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Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu

Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
12914
World Ranking
13113
National Ranking
123

Overview

Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has a research focus primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work covers significant subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Immunology, and Social Psychology.

Their research topics are centered around several key areas:

  • Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response
  • Cancer Research and Treatments
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Music Therapy and Health
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior

Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu has contributed to numerous studies published in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Biology
  • Nature reviews. Cancer
  • Cancer

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ben-Eliyahu include Elad Sandbank, Anabel Eckerling, Itay Ricon-Becker, Liat Sorski, and Steve W. Cole. These collaborations reflect cross-disciplinary engagements within Ben-Eliyahu's research scope.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ben-Eliyahu include:

  • Stress and cancer: mechanisms, significance and future directions (2021, Nature reviews. Cancer)
  • Perioperative COX2 and β-adrenergic blockade improves biomarkers of tumor metastasis, immunity, and inflammation in colorectal cancer: A randomized controlled trial (2020, Cancer)
  • Harnessing cancer immunotherapy during the unexploited immediate perioperative period (2020, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology)
  • Food-seeking behavior is triggered by skin ultraviolet exposure in males (2022, Nature Metabolism)
  • The Effect of Pre-operative Psychological Interventions on Psychological, Physiological, and Immunological Indices in Oncology Patients: A Scoping Review (2022, Frontiers in Psychology)

Best Publications

  • Evidence that stress and surgical interventions promote tumor development by suppressing natural killer cell activity.

    Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu;Gayle G. Page;Raz Yirmiya;Guy Shakhar

  • Suppression of natural killer cell activity and promotion of tumor metastasis by ketamine, thiopental, and halothane, but not by propofol: mediating mechanisms and prophylactic measures.

    Rivka Melamed;Shahar Bar-Yosef;Guy Shakhar;Keren Shakhar

  • Exploiting the critical perioperative period to improve long-term cancer outcomes

    Maya Horowitz;Elad Neeman;Eran Sharon;Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu

  • Potential Prophylactic Measures Against Postoperative Immunosuppression: Could They Reduce Recurrence Rates in Oncological Patients?

    Guy Shakhar;Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu

  • Stress increases metastatic spread of a mammary tumor in rats: evidence for mediation by the immune system.

    S. Ben-Eliyahu;R. Yirmiya;J.C. Liebeskind;A.N. Taylor;A.N. Taylor

  • Excitatory amino acid antagonists (kynurenic acid and MK-801) attenuate the development of morphine tolerance in the rat

    Przemyslaw Marek;Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu;Michael Gold;John C. Liebeskind

  • The promotion of tumor metastasis by surgery and stress: immunological basis and implications for psychoneuroimmunology.

    Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu

  • Perioperative Use of β-blockers and COX-2 Inhibitors May Improve Immune Competence and Reduce the Risk of Tumor Metastasis

    Marganit Benish;Inbal Bartal;Yael Goldfarb;Ben Levi

  • In vivo beta-adrenergic stimulation suppresses natural killer activity and compromises resistance to tumor metastasis in rats.

    Guy Shakhar;Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu

  • Improving postoperative immune status and resistance to cancer metastasis: a combined perioperative approach of immunostimulation and prevention of excessive surgical stress responses.

    Yael Goldfarb;Liat Sorski;Marganit Benish;Ben Levi

  • Suppression of NK Cell Activity and of Resistance to Metastasis by Stress: A Role for Adrenal Catecholamines and β-Adrenoceptors

    Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu;Guy Shakhar;Gayle G. Page;Volker Stefanski

  • Marginating pulmonary-NK activity and resistance to experimental tumor metastasis: suppression by surgery and the prophylactic use of a β-adrenergic antagonist and a prostaglandin synthesis inhibitor

    Rivka Melamed;Ella Rosenne;Keren Shakhar;Yossi Schwartz

  • Improving Survival Rates in Two Models of Spontaneous Postoperative Metastasis in Mice by Combined Administration of a β-Adrenergic Antagonist and a Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitor

    Ariella Glasner;Roi Avraham;Roi Avraham;Ella Rosenne;Marganit Benish

  • Effects of fentanyl on natural killer cell activity and on resistance to tumor metastasis in rats. Dose and timing study.

    Yehuda Shavit;Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu;Alexander Zeidel;Benzion Beilin

  • Surgery and stress promote cancer metastasis: new outlooks on perioperative mediating mechanisms and immune involvement.

    Elad Neeman;Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu

  • Perioperative COX-2 and β-Adrenergic Blockade Improves Metastatic Biomarkers in Breast Cancer Patients in a Phase-II Randomized Trial

    Lee Shaashua;Maytal Shabat-Simon;Rita Haldar;Pini Matzner

  • Morphine attenuates surgery-induced enhancement of metastatic colonization in rats

    Gayle Giboney Page;Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu;Raz Yirmiya;John C. Liebeskind

  • Can regional analgesia reduce the risk of recurrence after breast cancer? Methodology of a multicenter randomized trial.

    Daniel I Sessler;Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu;Edward J. Mascha;Marie-Odile Parat

  • The NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801 prevents long-lasting non-associative morphine tolerance in the rat.

    Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu;Przemyslaw Marek;Anthony L. Vaccarino;Jeffrey S. Mogil

  • Blood Transfusion Promotes Cancer Progression: A Critical Role for Aged Erythrocytes

    Shir Atzil;Michal Arad;Ariella Glasner;Noa Abiri

Frequent Co-Authors

Raz Yirmiya
Raz Yirmiya Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Steve W. Cole
Steve W. Cole University of California, Los Angeles
Tamar Geiger
Tamar Geiger Tel Aviv University
Robert Peter Gale
Robert Peter Gale Imperial College London
Steven G. Reed
Steven G. Reed Infectious Disease Research Institute
Iris Barshack
Iris Barshack Sheba Medical Center
Galit Yovel
Galit Yovel Tel Aviv University
Yair Bar-Haim
Yair Bar-Haim Tel Aviv University
Inbal Goshen
Inbal Goshen Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniel M. Michaelson
Daniel M. Michaelson Tel Aviv University

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