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2022, 'Targeting the lateral hypothalamus with short hairpin RNAs reduces habitual behaviour following extended instrumental training in rats', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2022.107657
,2021, 'Behavioural and cardiovascular effects of orexin-A infused into the central amygdala under basal and fear conditions in rats', Behavioural Brain Research, 415, pp. 113515, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113515
,2021, 'Asylum-seeking children in shutdown: Neurobiological models', Developmental Child Welfare, 3, pp. 282 - 309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/25161032211036162
,2020, 'Mitochondrial uncoupler BAM15 reverses diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance in mice', Nature Communications, 11, pp. 2397, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16298-2
,2020, 'Social defeat: Vagal reduction and vulnerability to ventricular arrhythmias', Neurobiology of Stress, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2020.100245
,2019, 'Adaptation of Respiratory-Related Brain Regions to Long-Term Hypercapnia: Focus on Neuropeptides in the RTN', Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01343
,2019, 'Vulnerability to stress consequences induced by repeated social defeat in rats: Contribution of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor in cardiovascular alterations associated to low brain derived neurotrophic factor', European Journal of Pharmacology, 861, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejphar.2019.172595
,2019, 'Functional Topography in the Rat Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla (RVLM): Distribution of Cl Neurons that Respond to Cardiovascular versus Metabolic Stimuli', FASEB JOURNAL, 33, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000496555202067&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2019, 'Regulatory T cells and their derived cytokine, interleukin-35, reduce pain in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis', Journal of Neuroscience, 39, pp. 2326 - 2346, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1815-18.2019
,2018, 'Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in children and adolescents: Part I – Diagnostic formulations', Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 23, pp. 140 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359104517732118
,2018, 'Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in children and adolescents: Part II – explanations to families, treatment, and group outcomes', Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 23, pp. 160 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359104517730116
,2017, 'A split-luciferase reporter recognizing GFP and mCherry tags to facilitate studies of protein–protein interactions', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms18122681
,2017, 'Brief optogenetic inhibition of rat lateral or ventrolateral periaqueductal gray augments the acquisition of pavlovian fear conditioning', Behavioral Neuroscience, 131, pp. 454 - 459, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000217
,2017, 'Effects of chemogenetic excitation or inhibition of the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray on the acquisition and extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 144, pp. 186 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.07.006
,2017, 'The respiratory control of carbon dioxide in children and adolescents referred for treatment of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures', European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 26, pp. 1207 - 1217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-017-0976-0
,2017, 'Orexin, Stress and Central Cardiovascular Control. A Link with Hypertension?', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 74, pp. 376 - 392, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.06.044
,2017, 'Orexin and central modulation of cardiovascular and respiratory function', , 33, pp. 157 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/7854_2016_46
,2016, 'Olfactory ensheathing cells but not fibroblasts reduce the duration of autonomic dysreflexia in spinal cord injured rats', Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical, 201, pp. 17 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2016.08.015
,2016, 'Peripheral and central neuroinflammatory changes and pain behaviors in an animal model of multiple sclerosis', Frontiers in Immunology, 7, pp. 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2016.00369
,2016, 'Long-lasting Bradypnea induced by repeated social defeat', American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 311, pp. R352 - R364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.00021.2016
,2016, 'The organization of defensive behavior elicited by optogenetic excitation of rat lateral or ventrolateral periaqueductal gray', Behavioral Neuroscience, 130, pp. 406 - 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000151
,2016, 'Contribution of orexin to the neurogenic hypertension in BPH/2J mice', Hypertension, 67, pp. 959 - 969, http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.07053
,2016, 'Contribution of Orexin to the Neurogenic Hypertension in BPH/2J Mice', HYPERTENSION, 67, pp. 959 - 969, http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.07053
,2015, 'Both Ox1R and Ox2R orexin receptors contribute to the cardiorespiratory response evoked from the perifornical hypothalamus', Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, 42, pp. 1059 - 1067, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1440-1681.12461
,2015, 'Spontaneously hypertensive rats have more orexin neurons in their medial hypothalamus than normotensive rats', Experimental Physiology, 100, pp. 388 - 398, http://dx.doi.org/10.1113/expphysiol.2014.084137
,2015, 'Both Ox1r and Ox2r orexin receptors contribute to the cardiovascular and locomotor components of the novelty stress response in the rat', Neuropharmacology, 89, pp. 146 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2014.09.012
,2015, 'Fear and the Defense Cascade: Clinical Implications and Management', Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 23, pp. 263 - 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/HRP.0000000000000065
,2015, 'Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a surrogate measure of respiratory frequency: Validity and robustness to activity in rats', Journal of Applied Physiology, 118, pp. 238 - 243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00799.2014
,2015, 'Is there a link between orexin signalling, cardiovascular responses to stress and essential hypertension?', Autonomic Neuroscience, 192, pp. 26 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2015.07.330
,2015, 'Prehypertensive juvenile spontaneously hypertensive rats have more orexin neurons than normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats', Autonomic Neuroscience, 192, pp. 93 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2015.07.127
,2015, 'Stress, anxiety and central neural modulation of cardiovascular stress response in rats', Autonomic Neuroscience, 192, pp. 37 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2015.07.370
,2013, 'Orexin, orexin receptor antagonists and central cardiovascular control', Frontiers in Neuroscience, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2013.00257
,2013, 'Orexins, orexin receptors and cardiovascular regulation during psychological stress', Autonomic Neuroscience, 177, pp. 23 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2013.05.024
,2012, 'Blockade of orexin receptors with Almorexant reduces cardiorespiratory responses evoked from the hypothalamus but not baro- or chemoreceptor reflex responses.', American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 303, pp. R1101 - R1022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.00263.2012
,2012, 'Orexin microinjection in the medullary raphe increases heart rate and arterial pressure but does not reduce tail skin blood flow in the awake rat', Neuroscience, 202, pp. 209 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.11.073
,2012, 'Stress-induced hyperthermia is not mediated by brown adipose tissue in mice', Journal of Thermal Biology, 37, pp. 125 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2011.11.010
,2011, 'A reassessment of stress-induced "analgesia" in the rat using an unbiased method', Pain, 152, pp. 676 - 686, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2010.12.019
,2011, 'Blockade of orexin receptors differentially modulate sympathetic and respiratory responses to hypothalamic activation in rats', Autonomic Neuroscience, 163, pp. 114 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2011.05.206
,2011, 'Stress-induced hyperthermia is not mediated by interscapular brown adipose tissue in mice', Autonomic Neuroscience, 163, pp. 93 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2011.05.152
,2011, 'Tail skin vasoconstriction during conditioned fear in the rat is mediated by the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray, not the dorsal tuberal hypothalamus', Autonomic Neuroscience, 163, pp. 94 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2011.05.155
,2010, 'Selected changes in spinal cord morphology after T4 transection and olfactory ensheathing cell transplantation', Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical, 158, pp. 31 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2010.05.011
,2010, 'Cardiovascular and behavioural responses to conditioned fear and restraint are not affected by retrograde lesions of A5 and C1 bulbospinal neurons', Neuroscience, 166, pp. 1210 - 1218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.01.039
,2010, 'Compensatory mechanisms to maintain blood pressure in paraplegic rats: implication of central tachykinin NK-1 and NK-3 receptors', Neuropeptides, 44, pp. 199 - 207
,2010, 'Olfactory ensheathing cells reduce duration of autonomic dysreflexia in rats with high spinal cord injury', Autonomic Neuroscience - Basic and Clinical, 154, pp. 20 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2009.10.001
,2010, 'Selected changes in spinal cord morphology after T4 transection and olfactory ensheathing cell transplantation', Autonomic Neuroscience, 158, pp. 676 - 686
,2009, 'Emotional Control of the Autonomic Nervous System', , pp. 923 - 928, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-008045046-9.02001-5
,2009, 'Effect of Treadmill Training on Autonomic Dysreflexia in Spinal Cord-Injured Rats', Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 23, pp. 910 - 920
,2009, 'Hypocretin/orexin contributes to the expression of some but not all forms of stress and arousal', European Journal of Neuroscience, 30, pp. 1603 - 1614, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06952.x
,2009, 'Inhibition of the cardiovascular response to stress by systemic 5-HT1A activation: sympathoinhibition or anxiolysis?', American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 297, pp. R495 - R501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.00232.2009
,2009, 'Letter to the editor of Pain about Gemma Ford and David Finn, Clinical correlates of stress-induced analgesia: Evidence from pharmacological study. Pain 2008;140:3-7', Pain, 142, pp. 165 - 167
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