Sunil U. Nayak

Mitragynine, bioactive alkaloid of kratom, reduces chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain in rats through α-adrenoceptor mechanism

Jeffery D. Foss, Sunil U. Nayak, Christopher S. Tallarida et al. · Drug and Alcohol Dependence · 2020 · 53 citations · Full text

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +15

Chemokine CCR5 and cocaine interactions in the brain: Cocaine enhances mesolimbic CCR5 mRNA levels and produces place preference and locomotor activation that are reduced by a CCR5 antagonist

Sunil U. Nayak, Stephanie Cicalese, Chris Tallarida et al. · Brain Behavior and Immunity · 2019 · 40 citations · Full text

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +17

Synthetic cathinone MDPV downregulates glutamate transporter subtype I (GLT-1) and produces rewarding and locomotor-activating effects that are reduced by a GLT-1 activator

Ryan A. Gregg, Callum Hicks, Sunil U. Nayak et al. · Neuropharmacology · 2016 · 37 citations

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +16

PLDT (planarian light/dark test): an invertebrate assay to quantify defensive responding and study anxiety-like effects

Ashenafi Mebratu Zewde, Frances Yu, Sunil U. Nayak et al. · Journal of Neuroscience Methods · 2017 · 32 citations

Life Sciences, Entomology, Zoology +15

Piperine protects epilepsy associated depression: a study on role of monoamines.

Abhisek Pal, Sunil U. Nayak, Pratap Kumar Sahu et al. · PubMed · 2011 · 29 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +17