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Luda Diatchenko

Luda Diatchenko

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Medicine

D-Index
77
Citations
31392
World Ranking
18270
National Ranking
768

Overview

Luda Diatchenko is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a significant number of publications exploring various subfields such as Physiology, Molecular Biology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Pharmacology.

The main topics of their work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research, Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Pharmacological Receptor Mechanisms and Effects, and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling.

Diatchenko has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequent publications in the following journals and platforms:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation

Their recent research papers include:

  • "Acute inflammatory response via neutrophil activation protects against the development of chronic pain," 2022, Science Translational Medicine
  • "Single cell transcriptomics of primate sensory neurons identifies cell types associated with chronic pain," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Microglia-mediated degradation of perineuronal nets promotes pain," 2022, Science
  • "Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals time- and sex-specific responses of mouse spinal cord microglia to peripheral nerve injury and links ApoE to chronic pain," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "A prognostic risk score for development and spread of chronic pain," 2023, Nature Medicine

Diatchenko has collaborated frequently with several researchers in the field, including William Maixner, Marc Parisien, Gary D. Slade, Shad B. Smith, and Roger B. Fillingim.

Best Publications

  • Suppression subtractive hybridization: a method for generating differentially regulated or tissue-specific cDNA probes and libraries

    Luda Diatchenko;Yun-Fai Chris Lau;Aaron P. Campbell;Alex Chenchik

  • Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.

    Robert L Strausberg;Elise A Feingold;Lynette H Grouse;Jeffery G Derge

  • Genetic basis for individual variations in pain perception and the development of a chronic pain condition

    Luda Diatchenko;Gary D. Slade;Andrea G. Nackley;Konakporn Bhalang

  • Human Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Haplotypes Modulate Protein Expression by Altering mRNA Secondary Structure

    A. G. Nackley;S. A. Shabalina;I. E. Tchivileva;K. Satterfield

  • Painful Temporomandibular Disorder Decade of Discovery from OPPERA Studies

    G.D. Slade;R. Ohrbach;J.D. Greenspan;R.B. Fillingim

  • GTP cyclohydrolase and tetrahydrobiopterin regulate pain sensitivity and persistence

    Irmgard Tegeder;Michael Costigan;Robert S Griffin;Andrea Abele

  • Suppression subtractive hybridization: a versatile method for identifying differentially expressed genes.

    Luda Diatchenko;Sergey Lukyanov;Yun-Fai Chris Lau;Paul D. Siebert

  • Psychological Factors Associated With Development of TMD: The OPPERA Prospective Cohort Study

    Roger B. Fillingim;Richard Ohrbach;Joel D. Greenspan;Charles Knott

  • Orofacial Pain Prospective Evaluation and Risk Assessment Study – The OPPERA Study

    William Maixner;Luda Diatchenko;Ronald Dubner;Roger B. Fillingim

  • Idiopathic pain disorders--pathways of vulnerability.

    Luda Diatchenko;Andrea G. Nackley;Gary D. Slade;Roger B. Fillingim

  • Catechol-O-methyltransferase gene polymorphisms are associated with multiple pain-evoking stimuli

    Luda Diatchenko;Andrea G. Nackley;Gary D. Slade;Kanokporn Bhalang

  • Genetically determined P2X7 receptor pore formation regulates variability in chronic pain sensitivity.

    Robert E. Sorge;Tuan Trang;Ruslan Dorfman;Shad B. Smith

  • Caveolin-1 is down-regulated in human ovarian carcinoma and acts as a candidate tumor suppressor gene.

    Kai Wiechen;Luda Diatchenko;Alexander Agoulnik;K. Michael Scharff

  • Summary of findings from the OPPERA prospective cohort study of incidence of first-onset temporomandibular disorder: implications and future directions.

    Gary D. Slade;Roger B. Fillingim;Anne E. Sanders;Eric Bair

  • PCR-based subtractive hybridization and differences in gene content among strains of Helicobacter pylori

    Natalia S. Akopyants;Arkady Fradkov;Luda Diatchenko;Jason E. Hill

  • Equalizing cDNA subtraction based on selective suppression of polymerase chain reaction: cloning of Jurkat cell transcripts induced by phytohemaglutinin and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate.

    Nadya G. Gurskaya;Luda Diatchenko;Alex Chenchik;Paul D. Siebert

  • Pain perception is altered by a nucleotide polymorphism in SCN9A

    Frank Reimann;James J. Cox;Inna Belfer;Luda Diatchenko

  • 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

  • Catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibition increases pain sensitivity through activation of both β2- and β3-adrenergic receptors

    Andrea Gail Nackley;Kai Soo Tan;Karamarie Fecho;Patrick Flood

  • Influence of psychological factors on risk of temporomandibular disorders

    G.D. Slade;L. Diatchenko;K. Bhalang;A. Sigurdsson

Frequent Co-Authors

William Maixner
William Maixner Duke University
Roger B. Fillingim
Roger B. Fillingim University of Florida
Gary D. Slade
Gary D. Slade University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joel D. Greenspan
Joel D. Greenspan University of Maryland, Baltimore
Jeffrey S. Mogil
Jeffrey S. Mogil McGill University
Nikolay V. Dokholyan
Nikolay V. Dokholyan Pennsylvania State University
Ronald Dubner
Ronald Dubner University of Maryland, Baltimore
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen
Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen University of Copenhagen
Inês Barroso
Inês Barroso University of Exeter

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