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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 1997 - Léo-Pariseau Prize, Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas)

Overview

Rémi Quirion is affiliated with the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Canada. Their research spans multiple domains within neuroscience and molecular biology. The scientist's work focuses on receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuropeptides and animal physiology, pluripotent stem cells research, neuroethics including human enhancement and biomedical innovations, neuroscience and neural engineering, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and mitochondrial function and pathology.

Quirion has contributed notably to the following scientific fields:

  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within subfields of neuroscience and biology, their publications cover:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Oncology

The scientist's research outputs include papers published in venues such as:

  • IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE
  • Frontiers in Science
  • Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Nature

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Quirion include:

  • Brain organoids: are they for real?, 2023, Frontiers in Science
  • Glutamate Attenuates the Survival Property of IGFR through NR2B Containing N-Methyl-D-aspartate Receptors in Cortical Neurons, 2020, Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
  • Scientific diplomacy keeps reason alight in dark times, 2022, Nature
  • Alterations in prefrontal cortical neuregulin-1 levels in post-pubertal rats with neonatal ventral hippocampal lesions, 2022, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Neuropeptide Y receptors in GtoPdb v.2023.1, 2023, IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE

Quirion has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Denise Pérusse, Thomas Buffin-Bélanger, Danielle Maltais, Mario Gauthier, and Philippe Gachon.

Aside from articles, Rémi Quirion has also published books, such as Les inondations au Québec (2022) through Presses de l'Université du Québec eBooks.

The scientist has been recognized with awards like the Léo-Pariseau Prize from the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas) in 1997 and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003 by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • XVI. International Union of Pharmacology Recommendations for the Nomenclature of Neuropeptide Y, Peptide YY, and Pancreatic Polypeptide Receptors

    Martin C. Michel;Annette Beck-Sickinger;Helen Cox;Henri N. Doods

  • International Union of Pharmacology. XXXII. The mammalian calcitonin gene-related peptides, adrenomedullin, amylin, and calcitonin receptors.

    David R. Poyner;Patrick M. Sexton;Ian Marshall;David M. Smith

  • Alzheimer’s disease and the basal forebrain cholinergic system: relations to β-amyloid peptides, cognition, and treatment strategies

    Daniel S Auld;Tom J Kornecook;Stéphane Bastianetto;Rémi Quirion

  • Apolipoprotein E4 allele as a predictor of cholinergic deficits and treatment outcome in Alzheimer disease.

    Judes Poirier;Marie Claude Delisle;Rémi Quirion;Isabelle Aubert

  • Autoradiographic localization of angiotensin II receptors in rat brain

    Frederick A. O. Mendelsohn;Remi Quirion;Juan M. Saavedra;Greti Aguilera

  • Neuroanatomical Localization, Pharmacological Characterization and Functions of CGRP, Related Peptides and Their Receptors

    D van Rossum;U K Hanisch;R Quirion

  • The effects of chronic antidepressant treatment in an animal model of anxiety.

    Shari R. Bodnoff;Shari R. Bodnoff;Barbara Suranyi-Cadotte;David H. Aitken;Remi Quirion

  • The Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb 761) protects hippocampal neurons against cell death induced by beta-amyloid.

    Stéphane Bastianetto;Charles Ramassamy;Sylvain Doré;Yves Christen

  • hCGRP8-37, a calcitonin gene-related peptide antagonist revealing calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor heterogeneity in brain and periphery.

    T. Dennis;A. Fournier;A. Cadieux;F. Pomerleau

  • Neuropeptide Y and neuropeptide Y receptor subtypes in brain and peripheral tissues.

    Yvan Dumont;Jean-Claude Martel;Alain Fournier;Serge St-Pierre

  • Differential alteration of various cholinergic markers in cortical and subcortical regions of human brain in Alzheimer's disease.

    D. M. Araujo;P. A. Lapchak;Y. Robitaille;S. Gauthier

  • Decreased expression of the embryonic form of the neural cell adhesion molecule in schizophrenic brains.

    D Barbeau;J J Liang;Y Robitalille;R Quirion

  • A comparison of the anatomical distribution of substance P and substance P receptors in the rat central nervous system

    Clifford W. Shults;Remi Quirion;Bibie Chronwall;Thomas N. Chase

  • Dopamine supersensitivity correlates with D2High states, implying many paths to psychosis

    Philip Seeman;David Weinshenker;Remi Quirion;Lalit K. Srivastava

  • Say NO to Alzheimer's disease: the putative links between nitric oxide and dementia of the Alzheimer's type.

    A. Law;S. Gauthier;R. Quirion

  • The neurocircuitry and receptor subtypes mediating anxiolytic-like effects of neuropeptide Y.

    Ants Kask;Jaanus Harro;Stephan von Hörsten;John P. Redrobe

  • Phencyclidine (angel dust)/sigma "opiate" receptor: visualization by tritium-sensitive film.

    Remi Quirion;Ronald P. Hammer;Miles Herkenham;Candace B. Pert

  • Neuroprotective abilities of resveratrol and other red wine constituents against nitric oxide‐related toxicity in cultured hippocampal neurons

    Stéphane Bastianetto;Wen‐Hua Zheng;Rémi Quirion

  • Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) binding sites in brain and related structures

    Rémi Quirion;Michel Dalpé;André De Lean;J. Gutkowska

  • Comparative alterations of nicotinic and muscarinic binding sites in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

    I. Aubert;D. M. Araujo;D. Cécyre;Y. Robitaille

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Fournier
Alain Fournier Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Satyabrata Kar
Satyabrata Kar University of Alberta
Dalia M. Araujo
Dalia M. Araujo McGill University
Michael J. Meaney
Michael J. Meaney McGill University
Serge Gauthier
Serge Gauthier McGill University
Patricia Boksa
Patricia Boksa Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Gonzalo Flores
Gonzalo Flores Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
N. P. V. Nair
N. P. V. Nair McGill University
Candace B. Pert
Candace B. Pert National Institutes of Health
Isabelle Aubert
Isabelle Aubert Sunnybrook Health Science Centre

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