Yehuda Shavit

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

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Yehuda Shavit is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yehuda Shavit has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 24 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 23 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Yehuda Shavit's work include Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (32 papers), Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response (22 papers) and Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (21 papers). Yehuda Shavit is often cited by papers focused on Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (32 papers), Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response (22 papers) and Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (21 papers). Yehuda Shavit collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Yehuda Shavit's co-authors include John C. Liebeskind, James W. Lewis, Benzion Beilin, Gregory W. Terman, Robert Peter Gale, Raz Yirmiya, Hanna Bessler, J. Timothy Cannon, Gilly Wolf and Alexander Zeidel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Yehuda Shavit

63 papers receiving 4.4k citations

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Opioid Peptides Mediate the Suppressive Effect of Stress on Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxicity

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yehuda Shavit Israel	34	1.7k	1.4k	1.1k	909	886	63	4.6k
Alberto E. Panerai Italy	49	2.7k 1.6×	2.3k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	1.4k 1.6×	228	7.7k
Alexander Yassouridis Germany	49	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	677 0.6×	2.2k 2.5×	841 0.9×	170	8.8k
Gert J. Ter Horst Netherlands	45	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	369 0.3×	1.2k 1.3×	668 0.8×	111	6.6k
Chaim G. Pick Israel	49	1.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	597 0.5×	334 0.4×	1.9k 2.1×	179	6.6k
Shamgar Ben‐Eliyahu Israel	52	2.2k 1.3×	934 0.7×	4.8k 4.3×	1.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	145	8.7k
Lisa E. Goehler United States	38	1.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	761 0.7×	1.9k 2.1×	1.7k 1.9×	64	8.0k
Anne Z. Murphy United States	44	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	458 0.4×	818 0.9×	593 0.7×	85	5.2k
Bruno Bonaz France	43	625 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	559 0.5×	804 0.9×	1.7k 1.9×	129	8.0k
Denise L. Bellinger United States	36	1.1k 0.7×	701 0.5×	434 0.4×	965 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	94	4.2k
Luis Valmor Portela Brazil	39	1.1k 0.7×	728 0.5×	838 0.8×	418 0.5×	1.7k 1.9×	156	4.8k

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Shapira‐Lichter, Irit, Benzion Beilin, Keren Ofek, et al.. (2007). Cytokines and cholinergic signals co-modulate surgical stress-induced changes in mood and memory. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 22(3). 388–398. 33 indexed citations

Kleibeuker, Wendy, Eran Gabay, Annemieke Kavelaars, et al.. (2007). IL-1β signaling is required for mechanical allodynia induced by nerve injury and for the ensuing reduction in spinal cord neuronal GRK2. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 22(2). 200–208. 56 indexed citations

Wolf, Gilly, Raz Yirmiya, Tirzah Kreisel, et al.. (2007). Interleukin-1 signaling modulates stress-induced analgesia. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 21(5). 652–659. 15 indexed citations

Bessler, Hanna, et al.. (2006). Postoperative pain, morphine consumption, and genetic polymorphism of IL-1β and IL-1 receptor antagonist. Neuroscience Letters. 404(1-2). 154–158. 36 indexed citations

Wolf, Gilly, Eran Gabay, Michael Tal, Raz Yirmiya, & Yehuda Shavit. (2006). Genetic impairment of interleukin-1 signaling attenuates neuropathic pain, autotomy, and spontaneous ectopic neuronal activity, following nerve injury in mice. Pain. 120(3). 315–324. 142 indexed citations

Shavit, Yehuda, Joseph Weidenfeld, Freda G. DeKeyser, et al.. (2005). Effects of surgical stress on brain prostaglandin E2 production and on the pituitary–adrenal axis: Attenuation by preemptive analgesia and by central amygdala lesion. Brain Research. 1047(1). 10–17. 24 indexed citations

Hurwitz, Itay, Oz Malkesman, Yaakov Stern, et al.. (2005). Stress and pain responses in rats lacking CCK1 receptors. Peptides. 27(6). 1483–1489. 6 indexed citations

Shavit, Yehuda, et al.. (2005). Interleukin-1 antagonizes morphine analgesia and underlies morphine tolerance. Pain. 115(1). 50–59. 147 indexed citations

Shavit, Yehuda, Shamgar Ben‐Eliyahu, Alexander Zeidel, & Benzion Beilin. (2004). Effects of Fentanyl on Natural Killer Cell Activity and on Resistance to Tumor Metastasis in Rats. NeuroImmunoModulation. 11(4). 255–260. 141 indexed citations

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Beilin, Benzion, et al.. (2003). The Effects of Postoperative Pain Management on Immune Response to Surgery. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 97(3). 822–827. 180 indexed citations

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Wolf, Gilly, Raz Yirmiya, Inbal Goshen, et al.. (2003). Impairment of interleukin-1 (IL-1) signaling reduces basal pain sensitivity in mice: genetic, pharmacological and developmental aspects. Pain. 104(3). 471–480. 74 indexed citations

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Yirmiya, Raz, Yehuda Pollak, Michal Morag, et al.. (2000). Illness, Cytokines, and Depression. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 917(1). 478–487. 216 indexed citations

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Beilin, Benzion, et al.. (1998). Effects of Mild Perioperative Hypothermia on Cellular Immune Responses . Anesthesiology. 89(5). 1133–1140. 186 indexed citations

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Shavit, Yehuda, Eran Cohen, Roni Gagin, et al.. (1998). Effects of Prenatal Morphine Exposure on NK Cytotoxicity and Responsiveness to LPS in Rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 59(4). 835–841. 15 indexed citations

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Cohen, Edna, Gilmor I. Keshet, Yehuda Shavit, & Marta Weinstock. (1996). Prenatal naltrexone facilitates male sexual behavior in the rat. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 54(1). 183–188. 17 indexed citations

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Yirmiya, Raz, Shamgar Ben‐Eliyahu, Robert Peter Gale, et al.. (1992). Ethanol increases tumor progression in rats: Possible involvement of natural killer cells. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 6(1). 74–86. 45 indexed citations

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Ben‐Eliyahu, Shamgar, Raz Yirmiya, Yehuda Shavit, & John C. Liebeskind. (1990). Stress-induced suppression of natural killer cell cytotoxicity in the rat: A naltrexone-insensitive paradigm.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 104(1). 235–238. 34 indexed citations

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Beilin, Benzion, Fredricka C. Martin, Yehuda Shavit, Robert Peter Gale, & John C. Liebeskind. (1989). Suppression of natural killer cell activity by high-dose narcotic anesthesia in rats. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 3(2). 129–137. 64 indexed citations

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Yirmiya, Raz, Yehuda Shavit, Shamgar Ben‐Eliyahu, et al.. (1989). Natural killer cell activity in vasopressin-deficient rats (brattleboro strain). Brain Research. 479(1). 16–22. 19 indexed citations

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Shavit, Yehuda, G.W. Terman, Fredricka C. Martin, Robert Peter Gale, & J.C. Liebeskind. (1984). Naltrexone sensitive suppression of the immune systems natural killer cells by morphine. The Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 10(2). 726. 1 indexed citations

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