Grégory Scherrer

10.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
53 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Grégory Scherrer is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Grégory Scherrer has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 31 papers in Molecular Biology and 28 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Grégory Scherrer's work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (27 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (26 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (20 papers). Grégory Scherrer is often cited by papers focused on Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (27 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (26 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (20 papers). Grégory Scherrer collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Grégory Scherrer's co-authors include Allan I. Basbaum, David Julius, Diana M. Bautista, Gregory Corder, Brigitte L. Kieffer, Daniel C. Castro, Michael R. Bruchas, Audrey Matifas, Sarah Low and Vivianne L. Tawfik and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Grégory Scherrer

53 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Pain

2009 3.1k citations Allan I. Basbaum, Diana M. Bautista et al. Cell profile →
Structure-based discovery of opioid analgesics with reduced side effects

2016 697 citations Gregory Corder, Grégory Scherrer et al. Nature profile →
Human assembloid model of the ascending neural sensory pathway

2025 21 citations Grégory Scherrer et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Grégory Scherrer United States	32	3.9k	3.8k	2.9k	820	685	53	7.6k
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer Switzerland	55	3.8k 1.0×	4.6k 1.2×	3.5k 1.2×	835 1.0×	1.2k 1.8×	195	9.0k
Robert W. Gereau United States	61	5.2k 1.3×	5.3k 1.4×	3.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	836 1.2×	151	10.7k
Yu‐Qiu Zhang China	45	4.3k 1.1×	2.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	698 0.9×	743 1.1×	185	7.4k
Rohini Kuner Germany	55	4.6k 1.2×	4.0k 1.0×	3.1k 1.0×	968 1.2×	1.2k 1.8×	143	9.4k
Xinzhong Dong United States	57	4.6k 1.2×	3.3k 0.9×	3.5k 1.2×	450 0.5×	745 1.1×	176	12.4k
Michael Costigan United States	35	4.1k 1.1×	2.8k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	342 0.4×	919 1.3×	69	7.0k
Yun Guan United States	46	3.6k 0.9×	2.3k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	444 0.5×	1.3k 1.9×	201	7.3k
Fernando Cerveró United Kingdom	54	5.0k 1.3×	3.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.7×	134	8.3k
Alfredo Ribeiro‐da‐Silva Canada	46	2.8k 0.7×	2.9k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	582 0.7×	731 1.1×	130	5.7k
Se‐Young Choi South Korea	45	1.9k 0.5×	2.4k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	838 1.0×	488 0.7×	182	6.9k

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Sypek, Elizabeth I., Hannah Y. Collins, Karen Huang, et al.. (2024). Diversity of microglial transcriptional responses during opioid exposure and neuropathic pain. Pain. 165(11). 2615–2628. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Chong, Jesse K. Niehaus, S. Andrew Shuster, et al.. (2024). Neural circuit basis of placebo pain relief. Nature. 632(8027). 1092–1100. 25 indexed citations

Niehaus, Jesse K., et al.. (2023). Cell-type specific molecular architecture for mu opioid receptor function in pain and addiction circuits. Neuropharmacology. 238. 109597–109597. 9 indexed citations

Li, Shi‐Bin, Valentina Martínez Damonte, Chong Chen, et al.. (2022). Hyperexcitable arousal circuits drive sleep instability during aging. Science. 375(6583). eabh3021–eabh3021. 103 indexed citations

Corder, Gregory, et al.. (2019). An amygdalar neural ensemble that encodes the unpleasantness of pain. Science. 363(6424). 276–281. 252 indexed citations

Birdsong, William T., et al.. (2019). Synapse-specific opioid modulation of thalamo-cortico-striatal circuits. eLife. 8. 52 indexed citations

Wang, Dong, Vivianne L. Tawfik, Gregory Corder, et al.. (2018). Functional Divergence of Delta and Mu Opioid Receptor Organization in CNS Pain Circuits. Neuron. 98(1). 90–108.e5. 108 indexed citations

Corder, Gregory, Vivianne L. Tawfik, Dong Wang, et al.. (2017). Loss of μ opioid receptor signaling in nociceptors, but not microglia, abrogates morphine tolerance without disrupting analgesia. Nature Medicine. 23(2). 164–173. 258 indexed citations

Takazawa, Tomonori, Papiya Choudhury, Chi‐Kun Tong, et al.. (2017). Inhibition Mediated by Glycinergic and GABAergic Receptors on Excitatory Neurons in Mouse Superficial Dorsal Horn Is Location-Specific but Modified by Inflammation. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(9). 2336–2348. 49 indexed citations

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Christensen, Amelia J., Shrivats M. Iyer, Amaury François, et al.. (2016). In Vivo Interrogation of Spinal Mechanosensory Circuits. Cell Reports. 17(6). 1699–1710. 53 indexed citations

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Ozawa, Akihiko, Daniela Mercatelli, Jinhua Wu, et al.. (2015). Knock-In Mice with NOP-eGFP Receptors Identify Receptor Cellular and Regional Localization. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(33). 11682–11693. 53 indexed citations

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Liang, De‐Yong, Ming Zheng, Yuan Sun, et al.. (2014). The Netrin-1 receptor DCC is a regulator of maladaptive responses to chronic morphine administration. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 345–345. 17 indexed citations

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Gaillard, Stéphane, Annabelle Mantilleri, Régine Hepp, et al.. (2014). GINIP, a G αi -Interacting Protein, Functions as a Key Modulator of Peripheral GABA B Receptor-Mediated Analgesia. Neuron. 84(1). 123–136. 48 indexed citations

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Bardoni, Rita, Tomonori Takazawa, Chi‐Kun Tong, et al.. (2013). Pre‐ and postsynaptic inhibitory control in the spinal cord dorsal horn. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1279(1). 90–96. 68 indexed citations

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Faget, Lauren, Eric Erbs, Julie Le Merrer, et al.. (2012). In VivoVisualization of Delta Opioid Receptors upon Physiological Activation Uncovers a Distinct Internalization Profile. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(21). 7301–7310. 34 indexed citations

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Urban, Rochelle, Grégory Scherrer, Evan H Goulding, Laurence H. Tecott, & Allan I. Basbaum. (2011). Behavioral indices of ongoing pain are largely unchanged in male mice with tissue or nerve injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity. Pain. 152(5). 990–1000. 154 indexed citations

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Basbaum, Allan I., Diana M. Bautista, Grégory Scherrer, & David Julius. (2009). Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Pain. Cell. 139(2). 267–284. 3109 indexed citations breakdown →

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Scherrer, Grégory, Noritaka Imamachi, Yuqing Cao, et al.. (2009). Dissociation of the Opioid Receptor Mechanisms that Control Mechanical and Heat Pain. Cell. 137(6). 1148–1159. 370 indexed citations

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LeWinter, Robin D., Grégory Scherrer, & A. I. Basbaum. (2007). Dense transient receptor potential cation channel, vanilloid family, type 2 (TRPV2) immunoreactivity defines a subset of motoneurons in the dorsal lateral nucleus of the spinal cord, the nucleus ambiguus and the trigeminal motor nucleus in rat. Neuroscience. 151(1). 164–173. 17 indexed citations

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Scherrer, Grégory, Petra Tóth, Dominique Filliol, et al.. (2006). Knockin mice expressing fluorescent δ-opioid receptors uncover G protein-coupled receptor dynamics in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(25). 9691–9696. 186 indexed citations

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