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Neuroscience
Poland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
64
Citations
13616
World Ranking
3292
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Poland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Poland Leader Award
  • 2020 - Polish Academy of Science
  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Ryszard Przewlocki is affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work encompasses a detailed exploration of cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, physiology, pharmacology, and behavioral neuroscience.

The research topics covered by Przewlocki include receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuropeptides and animal physiology, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, pain mechanisms and treatments, pharmacological receptor mechanisms and effects, and stress responses and cortisol.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Pharmacological Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Neurotoxicity Research
  • Molecules

Key recent papers authored by Przewlocki and collaborators are:

  • Protective role of neuronal and lymphoid cannabinoid CB2 receptors in neuropathic pain, 2020, eLife
  • Neuropathic Pain Dysregulates Gene Expression of the Forebrain Opioid and Dopamine Systems, 2020, Neurotoxicity Research
  • Molecular Modeling of µ Opioid Receptor Ligands with Various Functional Properties: PZM21, SR-17018, Morphine, and Fentanyl-Simulated Interaction Patterns Confronted with Experimental Data, 2020, Molecules
  • Knockdown of the astrocytic glucocorticoid receptor in the central nucleus of the amygdala diminishes conditioned fear expression and anxiety, 2021, Behavioural Brain Research
  • Influence of G protein-biased agonists of μ-opioid receptor on addiction-related behaviors, 2021, Pharmacological Reports

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Lucja Kudla
  • Agnieszka Wawrzczak-Bargieła
  • Michał Kiełbiński
  • Wojciech Solecki
  • Lucja Wiktorowska

Ryszard Przewlocki has been recognized with awards such as membership in the Academia Europaea since 2016 and an award from the Polish Academy of Science in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Behavioral Alterations in Rats Prenatally Exposed to Valproic Acid: Animal Model of Autism

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  • Opioids from immunocytes interact with receptors on sensory nerves to inhibit nociception in inflammation.

    Christoph Stein;Ahmed H. S. Hassan;Ryszard Przewlocki;Christian Gramsch

  • Opioids in chronic pain

    Ryszard Przewłocki;Barbara Przewłocka

  • Gender-specific behavioral and immunological alterations in an animal model of autism induced by prenatal exposure to valproic acid.

    Tomasz Schneider;Adam Roman;Agnieszka Basta-Kaim;Marta Kubera

  • Gene expression and localization of opioid peptides in immune cells of inflamed tissue: functional role in antinociception.

    R. Przewlocki;A.H.S. Hassan;W. Lason;C. Epplen

  • Environmental enrichment reverses behavioral alterations in rats prenatally exposed to valproic acid: issues for a therapeutic approach in autism.

    Tomasz Schneider;Joanna Turczak;Ryszard Przewłocki

  • Local peripheral opioid effects and expression of opioid genes in the spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia in neuropathic and inflammatory pain.

    Ilona Obara;Jan Rodriguez Parkitna;Michal Korostynski;Wioletta Makuch

  • Neuropsin cleaves EphB2 in the amygdala to control anxiety

    Benjamin K. Attwood;Julie-Myrtille Bourgognon;Satyam Patel;Mariusz Mucha

  • Differential activation of spinal microglial and astroglial cells in a mouse model of peripheral neuropathic pain.

    Joanna Mika;Maria Osikowicz;Ewelina Rojewska;Michal Korostynski

  • Mixed opioid/nonopioid effects of dynorphin and dynorphin related peptides after their intrathecal injection in rats.

    R. Przewłocki;G.T. Shearman;A. Herz

  • Spinal analgesic action of endomorphins in acute, inflammatory and neuropathic pain in rats.

    Barbara Przewłocka;Joanna Mika;Dominika Łabuz;Geza Toth

  • Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase attenuates the development of morphine tolerance and dependence in mice.

    N.H. Majeed;B. Przewłocka;H. Machelska;R. Przewłocki

  • The Opioid Peptide Dynorphin, Circadian Rhythms, and Starvation

    R Przewlocki;W Lason;AM Konecka;C Gramsch

  • The dissection of transcriptional modules regulated by various drugs of abuse in the mouse striatum.

    Marcin Piechota;Michal Korostynski;Wojciech Solecki;Agnieszka Gieryk

  • Opioids in neuropathic pain.

    Ryszard Przewlocki;Barbara Przewlocka

  • Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase enhances morphine antinociception in the rat spinal cord

    Ryszard Przewłocki;Halina Machelska;Barbara Przewłocka

  • Immunocytochemical localization of somatostatin receptor sst2A in the rat spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia

    Stefan Schulz;Matthias Schreff;Harald Schmidt;Manuela Händel

  • Gene Expression Profiles in Human Ruptured and Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms What Is the Role of Inflammation

    Joanna Pera;Michal Korostynski;Tadeusz Krzyszkowski;Jacek Czopek

  • The effect of repeated administration of morphine, cocaine and ethanol on mu and delta opioid receptor density in the nucleus accumbens and striatum of the rat

    J Turchan;B Przewłocka;G Toth;W Lasoń

  • A non-beta-endorphinergic adenohypophyseal mechanism is essential for an analgetic response to stress.

    Millan Mj;Przewłocki R;Herz A

  • Characterization and localization of immunoreactive dynorphin, α-neo-endorphin, met-enkephalin and substance P in human spinal cord

    Ryszard Przewłocki;Christian Gramsch;Aurelio Pasi;Albert Herz

  • Opiate receptor binding sites in human spinal cord

    Andrzej Członkowski;Tommaso Costa;Ryszard Przewłocki;Aurelio Pasi

Frequent Co-Authors

Władysław Lasoń
Władysław Lasoń Polish Academy of Sciences
Leszek Kaczmarek
Leszek Kaczmarek Instytut Biologii Doświadczalnej im. Marcelego Nenckiego
Andreas Zimmer
Andreas Zimmer University of Bonn
Krzysztof Wędzony
Krzysztof Wędzony Polish Academy of Sciences
E.L.J.M. van Luijtelaar
E.L.J.M. van Luijtelaar Radboud University
Osborne F. X. Almeida
Osborne F. X. Almeida Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Mara Dierssen
Mara Dierssen Centre for Genomic Regulation
Wolfgang Härtig
Wolfgang Härtig Leipzig University
Luis de Lecea
Luis de Lecea Stanford University

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