Associate Professor Kevin Keay

• Competitive grants
• Publications

Current national competitive grants

Publications

2007

Allbutt, H, Siddall, P, Keay, K. Contusive spinal cord injury evokes localized changes in NADPH-d activity but extensive changes in Fos-like immunoreactivity in the rat. Journal of anatomy. 2007; 211:352-70

Hu, P, Bembrick, A, Keay, K, McLachlan, E. Immune cell involvement in dorsal root ganglia and spinal cord after chronic constriction or transection of the rat sciatic nerve. Brain, behavior, and immunity. 2007; 21:599-616

2006

Brown, H, Henderson, L, Keay, K. Hypotensive but not normotensive haemorrhage increases tryptophan hydroxylase-2 mRNA in caudal midline medulla. Neuroscience letters. 2006; 398:314-8

Hacker, J, Pedersen, N, Chieng, B, Keay, K, Christie, M. Enhanced Fos expression in glutamic acid decarboxylase immunoreactive neurons of the mouse periaqueductal grey during opioid withdrawal. Neuroscience. 2006; 137:1389-96

2005

Walker, S, Howard, R, Keay, K, Fitzgerald, M. Developmental age influences the effect of epidural dexmedetomidine on inflammatory hyperalgesia in rat pups. Anesthesiology. 2005; 102:1226-34

2004

Heslop, D, Bandler, R, Keay, K. Haemorrhage-evoked decompensation and recompensation mediated by distinct projections from rostral and caudal midline medulla in the rat. The European journal of neuroscience. 2004; 20:2096-110

Keay, K, Monassi, C, Levison, D, Bandler, R. Peripheral nerve injury evokes disabilities and sensory dysfunction in a subpopulation of rats: a closer model to human chronic neuropathic pain?. Neuroscience letters. 2004; 361:188-91

2003

Monassi, C, Bandler, R, Keay, K. A subpopulation of rats show social and sleep-waking changes typical of chronic neuropathic pain following peripheral nerve injury. European Journal Of Neuroscience. 2003; 17:1907-1920

Troy, B, Heslop, D, Bandler, R, Keay, K. Haemodynamic response to haemorrhage: distinct contributions of midbrain and forebrain structures. Autonomic Neuroscience-Basic & Clinical. 2003; 108:1-11

Potas, J, Keay, K, Henderson, L, Bandler, R. Somatic and visceral afferents to the 'vasodepressor region' of the caudal midline medulla in the rat. European Journal Of Neuroscience. 2003; 17(2003):1-15

2002

Henderson, L, Keay, K, Bandler, R. [delta]- and [kappa]-opioid receptors in the caudal midline medulla mediate haemorrhage-evoked hypotension. Neuroreport. 2002; 13:729-733

Keay, K, Bandler, R. Distinct central representations of inescapable and escapable pain: observations and speculation. Experimental Physiology. 2002; 87:275-279

Heslop, D, Keay, K, Bandler, R. Haemorrhage-evoked compensation and decompensation are mediated by distinct caudal midline medullary regions in the urethane anaesthetised rat. Neuroscience. 2002; 113:555-567

Keay, K, Clement, C, Matar, W, Heslop, D, Henderson, L, Bandler, R. Noxious activation of spinal or vagal afferents evokes distinct patters of fos-like immunoractivity in the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray of unanaesthetised rats. Brain Research. 2002; 948:122-130

Keay, K, Bandler, R. Physiological Society Symposium Nociceptors as Homeostatic Afferents: Central Processing Distict central representations of inescapable & escapable pain: observations & speculation. Experimental Physiology. 2002; 87.2:275-279

2001

Keay, K, Clement, C, Depaulis, A, Bandler, R. Different representations of inescapable noxius stimuli in the periaqueductal gray and upper cervical spinal cord of freely moving rats. Neuroscience Letters. 2001; 37:224-230

Floyd, N, Price, L, Ferry, A, Keay, K, Bandler, R. Orbitomedial prefrontal cortical projections of hypotalamus in the rat. Journal of Comparative Neurology. 2001; 49:169-178

Keay, K, Bandler, R. Parallel circuits mediating distinct emotional coping reactions to different types of stress. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 2001; 16:556-572

2000

Bandler, R, Price, J, Keay, K. Brain mediation of active and passive emotional coping. Progress in Brain Research. 2000; 122:333-349

Henderson, L, Keay, K, Bandler, R. Caudal Midline Medulla Mediates Behaviourally-coupled but not Baroreceptor-mediated vasodepression. Neuroscience. 2000; 98 (4):779-792

Bandler, R, Keay, K, Floyd, N, Price, J. Central circuits mediating patterned autonomic activity during active vs. passive emotional coping. Brain Research Bulletin. 2000; 53 (1):95-104

Keay, K, Li, Q, Bandler, R. Muscle pain activates a direct projection from vetrolateral periaqueductal gray to rostral ventrolateral medulla in rats. Neuroscience Letters. 2000; 290 (3):157-160

Floyd, N, Price, J, Ferry, A, Keay, K, Bandler, R. Orbitomedial prefrontal cortical projections to distinct longitudinal columns of the periaqueductal gray in the rat. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 2000; 422 (2):556-578

Clement, C, Keay, K, Podzebenko, K, Gordon, B, Bandler, R. Spinal sources of noxious visceral and noxious deep somatic afferent drive onto the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray of the rat. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 2000; 425 (3):323-344

Keay, K, Clement, C, Bandler, R. The Neuroanatomy of Cardiac Nociceptive Pathways: Differential Representations of. In: The Nervous System & the Heart. : Humana Press 2000. p. 303-342.