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Macarena Tejos Bravo

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Biochemist and PhD in Neuroscience ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฑ| Postdoc at Karolinska Institutet @molecularpain.bsky.social ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช | Pain + Itch + Skin

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๐Ÿš€ NAPS applications open this week!

The North American Pain School (@napainschool.bsky.social) brings together leading experts in #PainResearch for an immersive #SummerSchool training and networking experience in Quรฉbec.

๐Ÿ“ Apply Nov 28โ€“Jan 31

๐Ÿ‘‰ northamericanpainschool.com/registration/

25.11.2025 00:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New preprint: Exploring the neuroimmune cellular landscape in the skin of subjects with fibromyalgia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

20.11.2025 07:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Last week at NeuPSIG in Berlin, I shared some new data in skin samples from fibromyalgia patients. Great city๐Ÿบ, great catch-ups with old friends, and hopefully some exciting steps forward for the pain field!

10.09.2025 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2 Apr 2025

Galosi et al. find that, in people with painful diabetic polyneuropathy, ongoing burning pain is strikingly associated with an increased expression of epidermal TRPV1 nerve fibers. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/4iZRmgH

02.04.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Altered Sensory and Stress Responses in Atopic Dermatitis: Effects of Acute Stress on Lesional and Nonโ€Lesional Skin Itch and pain are both mediated by small sensory fibres. Atopic dermatitis (AD) patients usually report stress-induced flares, but the impact of stress on sensory fibres in lesional and non-lesional ...

Fantastic way to start my week! โ˜€๏ธ The first paper from my PhD has been published, where we show that stress-induced cold hypoesthesia is absent in
sensory nerve fibers from atopic skin lesions. Hope you enjoy it!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

17.03.2025 13:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What an exciting week: two papers published in
@brain1878.bsky.social and @painthejournal.bsky.social on the findings from our whiplash cohort. Massive thank you Joel Fundaun, Colette Ridehalgh, Andrew Dilley and other co-authors who were instrumental in making this happen. Short summary below.

05.03.2025 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿšจ Paper Announcement๐ŸŽ‰ ๐Ÿฅ‚
Read about our fascinating discoveries around the pain-relieving effect of the JAK inhibitor baricitinib in an arthritis context !
Our pre-clinical study highlights exciting findings and is now available in the prestigious journal ARD: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

20.02.2025 18:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cell Surface Map Cell Surface Map - Distribution and organization data on immune cell surface proteins

Check out our web tool for searching for interactors of your favorite cell surface protein, developed by undergrad Pinyu Liao and postdoc postdoc Brendan Floyd @stanford-chemh.bsky.social

cellsurfacemap.org

21.02.2025 01:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 155    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Macrophages protect against sensory axon loss in peripheral neuropathy - Nature A study in a mouse model of obesity and prediabetes demonstrates that recruitment of macrophages to nerves has a protective role in diet-induced peripheral neuropathy.

#PainResearch
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

14.02.2025 18:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
EPS 2025 :: Application The website of the European Pain School :: EPS 2025

๐Ÿ“ข Join us for the next European Pain School!

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 7โ€“13 June 2025

๐Ÿ“ Certosa di Pontignano, Siena โ€“ a stunning setting for cutting-edge learning.

๐Ÿ“ Apply by: 28 February 2025 eps2025.azuleon.org/application

๐Ÿ’ก This yearโ€™s focus: Cancer Pain Research, featuring topics like:

23.01.2025 10:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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4th Molecular Biosystems Conference -- 2025 Leading Latin American conference on Eukaryotic Gene Regulation & Functional Genomics.

The lineup for @molbiosystems.bsky.social is READY! Official release in a few days.

Plan to join us!

Molbiosystems.com

16.01.2025 13:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kicking off this account (and the holiday season ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ๐ŸŽ„) with a dinner for New International Scholars in Sweden at the Stockholm City Hall. Almost four months after my arrival in Sweden๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช, I can say that life and science at the @molecularpain.bsky.social lab are going great!

06.12.2024 09:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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