Visceral Pain

Dr. Stuart Brierley, PhD, is a Matthew Flinders Professor in Gastrointestinal Neuroscience, a NHMRC Investigator Leadership Fellow and Director of the Visceral Pain Research Group at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. He is also Director of the Hopwood Centre for Neurobiology and co-lead of the Lifelong Health Theme at the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute in Adelaide.

Dr. Nick Spencer, PhD is a Mathew Flinders Professor of Neurophysiology at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, South Australia.

Tools for optogenetic probing of nociceptive pathways; Monitoring activity.- An open science model to accelerate the generation, implementation and distribution of optogenetics and viral tools.- Vagal neuroinflammation accompanying respiratory viral infection: An overview of mechanisms and possible clinical significance.- Stress-induced Visceral Analgesia: Concept and Pathways.- Evidence of early life stress exposure and epigenetic modifications in functional chronic pain disorders.- EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF STRESS-INDUCED VISCERAL PAIN.- The biomechanics and mechanotransduction in visceral nociception.- VISCERAL NOCICEPTION IN GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE.- Epithelial-Neuronal Communication in Visceral Pain.- Physiological Mechanisms Underpinning Heightened Perception of Visceral Afferent Signalling in Irritable Bowel Syndrome.- A fentanyl analogue that activates u-opioid receptors in acidified tissues inhibits colitis pain without opioid side effects.- Signalling in the Gut.- Translating colonic sensory afferent peripheral mechanosensitivity into the spinal cord dorsal horn.- Translating colonic afferent peripheral sensitivity into the spinal cord dorsal horn.- Neuron-Microglia Dynamic Duo in Chronic Abdominal Pain.- Pre-clinical Models of Endometriosis.- Spinal afferent innervation of the uterus.- Post-infectious bladder hypersensitivity in the development of Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS).