Professor Marshall Devor

born: Jan. 8, 1949 (Toronto, Canada)
Department for Cell and Animal Biology
Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Email: marshlu@vms.huji.ac.il
Tel. +972 2 6585085
Fax: +972 2 6586027

Prof. Devor is a laboratory head and chairman of the Department of Cell and Animal Biology at the Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His higher education was at Princeton University and M.I.T., and he is a former postdoctoral fellow of Prof. P.D. Wall. He has contributed considerably to our understanding of the neurobiological basis of neuropathic pain. His laboratory has published extensively in the pain field, with work of a notably integrative nature involving neurophysiology, neuroanatomy (light and EM), genetics and animal behavior.

Sample of recent research publications:

Kovalsky Y, Amir R, Devor M. Subthreshold oscillations facilitate neuropathic spike discharge by overcoming membrane accommodation.
Exp Neurol. 2007 Nov 7;

Lefler Y, Arzi A, Reiner K, Sukhotinsky I, Devor M.Bulbospinal neurons of the rat rostromedial medulla are highly collateralized.
J Comp Neurol. 2008 Feb 20;506(6):960-78.

Minert A, Gabay E, Dominguez C, Wiesenfeld-Hallin Z, Devor M.Spontaneous pain following spinal nerve injury in mice.
Exp Neurol. 2007 Aug;206(2):220-30.

Devor M.Sodium channels and mechanisms of neuropathic pain.
J Pain. 2006 Jan;7(1 Suppl 1):S3-S12.

Mogil JS, Miermeister F, Seifert F, Strasburg K, Zimmermann K, Reinold H, Austin JS, Bernardini N, Chesler EJ, Hofmann HA, Hordo C, Messlinger K, Nemmani KV, Rankin AL, Ritchie J, Siegling A, Smith SB, Sotocinal S, Vater A, Lehto SG, Klussmann S, Quirion R, Michaelis M, Devor M, Reeh PW.

Variable sensitivity to noxious heat is mediated by differential expression of the CGRP gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Sep 6;102(36):12938-43.

Amir R, Kocsis JD, Devor M. Multiple interacting sites of ectopic spike electrogenesis in primary sensory neurons.
J Neurosci. 2005 Mar 9;25(10):2576-85.

Sukhotinsky I, Zalkind V, Lu J, Hopkins DA, Saper CB, Devor M. Neural pathways associated with loss of consciousness caused by intracerebral microinjection of GABAA -active anesthetics. European Journal of Neuroscience 25 (2007) 1417-1436.

Devor, M. Pathophysiology of Nerve Injury in: Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 3rd series, vol. 81, Pain. F. Cervero and T.S. Jensen eds. Elsevier pp. 261-276 (2006).

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

Devor, M. Response of nerves to injury in relation to neuropathic pain. Chapter 58 in McMahon SL and Koltzenburg, M. eds. Wall and Melzack’s Textbook of Pain, 5th edition, Churchill Livingstone, London, pp. 905-927 (2006).

Niv, D., Devor, M. Refractory neuropathic pain: the nature and extent of the problem Pain Practice 6 (2006) 3-9.

Devor M., Gilad, A., Arbilly, M., Yakir, B., Raber, P., Pisant?, A., Darvasi, A. pain1: A neuropathic pain QTL on mouse chromosome15 in a C3H x C58 backcross. Pain 116 (2005) 289-293.

Amir, R., Kocsis, J.D. and Devor M. Multiple interacting sites of ectopic spike electrogenesis in primary sensory neurons J. Neuroscience 25 (2005) 2576-2585.

Mogil J.S and Devor M. Introduction to pain genetics. in: The Genetics of Pain, J. Mogil ed. Progress in Pain Research and Management, vol. 28, Seattle: IASP Press pp. 1-17 (2004).

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