Scientific Highlights

Prizes: Prémio Grunenthal Dor (2003, 2007, 2009, 2011) Publications: Fonseca-Rodrigues, D., Almeida, A., & Pinto-Ribeiro, F. (2022). A New Gal in Town: A Systematic Review of the Role of Galanin and Its Receptors in Experimental Pain. Cells, 11(5), 839. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells11050839; Fonseca-Rodrigues, D., Gonçalves, J., Laranjeira, I., Almeida, A., & Pinto-Ribeiro, F. (2022). Sucrose intake and preference by Wistar Han rats are not influenced by sex or food/water deprivation. Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, 216, 173387. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbb.2022.173387; Fonseca-Rodrigues, D., Rodrigues, A., Martins, T., Pinto, J., Amorim, D., Almeida, A., & Pinto-Ribeiro, F. (2021). Correlation between pain severity and levels of anxiety and depression in osteoarthritis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 61(1), 53–75. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keab512; Fonseca-Rodrigues, D., Laranjeira, I., Barbosa, J., Lamas, N. J., Amorim, D., Almeida, A., & Pinto-Ribeiro, F. (2021). Nociceptive, emotional, electrophysiological, and histological characterization of the chronic constriction injury model in female Wistar Han rats. Brain research bulletin, 167, 56–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2020.11.018; Fonseca-Rodrigues, D., Amorim, D., Almeida, A., & Pinto-Ribeiro, F. (2021). Emotional and cognitive impairments in the peripheral nerve chronic constriction injury model (CCI) of neuropathic pain: A systematic review. Behavioural brain research, 399, 113008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2020.113008 ; Silva, A., Antunes, B., Batista, A., Pinto-Ribeiro, F., Baltazar, F., & Afonso, J. (2021). In Vivo Anticancer Activity of AZD3965: A Systematic Review. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 27(1), 181. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27010181; Ferreira, C. S., Rodrigues, J., Moreira, S., Ribeiro, F., & Longatto-Filho, A. (2021). Breast cancer screening adherence rates and barriers of implementation in ethnic, cultural and religious minorities: A systematic review. Molecular and clinical oncology, 15(1), 139. https://doi.org/10.3892/mco.2021.2301; Caleia, A. I., Pires, C., Pereira, J. F., Pinto-Ribeiro, F., & Longatto-Filho, A. (2020). Self-Sampling as a Plausible Alternative to Screen Cervical Cancer Precursor Lesions in a Population with Low Adherence to Screening: A Systematic Review. Acta cytologica, 64(4), 332–343. https://doi.org/10.1159/000505121; Pereira, R., Leite, E., Raimundo, J., Guilherme, S., Puga, S., Pinto-Ribeiro, F., Santos, M. A., Canário, J., Almeida, A., Pacheco, M., & Pereira, P. (2018). Metals(loids) targeting fish eyes and brain in a contaminated estuary – Uncovering neurosensory (un)susceptibility through bioaccumulation, antioxidant and morphometric profiles. Marine environmental research, 140, 403–411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.07.001; Puga, S., Cardoso, V., Pinto-Ribeiro, F., Pacheco, M., Almeida, A., & Pereira, P. (2018). Brain morphometric profiles and their seasonal modulation in fish (Liza aurata) inhabiting a mercury contaminated estuary. Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987), 237, 318–328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.02.047.