Eva Varga, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor Emerita

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Research Interests: 

Molecular pharmacology of drugs of abuse; cellular mechanisms of drug tolerance; design and characterization of non-addictive analgesics, cardioprotective agents, and immunomodulators.

 

Publications

2012

Repeated morphine treatment-mediated hyperalgesia, allodynia and spinal glial activation are blocked by co-administration of a selective cannabinoid receptor type-2 agonist.

Tachykinin NK₁ receptor antagonist co-administration attenuates opioid withdrawal-mediated spinal microglia and astrocyte activation.

2011

Synthesis and biological evaluation of new opioid agonist and neurokinin-1 antagonist bivalent ligands.