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Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj

Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj

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Neuroscience

D-Index
99
Citations
29696
World Ranking
789
National Ranking
434

Overview

Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, neuroscience, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work spans subfields such as molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, pharmacology, and sensory systems.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Ion Channels and Receptors
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Hereditary Neurological Disorders

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Stephen G. Waxman
  • Peng Zhao
  • Sidharth Tyagi
  • Mohammad-Reza Ghovanloo
  • Fadia B. Dib-Hajj

Dib-Hajj has published regularly in venues such as:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • Brain
  • Pain
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Neurophysiology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Dib-Hajj include:

  • "Human cells and networks of pain: Transforming pain target identification and therapeutic development," 2021, Neuron
  • "Paclitaxel increases axonal localization and vesicular trafficking of Nav1.7," 2021, Brain
  • "Familial trigeminal neuralgia - a systematic clinical study with a genomic screen of the neuronal electrogenisome," 2020, Cephalalgia
  • "Differential effect of lacosamide on Nav1.7 variants from responsive and non-responsive patients with small fibre neuropathy," 2020, Brain
  • "Exome Sequencing Implicates Impaired GABA Signaling and Neuronal Ion Transport in Trigeminal Neuralgia," 2020, iScience

Best Publications

  • NaN, a novel voltage-gated Na channel, is expressed preferentially in peripheral sensory neurons and down-regulated after axotomy

    S. D. Dib-Hajj;L. Tyrrell;J. A. Black;S. G. Waxman

  • Sodium Channels in Normal and Pathological Pain

    Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Theodore R. Cummins;Joel A. Black;Stephen G. Waxman

  • The Role of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels in Pain Signaling

    David L. Bennett;Alex J. Clark;Jianying Huang;Stephen G. Waxman

  • The Na(V)1.7 sodium channel: from molecule to man.

    Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Yang Yang;Yang Yang;Joel A. Black;Joel A. Black;Stephen G. Waxman;Stephen G. Waxman

  • Gain of function NaV1.7 mutations in idiopathic small fiber neuropathy

    Catharina G. Faber;Janneke G.J. Hoeijmakers;Hye Sook Ahn;Hye Sook Ahn;Xiaoyang Cheng;Xiaoyang Cheng

  • Spinal sensory neurons express multiple sodium channel α-subunit mRNAs

    J.A Black;S Dib-Hajj;S Dib-Hajj;K McNabola;K McNabola;S Jeste;S Jeste

  • Gain-of-function mutation in Nav1.7 in familial erythromelalgia induces bursting of sensory neurons

    Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Anthony M. Rush;Anthony M. Rush;Theodore Cummins;F. M. Hisama

  • A novel persistent tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium current in SNS-null and wild-type small primary sensory neurons.

    Theodore R. Cummins;Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Joel A. Black;Armen N. Akopian

  • Sodium channel α-subunit mRNAs I, II, III, NaG, Na6 and hNE (PN1): Different expression patterns in developing rat nervous system

    P.A. Felts;S. Yokoyama;S. Yokoyama;S. Yokoyama;S. Dib-Hajj;S. Dib-Hajj;J.A. Black;J.A. Black

  • De novo pathogenic SCN8A mutation identified by whole-genome sequencing of a family quartet affected by infantile epileptic encephalopathy and SUDEP

    Krishna R. Veeramah;Janelle E. O'Brien;Miriam H. Meisler;Xiaoyang Cheng

  • Gain-of-function Nav1.8 mutations in painful neuropathy

    Catharina G. Faber;Giuseppe Lauria;Ingemar S J Merkies;Xiaoyang Cheng;Xiaoyang Cheng

  • Electrophysiological properties of mutant Nav1.7 sodium channels in a painful inherited neuropathy

    Theodore R. Cummins;Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Stephen G. Waxman;Stephen G. Waxman

  • A single sodium channel mutation produces hyper- or hypoexcitability in different types of neurons

    Anthony M. Rush;Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Shujun Liu;Shujun Liu;Theodore R. Cummins

  • Sodium channels and pain

    S. G. Waxman;S. Dib-Hajj;T. R. Cummins;J. A. Black

  • Electrophysiological properties of two axonal sodium channels, Nav1.2 and Nav1.6, expressed in mouse spinal sensory neurones

    Anthony M. Rush;Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Stephen G. Waxman

  • Distinct repriming and closed-state inactivation kinetics of Nav1.6 and Nav1.7 sodium channels in mouse spinal sensory neurons.

    Raimund I. Herzog;Theodore R. Cummins;Farshid Ghassemi;Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj

  • Down-Regulation of Transcripts for Na Channel α -SNS in Spinal Sensory Neurons Following Axotomy

    S. Dib-Hajj;J. A. Black;P. Felts;S. G. Waxman

  • Nav1.3 Sodium Channels: Rapid Repriming and Slow Closed-State Inactivation Display Quantitative Differences after Expression in a Mammalian Cell Line and in Spinal Sensory Neurons

    Theodore R. Cummins;Fabio Aglieco;Mathurkrisnan Renganathan;Raimund I. Herzog

  • SNS Na+ channel expression increases in dorsal root ganglion neurons in the carrageenan inflammatory pain model

    Masaki Tanaka;Theodore R. Cummins;Theodore R. Cummins;Kuniko Ishikawa;Kuniko Ishikawa;Sulayman D. Dib-hajj;Sulayman D. Dib-hajj

  • Plasticity of sodium channel expression in DRG neurons in the chronic constriction injury model of neuropathic pain.

    Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj;Jenny Fjell;Jenny Fjell;Jenny Fjell;Theodore R. Cummins;Theodore R. Cummins;Zheng Zheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen G. Waxman
Stephen G. Waxman Yale University
Joel A. Black
Joel A. Black Yale University
Mark Estacion
Mark Estacion Yale University
Theodore R. Cummins
Theodore R. Cummins Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Giuseppe Lauria
Giuseppe Lauria University of Milan
Miriam H. Meisler
Miriam H. Meisler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John Wood
John Wood University College London
Claudia Sommer
Claudia Sommer University of Würzburg
Kaj Fried
Kaj Fried Karolinska Institute
Michael F. Hammer
Michael F. Hammer University of Arizona

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