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Overview

Ze'ev Seltzer is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research mainly focuses on medicine with specific emphasis on surgery, pathology and forensic medicine, physiology, molecular biology, and anesthesiology and pain medicine.

Their work is concentrated in several key areas, including:

  • Anesthesia and Pain Management
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling
  • Ion channel regulation and function

Ze'ev Seltzer has published research in a variety of venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
  • Pain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their recent papers include:

  • Prevalence and Risk Factors for Chronic Postsurgical Pain After Thoracic Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study, 2023, Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
  • Presurgical distress about bodily sensations predicts chronic postsurgical pain intensity and disability 6 months after cardiothoracic surgery, 2021, Pain
  • Genetically determined P2X7 receptor pore formation regulates variability in chronic pain sensitivity, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Multiple chronic pain states are associated with a common amino acid-changing allele in KCNS1, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Role of common and rare genetic variants in the aetiology of trigeminal neuralgia, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ze'ev Seltzer encompass:

  • Karim S. Ladha
  • Karen McRae
  • Joel Katz
  • Hance Clarke
  • Dmitri V. Zaykin

Best Publications

  • A novel behavioral model of neuropathic pain disorders produced in rats by partial sciatic nerve injury

    Zeʼev Seltzer;Ronald Dubner;Yoram Shir

  • The Collaborative Cross, a community resource for the genetic analysis of complex traits

    Gary A. Churchill;David C. Airey;Hooman Allayee;Joe M. Angel

  • Transition from acute to chronic postsurgical pain: risk factors and protective factors

    Joel Katz;Ze’ev Seltzer

  • Autotomy following peripheral nerve lesions: experimental anaesthesia dolorosa.

    P. D. Wall;M. Devor;M. Devor;R. Inbal;R. Inbal;J. W. Scadding;J. W. Scadding

  • The nature and identification of quantitative trait loci: a community's view.

    Oduola Abiola;Joe M. Angel;Philip Avner;Alexander A. Bachmanov

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

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

  • Two modes of cutaneous reinnervation following peripheral nerve injury

    M. Devor;D. Schonfeld;Z. Seltzer;P. D. Wall;P. D. Wall

  • Pain catastrophizing as a risk factor for chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty: a systematic review

    Lindsay C Burns;Sarah E Ritvo;Meaghan K Ferguson;Hance Clarke

  • Ephaptic transmission in chronically damaged peripheral nerves

    Zeev Seltzer;Marshall Devor

  • Multiple chronic pain states are associated with a common amino acid–changing allele in KCNS1

    Michael Costigan;Inna Belfer;Robert S. Griffin;Feng Dai

  • A-fibers mediate mechanical hyperesthesia and allodynia and C-fibers mediate thermal hyperalgesia in a new model of causalgiform pain disorders in rats.

    Yoram Shir;Ze'ev Seltzer

  • Effects of sympathectomy in a model of causalgiform pain produced by partial sciatic nerve injury in rats

    Yoram Shir;Ze'ev Seltzer

  • Modulation of neuropathic pain behavior in rats by spinal disinhibition and NMDA receptor blockade of injury discharge

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  • The role of injury discharge in the induction of neuropathic pain behavior in rats

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  • Susceptibility to chronic pain following nerve injury is genetically affected by CACNG2

    Jonathan Nissenbaum;Marshall Devor;Ze'ev Seltzer;Mathias Gebauer

  • Effect of Hyperglycemia on Pain Perception and on Efficacy of Morphine Analgesia in Rats

    Itmar Raz;David Hasdai;Zeev Seltzer;Raphael N Melmed

  • Correlation of intact sensibility and neuropathic pain-related behaviors in eight inbred and outbred rat strains and selection lines.

    Yoram Shir;Rafi Zeltser;Jean-Jacque Vatine;Galia Carmi

  • Models of neuropathic pain in the rat.

    Gary J. Bennett;Jin Mo Chung;Marie Honore;Ze'ev Seltzer

  • Neuropathic pain following partial nerve injury in rats is suppressed by dietary soy

    Yoram Shir;Alexander Ratner;Srinivasa N Raja;James N Campbell

  • Autotomy behavior in rats following peripheral deafferentation is suppressed by daily injections of amitriptyline, diazepam and saline

    Zeev Seltzer;Michael Tal;Yair Sharav

  • Neuropathic pain phenotyping by international consensus (NeuroPPIC) for genetic studies: a NeuPSIG systematic review, Delphi survey, and expert panel recommendations.

    Oliver van Hecke;Peter R Kamerman;Nadine Attal;Ralf Baron

  • Genetics of chronic post-surgical pain: a crucial step toward personal pain medicine

    Hance Clarke;Hance Clarke;Joel Katz;Joel Katz;Joel Katz;Herta Flor;Marcella Rietschel

  • Multiple chronic pain states are associated with a common amino acid changing allele in KCNS1 (vol 133, pg 2519, 2010)

    Michael Costigan;Inna Belfer;Robert S. Griffin;Feng Dai

Frequent Co-Authors

Marshall Devor
Marshall Devor Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ariel Darvasi
Ariel Darvasi Hebrew University of Jerusalem
James N. Campbell
James N. Campbell Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael Costigan
Michael Costigan Boston Children's Hospital
Clifford J. Woolf
Clifford J. Woolf Boston Children's Hospital
Jeffrey S. Mogil
Jeffrey S. Mogil McGill University
David Goldman
David Goldman National Institutes of Health
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Gary A. Churchill
Gary A. Churchill The Jackson Laboratory
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University

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