Dr. Enrique Vazquez-Rodriguez

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsMolecular and Cellular Neurology and Neuropathology
Keywordsarthritis, pain, spinal cytokines, inflammation, central sensitization

Current contact address

CountryVenezuela
CityCaracas
InstitutionInstituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas
InstituteCentro de Biofisica y Bioquimica (CBB), Laboratorio Neurofisiologia

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg SchaibleInstitut für Physiologie I - Neurophysiologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2008

Programme(s)

2008Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2016Rafael Salas, Karla Ramirez, Horacio Vanegas, Enrique Vazquez: Activity correlations between on-like and off-like cells of the rostral ventromedial medulla and simultaneously recorded wide-dynamic-range neurons of the spinal dorsal horn in rats.. In: Brain Research, 2016, 103-110
2016Beatriz Elena Brito, Enrique Vazquez, Peter Taylor, Ysaias Alvarado, Horacio Vanegas, Antony Millan, Victor Tortorici: Antinociceptive effect of systemically administered dipyrone (metamizol), magnesium chloride or both in a murine model of cancer.. In: European Journal of Pain, 2016, 541-551
2015Enrique Vazquez, Maria Navarro, Ylia Salazar, Y. Gustavo Crespo, Crisol Osorio, Victor Tortorici, Horacio Vanegas, Mercedes lopez : Systemic changes following carrageenan-induced paw inflammation in rats. In: Inflammation research, 2015, 333-342
2013Horacio Vanegas, Enrique Vazquez, Victor Tortorici: Descending Modulation of Nociceptive Transmission During Persistent Damage to Peripheral Tissues.. In: Gerald F. Gebhart, Robert F. Schmidt, Encyclopedia of Pain . Springer-Verlag, 2013. 943-948
2012William Escobar, Karla Ramirez, Cristina Avila, Roberto Limongi, Horacio Vanegas, Enrique Vazquez: Metamizol, a non-opioid analgesic, acts via endocannabinoids in the PAG-RVM axis during inflammation in rats. In: European Journal of Pain, 2012, 676-689
2012Enrique Vazquez, Jan Kahlenbach, Gisela Segond von Banchet, Christian König, Hans-Georg Schaible, and Andrea Ebersberger: Spinal Interleukin-6 Is an Amplifier of Arthritic Pain in the Rat. In: ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATISM, 2012, 2233-2241
2010Horacio Vanegas, Enrique Vazquez, Victor Tortorici: NSAIDs, Opioids, Cannabinoids and the Control of Pain by the Central Nervous System. In: Pharmaceuticals, 2010, 1335-1347
2010Alejandro Telleria-Diaz, Martin Schmidt, Stefan Kreusch, Anne-Kathrin Neubert, Florian Schache, Enrique Vazquez, Horacio Vanegas, Hans-Georg Schaible, Andrea Ebersberger: Spinal antinociceptive effects of cyclooxygenase inhibition during inflammation: Involvement of prostaglandins and endocannabinoids. In: Pain, 2010, 26-35
2009Hans-Georg Schaible, Frank Richter, Andrea Ebersberger, Michael K. Boettger, Horacio Vanegas, Gabriel Natura, Enrique Vazquez, Gisela Segond von Banchet : Joint pain . In: Experimental Brain Research, 2009, 153-162
2007Enrique Vazquez, William Escobar, Karla Ramirez, Horacio Vanegas: A nonopioid analgesic acts upon the PAG-RVM axis to reverse inflammatory hyperalgesia . In: European Journal of Neuroscience, 2007, 471-479
2005Enrique Vazquez, Norma Hernandez, William Escobar, Horacio Vanegas: Antinociception induced by intravenous dipyrone (metamizol) upon dorsal horn neurons: Involvement of endogenous opioids at the periaqueductal gray matter, the nucleus raphe magnus, and the spinal cord in rats . In: Brain Research, 2005, 211-217
2004Karl-Jurgen Baer, Gabriel Natura, Alejandro Telleria-Diaz, Philipp Teschner, Regine Vogel, Enrique Vasquez, Hans-Georg Schaible, Andrea Ebersberger: Changes in the Effect of Spinal Prostaglandin E2 during Inflammation: Prostaglandin E (EP1–EP4) Receptors in Spinal Nociceptive Processing of Input from the Normal or Inflamed Knee Joint. In: Journal of Neuroscience, 2004, 642-651
2001Enrique Vasquez, Karl-Jurgen Baer, Andrea Ebersberger, Barbara Klein, Horacio Vanegas, Hans-Georg Schaible: Spinal Prostaglandins Are Involved in the Development But Not the Maintenance of Inflammation-Induced Spinal Hyperexcitability . In: Journal of Neuroscience, 2001, 9001-9008