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89910
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1233
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715

Tony L. Yaksh publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tony L. Yaksh sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 940 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Tony L. Yaksh D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tony L. Yaksh sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 148 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Tony L. Yaksh is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a focus on several subfields including Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Neurology.

The main topics covered in their research include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Health and Medical Research Impacts, Meta-analysis and systematic reviews, Anesthesia and Pain Management, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology, and Pain Management and Placebo Effect.

Frequent publication venues where Tony L. Yaksh has contributed include:

  • Frontiers in Pain Research
  • Pain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface
  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Notable recent papers by Tony L. Yaksh are:

  • Neuraxial Cytokines in Pain States, 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Sex differences in neuroimmune and glial mechanisms of pain, 2021, Pain
  • Long-lasting analgesia via targeted in situ repression of Na V 1.7 in mice, 2021, Science Translational Medicine
  • Normalization of cholesterol metabolism in spinal microglia alleviates neuropathic pain, 2021, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Treating osteoarthritis pain: mechanisms of action of acetaminophen, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, opioids, and nerve growth factor antibodies, 2021, Postgraduate Medicine

Collaborations with other researchers have occurred frequently with Tonya M. Palermo, Didier Bouhassira, Karen D. Davis, Hugh C. Hemmings, and Robert W. Hurley, each associated with 14 shared works.

Best Publications

  • Quantitative assessment of tactile allodynia in the rat paw.

    S.R. Chaplan;Flemming Bach;J.W. Pogrel;J.M. Chung

  • Chronic catheterization of the spinal subarachnoid space.

    Tony L. Yaksh;Thomas A. Rudy

  • ANALGESIA MEDIATED BY A DIRECT SPINAL ACTION OF NARCOTICS

    T. L. Yaksh;T. A. Rudy

  • Hyperalgesia mediated by spinal glutamate or substance P receptor blocked by spinal cyclooxygenase inhibition.

    A. B. Malmberg;T. L. Yaksh

  • Intrathecal morphine inhibits substance P release from mammalian spinal cord in vivo

    T. L. Yaksh;T. M. Jessell;R. Gamse;A. W. Mudge

  • Antinociceptive actions of spinal nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents on the formalin test in the rat.

    A B Malmberg;T L Yaksh

  • Behavioral and autonomic correlates of the tactile evoked allodynia produced by spinal glycine inhibition: effects of modulatory receptor systems and excitatory amino acid antagonists.

    Tony L. Yaksh

  • Narcotic analgetics: CNS sites and mechanisms of action as revealed by intracerebral injection techniques

    Tony L. Yaksh;Thomas A. Rudy

  • Systematic examination in the rat of brain sites sensitive to the direct application of morphine: observation of differential effects within the periaqueductal gray.

    Tony L. Yaksh;Joseph C. Yeung;Thomas A. Rudy

  • Pharmacology of spinal adrenergic systems which modulate spinal nociceptive processing.

    Tony L. Yaksh

  • Spinal serotonin terminal system mediates antinociception.

    T L Yaksh;P R Wilson

  • Spinal opiate analgesia: characteristics and principles of action.

    Tony L. Yaksh

  • Upregulation of dorsal root ganglion (alpha)2(delta) calcium channel subunit and its correlation with allodynia in spinal nerve-injured rats.

    Z. David Luo;Sandra R. Chaplan;Emiliano S. Higuera;Linda S. Sorkin

  • Studies in the Primate on the Analgetic Effects Associated with Intrathecal Actions of Opiates,α-Adrenergic Agonists and Baclofen

    Tony L. Yaksh;S. V. Ramana Reddy

  • Direct evidence that spinal serotonin and noradrenaline terminals mediate the spinal antinociceptive effects of morphine in the periaqueductal gray.

    Tony L. Yaksh

  • Spinal nitric oxide synthesis inhibition blocks NMDA-induced thermal hyperalgesia and produces antinociception in the formalin test in rats

    Annika B. Malmberg;Tony L. Yaksh

  • In vivo studies on spinal opiate receptor systems mediating antinociception. II. Pharmacological profiles suggesting a differential association of mu, delta and kappa receptors with visceral chemical and cutaneous thermal stimuli in the rat.

    C Schmauss;T L Yaksh

  • Efficacy of Spinal NMDA Receptor Antagonism in Formalin Hyperalgesia and Nerve Injury Evoked Allodynia in the Rat

    Sandra R. Chaplan;Annika B. Malmberg;Tony L. Yaksh

  • Spinal cord pharmacology of adrenergic agonist-mediated antinociception.

    S V Reddy;J L Maderdrut;T L Yaksh

  • Role of the intrinsic modulatory systems in somesthesis

    Tony L. Yaksh

Frequent Co-Authors

Camilla I. Svensson
Camilla I. Svensson Karolinska Institute
Maripat Corr
Maripat Corr University of California, San Diego
Mark S. Wallace
Mark S. Wallace University of California, San Diego
James C. Eisenach
James C. Eisenach Wake Forest University
Linda S. Sorkin
Linda S. Sorkin University of California, San Diego
Edward A. Dennis
Edward A. Dennis University of California, San Diego
Palmer Taylor
Palmer Taylor University of California, San Diego
Vay Liang W. Go
Vay Liang W. Go University of California, Los Angeles
Patrick W. Mantyh
Patrick W. Mantyh University of Arizona
Donna L. Hammond
Donna L. Hammond University of Iowa

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