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Overview

Luiz G.S. Branco is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and has contributed extensively to medical and neuroscience research. Their work spans multiple interconnected fields focusing primarily on physiology, neurobiology, and autonomic systems.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Within these domains, the research has further specialized into subfields:

  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Physiology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Neurology

Themes consistently addressed in their research involve a spectrum of neuroscience topics related to respiration, sleep, and autonomic regulation:

  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Thermal Regulation in Medicine

The scientific contributions have appeared regularly in several publication venues including:

  • The FASEB Journal
  • Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health

Representative recent papers authored by Luiz G.S. Branco or featuring their collaboration highlight ongoing interest in neuropharmacology, respiratory medicine, nutrition, and physiological responses:

  • "Can selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors have a neuroprotective effect during COVID-19?" (2020), European Journal of Pharmacology
  • "Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs Approach to Treatment of Sleep-disordered Breathing" (2020), American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "Maternal nutrition and its effects on fetal neurodevelopment" (2024), Nutrition
  • "Molecular hydrogen downregulates acute exhaustive exercise-induced skeletal muscle damage" (2020), Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
  • "Ventrolateral periaqueductal gray matter integrative system of defense and antinociception" (2022), Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology

Their network includes several frequent co-authors, reflecting collaborative research dynamics. Notable collaborators include:

  • Mateus R. Amorim
  • Evelin Capellari Cárnio
  • Renato Nery Soriano
  • Huy Pho
  • Vsevolod Y. Polotsky

Best Publications

  • Physiology of temperature regulation: comparative aspects.

    Kênia C. Bicego;Renata C.H. Barros;Luiz G.S. Branco

  • Effect of Physical Exercise on the Febrigenic Signaling is Modulated by Preoptic Hydrogen Sulfide Production.

    Jonatas Evandro Nogueira;Renato Nery Soriano;Rodrigo Alberto Restrepo Fernández;Heloísa Della Coletta Francescato

  • Hypoxia-Induced Anapyrexia: Implications and Putative Mediators

    Alexandre A. Steiner;Luiz G. S. Branco

  • Cold-seeking behavior as a thermoregulatory strategy in systemic inflammation.

    Maria C. Almeida;Alexandre A. Steiner;Luiz G. S. Branco;Andrej A. Romanovsky

  • Neural substrate of cold-seeking behavior in endotoxin shock.

    Maria C Almeida;Maria C Almeida;Alexandre A Steiner;Luiz G S Branco;Andrej A Romanovsky

  • Atrial natriuretic peptide and oxytocin induce natriuresis by release of cGMP

    T. J. Soares;T. M. Coimbra;A. R. Martins;A. G. F. Pereira

  • Hypoxic metabolic response of the golden-mantled ground squirrel

    Renata C. H. Barros;Mary E. Zimmer;Luiz Guilherme de Siqueira Branco;William K. Milsom

  • Cardiovascular responses to chemoreflex activation with potassium cyanide or hypoxic hypoxia in awake rats.

    Renata C.H. Barros;Leni G.H. Bonagamba;Roberta Okamoto-Canesin;Mauro de Oliveira

  • Thermoeffector neuronal pathways in fever: a study in rats showing a new role of the Locus coeruleus

    Maria Camila Almeida;Alexandre A. Steiner;Alexandre A. Steiner;Norberto Cysne Coimbra;Luiz Guilherme de Siqueira Branco

  • Antipyretic role of the NO-cGMP pathway in the anteroventral preoptic region of the rat brain

    Alexandre A. Steiner;José Antunes-Rodrigues;Samuel M. McCann;Luiz Guilherme de Siqueira Branco

  • Central chemoreceptor drive to breathing in unanesthetized toads, Bufo paracnemis.

    Luiz G.S. Branco;Mogens L. Glass;Anette Hoffmann

  • Role of the nitric oxide pathway in hypoxia-induced hypothermia of rats

    L. G. S. Branco;E. C. Carnio;R. C. H. Barros

  • Carbon monoxide is the heme oxygenase product with a pyretic action: evidence for a cGMP signaling pathway.

    Alexandre A. Steiner;Luiz G. S. Branco

  • Seasonal changes in the cardiovascular, respiratory and metabolic responses to temperature and hypoxia in the bullfrog Rana catesbeiana

    Priscila Lemos Rocha;Luiz Guilherme de Siqueira Branco

  • Nitric oxide in the regulation of body temperature and fever

    Alexandre A. Steiner;Luiz G.S. Branco

  • Raphe magnus nucleus is involved in ventilatory but not hypothermic response to CO2.

    Mirela B. Dias;Tatiane B. Nucci;Lisandra O. Margatho;José Antunes-Rodrigues

  • Temperature and central chemoreceptor drive to ventilation in toad (Bufo paracnemis).

    Luiz Guilherme S. Branco;Mogens L. Glass;Tobias Wang;Anette Hoffmann

  • Role of the haeme oxygenase/carbon monoxide pathway in mechanical nociceptor hypersensitivity

    A A Steiner;L G S Branco;F Q Cunha;S H Ferreira

  • Role of preoptic second messenger systems (cAMP and cGMP) in the febrile response.

    Alexandre A. Steiner;José Antunes-Rodrigues;Luiz Guilherme de Siqueira Branco

  • Central CO-heme oxygenase pathway raises body temperature by a prostaglandin-independent way

    Alexandre A. Steiner;Luiz G. S. Branco

Frequent Co-Authors

José Antunes-Rodrigues
José Antunes-Rodrigues Universidade de São Paulo
Norberto Garcia-Cairasco
Norberto Garcia-Cairasco Universidade de São Paulo
Norberto Cysne Coimbra
Norberto Cysne Coimbra Universidade de São Paulo
David Mendelowitz
David Mendelowitz George Washington University
Benedito H. Machado
Benedito H. Machado Universidade de São Paulo
Eduardo Colombari
Eduardo Colombari Sao Paulo State University
Quentin J. Pittman
Quentin J. Pittman University of Calgary
Gregory D. Funk
Gregory D. Funk University of Alberta
Shaun F. Morrison
Shaun F. Morrison Oregon Health & Science University

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