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Overview

Marco Martina is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant contribution to subfields such as cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, and endocrine and autonomic systems.

The scientist's work spans several interconnected topics, including:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Electromagnetic wave absorption materials
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies

Marco Martina has published extensively in prominent venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Pain
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Journal of Pain
  • Composites Communications
  • Nature Communications

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Marco Martina include:

  • "Activation of the dorsal, but not the ventral, hippocampus relieves neuropathic pain in rodents" (2021, Pain)
  • "Excitatory VTA to DH projections provide a valence signal to memory circuits" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "A Leptin-Mediated Neural Mechanism Linking Breathing to Metabolism" (2020, Cell Reports)
  • "Differential Rearrangement of Excitatory Inputs to the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Chronic Pain Models" (2021, Frontiers in Neural Circuits)
  • "Adaptive alterations in the mesoaccumbal network after peripheral nerve injury" (2020, Pain)

Frequent collaborators in Marco Martina's work include:

  • Haram Kim
  • A. Vania Apkarian
  • Gabriella Sekerková
  • D. James Surmeier
  • Maria Virginia Centeno

Best Publications

  • Abnormalities in Hippocampal Functioning with Persistent Pain

    Amelia A. Mutso;Daniel Radzicki;Marwan N. Baliki;Lejian Huang

  • Functional and molecular differences between voltage-gated K^+ channels of fast-spiking interneurons and pyramidal neurons of rat hippocampus

    Marco Martina;Jobst H. Schultz;Heimo Ehmke;Hannah Monyer

  • Morphological and functional reorganization of rat medial prefrontal cortex in neuropathic pain.

    Alexia E. Metz;Hau Jie Yau;Maria Virginia Centeno;A. Vania Apkarian

  • Distal initiation and active propagation of action potentials in interneuron dendrites.

    Marco Martina;Imre Vida;Peter Jonas

  • Functional differences in Na+ channel gating between fast-spiking interneurones and principal neurones of rat hippocampus

    Marco Martina;Peter Jonas

  • Scapuloperoneal spinal muscular atrophy and CMT2C are allelic disorders caused by alterations in TRPV4.

    Han Xiang Deng;Christopher J. Klein;Jianhua Yan;Yong Shi

  • Dendritic Mechanisms Underlying Rapid Synaptic Activation of Fast-Spiking Hippocampal Interneurons

    Hua Hu;Marco Martina;Marco Martina;Peter Jonas

  • The indirect pathway of the nucleus accumbens shell amplifies neuropathic pain

    Wenjie Ren;Maria Virginia Centeno;Sara Berger;Ying Wu

  • R-type calcium channels contribute to afterdepolarization and bursting in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons.

    Alexia E. Metz;Tim Jarsky;Marco Martina;Nelson Spruston

  • The unipolar brush cell: a remarkable neuron finally receiving deserved attention.

    Enrico Mugnaini;Gabriella Sekerková;Marco Martina

  • Role of Nucleus Accumbens in Neuropathic Pain: Linked Multi-Scale Evidence in the Rat Transitioning to Neuropathic Pain

    Pei-Ching Chang;Sarah Lynn Pollema-Mays;Maria Virginia Centeno;Daniel Procissi

  • Properties and functional role of voltage-dependent potassium channels in dendrites of rat cerebellar Purkinje neurons.

    Marco Martina;Gui Lan Yao;Bruce P. Bean

  • Gating, modulation and subunit composition of voltage-gated K+ channels in dendritic inhibitory interneurones of rat hippocampus

    Cheng Chang Lien;Marco Martina;Jobst H. Schultz;Heimo Ehmke

  • Chronic neuropathic pain-like behavior correlates with IL-1β expression and disrupts cytokine interactions in the hippocampus

    Adriana Del Rey;Hau Jie Yau;Anke Randolf;Maria V. Centeno

  • Reduced Glutamatergic Currents and Dendritic Branching of Layer 5 Pyramidal Cells Contribute to Medial Prefrontal Cortex Deactivation in a Rat Model of Neuropathic Pain.

    Crystle J. Kelly;Mei Huang;Herbert Meltzer;Marco Martina

  • Culture and differentiation of chondrocytes entrapped in alginate gels.

    M. Grandolfo;P. D'Andrea;S. Paoletti;M. Martina

  • Sodium Currents Activate without a Hodgkin and Huxley-Type Delay in Central Mammalian Neurons

    Gytis Baranauskas;Marco Martina

  • Expression of DNA methyltransferases in adult dorsal root ganglia is cell-type specific and up regulated in a rodent model of neuropathic pain.

    Sarah L. Pollema-Mays;Maria V. Centeno;A. V. Apkarian;Marco Martina

  • Dendritic D-type potassium currents inhibit the spike afterdepolarization in rat hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons.

    Alexia E. Metz;Nelson Spruston;Marco Martina

  • The Evf2 Ultraconserved Enhancer lncRNA Functionally and Spatially Organizes Megabase Distant Genes in the Developing Forebrain

    Ivelisse Cajigas;Abhijit Chakraborty;Kelsey R. Swyter;Hao Luo

  • Dendritic spinopathy in transgenic mice expressing ALS/dementia-linked mutant UBQLN2.

    George H. Gorrie;Faisal Fecto;Daniel Radzicki;Craig Weiss

  • Differential Expression of TASK Channels between Horizontal Interneurons and Pyramidal Cells of Rat Hippocampus

    Stefano Taverna;Tatiana Tkatch;Alexia E. Metz;Marco Martina

Frequent Co-Authors

A. Vania Apkarian
A. Vania Apkarian Northwestern University
Enrico Cherubini
Enrico Cherubini International School for Advanced Studies
Teepu Siddique
Teepu Siddique Northwestern University
Peter Jonas
Peter Jonas Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Jelena Radulovic
Jelena Radulovic Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Philipp Gutruf
Philipp Gutruf University of Arizona
Nelson Spruston
Nelson Spruston Howard Hughes Medical Institute
D. James Surmeier
D. James Surmeier Northwestern University
Peter Penzes
Peter Penzes Northwestern University
John A. Rogers
John A. Rogers Northwestern University

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