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Neuroscience

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Citations
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65
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
  • 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Kjell Fuxe is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as molecular biology. Additional areas of study include physiology, social psychology, and developmental neuroscience.

The scientist's work explores several main topics, such as receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuropeptides and animal physiology, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, and pharmacological receptor mechanisms and effects.

Frequent publication venues for Kjell Fuxe include:

  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • Cells
  • Pharmacological Reports
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Notable recent papers by Kjell Fuxe include:

  • The Role of Central Serotonin Neurons and 5-HT Heteroreceptor Complexes in the Pathophysiology of Depression: A Historical Perspective and Future Prospects (2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • The oxytocin receptor represents a key hub in the GPCR heteroreceptor network: potential relevance for brain and behavior (2022, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience)
  • Existence of FGFR1-5-HT1AR heteroreceptor complexes in hippocampal astrocytes. Putative link to 5-HT and FGF2 modulation of hippocampal gamma oscillations (2020, Neuropharmacology)
  • Molecular, biochemical and behavioural evidence for a novel oxytocin receptor and serotonin 2C receptor heterocomplex (2020, Neuropharmacology)
  • Galanin and Neuropeptide Y Interaction Enhances Proliferation of Granule Precursor Cells and Expression of Neuroprotective Factors in the Rat Hippocampus with Consequent Augmented Spatial Memory (2022, Biomedicines)

Kjell Fuxe collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Dasiel O. Borroto-Escuela
  • Manuel Narváez
  • Luca Ferraro
  • Minerva Crespo-Ramírez
  • Miguel Pérez de la Mora

In recognition of academic achievements, Kjell Fuxe was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 1989.

Best Publications

  • EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF MONOAMINE NEURONS IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. 3. THE MONOAMINE NERVE TERMINAL.

    Kjell Fuxe

  • Ascending Monoamine Neurons to the Telencephalon and Diencephalon

    N.-E. Andén;A. Dahlström;K. Fuxe;K. Larsson

  • Acetylcholine receptors containing the β2 subunit are involved in the reinforcing properties of nicotine

    Marina R. Picciotto;Marina R. Picciotto;Michele Zoli;Roberto Rimondini;Clément Léna

  • Receptor activity and turnover of dopamine and noradrenaline after neuroleptics.

    Nils-Erik Andén;Sherrel G. Butcher;Hans Corrodi;Kjell Fuxe

  • Immunohistochemical evidence for the existence of adrenaline neurons in the rat brain

    T. Ho¨kfelt;K. Fuxe;M. Goldstein;O. Johansson

  • Demonstration and mapping out of nigro-neostriatal dopamine neurons

    Anden Ne;Carlsson A;Dahlstroem A;Fuxe K

  • Evidence for dopamine receptor stimulation by apomorphine

    Nils-Erik Andén;Allan Rubenson;Kjell Fuxe;Tomas Hökfelt

  • Adenosine–dopamine receptor–receptor interactions as an integrative mechanism in the basal ganglia

    Sergi Ferré;Kjell Fuxe;Bertil B. Fredholm;Micaela Morelli

  • Localization of monoamines in the lower brain stem.

    Annica Dahlström;K. Fuxe

  • Evidence for a central noradrenaline receptor stimulation by clonidine.

    N.-E. Andén;H. Corrodi;K. Fuxe;B. Hökfelt

  • Effect of antidepressant drugs on the depletion of intraneuronal brain 5-hydroxytryptamine stores caused by 4-methyl-α-ethyl-meta-tyramine

    Arvid Carlsson;Hans Corrodi;Kjell Fuxe;Tomas Hökfelt

  • Mapping of glucocorticoid receptor immunoreactive neurons in the rat tel- and diencephalon using a monoclonal antibody against rat liver glucocorticoid receptor.

    Kjell Fuxe;Ann-Charlotte Wikström;Sam Okret;Luigi F. Agnati

  • CELLULAR LOCALIZATION OF MONOAMINES IN THE SPINAL CORD.

    Arvid Carlsson;Bengt Falck;Kjell Fuxe;Nils‐Åre Hillarp

  • Intercellular communication in the brain: wiring versus volume transmission.

    Luigi Francesco Agnati;Michele Zoli;I. Stromberg;K. Fuxe

  • Stimulation of high-affinity adenosine A2 receptors decreases the affinity of dopamine D2 receptors in rat striatal membranes.

    S Ferre;G von Euler;B Johansson;B B Fredholm

  • On the projections from the locus coeruleus noradrenaline neurons: The cerebellar innervation

    Lars Olson;Kjell Fuxe

  • Ibotenic acid-induced neuronal degeneration: a morphological and neurochemical study.

    R. Schwarcz;T. Hökfelt;K. Fuxe;G. Jonsson

  • Coaggregation, cointernalization, and codesensitization of adenosine A2A receptors and dopamine D2 receptors

    Joëlle A. Hillion;Meritxell Canals;Maria Torvinen;Vicent Casado

  • Distribution of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) in the central nervous system as revealed with immunohistochemistry.

    T Hökfelt;K Fuxe;O Johansson;S Jeffcoate

  • Targeting adenosine A2A receptors in Parkinson's disease.

    Michael A. Schwarzschild;Luigi Agnati;Kjell Fuxe;Jiang-Fan Chen

  • Effects of some antidepressant drugs on the depletion of intraneuronal brain catecholamine stores caused by 4,α-dimethyl-meta-tyramine

    Arvid Carlsson;Hans Corrodi;Kjell Fuxe;Tomas Hökfelt

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi F. Agnati
Luigi F. Agnati University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Dasiel O. Borroto-Escuela
Dasiel O. Borroto-Escuela Karolinska Institute
Menek Goldstein
Menek Goldstein New York University
Tomas Hökfelt
Tomas Hökfelt Karolinska Institute
Michele Zoli
Michele Zoli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Kurt Andersson
Kurt Andersson Karolinska Institute
Sergi Ferré
Sergi Ferré National Institute on Drug Abuse
Sergio Tanganelli
Sergio Tanganelli University of Ferrara
Luca Ferraro
Luca Ferraro University of Ferrara
Anders Härfstrand
Anders Härfstrand Karolinska Institute

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