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mcallen@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health

Prof Robin McAllen

Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health

166 Scholarly works
20 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Redefining respiratory sinus arrhythmia as respiratory heart rate variability: an international Expert Recommendation for terminological clarity
    DOI: 10.1038/s41569-025-01160-z
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Comparing two anti-inflammatory reflexes: Splanchnic and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal
    DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2025.106099
  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    A Small Brain Region That Regulates Host Defences
  • 2024

    Journal article

    A ganglionic intestinointestinal reflex activated by acute noxious challenge
    DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00145.2023
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Splanchnic sympathetic nerve denervation improves bacterial clearance and clinical recovery in established ovine Gram-negative bacteremia
    DOI: 10.1186/s40635-023-00530-6
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Acute Inhibition of Inflammation Mediated by Sympathetic Nerves: The Inflammatory Reflex
    DOI: 10.1159/000531469
  • 2020

    Research Grant

    The Neuro-Immune Synapse
Robin McAllen

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2022

    Journal article

    Divergent splanchnic sympathetic efferent nerve pathways regulate interleukin-10 and tumour necrosis factor-α responses to endotoxaemia
    DOI: 10.1113/JP283217
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Advancing respiratory–cardiovascular physiology with the working heart–brainstem preparation over 25 years
    DOI: 10.1113/JP281953
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Reflex regulation of systemic inflammation by the autonomic nervous system
    DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2021.102926
  • 2021

    Journal article

    The endogenous inflammatory reflex inhibits the inflammatory response to different immune challenges in mice
    DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2021.07.019
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Selective optogenetic stimulation of efferent fibers in the vagus nerve of a large mammal
    DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2020.11.010

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2020

    Research Grant

    The Neuro-Immune Synapse
  • 2015

    Research Grant

    Vagal Neuromodulation for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • 2016

    Internal Research Grant

    Electroceutical Treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: How Does It Work?

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