2026
Deep FLASH-seq profiling of purified canine sensory neurons uncovers species-specific signatures relevant to pain and itchpreprint
Ledesma Fernandez P, Butler B, Theis H, Paulusch S, De Domenico E, Weir GA, Bell AM
bioRxiv, 2026 · doi:10.64898/2026.04.17.719254
Characterisation of cold-selective lamina I spinal projection neurons
Razlan AN, Ma W, Dickie AC, Polgár E, McFarlane A, Yadav M, Cooper AH, Strathdee D, Watanabe M, Bell AM, Todd AJ, Hachisuka J
eLife, 14:RP109502, 2025 · doi:10.7554/eLife.109502.1
2025
Expression of Tacr1 and Gpr83 by spinal projection neurons
Ma W, Dickie AC, Polgár E, Yadav M, Quillet R, Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Bell AM, Todd AJ
Molecular Pain, 2025 · doi:10.1177/17448069251342409
Anatomical characterisation of somatostatin-expressing neurons belonging to the anterolateral system
Ma W, Polgár E, Dickie AC, Abu Hajer M, Quillet R, Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Yadav M, Hachisuka J, Todd AJ, Bell AM
Scientific Reports, 15:9549, 2025 · doi:10.1038/s41598-025-93816-6
2024
Deep sequencing of Phox2a nuclei reveals five classes of anterolateral system neurons
Bell AM, Utting C, Dickie AC, Kucharczyk MW, Quillet R, Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Razlan ANB, Cooper AH, Lan Y, Hachisuka J, Weir GA, Bannister K, Watanabe M, Kania A, Hoon MA, Macaulay IC, Denk F, Todd AJ
PNAS, 121(23):e2314213121, 2024 · doi:10.1073/pnas.2314213121
2023
Neuropeptide Y-expressing dorsal horn inhibitory interneurons gate spinal pain and itch signalling
Boyle KA, Polgár E, Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Dickie AC, Cooper AH, Bell AM, Jumolea E, Casas-Benito A, Watanabe M, Hughes DI, Weir GA, Riddell JS, Todd AJ
eLife, 12:RP86633, 2023 · doi:10.7554/eLife.86633
Grpr expression defines a population of superficial dorsal horn vertical cells that have a role in both itch and pain
Polgár E, Dickie AC, Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Bell AM, Boyle KA, Quillet R, Ab Rashid E, Clark RA, German MT, Watanabe M, Riddell JS, Todd AJ
Pain, 164(1):149–170, 2023 · doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002677
Calretinin-expressing islet cells are a source of pre- and post-synaptic inhibition of non-peptidergic nociceptor input to the mouse spinal cord
Davis OC, Dickie AC, Polgár E, Bhatt DL, Bhatt S, Bell AM, Boyle KA, Gutierrez-Mecinas M, Weir GA, Watanabe M, Hughes DI, Todd AJ
Scientific Reports, 2023 · doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31450-8