published in Molecular Pain
  • "Lamina-specific properties of spinal astrocytes" (2021), published in Glia
  • "Fundamental sex differences in morphine withdrawal-induced neuronal plasticity" (2020), published in Pain
  • "Spontaneous, Voluntary, and Affective Behaviours in Rat Models of Pathological Pain" (2021), published in Frontiers in Pain Research

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Sandkühler's work. Frequent co-authors include Roni Hogri, Bernhard Heinke, Lidia Trofimova, Hannah Luise Teuchmann, and Ruth Drdla-Schutting.

Best Publications

  • Models and Mechanisms of Hyperalgesia and Allodynia

    Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Corelease of two fast neurotransmitters at a central synapse

    Peter Jonas;Josef Bischofberger;Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Synaptic plasticity in spinal lamina I projection neurons that mediate hyperalgesia.

    Hiroshi Ikeda;Bernhard Heinke;Bernhard Heinke;Ruth Ruscheweyh;Ruth Ruscheweyh;Jürgen Sandkühler;Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Neurogenic neuroinflammation: inflammatory CNS reactions in response to neuronal activity

    Dimitris N. Xanthos;Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Learning and memory in pain pathways

    Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Synaptic Amplifier of Inflammatory Pain in the Spinal Dorsal Horn

    Hiroshi Ikeda;Johanna Stark;Harald Fischer;Matthias Wagner

  • Understanding LTP in pain pathways

    Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Low-Frequency Stimulation of Afferent Aδ-Fibers Induces Long-Term Depression at Primary Afferent Synapses with Substantia Gelatinosa Neurons in the Rat

    J. Sandkühler;J. G. Chen;G. Cheng;M. Randić

  • Induction of long‐term potentiation at spinal synapses by noxious stimulation or nerve injury

    Jürgen Sandkühler;Xianguo Liu

  • Perceptual correlates of nociceptive long-term potentiation and long-term depression in humans.

    Thomas Klein;Walter Magerl;Hanns-Christian Hopf;Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Long-term potentiation of C-fiber-evoked potentials in the rat spinal dorsal horn is prevented by spinal N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor blockage.

    X.-G. Liu;J. Sandkühler

  • Characterization of long-term potentiation of C-fiber-evoked potentials in spinal dorsal horn of adult rat: essential role of NK1 and NK2 receptors.

    X.-G. Liu;J. Sandkühler

  • Relative contributions of the nucleus raphe magnus and adjacent medullary reticular formation to the inhibition by stimulation in the periaqueductal gray of a spinal nociceptive reflex in the pentobarbital-anesthetized rat

    J. Sandkühler;G.F. Gebhart

  • The organization and function of endogenous antinociceptive systems

    J. Sandkühler

  • Characterization of inhibition of a spinal nociceptive reflex by stimulation medially and laterally in the midbrain and medulla in the pentobarbital-anesthetized rat.

    J. Sandkühler;G.F. Gebhart

  • Induction of Synaptic Long-Term Potentiation After Opioid Withdrawal

    Ruth Drdla;Matthias Gassner;Ewald Gingl;Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Long-term potentiation in spinal nociceptive pathways as a novel target for pain therapy.

    Ruth Ruscheweyh;Oliver Wilder-Smith;Ruth Drdla;Xian-Guo Liu

  • Physiological, neurochemical and morphological properties of a subgroup of GABAergic spinal lamina II neurones identified by expression of green fluorescent protein in mice

    Bernhard Heinke;Ruth Ruscheweyh;Liesbeth Forsthuber;Gabriele Wunderbaldinger

  • Lamina-specific membrane and discharge properties of rat spinal dorsal horn neurones in vitro

    Ruth Ruscheweyh;Ruth Ruscheweyh;Jürgen Sandkühler;Jürgen Sandkühler

  • Induction of Thermal Hyperalgesia and Synaptic Long-Term Potentiation in the Spinal Cord Lamina I by TNF-α and IL-1β is Mediated by Glial Cells

    Doris Gruber-Schoffnegger;Ruth Drdla-Schutting;Christoph Hönigsperger;Gabriele Wunderbaldinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred Zimmermann
Manfred Zimmermann Heidelberg University
Xian-Guo Liu
Xian-Guo Liu Sun Yat-sen University
Gerald F. Gebhart
Gerald F. Gebhart University of Pittsburgh
Rolf-Detlef Treede
Rolf-Detlef Treede Heidelberg University
Walter Magerl
Walter Magerl Heidelberg University
Marzia Malcangio
Marzia Malcangio King's College London
Stefan Schwab
Stefan Schwab University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Wolfgang Kuschinsky
Wolfgang Kuschinsky Heidelberg University
Robert F. Schmidt
Robert F. Schmidt University of Würzburg
Ralf Schneggenburger
Ralf Schneggenburger École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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