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  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lakshmi A. Devi is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, neuroscience, and medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, pharmacology, and astronomy and astrophysics.

The scientist's main topics of work include receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuropeptides and animal physiology, pharmacological receptor mechanisms and effects, pain mechanisms and treatments, cannabis and cannabinoid research, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Lakshmi A. Devi has authored numerous papers, with recent publications including:

  • "Diversity of molecular targets and signaling pathways for CBD" (2020), published in Pharmacology Research & Perspectives
  • "Five Decades of Research on Opioid Peptides: Current Knowledge and Unanswered Questions" (2020), published in Molecular Pharmacology
  • "Biased signaling by endogenous opioid peptides" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Oxytocin and vasopressin: Signalling, behavioural modulation and potential therapeutic effects" (2021), published in British Journal of Pharmacology
  • "Post-translational Modifications of Opioid Receptors" (2020), published in Trends in Neurosciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lakshmi A. Devi include Ivone Gomes, Achla Gupta, Amanda K. Fakira, Mariana Lemos Duarte, and Lloyd D. Fricker.

The scientist has published repeatedly in venues such as Molecular Pharmacology, IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE, The FASEB Journal, Astrophysics, and Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

Lakshmi A. Devi was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • G-protein-coupled receptor heterodimerization modulates receptor function

    Bryen A. Jordan;Lakshmi A. Devi

  • Heterodimerization of mu and delta opioid receptors: A role in opiate synergy.

    I. Gomes;B. A. Jordan;A. Gupta;N. Trapaidze

  • Dimerization of the delta opioid receptor: implication for a role in receptor internalization.

    Svetlana Cvejic;Lakshmi A. Devi

  • G Protein–Coupled Receptor Oligomerization Revisited: Functional and Pharmacological Perspectives

    Sergi Ferré;Vicent Casadó;Lakshmi A. Devi;Marta Filizola

  • A role for heterodimerization of μ and δ opiate receptors in enhancing morphine analgesia

    Ivone Gomes;Achla Gupta;Julija Filipovska;Hazel H. Szeto

  • The emerging functions of endocannabinoid signaling during CNS development

    Tibor Harkany;Manuel Guzmán;Ismael Galve-Roperh;Paul Berghuis

  • Building a new conceptual framework for receptor heteromers

    Sergi Ferré;Ruben Baler;Michel Bouvier;Marc G. Caron

  • Oligomerization of opioid receptors with β2-adrenergic receptors: A role in trafficking and mitogen-activated protein kinase activation

    B. A. Jordan;N. Trapaidze;I. Gomes;R. Nivarthi;R. Nivarthi

  • Bax cleavage is mediated by calpain during drug-induced apoptosis

    David E Wood;Anju Thomas;Anju Thomas;Lakshmi A Devi;Yemiliya Berman

  • G-protein-coupled receptor dimerization: modulation of receptor function

    C.D. Rios;B.A. Jordan;I. Gomes;L.A. Devi

  • μ opioid and CB1 cannabinoid receptor interactions: reciprocal inhibition of receptor signaling and neuritogenesis

    Carl Rios;Ivone Gomes;Lakshmi A Devi

  • Heterodimerization of G-protein-coupled receptors: pharmacology, signaling and trafficking.

    Lakshmi A Devi

  • International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. LXVII. Recommendations for the Recognition and Nomenclature of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Heteromultimers

    Jean Philippe Pin;Richard Neubig;Michel Bouvier;Lakshmi Devi

  • Hemopressin is an inverse agonist of CB1 cannabinoid receptors.

    Andrea S. Heimann;Ivone Gomes;Camila S. Dale;Rosana L. Pagano

  • Identification and characterization of proSAAS, a granin-like neuroendocrine peptide precursor that inhibits prohormone processing.

    Lloyd D. Fricker;Audra A. McKinzie;Jilin Sun;Eileen Curran

  • Dynamic changes of the endogenous cannabinoid and opioid mesocorticolimbic systems during adolescence: THC effects.

    M. Ellgren;A. Artmann;O. Tkalych;A. Gupta

  • G Protein–Coupled Receptor Heteromers

    Ivone Gomes;Mohammed Akli Ayoub;Wakako Fujita;Wakako Fujita;Werner C. Jaeger

  • D2 receptors regulate dopamine transporter function via an extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2-dependent and phosphoinositide 3 kinase-independent mechanism.

    Elizabeth A. Bolan;Bronwyn Kivell;Vanaja Jaligam;Murat Oz

  • Receptor heterodimerization leads to a switch in signaling: β-arrestin2-mediated ERK activation by μ-δ opioid receptor heterodimers

    Raphael Rozenfeld;Lakshmi A. Devi

  • Carboxypeptidase E activity is deficient in mice with the fat mutation. Effect on peptide processing.

    Lloyd D. Fricker;Yemiliya L. Berman;Edward H. Leiter;Lakshmi A. Devi

Frequent Co-Authors

Lloyd D. Fricker
Lloyd D. Fricker Albert Einstein College of Medicine
John E. Pintar
John E. Pintar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jean-Philippe Pin
Jean-Philippe Pin University of Montpellier
Ravi Iyengar
Ravi Iyengar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Michel Bouvier
Michel Bouvier University of Montreal
Martin J. Lohse
Martin J. Lohse ISAR Bioscience Institute
Jonathan A. Javitch
Jonathan A. Javitch Columbia University
Graeme Milligan
Graeme Milligan University of Glasgow
Kenneth D. Carr
Kenneth D. Carr New York University
William C. Wetsel
William C. Wetsel Duke University

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