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Réjean Dubuc is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada and specializes in neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research covers cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, and ecology.

Their work focuses on several main topics including zebrafish biomedical research applications, neurobiology and insect physiology research, congenital heart defects research, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, physiological and biochemical adaptations, and retinal development and disorders.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Réjean Dubuc include:

  • Locomotor pattern generation and descending control: a historical perspective (2023), Journal of Neurophysiology
  • The mesencephalic locomotor region recruits V2a reticulospinal neurons to drive forward locomotion in larval zebrafish (2023), Nature Neuroscience
  • Cholinergic Modulation of Locomotor Circuits in Vertebrates (2022), International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Descending Dopaminergic Inputs to Reticulospinal Neurons Promote Locomotor Movements (2020), Journal of Neuroscience
  • Dopamine control of downstream motor centers (2023), Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Dubuc include François Auclair, Philippe-Antoine Beauséjour, Claire Wyart, Dimitri Ryczko, and Barbara S. Zielinski.

The scientist's work has appeared in multiple publication venues, such as Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Journal of Neurophysiology, and Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

Best Publications

  • Dynamic Sensorimotor Interactions in Locomotion

    Serge Rossignol;Réjean Dubuc;Jean-Pierre Gossard

  • Discharge patterns of reticulospinal and other reticular neurons in chronic, unrestrained cats walking on a treadmill

    T. Drew;R. Dubuc;S. Rossignol

  • Stimulation of the mesencephalic locomotor region elicits controlled swimming in semi-intact lampreys.

    Mikhail G. Sirota;Gonzalo Viana Di Prisco;Réjean Dubuc;Réjean Dubuc

  • Spinal pattern generation

    Serge Rossignol;Réjean Dubuc

  • Initiation of locomotion in lampreys.

    Réjean Dubuc;Frédéric Brocard;Frédéric Brocard;Myriam Antri;Myriam Antri;Karine Fénelon;Karine Fénelon

  • The multifunctional mesencephalic locomotor region.

    Dimitri Ryczko;Réjean Dubuc

  • Bimodal locomotion elicited by electrical stimulation of the midbrain in the salamander Notophthalmus viridescens.

    Jean-Marie Cabelguen;Céline Bourcier-Lucas;Réjean Dubuc;Réjean Dubuc

  • Rhythmic fluctuations of dorsal root potentials and antidromic discharges of primary afferents during fictive locomotion in the cat.

    R. Dubuc;J. M. Cabelguen;S. Rossignol

  • Role of sensory-evoked NMDA plateau potentials in the initiation of locomotion

    Gonzalo Viana Di Prisco;Edouard Pearlstein;Edouard Pearlstein;Richard Robitaille;Richard Robitaille;Réjean Dubuc;Réjean Dubuc

  • Phasic modulation of reticulospinal neurones during fictive locomotion and other types of spinal motor activity in lamprey

    Stefan Kasicki;Sten Grillner;Yoshihiro Ohta;Re´jean Dubuc

  • A Cellular Mechanism for the Transformation of a Sensory Input into a Motor Command

    Gonzalo Viana Di Prisco;Edouard Pearlstein;Didier Le Ray;Richard Robitaille

  • Differential contribution of reticulospinal cells to the control of locomotion induced by the mesencephalic locomotor region.

    Frédéric Brocard;Réjean Dubuc;Réjean Dubuc

  • Dopamine and the Brainstem Locomotor Networks: From Lamprey to Human.

    Dimitri Ryczko;Réjean Dubuc;Réjean Dubuc

  • The role of spinal cord inputs in modulating the activity of reticulospinal neurons during fictive locomotion in the lamprey.

    Réjean Dubuc;Sten Grillner

  • Chapter 4--supraspinal control of locomotion: the mesencephalic locomotor region.

    Didier Le Ray;Laurent Juvin;Laurent Juvin;Dimitri Ryczko;Réjean Dubuc;Réjean Dubuc

  • A descending dopamine pathway conserved from basal vertebrates to mammals

    Dimitri Ryczko;Jackson J. Cone;Michael H. Alpert;Laurent Goetz

  • Rhythmic antidromic discharges of single primary afferents recorded in cut dorsal root filaments during locomotion in the cat.

    R. Dubuc;J.-M. Cabelguen;S. Rossignol

  • A novel neural substrate for the transformation of olfactory inputs into motor output.

    Dominique Derjean;Aimen Moussaddy;Elias Atallah;Melissa St-Pierre

  • Nicotinic activation of reticulospinal cells involved in the control of swimming in lampreys.

    Didier Le Ray;Frédéric Brocard;Céline Bourcier-Lucas;François Auclair

  • Forebrain dopamine neurons project down to a brainstem region controlling locomotion

    Dimitri Ryczko;Swantje Grätsch;François Auclair;Catherine Dubé

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Rossignol
Serge Rossignol University of Montreal
Sten Grillner
Sten Grillner Karolinska Institute
Ansgar Büschges
Ansgar Büschges University of Cologne
Richard Robitaille
Richard Robitaille University of Montreal
Mitchell F. Roitman
Mitchell F. Roitman University of Illinois at Chicago
T. Richard Nichols
T. Richard Nichols Georgia Institute of Technology
Eve Marder
Eve Marder Brandeis University
Timothy C. Cope
Timothy C. Cope Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard B. Stein
Richard B. Stein University of Alberta
Martin Parent
Martin Parent Université Laval

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