Tomas Hökfelt

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award
• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
• 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
• 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
• 2002 - Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award
• 1996 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea
• 1984 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Overview

Best Publications

• Distribution of substance P-like immunoreactivity in the central nervous system of the rat—I. Cell bodies and nerve terminals

  Å. Ljungdahl;T. Hökfelt;G. Nilsson

  1609
  Citations

• Substance p: localization in the central nervous system and in some primary sensory neurons

  Tomas Hökfelt;Jan Olof Kellerth;Göran Nilsson;Bengt Pernow

  1493
  Citations

• Neuropeptide Y (NPY)‐like immunoreactivity in peripheral noradrenergic neurons and effects of NPY on sympathetic function

  Jan M. Lundberg;Lars Terenius;Tomas Hökfelt;Claes R. Martling

  1422
  Citations

• Distribution of peptide- and catecholamine-containing neurons in the gastro-intestinal tract of rat and guinea-pig: immunohistochemical studies with antisera to substance P, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, enkephalins, somatostatin, gastrin/cholecystokinin, neurotensin and dopamine beta-hydroxylase.

  Schultzberg M;Hökfelt T;Nilsson G;Terenius L

  1292
  Citations

• Tetracyclines inhibit microglial activation and are neuroprotective in global brain ischemia

  Juha Yrjänheikki;Riitta Keinänen;Milla Pellikka;Tomas Hökfelt

  1251
  Citations

• Experimental immunohistochemical studies on the localization and distribution of substance P in cat primary sensory neurons.

  Tomas Hökfelt;Jan-Olof Kellerth;Göran E. Nilsson;Bengt Pernow

  1244
  Citations

• An atlas of the protein-coding genes in the human, pig, and mouse brain

  Evelina Sjöstedt;Evelina Sjöstedt;Wen Zhong;Linn Fagerberg;Max J. Karlsson

  1124
  Citations

• Evidence for dopamine receptor stimulation by apomorphine

  Nils-Erik Andén;Allan Rubenson;Kjell Fuxe;Tomas Hökfelt

  1111
  Citations

• Immunohistochemical evidence for separate populations of somatostatin-containing and substance P-containing primary afferent neurons in the rat.

  T. Hökfelt;T. Hökfelt;R. Elde;R. Elde;O. Johansson;O. Johansson;R. Luft;R. Luft

  1097
  Citations

• Immunohistochemical analysis of peptide pathways possibly related to pain and analgesia: enkephalin and substance P

  T. Hökfelt;Å. Ljungdahl;L. Terenius;R. Elde

  1064
  Citations

• Immunohistochemical support for three putative transmitters in one neuron: Coexistence of 5-hydroxytryptamine, substance p- and thyrotropin releasing hormone-like immunoreactivity in medullary neurons projecting to the spinal cord

  O. Johansson;T. Hökfelt;B. Pernow;S.L. Jeffcoate

  1046
  Citations

• Hypocretin/Orexin- and melanin-concentrating hormone-expressing cells form distinct populations in the rodent lateral hypothalamus: Relationship to the neuropeptide Y and agouti gene-related protein systems

  C. Broberger;L. De Lecea;J.G. Sutcliffe;T. Hökfelt

  1014
  Citations

• The neuropeptide Y/agouti gene-related protein (AGRP) brain circuitry in normal, anorectic, and monosodium glutamate-treated mice

  Christian Broberger;Jeanette Johansen;Carolina Johansson;Martin Schalling

  1013
  Citations

• Primary sensory neurons of the rat showing calcitonin gene-related peptide immunoreactivity and their relation to substance P-, somatostatin-, galanin-, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide- and cholecystokinin-immunoreactive ganglion cells.

  G. Ju;Tomas Hökfelt;E. Brodin;J. Fahrenkrug

  1004
  Citations

• Immunohistochemical evidence of substance P-like immunoreactivity in some 5-hydroxytryptamine-containing neurons in the rat central nervous system.

  T. Hökfelt;T. Hökfelt;Å. Ljungdahl;Å. Ljungdahl;H. Steinbusch;H. Steinbusch;A. Verhofstad;A. Verhofstad

  988
  Citations

• Differential co-existence of neuropeptide Y (NPY)-like immunoreactivity with catecholamines in the central nervous system of the rat.

  B.J. Everitt;T. Hökfelt;L. Terenius;K. Tatemoto

  983
  Citations

• High levels of neuropeptide Y in peripheral noradrenergic neurons in various mammals including man.

  J.M. Lundberg;L. Terenius;T. Hökfelt;M. Goldstein

  910
  Citations

• Messenger plasticity in primary sensory neurons following axotomy and its functional implications

  T. Hökfelt;X. Zhang;Z. Wiesenfeld-Hallin

  901
  Citations

• Potent and nontoxic antisense oligonucleotides containing locked nucleic acids

  Claes R Wahlestedt;Peter Salmi;Liam Good;Johanna Kela

  894
  Citations

• Neuropeptides in perspective: The last ten years

  Tomas Hökfelt

  880
  Citations

• Immunohistochemical studies using antibodies to leucine-enkephalin: Initial observations on the nervous system of the rat

  R. Elde;T. Hökfelt;O. Johansson;L. Terenius

  865
  Citations

• Co-existence of substance P and calcitonin gene-related peptide-like immunoreactivities in sensory nerves in relation to cardiovascular and bronchoconstrictor effects of capsaicin

  Jan M. Lundberg;Anders Franco-Cereceda;Xiaoying Hua;Tomas Hökfelt

  865
  Citations

• Peptidergic neurones

  Unknown

  335
  Citations