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Overview

Michael J. Iadarola is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research focuses on multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, with particular attention to pain mechanisms and treatments.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Within these, subfields of study that they engage with are:

  • Physiology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Pharmacology

The primary topics covered by their work include:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Ion Channels and Receptors
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect

Michael J. Iadarola's publication record shows a significant contribution to journals such as:

  • Journal of Pain (20 publications)
  • Pain (4 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (2 publications)
  • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience (2 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2 publications)

They have coauthored frequently with several researchers including:

  • Matthew R. Sapio
  • Andrew J. Mannes
  • Dragan Maric
  • Andre Ghetti
  • Ellen S. Staedtler

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Michael J. Iadarola include:

  • "Discovery and validation of biomarkers to aid the development of safe and effective pain therapeutics: challenges and opportunities," 2020, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • "Autoantibodies Targeting Intracellular and Extracellular Proteins in Autoimmunity," 2021, Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Transcriptomic analysis of human sensory neurons in painful diabetic neuropathy reveals inflammation and neuronal loss," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Comparative Analysis of Dorsal Root, Nodose and Sympathetic Ganglia for the Development of New Analgesics," 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • "Dynorphin and Enkephalin Opioid Peptides and Transcripts in Spinal Cord and Dorsal Root Ganglion During Peripheral Inflammatory Hyperalgesia and Allodynia," 2020, Journal of Pain

Best Publications

  • PAIN INTENSITY PROCESSING WITHIN THE HUMAN BRAIN : A BILATERAL, DISTRIBUTED MECHANISM

    Robert C. Coghill;Christine N. Sang;Jose Ma. Maisog;Michael J. Iadarola

  • Induction of a long-lasting AP-1 complex composed of altered Fos-like proteins in brain by chronic cocaine and other chronic treatments

    Bruce T. Hope;Heather E. Nye;Max B. Kelz;David W. Self

  • Substantia nigra: site of anticonvulsant activity mediated by gamma-aminobutyric acid.

    Michael J. Iadarola;Karen Gale

  • Cocaine induces striatal c-fos-immunoreactive proteins via dopaminergic D1 receptors.

    Stephanie T. Young;Linda J. Porrino;Michael J. Iadarola

  • Adult-Onset Immunodeficiency in Thailand and Taiwan

    Sarah K. Browne;Peter D. Burbelo;Ploenchan Chetchotisakd;Yupin Suputtamongkol

  • Coupling of inositol phospholipid metabolism with excitatory amino acid recognition sites in rat hippocampus.

    F. Nicoletti;J. L. Meek;M. J. Iadarola;D. M. Chuang

  • Enhancement of dynorphin gene expression in spinal cord following experimental inflammation: stimulus specificity, behavioral parameters and opioid receptor binding.

    Michael J. Iadarola;Linda S. Brady;Gaetano Draisci;Ronald Dubner

  • Excitatory amino acid recognition sites coupled with inositol phospholipid metabolism: Developmental changes and interaction with α1-adrenoceptors

    F. Nicoletti;M. J. Iadarola;J. T. Wroblewski;E. Costa

  • Genetic influence on variability in human acute experimental pain sensitivity associated with gender, ethnicity and psychological temperament.

    Hyungsuk Kim;John K Neubert;Anitza San Miguel;Ke Xu

  • Discovery and validation of biomarkers to aid the development of safe and effective pain therapeutics: challenges and opportunities.

    Karen D. Davis;Karen D. Davis;Nima Aghaeepour;Andrew H. Ahn;Martin S. Angst

  • Deletion of vanilloid receptor 1-expressing primary afferent neurons for pain control.

    Laszlo Karai;Dorothy C. Brown;Andrew J. Mannes;Stephen T. Connelly

  • Temporal analysis of increases in c-fos, preprodynorphin and preproenkephalin mRNAs in rat spinal cord

    Gaetano Draisci;Michael J. Iadarola

  • Analysis of the Native Quaternary Structure of Vanilloid Receptor 1

    Noemi Kedei;Tamas Szabo;Jack D. Lile;James J. Treanor

  • In situ hybridization histochemistry and immunocytochemistry reveal an increase in spinal dynorphin biosynthesis in a rat model of peripheral inflammation and hyperalgesia

    M A Ruda;M J Iadarola;L V Cohen;W S Young

  • Differential activation of spinal cord dynorphin and enkephalin neurons during hyperalgesia: evidence using cDNA hybridization.

    Michael J. Iadarola;James Douglass;Olivier Civelli;Jose R. Naranjo

  • Hemispheric Lateralization of Somatosensory Processing

    Robert C. Coghill;Ian Gilron;Michael J. Iadarola

  • Spinal opioid analgesic effects are enhanced in a model of unilateral inflammation/hyperalgesia: possible involvement of noradrenergic mechanisms.

    Janice L.K. Hylden;David A. Thomas;Michael J. Iadarola;Richard L. Nahin

  • Regionally specific effects of atypical antipsychotic drugs on striatal Fos expression: The nucleus accumbens shell as a locus of antipsychotic action.

    Ariel Y. Deutch;Ariel Y. Deutch;Maggie C. Lee;Maggie C. Lee;Michael J. Iadarola;Michael J. Iadarola

  • Ligand-induced Dynamic Membrane Changes and Cell Deletion Conferred by Vanilloid Receptor 1

    Zoltan Olah;Tamas Szabo;Laszlo Karai;Chris Hough

  • Cocaine induces striatal c-Fos-immunoreactive proteins via dopaminergic D1 receptors (Fos-related antigens/protooncogenes/transcription factor AP-1/caudate-putamen/nucleus accumbens)

    Stephanie T. Young;Linda J. Porrino;Michael J. Iadarola

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter D. Burbelo
Peter D. Burbelo National Institutes of Health
Robert M. Caudle
Robert M. Caudle University of Florida
Ashok B. Kulkarni
Ashok B. Kulkarni National Institutes of Health
Dragan Maric
Dragan Maric National Institutes of Health
Ronald Dubner
Ronald Dubner University of Maryland, Baltimore
Joseph A. Kovacs
Joseph A. Kovacs National Institutes of Health
Gary J. Bennett
Gary J. Bennett McGill University
Harish C. Pant
Harish C. Pant National Institutes of Health
Robert C. Coghill
Robert C. Coghill Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Jau-Shyong Hong
Jau-Shyong Hong National Institutes of Health

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