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Michael W. Salter

Michael W. Salter

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Neuroscience

D-Index
96
Citations
43448
World Ranking
848
National Ranking
44

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Michael W. Salter is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Key subfields include Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, Neurology, and Genetics. Their work addresses a range of topics such as Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, and Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity mechanisms.

Their publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads, 2022, Neuron
  • 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
  • Neuropathic Pain: Mechanisms, Sex Differences, and Potential Therapies for a Global Problem, 2023, The Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
  • Tripartite signalling by NMDA receptors, 2020, Molecular Brain
  • The T-type calcium channel antagonist, Z944, reduces spinal excitability and pain hypersensitivity, 2021, British Journal of Pharmacology

Michael W. Salter has frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), British Journal of Pharmacology, Pain, Translational Psychiatry, and Molecular Pain.

Frequent collaborators include Ameet S. Sengar, Shahrzad Ghazisaeidi, YuShan Tu, Wenbo Zhang, and Milind M. Muley.

Salter was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2005, recognized by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Neuronal plasticity: increasing the gain in pain.

    Clifford J. Woolf;Michael W. Salter

  • BDNF from microglia causes the shift in neuronal anion gradient underlying neuropathic pain

    Jeffrey A. M. Coull;Simon Beggs;Dominic Boudreau;Dominick Boivin

  • Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads

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  • Regulation of NMDA receptor trafficking by amyloid-beta.

    Eric M Snyder;Yi Nong;Claudia G Almeida;Surojit Paul

  • P2x4 receptors induced in spinal microglia gate tactile allodynia after nerve injury

    Makoto Tsuda;Yukari Shigemoto-Mogami;Schuichi Koizumi;Akito Mizokoshi

  • Microglia emerge as central players in brain disease.

    Michael W Salter;Beth Stevens

  • Different immune cells mediate mechanical pain hypersensitivity in male and female mice

    Robert E. Sorge;Josiane C.S. Mapplebeck;Sarah Rosen;Simon Beggs

  • Treatment of Ischemic Brain Damage by Perturbing NMDA Receptor- PSD-95 Protein Interactions

    Michelle Aarts;Yitao Liu;Lidong Liu;Shintaro Besshoh

  • Neuropathic pain and spinal microglia: a big problem from molecules in "small" glia.

    Makoto Tsuda;Kazuhide Inoue;Michael W. Salter

  • Src kinases: a hub for NMDA receptor regulation

    Michael W. Salter;Lorraine V. Kalia

  • Regulation of NMDA receptors by tyrosine kinases and phosphatases.

    Yu Tian Wang;Michael W. Salter

  • NMDA Channel Regulation by Channel-Associated Protein Tyrosine Kinase Src

    Xian-Min Yu;Rand Askalan;Gary J. Keil;Michael W. Salter

  • Sublime microglia: expanding roles for the guardians of the CNS

    Michael W. Salter;Simon Beggs

  • P2X4-receptor mediated synthesis and release of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in microglia is dependent on calcium and p38-mitogen-activated protein kinase activation

    Tuan Trang;Simon Beggs;Xiang Wan;Michael W. Salter

  • NMDA receptors in clinical neurology: excitatory times ahead

    Lorraine V Kalia;Suneil K Kalia;Michael W Salter

  • Glycine binding primes NMDA receptor internalization

    Yi Nong;Yue-Qiao Huang;William Ju;Lorraine V. Kalia

  • Spinal Cord Toll-Like Receptor 4 Mediates Inflammatory and Neuropathic Hypersensitivity in Male But Not Female Mice

    Robert E. Sorge;Michael L. LaCroix-Fralish;Alexander H. Tuttle;Susana G. Sotocinal

  • Morphine hyperalgesia gated through microglia-mediated disruption of neuronal Cl⁻ homeostasis.

    Francesco Ferrini;Francesco Ferrini;Tuan Trang;Theresa-Alexandra M Mattioli;Sophie Laffray

  • Regulation of kainate receptors by cAMP-dependent protein kinase and phosphatases.

    Lu-Yang Wang;M. W. Salter;J. F. Macdonald

  • Regulation of Neuregulin Signaling by PSD-95 Interacting with ErbB4 at CNS Synapses

    Yang Z. Huang;Yang Z. Huang;Yang Z. Huang;Sandra Won;Declan W. Ali;Qiang Wang;Qiang Wang;Qiang Wang

  • TRPV1+ sensory neurons control beta cell stress and islet inflammation in autoimmune diabetes.

    Rozita Razavi;Yin Chan;F. Nikoo Afifiyan;Xue Jun Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Beggs
Simon Beggs University of Toronto
Yu Tian Wang
Yu Tian Wang University of British Columbia
Michael Tymianski
Michael Tymianski University Health Network
Kazuhide Inoue
Kazuhide Inoue Kyushu University
Makoto Tsuda
Makoto Tsuda Kyushu University
Yves De Koninck
Yves De Koninck Université Laval
Jeffrey S. Mogil
Jeffrey S. Mogil McGill University
Kenneth A. Pelkey
Kenneth A. Pelkey National Institutes of Health
Paul J. Lombroso
Paul J. Lombroso Yale University
Catherine M. Cahill
Catherine M. Cahill University of California, Los Angeles

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