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Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine

# overview
The primary focus of my current research is examining the effects of morphine on recovery of function after spinal cord injury. This research includes examination of the potential for addiction after SCI as well as the behavioral and molecular changes associated with administration of morphine in a rodent model of spinal cord injury.

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Associate Department Head Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics

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Interleukin 1 Receptor Antagonist Protein

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Physical Injury - Accidents And Adverse Effects

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5.9 Resources And Infrastructure (treatment Development)

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Physical Injury - Accidents And Adverse Effects

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3214 Pharmacology And Pharmaceutical Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Physical Injury - Accidents And Adverse Effects

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Physical Injury - Accidents And Adverse Effects

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Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence

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Physical Injury - Accidents And Adverse Effects

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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4201 Allied Health And Rehabilitation Science

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Drug-Related Side Effects And Adverse Reactions

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Physical Injury - Accidents And Adverse Effects

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3214 Pharmacology And Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Direct-pathway Medium Spiny Neurons, Dmsns

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Habenula-projecting Globus Pallidus Neurons, Gph

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
University of New England - (Armidale, New South Wales, Australia)

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Intermittent noxious stimulation following spinal cord contusion injury impairs locomotor recovery and reduces spinal brain-derived neurotrophic factor-tropomyosin-receptor kinase signaling in adult rats.

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Loss of learning in the spinal cord: Role of glutamate systems

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Uncontrollable stimulation undermines recovery after spinal cord injury.

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TARGETING NORADRENERGIC SIGNALING TO MITIGATE BONE LOSS AFTER SCI

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Morphine self-administration following spinal cord injury.

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An IL-1 receptor antagonist blocks a morphine-induced attenuation of locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury.

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Monitoring recovery after injury: procedures for deriving the optimal test window.

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Lateralized use of the mouth in production of vocalizations by marmosets.

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A brief period of moderate noxious stimulation induces hemorrhage and impairs locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury.

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Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors control metaplasticity of spinal cord learning through a protein kinase C-dependent mechanism.

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Osteopenia in a Mouse Model of Spinal Cord Injury: Effects of Age, Sex and Motor Function.

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DEPRESSIVE-LIKE BEHAVIOR IN SPINALLY INJURED MALE RATS IS ASSOCIATED WITH A DECLINE IN SPATIAL LEARNING

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Full manuscript title: Ultrasound-guided intraparenchymal injection of slow release Chondroitinase ABC-37 in the chronic phase of spinal cord injury improves long-term recovery

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Regulatory effects of intermittent noxious stimulation on spinal cord injury-sensitive microRNAs and their presumptive targets following spinal cord contusion.

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BOTULINUM TOXIN INJECTION FOR TONGUE PROTRUSION

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Adverse Effects of Repeated, Intravenous Morphine on Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury in Young, Male Rats Are Blocked by a Kappa Opioid Receptor Antagonist.

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Examining the effects of pain on morphine self-administration following a spinal contusion injury

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ELEVATED BASELINE LEVELS OF INTERLEUKIN-6 ARE ASSOCIATED DEPRESSION AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY

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MORPHINE UNDERMINES RECOVERY FOLLOWING SCI VIA A KOR-MEDIATED MECHANISM

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Inflammaging and Bone Loss in a Rat Model of Spinal Cord Injury.

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Closed-Loop Plantar Cutaneous Augmentation by Electrical Nerve Stimulation Increases Ankle Plantarflexion During Treadmill Walking.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Pain Input Impairs Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury: Treatment with Lidocaine.

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Morphine-induced changes in the function of microglia and macrophages after acute spinal cord injury.

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Inter-group variation in abnormal behavior in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

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A Simple Post Hoc Transformation that Improves the Metric Properties of the BBB Scale for Rats with Moderate to Severe Spinal Cord Injury

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A rodent model of functional electrical stimulation: Evidence spinal neurons modulate adaptive capacity

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Visuospatial reaching preferences of common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): an assessment of individual biases across a variety of tasks.

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MicroRNA dysregulation following spinal cord contusion: implications for neural plasticity and repair.

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Eye preferences in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): influence of age, stimulus, and hand preference.

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Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science, Volume III

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Evidence of treating spasticity before it develops: a systematic review of spasticity outcomes in acute spinal cord injury interventional trials.

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Development of hand preferences in marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) and effects of aging.

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Inflammation is increased with anxiety- and depression-like signs in a rat model of spinal cord injury.

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Chimpanzees are right-handed: Replication in three colonies of apes

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Leading-limb preferences in marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): walking, leaping and landing.

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Poster 97: The First 24 Hours: The Impact of Opioids on Spinal Cord Injury Recovery

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An animal model of functional electrical stimulation: evidence that the central nervous system modulates the consequences of training.

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SCI and depression: Does inflammation commandeer the brain?

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MORPHINE UNDERMINES RECOVERY FOLLOWING SCI: OPIOID-IMMUNE INTERACTIONS

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The impact of morphine after a spinal cord injury.

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A simple post hoc transformation that improves the metric properties of the BBB scale for rats with moderate to severe spinal cord injury.

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Maternal age, parity, and reproductive outcome in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

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Impact of behavioral control on the processing of nociceptive stimulation.

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Soft, stretchable conductive hydrogels for high-performance electronic implants.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Fully Implantable Plantar Cutaneous Augmentation System for Rats Using Closed-loop Electrical Nerve Stimulation.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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MORPHINE-INDUCED CELL DEATH IN A RODENT MODEL OF SCI

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When Pain Hurts: Nociceptive Stimulation Induces a State of Maladaptive Plasticity and Impairs Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury.

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Nor-Binaltorphimine Blocks the Adverse Effects of Morphine after Spinal Cord Injury.

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Assessing Depression and Cognitive Impairment Following Stroke and Neurotrauma: Behavioral Methods for Quantifying Impairment and Functional Recovery.

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Striatal mu-opioid receptor activation triggers direct-pathway gabaergic plasticity and induces negative affect

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Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are predominantly right-handed: replication in three populations of apes.

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Striatal -opioid receptor activation triggers direct-pathway GABAergic plasticity and induces negative affect.

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BLOCKING KOR ACTIVATION PREVENTS MORPHINE-INDUCED ATTENUATION OF RECOVERY FOLLOWING SCI

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EFFECTS OF OPIOIDS ON RECOVERY AFTER SCI IRRESPECTIVE OF KOR ACTIVATION

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Metaplasticity and behavior: how training and inflammation affect plastic potential within the spinal cord and recovery after injury.

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Exercise therapy and recovery after SCI: evidence that shows early intervention improves recovery of function.

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Elevated osteocyte TNF-, IL-6, and sclerostin in a rodent model of spinal cord injury correlates with altered bone turnover.

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Opioid administration following spinal cord injury: implications for pain and locomotor recovery.

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Extracellular vesicles: Unlocking new therapies for spinal cord injury.

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Acute Opioid Administration Undermines Recovery after SCI: Adverse Effects Are Not Restricted to Morphine.

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The Evolution of Lateralized Motor Functions

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Cytisine is neuroprotective in female but not male 6-hydroxydopamine lesioned parkinsonian mice and acts in combination with 17--estradiol to inhibit apoptotic endoplasmic reticulum stress in dopaminergic neurons.

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Chemogenetic Attenuation of Acute Nociceptive Signaling Enhances Functional Outcomes Following Spinal Cord Injury.

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INTERACTIONS BETWEEN EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX COMPONENTS AND THE CELL-SURFACE IN CELL-ADHESION

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Controlled Release Of Chondroitinase Abc In A Rat Model To Treat Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

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Continuous shock has a protective effect against the spinal learning deficit induced by intermittent shock

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The first 24h: opioid administration in people with spinal cord injury and neurologic recovery.

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Evaluation of the effects of specific opioid receptor agonists in a rodent model of spinal cord injury.

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Instrumental learning within the spinal cord: underlying mechanisms and implications for recovery after injury.

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NORBNI DOSE-DEPENDENTLY BLOCKS THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF INTRATHECAL MORPHINE ADMINISTRATION FOLLOWING SCI

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Psychological stress as a modulator of functional recovery following spinal cord injury.

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Depression-like behavior corresponds with cardiac changes in a rodent model of spinal cord injury.

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Striatal -Opioid Receptor Activation Triggers Direct-Pathway GABAergic Plasticity to Induce Negative Affect

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Simple Reaching Is Not So Simple: Association Between Hand Use and Grip Preferences in Captive Chimpanzees.

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Effects of morphine after a spinal contusion injury

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Uncontrollable stimulation undermines recovery of function after spinal cord injury

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Peripheral noxious stimulation reduces withdrawal threshold to mechanical stimuli after spinal cord injury: role of tumor necrosis factor alpha and apoptosis.

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Analgesia or addiction?: implications for morphine use after spinal cord injury.

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SPINALLY CONTUSED MALE AND FEMALE RATS EXHIBIT DIFFERENTIAL HIPPOCAMPAL-ASSOCIATED AFFECTIVE AND COGNITIVE OUTCOMES IN CHRONIC RECOVERY

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Assessment of depression in a rodent model of spinal cord injury.

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Edge AI-Based Closed-Loop Peripheral Nerve Stimulation System for Gait Rehabilitation after Spinal Cord Injury

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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The behavioral deficit observed following noncontingent shock in spinalized rats is prevented by the protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide.

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Variability in Open-Field Locomotor Scoring Following Force-Defined Spinal Cord Injury in Rats: Quantification and Implications.

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Hand, mouth and eye preferences in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus).

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Intrathecal morphine attenuates recovery of function after a spinal cord injury.

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Morphine increases macrophages at the lesion site following spinal cord injury: Protective effects of minocycline.

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Inflammation increases the development of depression behaviors in male rats after spinal cord injury.

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Osteocytes reflect a pro-inflammatory state following spinal cord injury in a rodent model.

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Depression-like behavior is associated with deficits in cognition and hippocampal neurogenesis in a subset of spinally contused male, but not female, rats.

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118. The interplay between psychological well-being, pain and inflammation in a rat model of spinal cord injury

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FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE CONGRUENCE TECHNIQUE

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BLOCKING KOR ACTIVATION PREVENTS MORPHINE-INDUCED ATTENUATION OF RECOVERY FOLLOWING SCI

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Intrathecal minocycline does not block the adverse effects of repeated, intravenous morphine administration on recovery of function after SCI.

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A moderate spinal contusion injury in rats alters bone turnover both below and above the level of injury with sex-based differences apparent in long-term recovery.

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The association between spinal cord trauma-sensitive miRNAs and pain sensitivity, and their regulation by morphine.

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Peripheral inflammation undermines the plasticity of the isolated spinal cord.

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INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION AND DEPRESSION-LIKE BEHAVIORS IN A RODENT MODEL OF SPINAL CORD INJURY

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Maladaptive spinal plasticity opposes spinal learning and recovery in spinal cord injury.

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Spinal neurons exhibit a surprising capacity to learn and a hidden vulnerability when freed from the brain's control.

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Morphine-induced changes in the function of microglia and macrophages after spinal cord injury

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Population-Level Right Handedness for a Coordinated Bimanual Task in Chimpanzees: Replication and Extension in a Second Colony of Apes.

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Neurobiological Effects of Morphine after Spinal Cord Injury.

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Investigating the neural mechanisms underlying SCI-driven depression and cognitive impairment: Role of BDNF

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Craig H Neilsen Foundation - (Los Angeles, California, United States)

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The Effects of Morphine on Sensory and Motor Functions After a Spinal Cord Injury

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Derivation of the Mechanisms Mediating the Adverse Effects of Morphine in a Rodent Model of SCI: Functional Recovery and Neuron Loss

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United States Department of Defense - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Inflamm-aging and bone loss in a rodent model of spinal cord injury

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Craig H Neilsen Foundation - (Los Angeles, California, United States)

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Therapeutic Potential of Increasing Lymphangiogenesis in a Mouse Model of ALS

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United States Department of Defense - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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How and when does peripheral input affect recovery after SCI

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Craig H Neilsen Foundation - (Los Angeles, California, United States)

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Mechanisms of Opioid Resistance after Spinal Cord Injury

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Craig H Neilsen Foundation - (Los Angeles, California, United States)

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Opioid-immune interactions and their implications for long term recovery after SCI

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United States Department of Defense - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Pavlovian Conditioning of Injured Spinal Cord Systems

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Morphine undermines recovery of function after SCI: Neurobiological mechanisms

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M Health Science Center; Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics; 1359 TAMUS

# organizations[]
Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine

# schools[]
Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine

# etdChairOf[].label
Maldonado, Sioui (2014-12). Psychological Well-Being and Spinal Cord Injury Recovery: A Two-Way Street?. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Woller, Sarah Ann (2013-08). Characterization of Morphine Self-Administration Following Spinal Cord Injury. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Woller, Sarah Ann (2010-05). Analgesia or Addiction: Implications for Morphine Use After Spinal Cord Injury. Master's Thesis.