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Overview

Olivier Civelli is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans several main fields of study including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, and Medicine.

Their work focuses on a range of subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Genetics, and Physiology. Specific research topics covered include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology, Pharmacological Receptor Mechanisms and Effects, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Berberine and alkaloids research, and Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology.

Olivier Civelli has contributed to several scientific publications, with notable recent papers including:

  • THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2021/22: G protein-coupled receptors (2021), British Journal of Pharmacology
  • The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: G protein-coupled receptors (2023), British Journal of Pharmacology
  • Patterns of cilia gene dysregulations in major psychiatric disorders (2021), Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • The Analgesic Properties of Corydalis yanhusuo (2021), Molecules
  • Transcriptome Profiling of Dysregulated GPCRs Reveals Overlapping Patterns across Psychiatric Disorders and Age-Disease Interactions (2021), Cells

Frequent coauthors in Civelli's work include Girolamo Calò, Amal Alachkar, Eamonn Kelly, Wedad Alhassen, and Jean-Martin Beaulieu.

Publications have primarily appeared in venues such as IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE, British Journal of Pharmacology, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, Molecules, and Cells.

Best Publications

  • Cloning of the gene for a human dopamine D4 receptor with high affinity for the antipsychotic clozapine.

    Hubert H. M. Van Tol;James R. Bunzow;Hong-Chang Guan;Roger K. Sunahara

  • Orphanin FQ: a neuropeptide that activates an opioidlike G protein-coupled receptor.

    Rainer K. Reinscheid;Hans Peter Nothacker;Anne Bourson;Ali Ardati

  • Cloning and expression of a rat D2 dopamine receptor cDNA.

    James R. Bunzow;Hubert H. M. Van Tol;David K. Grandy;Paul Albert

  • Multiple dopamine D4 receptor variants in the human population

    Van Tol Hh;Wu Cm;Guan Hc;Ohara K

  • Molecular cloning and characterization of an adenosine receptor: the A3 adenosine receptor.

    Qun-Yong Zhou;Chuanyu Li;Mark E. Olah;Robert A. Johnson

  • Molecular Diversity of the Dopamine Receptors

    Olivier Civelli;James R. Bunzow;David K. Grandy

  • Cloning and expression of human and rat D1 dopamine receptors

    Qun Yong Zhou;David K. Grandy;Lisa Thambi;Jake A. Kushner

  • Cloning of the cDNA and gene for a human D2 dopamine receptor.

    D K Grandy;M A Marchionni;H Makam;R E Stofko

  • Molecular characterization of the melanin-concentrating-hormone receptor

    Yumiko Saito;Hans Peter Nothacker;Zhiwei Wang;Steven Hsesheng Lin

  • The human dopamine D2 receptor gene is located on chromosome 11 at q22-q23 and identifies a TaqI RFLP.

    David Grandy;M. Litt;L. Allen;J. R. Bunzow

  • Neuropeptide S: A Neuropeptide Promoting Arousal and Anxiolytic-like Effects

    Yan Ling Xu;Rainer K. Reinscheid;Salvador Huitron-Resendiz;Stewart D. Clark

  • Cloning, functional expression, and mRNA tissue distribution of the rat 5-hydroxytryptamine1A receptor gene.

    P. R. Albert;Qun-Yong Zhou;H. H. M. Van Tol;J. R. Bunzow

  • Localization of dopamine D2 receptor mRNA and D1 and D2 receptor binding in the rat brain and pituitary: an in situ hybridization- receptor autoradiographic analysis

    Alfred Mansour;James H. Meador-Woodruff;James R. Bunzow;Olivier Civelli

  • Polyprotein gene expression: generation of diversity of neuroendocrine peptides.

    James Douglass;Olivier Civelli;Edward Herbert

  • Orphanin FQ is a functional anti-opioid peptide

    J.S Mogil;J.E Grisel;R.K Reinscheid;O Civelli

  • Sequence and expression of the rat prodynorphin gene

    Olivier Civelli;James Douglass;Avram Goldstein;Edward Herbert

  • Orphanin FQ acts as an anxiolytic to attenuate behavioral responses to stress.

    Francois Jenck;Jean-Luc Moreau;James R. Martin;Gavin J. Kilpatrick

  • Localization of orphanin FQ (nociceptin) peptide and messenger RNA in the central nervous system of the rat.

    Charles R. Neal;Alfred Mansour;Rainer Reinscheid;Hans Peter Nothacker

  • THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2021/22: G protein-coupled receptors

    Stephen P.H. Alexander;Arthur Christopoulos;Anthony P. Davenport;Eamonn Kelly

  • Expression of the melanin‐concentrating hormone (MCH) receptor mRNA in the rat brain

    Yumiko Saito;Michelle Cheng;Frances M. Leslie;Olivier Civelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer K. Reinscheid
Rainer K. Reinscheid University of California, Irvine
Zhiwei Wang
Zhiwei Wang Tongji University
David K. Grandy
David K. Grandy Oregon Health & Science University
Stanley J. Watson
Stanley J. Watson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Paul R. Albert
Paul R. Albert Ottawa Hospital
Huda Akil
Huda Akil University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jean-Luc Moreau
Jean-Luc Moreau Roche (Switzerland)
Alfred Mansour
Alfred Mansour University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Xinmiao Liang
Xinmiao Liang Chinese Academy of Sciences
James H. Meador-Woodruff
James H. Meador-Woodruff University of Alabama at Birmingham

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