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Simon Beggs is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields such as Physiology, Neurology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Spinal Cord Injury Research
  • Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds
  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders

Recent publications by Simon Beggs cover studies related to pain, microglial activity, and nervous system development. These include:

  • Microglia-independent peripheral neuropathic pain in male and female mice, 2022, published in Pain
  • Microglial phagocytosis mediates long-term restructuring of spinal GABAergic circuits following early life injury, 2023, published in Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Microglial Refinement of A-Fiber Projections in the Postnatal Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn Is Required for Normal Maturation of Dynamic Touch, 2023, published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • Microglial refinement of A-fibre projections in the postnatal spinal cord dorsal horn is required for normal maturation of dynamic touch, 2021, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microglial phagocytosis mediates long-term restructuring of spinal GABAergic circuits following early life injury, 2023, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Simon Beggs frequently collaborates with colleagues including Yajing Xu, Stephanie C. Koch, Michael W. Salter, Dale Moulding, and Wenanlan Jin.

The scientist's work is often published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pain
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • BDNF from microglia causes the shift in neuronal anion gradient underlying neuropathic pain

    Jeffrey A. M. Coull;Simon Beggs;Dominic Boudreau;Dominick Boivin

  • Different immune cells mediate mechanical pain hypersensitivity in male and female mice

    Robert E. Sorge;Josiane C.S. Mapplebeck;Sarah Rosen;Simon Beggs

  • Sublime microglia: expanding roles for the guardians of the CNS

    Michael W. Salter;Simon Beggs

  • P2X4-receptor mediated synthesis and release of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in microglia is dependent on calcium and p38-mitogen-activated protein kinase activation

    Tuan Trang;Simon Beggs;Xiang Wan;Michael W. Salter

  • Spinal Cord Toll-Like Receptor 4 Mediates Inflammatory and Neuropathic Hypersensitivity in Male But Not Female Mice

    Robert E. Sorge;Michael L. LaCroix-Fralish;Alexander H. Tuttle;Susana G. Sotocinal

  • Morphine hyperalgesia gated through microglia-mediated disruption of neuronal Cl⁻ homeostasis.

    Francesco Ferrini;Francesco Ferrini;Tuan Trang;Theresa-Alexandra M Mattioli;Sophie Laffray

  • Genetically determined P2X7 receptor pore formation regulates variability in chronic pain sensitivity.

    Robert E. Sorge;Tuan Trang;Ruslan Dorfman;Shad B. Smith

  • P2X4R+ microglia drive neuropathic pain

    Simon Beggs;Tuan Trang;Michael W Salter

  • The neurobiology of pain: developmental aspects.

    Maria Fitzgerald;Simon Beggs

  • Transformation of the output of spinal lamina I neurons after nerve injury and microglia stimulation underlying neuropathic pain

    A Florence Keller;Simon Beggs;Michael W Salter;Yves De Koninck

  • Treatment of inflammatory and neuropathic pain by uncoupling Src from the NMDA receptor complex

    Xue Jun Liu;Jeffrey R. Gingrich;Mariana Vargas-Caballero;Yi Na Dong

  • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor from microglia: a molecular substrate for neuropathic pain.

    Tuan Trang;Simon Beggs;Michael W. Salter

  • Priming of adult pain responses by neonatal pain experience: maintenance by central neuroimmune activity

    Simon Beggs;Gillian Currie;Michael W. Salter;Maria Fitzgerald

  • Microglial P2X4R-evoked pain hypersensitivity is sexually dimorphic in rats.

    Josiane C S Mapplebeck;Rebecca Dalgarno;YuShan Tu;Orla Moriarty

  • Sex differences in pain: a tale of two immune cells.

    Josiane C. S. Mapplebeck;Simon Beggs;Michael W. Salter

  • A role for HSP27 in sensory neuron survival.

    Susan E. Lewis;Richard J. Mannion;Richard J. Mannion;Fletcher A. White;Richard E. Coggeshall

  • Peripheral nerve injury and TRPV1-expressing primary afferent C-fibers cause opening of the blood-brain barrier

    Simon Beggs;Xue Jun Liu;Chun Kwan;Michael W Salter

  • Stereological and somatotopic analysis of the spinal microglial response to peripheral nerve injury.

    Simon Beggs;Michael W. Salter

  • ATP receptors gate microglia signaling in neuropathic pain.

    Tuan Trang;Simon Beggs;Michael W. Salter

  • The postnatal reorganization of primary afferent input and dorsal horn cell receptive fields in the rat spinal cord is an activity‐dependent process

    Simon Beggs;Carole Torsney;Liam J. Drew;Maria Fitzgerald

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. Salter
Michael W. Salter University of Toronto
Maria Fitzgerald
Maria Fitzgerald University College London
Clifford J. Woolf
Clifford J. Woolf Boston Children's Hospital
Jeffrey S. Mogil
Jeffrey S. Mogil McGill University
Yves De Koninck
Yves De Koninck Université Laval
Catherine M. Cahill
Catherine M. Cahill University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Costigan
Michael Costigan Boston Children's Hospital
Kazuhide Inoue
Kazuhide Inoue Kyushu University
Makoto Tsuda
Makoto Tsuda Kyushu University
Andrew A. Pieper
Andrew A. Pieper University of Iowa

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