Allan Basbaum

Allan Irwin Basbaum PhD, FRS is a Canadian born medical researcher, and professor and chair of the Department of Anatomy University of California, San Francisco.^[1]^[2] He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine.^[3] and a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom. From 2003 to 2012 he was Editor-in-Chief of Pain, the journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain.

Works

Allan I. Basbaum and David Julius, "Toward Better Pain Control", Scientific American, May 22, 2006

Selected Publications

Malmberg, A.B.; Chen, C.; Tonegawa, S.; Basbaum, A.I. (1997). "Preserved acute pain and reduced neuropathic pain in mice lacking PKCg". Science. 278: 279–283. doi:10.1126/science.278.5336.279. PMID 9323205.
Liu, H.; Mantyh, P.W.; Basbaum, A.I. (1997). "NMDA-receptor regulation of substance P release from primary afferent nociceptors". Nature. 386: 721–724. doi:10.1038/386721a0.
Cao, Y.Q.; Mantyh, P.W.; Carlson, E.J.; Gillespie, A.-M.; Epstein, C.J.; Basbaum, A.I. (1998). "Primary afferent tachykinins are required to experience moderate to intense pain". Nature. 392: 390–394. doi:10.1038/32897.
Caterina, M.J.; Leffler, A.; Malmberg, A.B.; Martin, W.F.; Trafton, J.A.; Petersen-Zeitz, K; Koltzenburg, M.; Basbaum, A.I.; Julius, D. (2000). "Impaired nociception and pain sensation in mice lacking the capsaicin receptor". Science. 288: 306–313. doi:10.1126/science.288.5464.306. PMID 10764638.
Trafton, J.A.; Abbadie, C.; Marek, K.; Basbaum, A.I. (2000). "Postsynaptic signaling via the µ opioid receptor: Responses of dorsal horn neurons to exogenous opioids and noxious stimulation". J. Neurosci. 20: 8578–8584.
Neumann, S.; Bradke, F.; Tessier-Lavigne, M.; Basbaum, A.I. (2002). "Regeneration of sensory axons within the injured spinal cord induced by intraganglionic cAMP elevation". Neuron. 34: 885–893. doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(02)00702-x.
Braz, J.M.; Nassar, M.A.; Wood, J.N.; Basbaum, A.I. (2005). "Parallel "pain" pathways arise from subpopulations of primary afferent nociceptor". Neuron. 47: 787–93. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2005.08.015.
Ahn, A.H.; Basbaum, A.I. (2006). "Tissue injury regulates serotonin 1D receptor expression: implications for the control of migraine and inflammatory pain". J Neurosci. 26: 8332–8338. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1989-06.2006.
Bautista, D.M.; Jordt, S.E.; Nikai, T.; Tsuruda, P.R.; Read, A.J.; Poblete, J.; Yamoah, E.H.; Basbaum, A.I.; Julius, D. (2006). "TRPA1 mediates the inflammatory actions of environmental irritants and proalgesic agents". Cell. 124: 1269–1282. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.02.023.
Neumann, S.; Braz, J.M.; Skinner, K.; Llewellyn-Smith, I.J.; Basbaum, A.I. (2008). "Innocuous,not noxious,input activates "PKC" interneurons of the spinal dorsal horn via myelinated afferent fibers". J Neurosci. 28: 7936–7944. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1259-08.2008.
Imamachi, N.; Park, G.H.; Lee, H.; Anderson, D.J.; Simon, M.I.; Basbaum, A.I.; Han, S.K. (2009). "TRPV1-expressing primary afferents generate behavioral responses to pruritogens via multiple mechanisms". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 106: 11330–11305. doi:10.1073/pnas.0905605106.
Cavanaugh, D.J.; Lee, H.; Lo, L.; Shlelds, S.D.; Zylka, M.J.; Basbaum, A.I.; Anderson, D.J. (2009). "Distinct subsets of unmyelinated primary sensory fibers mediate behavioral responses to noxious thermal and mechanical stimuli". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 106: 9075–9080. doi:10.1073/pnas.0901507106.
Scherrer, G.; Imamachi, N.; Cao, Y-Q; Contet, C.; Mennicken, F.; O'Donnell, D.; Kieffer, B.L.; Basbaum, A.I. (2009). "Dissociation of the opioid receptor mechanisms that control mechanical and heat pain". Cell. 137: 1148–1169. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2009.04.019.
Seal, R.P; Wang, X.; Guan; Raja, S.N.; Woodbury, C.J.; Basbaum, A.I.; Edwards, R.H. (2009). "Low threshold C-mechanoreceptors are required for injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity". Nature. 462: 651–655. doi:10.1038/nature08505.
Scherrer, G.; Low, S.A.; Wang, X.; Zhang, J.; Yamanaka, H.; Urban, R. Solorano; Harper, B.; Hnasko, T.S.; Edwards, R.H.; Basbaum, A.I. (Dec 2010). "VGLUT2 expression in primary afferent neurons is essential for normal acute pain and injury-induced heat hypersensitivity". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 107 (51): 22296–301. doi:10.1073/pnas.1013413108. PMC 3009833. PMID 21135246.
Shields, S.D.; Cavanaugh, D.J.; Lee, H.; Anderson, D.J.; Basbaum, A.I. (Nov 2010). "Pain behavior in the formalin test persists after ablation of the great majority of C-fiber nociceptors". Pain. 151 (2): 422–9. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2010.08.001. PMC 2955806. PMID 20832171.

References

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2006

Fellows	Roger Alder David Barford Stephen Barnett Allan Basbaum Richard Battarbee Axel Becke Valerie Beral John Browne Peter Donnelly John Eland David Ewins David Farmer Marc Feldmann Tom Foxon Matthew Freeman Karl Friston Nigel Grindley Andy Hopper Peter Hunter Richard Jackson Richard Jones Calestous Juma Michael Lockwood Ruth Lynden-Bell Trudy Mackay Jerrold Marsden Robert Martienssen Ramesh Narayan Raymond Ogden Peter Parker John Pearce Malik Peiris Michael Proctor Atta-ur-Rahman Helen Saibil Nicholas Shepherd-Barron Austin Smith Nahum Sonenberg Mriganka Sur Peter West Nicholas White Alan Wilson Phil Woodruff Ziheng Yang

Foreign	Kenneth Arrow Édouard Brézin Paul Crutzen Daan Frenkel Roger Tsien Carl Woese

Honorary	Ralph Kohn

External links

http://www.nationalpainfoundation.org/articles/893/pioneers-in-pain-medicine

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