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Norberto Cysne Coimbra

Norberto Cysne Coimbra

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Neuroscience

D-Index
48
Citations
6560
World Ranking
6272
National Ranking
40

Overview

Norberto Cysne Coimbra is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and has a significant body of research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their work spans numerous subfields, including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neurology.

The main topics addressed in their research include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, and Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior.

Norberto Cysne Coimbra's recent papers illustrate a focus on both basic and applied neuroscience research. These include:

  • Anatomical and clinical implications of vagal modulation of the spleen, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Defensive behaviors and brain regional activation changes in rats confronting a snake, 2020, Behavioural Brain Research
  • Cannabidiol in the prelimbic cortex modulates the comorbid condition between the chronic neuropathic pain and depression-like behaviour in rats: The role of medial prefrontal cortex 5-HT1A and CB1 receptors, 2021, Brain Research Bulletin
  • An Adapted Chronic Constriction Injury of the Sciatic Nerve Produces Sensory, Affective, and Cognitive Impairments: A Peripheral Mononeuropathy Model for the Study of Comorbid Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Neuropathic Pain in Rats, 2020, Pain Medicine
  • Photobiomodulation for the treatment of neuroinflammation: A systematic review of controlled laboratory animal studies, 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors contributing to multiple publications alongside Coimbra include Priscila Medeiros, Renato Leonardo de Freitas, Luiz Luciano Falconi-Sobrinho, Rafael Carvalho Almada, and Ana Carolina Medeiros.

Their research is frequently published in venues such as Behavioural Brain Research, Psychopharmacology, Research Square, Brain Research Bulletin, and the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Best Publications

  • Neural substrate of defensive behavior in the midbrain tectum

    M.L. Brandão;S.H. Cardoso;L.L. Melo;V. Motta

  • Psicofisiologia: as bases fisiológicas do comportamento

    Marcus Lira Brandão;João José Lachat;Jose Geraldo Mill;Norberto Cysne Coimbra

  • Lipopolysaccharide-induced sickness behaviour evaluated in different models of anxiety and innate fear in rats

    Gabriel S. Bassi;Alexandre Kanashiro;Francele M. Santin;Glória E. P. de Souza

  • Neuroanatomical approaches of the tectum-reticular pathways and immunohistochemical evidence for serotonin-positive perikarya on neuronal substrates of the superior colliculus and periaqueductal gray matter involved in the elaboration of the defensive behavior and fear-induced analgesia.

    N.C. Coimbra;R. De Oliveira;R.L. Freitas;S.J. Ribeiro

  • Anti-aversive effects of cannabidiol on innate fear-induced behaviors evoked by an ethological model of panic attacks based on a prey vs the wild snake Epicrates cenchria crassus confrontation paradigm.

    Andrés Uribe-Mariño;Audrey Francisco;Maria Angélica Castiblanco-Urbina;André Twardowschy

  • Defense reaction induced by microinjections of bicuculline into the inferior colliculus.

    M. L. Brandao;C. Tomaz;P. C. L. Borges;N. C. Coimbra

  • Neuroanatomical and psychopharmacological evidence for interaction between opioid and GABAergic neural pathways in the modulation of fear and defense elicited by electrical and chemical stimulation of the deep layers of the superior colliculus and dorsal periaqueductal gray matter.

    G.C.D Eichenberger;S.J Ribeiro;M.Y Osaki;R.Y Maruoka

  • GABAergic nigro-collicular pathways modulate the defensive behaviour elicited by midbrain tectum stimulation

    Norberto Cysne Coimbra;Marcus Lira Brandão

  • Defensive reactions evoked by activation of NMDA receptors in distinct sites of the inferior colliculus.

    Silvia Helena Cardoso;Norberto Cysne Coimbra;Marcus Lira Brandão

  • Effects of 5-HT2 receptors blockade on fear-induced analgesia elicited by electrical stimulation of the deep layers of the superior colliculus and dorsal periaqueductal gray

    N.C Coimbra;M.L Brandão

  • Effects of lesions of amygdaloid nuclei and substantia nigra on aversive responses induced by electrical stimulation of the inferior colliculus.

    Silvia S. Maisonnette;Mateus C. Kawasaki;Norberto C. Coimbra;Marcus L. Brandao

  • Topographic and functional neuroanatomical study of GABAergic disinhibitory striatum–nigral inputs and inhibitory nigrocollicular pathways: Neural hodology recruiting the substantia nigra, pars reticulata, for the modulation of the neural activity in the inferior colliculus involved with panic-like emotions

    Lissandra Castellan-Baldan;Mateus da Costa Kawasaki;Sandro José Ribeiro;Fabrício Calvo

  • Fos-like immunoreactivity in the brain associated with freezing or escape induced by inhibition of either glutamic acid decarboxylase or GABAA receptors in the dorsal periaqueductal gray.

    Karina Genaro Borelli;Cristina Ferreira-Netto;Norberto Cysne Coimbra;Marcus Lira Brandão

  • Effects of acute and chronic fluoxetine and diazepam on freezing behavior induced by electrical stimulation of dorsolateral and lateral columns of the periaqueductal gray matter

    Karina Genaro Borelli;Manoel Jorge Nobre;Marcus Lira Brandão;Norberto Cysne Coimbra

  • Purification of a neuroprotective component of Parawixia bistriata spider venom that enhances glutamate uptake

    Andréia Cristina Karklin Fontana;Andréia Cristina Karklin Fontana;Renato Guizzo;Renê de Oliveira Beleboni;Antonio Renato Meirelles e Silva

  • Intrinsic neural circuits between dorsal midbrain neurons that control fear-induced responses and seizure activity and nuclei of the pain inhibitory system elaborating postictal antinociceptive processes: a functional neuroanatomical and neuropharmacological study.

    Renato L. Freitas;Célio M.R. Ferreira;Sandro J. Ribeiro;Andressa D. Carvalho

  • The cholinergic stimulation of the central amygdala modifying the tonic immobility response and antinociception in guinea pigs depends on the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray.

    Christie Ramos Andrade Leite-Panissi;Norberto Cysne Coimbra;Leda Menescal-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

  • Pharmacological and biochemical aspects of GABAergic neurotransmission: pathological and neuropsychobiological relationships.

    Renê Oliveira Beleboni;Ruither Oliveira Gomes Carolino;Andrea Baldocchi Pizzo;Lissandra Castellan-Baldan

  • Sucrose ingestion causes opioid analgesia

    F.N. Segato;C. Castro-Souza;E.N. Segato;S. Morato

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcus Lira Brandão
Marcus Lira Brandão Universidade de São Paulo
Hélio Zangrossi
Hélio Zangrossi Universidade de São Paulo
Irene Tracey
Irene Tracey University of Oxford
Frederico Guilherme Graeff
Frederico Guilherme Graeff Universidade de São Paulo
Fernando M.A. Corrêa
Fernando M.A. Corrêa Universidade de São Paulo
Carsten T. Wotjak
Carsten T. Wotjak Max Planck Society
Luiz G.S. Branco
Luiz G.S. Branco Universidade de São Paulo
Enza Palazzo
Enza Palazzo University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
D. Caroline Blanchard
D. Caroline Blanchard University of Hawaii at Manoa
Kostas Kostarelos
Kostas Kostarelos University of Manchester

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