Publications

Selected

Vaso A, Adahan HM, Gjika A, Zahaj S, Zhurda T, Vyshka G, Devor M. Peripheral nervous system origin of phantom limb pain. Pain (2014) 155:1384-91

Fried K, Sessle B, Devor M. The paradox of pain from tooth pulp: low-threshold "algoneurons"? Pain (2011) 152: 2685-89.

Nissenbaum J, Devor M, Seltzer Z, Gebauer M, Michaelis M, Tal M, Dorfman R, Abitbul-Yarkoni M, Lu Y, Elahipanah T, delCanho S, Minert A, Fried K, Persson A-K, Shpigler H, Shabo E, Yakir B, Pisanté A, Darvasi A. Susceptibility to chronic pain following nerve injury is genetically affected by CACNG2. Genome Research, (2010) 20:1180-1190.

Devor M. Ectopic discharge in Aβ afferents as a source of neuropathic pain. Experimental Brain Research.(2009) 196:115-128.

Lu J, Sherman D, Devor M, Saper CB. A putative flip-flop switch for control of REM sleep. Nature. (2006) 441: 589-594.

Niv D, Gofeld M, Devor M Causes of pain in degenerative bone and joint disease: a lesson from vertebroplasty. Pain (2003) 105:387-392.

Devor, M. and Zalkind, V. Reversible analgesia, atonia, and loss of consciousness on bilateral intracerebral microinjection of pentobarbital. Pain (2001) 94:101-112.

Devor, M. Unexplained peculiarities of the dorsal root ganglion. Pain (1999) suppl.6: S27-S35.

Amir, R., Michaelis, M. and Devor, M. Membrane potential oscillations in dorsal root ganglion neurons: role in normal electrogenesis and in neuropathic pain. Journal of Neuroscience (1999) 19: 8589-8596.

Mogil, J.S., Wilson, S.G., Bon, K., Lee, S.E., Chung, K., Raber, P., Pieper, J.O., Hain, H.S., Belknap, J.K., Hubert, L., Elmer, G.I., Chung, J.M. and Devor, M. Heritability of nociception I: Responses of 11 inbred mouse strains on 12 measures of nociception. Pain (1999) 80: 67-82.

Sherman, R.A., Devor, M., Casey Jones, D.E., Katz, J. and J.J. Marbach, eds., Phantom Pain, Plenum, New York, pp. 1-264 (1996).

Amir, R. and Devor, M. Chemically-mediated cross-excitation in rat dorsal root ganglia. Journal of Neuroscience (1996) 16: 4733-4741.

Rappaport, Z.H. and Devor, M. Trigeminal neuralgia: the role of self-sustaining discharge in the trigeminal ganglion (TRG). Pain (1994) 56: 127-138.

Devor, M., Govrin-Lippmann, R. and Angelides, K. Na+ channel immuno-localization in peripheral mammalian axons and changes following nerve injury and neuroma formation. Journal of Neuroscience (1993) 13: 1976-1992.

Devor, M. and Raber, P. Heritability of symptoms in an animal model of neuropathic pain. Pain (1990) 42:51-67.

Devor, M., Govrin-Lippmann, R. and Raber, P. Corticosteroids suppress ectopic neural discharge originating in experimental neuromas. Pain (1985) 22:127-137.

Yaari, Y. and Devor, M. Phenytoin suppresses spontaneous ectopic discharge in rat sciatic nerve neuromas. Neuroscience Letters(1985) 58: 117-122.

Wall, P.D. and Devor, M. Sensory afferent impulses originate from dorsal root ganglia as well as from the periphery in normal and nerve injured rats.(1983) Pain 17: 321-339.

Devor, M, and Wall, P.D. Reorganization of the spinal cord sensory map after peripheral nerve injury. (1983) Nature 276: 76-76.

Devor, M. Neuroplasticity in the sparing or deterioration of function after early olfactory tract lesions. Science (1975) 190: 998-1000.

Recent

Goldenberg AM, Minert A, Fishman Y, Wolf G, Devor M. Mesopontine neurons implicated in anesthetic loss-of-consciousness have either ascending or descending axonal projections, but not both. Neuroscience (2017) 369:152-167.

Minert A, Yatziv SL, Devor M. Location of the mesopontine neurons responsible for maintenance of anesthetic loss of consciousness. J Neurosci. (2017) 37:9320-9331.

Devor, M. Neural basis of pain in herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia: the ectopic pacemaker hypothesis Chapter 13 in Watson C.P.N, Gershon A.A. and Oman, M.N. eds. Herpes Zoster: Postherpetic Neuralgia and Other Complications. Focus on Treatment and Prevention. Adis (Springer Nature), Cham, Switzerland, 2017 pp.431.

Kaufmann D, West PJ, Smith MD, Yagen B, Bialer M, Devor M, White HS. sec-Butylpropylacetamide (SPD), a new amide derivative of valproic acid for the treatment of neuropathic and inflammatory pain. Pharmacological Research (2016) 117:129-139.

Devor M, Zalkind V, Fishman Y, Minert A. Model of anaesthetic induction by unilateral intracerebral microinjection of GABAergic agonists. Eur J Neurosci. (2016) 43:846-58

Meiri G, Lanir S, Minert A, Devor M. Transient loss of consciousness during hypercapnia and hypoxia: Involvement of pathways associated with general anesthesia. Exp. Neurol. (2016) 284:67-78.

Sukhotinsky I, Minert A, Soja P, Devor M. Mesopontine Switch for the Induction of General Anesthesia by Dedicated Neural Pathways. Anesth Analg. (2016) 123:1274-1285.

Minert A, Devor M. Brainstem node for loss of consciousness due to GABAA receptor active anesthetics. Experimental Neurology. (2016) 275: 38-45.

Guan Z, Kuhn JA, Wang X, Colquitt B, Solorzano C, Vaman S, Guan AK, Evans-Reinsch Z, Braz J, Devor M, Abboud-Werner SL, Lanier LL, Lomvardas S, Basbaum AI. Injured sensory neurons de novo express CSF1 and induce DAP12-dependent neuropathic pain and DAP12-independent microglial proliferation. Nat.Neurosci. (2016). doi: 10.1038/nn.4189.

Wieskopf JS, Mathur J, Limapichat W, Post MR, Al-Qazzaz M, Sorge RE, Martin LJ, ..... Maskos U, Changeux J-P, Devor M, Maixner W, Diatchenko L, Belfer I, Dougherty DA, Su AI, Lummis SCR, Damaj MI, Lester HA, Patapoutian A, Mogil JS. The nicotinic a6 subunit gene determines variability in chronic pain sensitivity via cross-inhibition of P2X2/3 receptors. Science Translational Medicine, 7 (2015) doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3009986

Vicuña L, Strochlic DE, Latremoliere A, Bali KK, Simonetti M, Husainie D, Prokosch S, Riva P, Griffin RS, Njoo C, Gehrig S, Mall MA, Arnold B, Devor M, Woolf CJ, Liberles SD, Costigan M, Kuner R. The serine protease inhibitor SerpinA3N attenuates neuropathic pain by inhibiting T cell–derived leukocyte elastase. Nature Medicine 21 (2015) 518-523. doi: 10.1038/nm.3852

Devor M, Rappaport I, Rappaport ZH. Does the Golem feel pain? Moral instincts and ethical dilemmas concerning suffering and the brain. Pain Pract. (2015) 15: 497-508.

Bali KK, Hackenberg M, Lubin A, Kuner R, Devor M. Sources of individual variability: miRNAs that predispose to neuropathic pain identified using genome-wide sequencing. Molecular Pain. 2014;10:22. doi: 10.1186/1744-8069-10-22.

Devor M, Tal M. Nerve resection for the treatment of chronic neuropathic pain. Pain. (2014) 155: 1053-1054.

Defrin R, Devor M, and Brill S. Tactile allodynia in patients with lumbar radicular pain (sciatica). Pain (2014) 155:2551–2559.

Nitzan-Loques A, Devor M, Tal M. Dynamic genotype-selective "phenotypic switching" of CGRP expression contributes to differential neuropathic pain phenotype. Exp Neurology (2013) 250:194-204.

Devor, M., Neuropathic pain: pathophysiological response of nerves to injury. Chapter 61. In: S.L. McMahon, M. Koltzenburg, I. Tracey and D.C. Turk (Eds.), Wall and Melzack's Textbook of Pain, 6th edition, Churchill Livingstone, London, 2013, pp861-888.