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Paolo La Montanara

Imperial College LondonORCID 0000-0002-5146-9269Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 4 Organism:mouse· 4 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Research Focus:differential expression· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Organism:human· 2 Assay:proteomics· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1

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Francesco De VirgiliisiD· 2 shared Guiping KongiD· 2 shared I. NagyiD· 2 shared Ilaria PalmisanoiD· 2 shared Luming ZhouiD· 2 shared Simone Di GiovanniiD· 2 shared Angéla KecskésiD· 1 shared Angelina Mira D’ErcoleiD· 1 shared

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Inflammatory burning pain depends on a specific line of nociceptors

Rizki M. Febrianto, Deemah Aldossary, David Zimmermann, Jahanzaib Irfan, Michelle Meng, Ilaria Sanvido, Luming Zhou, Guiping Kong, Angéla Kecskés, Paolo La Montanara, Jose Vicente Torres-Pérez, Krisztina Pocsai, Botond Gaál, Angelina Mira D’Ercole, Nicole Li, , I. Nagy

The paper identifies MSK1's role in TRPV1 upregulation in specific nociceptors, linking it to inflammatory pain and heat hyperalgesia.

bioRxiv · Sep 21, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

TRPV1 feed-forward sensitisation depends on COX2 upregulation in primary sensory neurons

Tianci Li, Gaoge Wang, Vivian Chin Chin Hui, Daniel Saad, João de Sousa Valente, Paolo La Montanara, I. Nagy

The paper identifies COX2 upregulation as a novel mechanism mediating TRPV1 sensitisation in cultured murine primary sensory neurons within 30 minutes.

Scientific Reports · Feb 10, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Cyclin-dependent-like kinase 5 is required for pain signalling in both human neurons and mouse models

Paolo La Montanara, Arnau Hervera, Lucas L. Baltussen, Thomas Hutson, Ilaria Palmisano, Francesco De Virgiliis, Yunan Gao, Qasim A. Majid, Nikos Gorgoraptis, Kingsley Wong, Jenny Anne Downs, Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Tommaso Pizzorusso, Sila K. Ultanir, Helen Leonard, , Simone Di Giovanni

This study identifies Cdkl5's role in pain signaling through its interaction with CaMKII in both human neurons and mouse models of Cdkl5 deficiency disorder.

bioRxiv · Jul 2, 2019 · PreprintNeuroscience

Combinatorial proteomics and transcriptomics identify AMPK in the control of the axonal regeneration programme of DRG sensory neurons after spinal injury

Guiping Kong, Luming Zhou, Elisabeth Serger, Ilaria Palmisano, Francesco De Virgiliis, Thomas Haynes Hutson, Eilidh McLachlan, Anja Freiwald, Paolo La Montanara, Kirill Shkura, Radhika Puttagunta, Simone Di Giovanni

bioRxiv · Jun 6, 2019 · PreprintNeuroscience