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Overview

Kay Brune is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily focusing on neuroscience and medicine, with specific contributions in cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect

One of their recent publications is titled A Genome-wide Drosophila Screen for Heat Nociception Identifies α2δ3 as an Evolutionarily Conserved Pain Gene, published in 2020 through UNC Libraries.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kay Brune include:

  • G. Gregory Neely
  • Andreas Heß
  • Michael Costigan
  • Alex C. Keene
  • Spyros Goulas

Their work has been published in venues including:

  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • Engineered heart tissue grafts improve systolic and diastolic function in infarcted rat hearts

    Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann;Ivan Melnychenko;Gerald Wasmeier;Michael Didié

  • Cyclooxygenase-2—10 Years Later

    Burkhard Hinz;Kay Brune

  • Acetaminophen (paracetamol) is a selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor in man

    Burkhard Hinz;Olga Cheremina;Kay Brune

  • Reversal of pathological pain through specific spinal GABAA receptor subtypes.

    Julia Knabl;Robert Witschi;Katharina Hösl;Heiko Reinold

  • New insights into the use of currently available non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

    Kay Brune;Paola Patrignani

  • Advances in NSAID development: evolution of diclofenac products using pharmaceutical technology.

    Roy Altman;Bill Bosch;Kay Brune;Paola Patrignani

  • Up-regulation of cyclooxygenase-2 mRNA in the rat spinal cord following peripheral inflammation

    Flora Beiche;Stefan Scheuerer;Kay Brune;Gerd Geisslinger

  • Blockade of TNF-α rapidly inhibits pain responses in the central nervous system

    Andreas Hess;Roland Axmann;Juergen Rech;Stefanie Finzel

  • Importance of Kupffer cells for T-cell-dependent liver injury in mice.

    Jens Schümann;Dominik Wolf;Andreas Pahl;Kay Brune

  • Dissociation between the antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory effects of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. A survey of their analgesic efficacy.

    Keith McCormack;Kay Brune

  • A Genome-wide Drosophila Screen for Heat Nociception Identifies α2δ3 as an Evolutionarily Conserved Pain Gene

    G. Gregory Neely;G. Gregory Neely;Andreas Hess;Michael Costigan;Alex C. Keene

  • Engineering of vascularized transplantable bone tissues: induction of axial vascularization in an osteoconductive matrix using an arteriovenous loop.

    Ulrich Kneser;Elias Polykandriotis;Jan Ohnolz;Kristina Heidner

  • Women encounter ADRs more often than do men

    Y Zopf;C Rabe;A Neubert;K G Gassmann

  • Spinal inflammatory hyperalgesia is mediated by prostaglandin E receptors of the EP2 subtype

    Heiko Reinold;Seifollah Ahmadi;Ulrike B. Depner;Beate Layh

  • The Impact of Unlicensed and Off-Label Drug Use on Adverse Drug Reactions in Paediatric Patients

    Antje Neubert;Harald Dormann;Jutta Weiss;Tobias Egger

  • Incidence and costs of adverse drug reactions during hospitalisation: computerised monitoring versus stimulated spontaneous reporting.

    Harald Dormann;Uta Muth-Selbach;Sabine Krebs;Manfred Criegee-Rieck

  • Comparison of rofecoxib, celecoxib, and naproxen on renal function in elderly subjects receiving a normal-salt diet

    J. I. Schwartz;K. Vandormael;M. P. Malice;R. N. Kalyani

  • Possible role of oxygen free radicals in ethanol-induced gastric mucosal damage in rats.

    Istvan Szelenyi;Kay Brune

  • Aspirin-like drugs may block pain independently of prostaglandin synthesis inhibition.

    K. Brune;W. S. Beck;G. Geisslinger;S. Menzel-Soglowek

  • Central effect of the non-steroid anti-inflammatory agents, indometacin, ibuprofen, and diclofenac, determined in C fibre-evoked activity in single neurones of the rat thalamus

    Ilmar Jurna;Kay Brune

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerd Geisslinger
Gerd Geisslinger Goethe University Frankfurt
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer University of Zurich
Jörn Lötsch
Jörn Lötsch Goethe University Frankfurt
Gerd Kobal
Gerd Kobal University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Martin F. Fromm
Martin F. Fromm University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Eckhart G. Hahn
Eckhart G. Hahn University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Wolfgang Rascher
Wolfgang Rascher University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Hans-Christoph Diener
Hans-Christoph Diener University of Duisburg-Essen
Thomas Hummel
Thomas Hummel TU Dresden
Peter Greil
Peter Greil University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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