Pain Neurophysiology

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Ongoing Projects & Publications

• Ex-vivo electrophysiology for ultra fast nociceptors (Centre for Social & Affective Neuroscience, Linköping University)

• Long lasting pain inhibiton C-tactile afferents (Centre for Social & Affective Neuroscience, Linköping University)

• Endocannabinoid release with long lasting C-tactile specific activation (Smärt- Och Rehabenheten, Linköping)

Publications

2019

Nagi, Saad S., Andrew G. Marshall, Adarsh Makdani, Ewa Jarocka, Jaquette Liljencrantz, Mikael Ridderström, Sumaiya Shaikh et al. “An ultrafast system for signaling mechanical pain in human skin.” Science advances 5, no. 7 (2019): eaaw1297.

2017

Samour, Mohamad S., Sumaiya M. Shaikh, David A. Mahns, and Peter J. Shortland. “Noxious, but not innocuous, thermal stimuli evoke pERK expression in dorsal horn neurons after spared nerve injury in adult rats.” Neuroscience letters 654 (2017): 49-55.

2016

Shaikh, Sumaiya, Peter Shortland, Antonio Lauto, Matthew Barton, John W. Morley, and David A. Mahns. “Sensory perturbations using suture and sutureless repair of transected median nerve in rats.” Somatosensory & motor research 33, no. 1 (2016): 20-28.

2015

Shaikh, Sumaiya, Saad S. Nagi, Francis McGlone, and David A. Mahns. “Psychophysical investigations into the role of low-threshold C fibres in non-painful affective processing and pain modulation.” PloS one 10, no. 9 (2015): e0138299.

Barton, Matthew J., John W. Morley, Marcus A. Stoodley, Sumaiya Shaikh, David A. Mahns, and Antonio Lauto. “Long term recovery of median nerve repair using laser‐activated chitosan adhesive films.” Journal of biophotonics 8, no. 3 (2015): 196-207.