Abel Torres Espin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neurological Surgery
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• MSc Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 2022
• Postdoctoral Neuroinformatics University of California San Francisco 2021
• Postdoctoral Neuroscience, spinal cord injury University of Alberta 2018
• PhD Neuroscience, spinal cord injury Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 2013
• BSc Biology Universitat de Barcelona 2007

Publications (87)

Top publication keywords:
Recovery of FunctionNerve RegenerationSpinal CordCervical CordInformation DisseminationMesenchymal Stem Cell TransplantationBiomedical ResearchPhysical Conditioning, AnimalMotor SkillsForelimbData AccuracyWeightlessnessCommon Data ElementsLow Back PainSpinal Cord Injuries

• Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Spinal Cord Injury: Bridging Clinical and Computational Perspectives.
  Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation 2026 Taran O, Torres-Espín A, Zariffa J, Leister I, Lukas LP, Napoli A, Noonan VK, Balbinot G, Tuci M, Ferguson AR, Rupp R, Jones L, Tansey K, Bourbeau D, Cotton RJ, Brüningk S
• The Open Data Commons for Traumatic Brain Injury: An Interagency Community Platform for Pre-Clinical Data Management and Sharing.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2026 Martone ME, Huie JR, Axtman PJ, Davis AM, Gurkoff GG, Torres-Espin A, Grethe JS, Ferguson AR, PRECISE-TBI Investigators
• The true costs of data management in the era of data sharing mandates.
  Brain injury 2026 Torres-Espin A, Nielson JL, Hawkins BE, Mondello S, Martone ME, Nelson DW, Ercole A, Steyerberg EW, Cifu DX, Pugh MJ, Agyemang AA, Dismuke-Greer CE, Menon DK, De Keyser V, Maas AIR, Vassar M, …
• Acute injury characteristics predict chronic neuropathic pain development after spinal cord injury.
  Frontiers in neurology 2026 Fond KA, Arellano M, Torres-Espin A, Chou A, Bradfield X, Moncivais SL, Huie JR, Hemmerle DD, Keller AV, Singh V, Pascual LU, DiGiorgio AM, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Pan JZ, Weinstein PR, Dhall SS, …
• REACH-BMAS (Body-Map Auto-Segmentation): screening body-map drawings for chronic widespread pain.
  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2026 de Rinaldis E, Hue TF, Cummings J, Peterson TA, Bailey JF, Lotz JC, Bishara A, REACH Investigators

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• Improving Data Quality in Neurotrauma Data Sharing: The Open Data Commons Minimal Data Standards and a Data Tool for Compliance.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2026 Fond KA, Radabaugh H, Vavrek R, Axtman PJ, Huie JR, Fedor BA, Gensel JC, Fouad K, Grethe JS, Martone ME, Ferguson AR, Torres-Espin A, PRECISE-TBI Investigators†
• Large language models for automated and audience-tailored labeling of latent classes.
  JAMIA open 2026 Gholi Zadeh Kharrat F, Werfelmann R, Ropella GE, Mehling W, Hunt CA, Lotz J, Peterson TA, REACH Investigators
• Quality of Life and Function from Initial Injury to Follow-up in the First Year after Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2026 Hemmerle DD, Wagner L, Hong OS, Duong-Fernandez X, Huie JR, Mendoza E, Torres-Espin A, Keller AV, Hinson HE, Pan JZ, Singh V, Kyritsis N, DiGiorgio AM, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Weinstein PR, Kuo YH, …
• Answer to the Letter to the Editor of SS SAH, et al. concerning "Association between MRI findings and inflammatory symptoms in non-specific chronic low back pain" by K. Ziegeler, et al. (Eur Spine J [2025]; doi: 10.1007/s00586-025-09492-7).
  European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society 2025 Ziegeler K, Gensler LS, Link TM, Roach C, Scheffler AW, Fields AJ, Bonnheim N, Torres-Espin A, Lotz JC, Hue T, Wallace M, Fishman S, Zheng P, O'Neill C
• The effect of baseline spinal magnetic resonance imaging features on restorative neurostimulation efficacy in patients with chronic low back pain.
  Journal of spine surgery (Hong Kong) 2025 Dziesinski LK, Halvorson RT, Langhorst M, Klemme WR, Berven SH, Lafage V, Schwab F, Lotz JC, Torres-Espin A, Bailey JF
• Longitudinal pain intensity and interference symptomatology in mild traumatic brain injury: a TRACK-TBI study.
  Pain 2025 Gotthardt CJ, Barber JK, Eagle SR, van Essen TA, Nelson LD, Fu AY, Satris GG, Vreeburg RJG, Tracey JX, Etemad LL, Wong JC, Elguindy MM, Belton PJ, Madhok DY, Korley FK, Ferguson AR, Torres-Espin A, …
• Funding Distributions, Trends, Gaps, and Policy Implications for Spinal Cord Injury Research: A Systematic Analysis of U.S. Federal Funds.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2025 Gillespie T, Buxton A, Kondiles BR, Leal-Garcia M, Pacheco MR, Tran AV, Vo K, Abu L, Barr J, Barretto TA, Biundo J, Duenwald S, Evans A, Friedman TN, Gadaleta I, Ganesh S, Gottschall B, Green P, Lee G…
• Exploring synthetic controls in rare diseases with a proof of concept in spinal cord injury.
  BMC medicine 2025 Lukas LP, Håkansson S, Tuci M, Torres-Espín A, Rupp R, Taran O, Weidner N, Geisler F, Schubert M, Röhrich F, Kalke YB, Abel R, Maier D, Chhabra HS, Liebscher T, EMSCI study group, Kramer JLK, Bolliger…
• Association between MRI findings and inflammatory symptoms in non-specific chronic low back pain.
  European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society 2025 Ziegeler K, Gensler LS, Link TM, Roach C, Scheffler AW, Fields AJ, Bonnheim N, Torres-Espin A, Lotz JC, Hue T, Wallace M, Fishman S, Zheng P, O'Neill C
• Intracranial Pressure as a Dynamic Predictor of Traumatic Brain Injury Outcomes: A Scoping Review.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2025 Kanter JH, Osorio RC, Torres-Espin A, Maliga Davis A, Foreman B, Okonkwo DO, Manley GT, Hinson HE
• A Summary of Pain Locations and Neuropathic Patterns Extracted Automatically from Patient Self-Reported Sensation Drawings.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2025 Bishara A, de Rinaldis E, Hue TF, Peterson T, Cummings J, Torres-Espin A, Bailey JF, Lotz JC
• Development and Validation of a Machine Learning-Derived Kinematic Deviation Index for the Evaluation of Forelimb in Rodents.
  AI in neuroscience 2025 Torres-Espin A, Bernstein A, Soliman M, Jara JS, Moreno-López Y, Hollis E
• Retrospective Analysis of Expansile Duraplasty as Surgical Adjunct After Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.
  Global spine journal 2025 Greil ME, Hunt ER, Torres Espin A, Saigal R
• Modeling trajectories of routine blood tests as dynamic biomarkers for outcome in spinal cord injury.
  NPJ digital medicine 2025 Mussavi Rizi M, Fernández D, Kramer JLK, Saigal R, DiGiorgio AM, Beattie MS, Ferguson AR, Kyritsis N, Torres-Espín A, TRACK-SCI
• A new characterisation of acute traumatic brain injury: the NIH-NINDS TBI Classification and Nomenclature Initiative.
  The Lancet. Neurology 2025 Manley GT, Dams-O'Connor K, Alosco ML, Awwad HO, Bazarian JJ, Bragge P, Corrigan JD, Doperalski A, Ferguson AR, Mac Donald CL, Menon DK, McNett MM, van der Naalt J, Nelson LD, Pisica D, Silverberg ND,…
• Clinical Assessment on Days 1-14 for the Characterization of Traumatic Brain Injury: Recommendations from the 2024 NINDS Traumatic Brain Injury Classification and Nomenclature Initiative Clinical/Symptoms Working Group.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2025 Menon DK, Silverberg ND, Ferguson AR, Bayuk TJ, Bhattacharyay S, Brody DL, Cota SA, Ercole A, Figaji A, Gao G, Giza CC, Lecky F, Mannix R, Mikolic A, Moritz KE, Robertson CS, Torres-Espin A, Tsetsou S…
• A Community Effort to Develop Common Data Elements for Pre-Clinical Spinal Cord Injury Research.
  Neurotrauma reports 2025 Fedor BA, Torres-Espin A, Vavrek R, Martone ME, Bixby JL, Gensel JC, Lemmon V, Grethe JS, Huie JR, Ferguson AR, Fouad K, Preclinical SCI Common Data Elements (CDE) Workshop Participants
• 3D motion capture data into a kinematic composite score for assessing musculoskeletal impairments.
  Journal of biomechanics 2025 Archibeck E, Halvorson R, Silvestros P, Torres-Espin A, O'Connell G, Bailey J
• Sex-based differences in biomechanical function for chronic low back pain and how it relates to pain experience.
  European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society 2025 Archibeck E, Strigo I, Scheffler A, Torres-Espin A, Khattab K, Silvestros P, Matthew R, Regan C, Hodges P, O'Neill C, Lotz J, REACH Inverstigators, O'Connell G, Bailey J
• Conditioning Electrical Nerve Stimulation Enhances Functional Rewiring in a Mouse Model of Nerve Transfer to Treat Chronic Spinal Cord Injury.
  Brain sciences 2025 Jara JS, Soliman MA, Bernstein A, di Grazia P, Ferguson AR, Brown JM, Torres-Espín A, Hollis ER
• Chronic low back pain causal risk factors identified by Mendelian randomization: a cross-sectional cohort analysis.
  The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society 2025 Zheng P, Scheffler A, Ewing S, Hue TF, Jones Berkeley S, Morshed S, Mehling W, Torres-Espin A, Galivanche A, Lotz J, Peterson T, O'Neill C, REACH Investigators
• Data reporting quality and semantic interoperability increase with community-based data elements (CoDEs). Analysis of the open data commons for spinal cord injury (ODC-SCI).
  Experimental neurology 2024 Sheoran A, Fond KA, Davis LM, Huie JR, Vavrek R, Axtman PJ, Lemmon V, Bixby JL, Visser U, Gensel JC, Fouad K, Ferguson AR, Grethe JS, Bandrowski A, Martone ME, Torres-Espin A
• Genetic vulnerability and adverse mental health outcomes following mild traumatic brain injury: a meta-analysis of CENTER-TBI and TRACK-TBI cohorts.
  EClinicalMedicine 2024 Kals M, Wilson L, Levey DF, Parodi L, Steyerberg EW, Richardson S, He F, Sun X, Jain S, Palotie A, Ripatti S, Rosand J, Manley GT, Maas AIR, Stein MB, Menon DK, Genetic Associations In Neurotrauma (…
• Sexually dimorphic differences in angiogenesis markers are associated with brain aging trajectories in humans.
  Science translational medicine 2024 Torres-Espin A, Radabaugh HL, Treiman S, Fitzsimons SS, Harvey D, Chou A, Lindbergh CA, Casaletto KB, Goldberger L, Staffaroni AM, Maillard P, Miller BL, DeCarli C, Hinman JD, Ferguson AR, Kramer JH, …
• Enhancing data standards to advance translation in spinal cord injury.
  Experimental neurology 2024 Noonan VK, Humphreys S, Biering-Sørensen F, Charlifue S, Chen Y, Guest JD, Jones LAT, French J, Widerström-Noga E, Lemmon VP, Heinemann AW, Schwab JM, Phillips AA, Rizi MM, Kramer JLK, Jutzeler CR, …
• No impact of anti-inflammatory medication on inflammation-driven recovery following cervical spinal cord injury in rats.
  Experimental neurology 2024 Cucarian J, Raposo P, Vavrek R, Nguyen A, Nelson B, Monnier P, Torres-Espin A, Fenrich K, Fouad K
• Clinical profile of patients with acute traumatic brain injury undergoing cranial surgery in the United States: report from the 18-centre TRACK-TBI cohort study.
  Lancet regional health. Americas 2024 Yue JK, Kanter JH, Barber JK, Huang MC, van Essen TA, Elguindy MM, Foreman B, Korley FK, Belton PJ, Pisica D, Lee YM, Kitagawa RS, Vassar MJ, Sun X, Satris GG, Wong JC, Ferguson AR, Huie JR, Wang KKW,…
• An infrastructure for qualified data sharing and team science in late-stage translational spinal cord injury research.
  Experimental neurology 2024 Huie JR, Torres-Espin A, Sacramento J, Keller AV, Joiner WM, North R, Reinkensmeyer DJ, Rosenzweig ES, Koffler J, Tuszynski MH, Sparrey CJ, Nielson JL, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC, Grethe JS, Ferguson AR
• The correlation of neurosurgery motor examinations with ISNCSCI motor examinations in patients with spinal cord injury: a multicenter TRACK-SCI study.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Spine 2024 Lui A, Bonney PA, Burke J, Kanter JH, Yue JK, Takegami N, Tarapore PE, Huang M, Mummaneni PV, Dhall SS, Hemmerle DD, Ferguson AR, Torres-Espin A, Duong-Fernandez X, Lai N, Saigal R, Pan J, Singh V, …
• Improving rigor and reproducibility in western blot experiments with the blotRig analysis.
  Scientific reports 2024 Omondi C, Chou A, Fond KA, Morioka K, Joseph NR, Sacramento JA, Iorio E, Torres-Espin A, Radabaugh HL, Davis JA, Gumbel JH, Huie JR, Ferguson AR
• Effect-Size Discrepancies in Literature Versus Raw Datasets from Experimental Spinal Cord Injury Studies: A CLIMBER Meta-Analysis.
  Neurotrauma reports 2024 Iorio EG, Khanteymoori A, Fond KA, Keller AV, Davis LM, Schwab JM, Ferguson AR, Torres-Espin A, Watzlawick R
• A practical guide to data management and sharing for biomedical laboratory researchers.
  Experimental neurology 2024 Fouad K, Vavrek R, Surles-Zeigler MC, Huie JR, Radabaugh HL, Gurkoff GG, Visser U, Grethe JS, Martone ME, Ferguson AR, Gensel JC, Torres-Espin A
• Predicting Recovery Following Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Using a Clustering Algorithm.
  Arthroplasty today 2024 Halvorson RT, Torres-Espin A, Cherches M, Callahan M, Vail TP, Bailey JF
• ATF3 is a neuron-specific biomarker for spinal cord injury and ischaemic stroke.
  Clinical and translational medicine 2024 Pan JZ, Wang Z, Sun W, Pan P, Li W, Sun Y, Chen S, Lin A, Tan W, He L, Greene J, Yao V, An L, Liang R, Li Q, Yu J, Zhang L, Kyritsis N, Fernandez XD, Moncivais S, Mendoza E, Fung P, Wang G, Niu X, Du …
• Performance of the IMPACT and CRASH prognostic models for traumatic brain injury in a contemporary multicenter cohort: a TRACK-TBI study.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2024 Yue JK, Lee YM, Sun X, van Essen TA, Elguindy MM, Belton PJ, Pisica D, Mikolic A, Deng H, Kanter JH, McCrea MA, Bodien YG, Satris GG, Wong JC, Ambati VS, Grandhi R, Puccio AM, Mukherjee P, Valadka AB,…
• Predictors of response in PROMIS-global in a chronic low back pain specialty clinic: STarTBack and chronic overlapping pain conditions.
  Journal of back and musculoskeletal rehabilitation 2024 Zheng P, Ewing S, Tang A, Black D, Hue T, Lotz J, Peterson T, Torres-Espin A, O'Neill C
• Data-driven distillation and precision prognosis in traumatic brain injury with interpretable machine learning.
  Scientific reports 2023 Tritt A, Yue JK, Ferguson AR, Torres Espin A, Nelson LD, Yuh EL, Markowitz AJ, Manley GT, Bouchard KE, TRACK-TBI Investigators
• Thresholding approaches for estimating paraspinal muscle fat infiltration using T1- and T2-weighted MRI: Comparative analysis using water-fat MRI.
  JOR spine 2023 Ornowski J, Dziesinski L, Hess M, Krug R, Fortin M, Torres-Espin A, Majumdar S, Pedoia V, Bonnheim NB, Bailey JF
• Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans prevent immune cell phenotypic conversion and inflammation resolution via TLR4 in rodent models of spinal cord injury.
  Nature communications 2022 Francos-Quijorna I, Sánchez-Petidier M, Burnside ER, Badea SR, Torres-Espin A, Marshall L, de Winter F, Verhaagen J, Moreno-Manzano V, Bradbury EJ
• Unsupervised Machine Learning on Motion Capture Data Uncovers Movement Strategies in Low Back Pain.
  Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology 2022 Keller AV, Torres-Espin A, Peterson TA, Booker J, O'Neill C, Lotz JC, Bailey JF, Ferguson AR, Matthew RP
• Expert-augmented automated machine learning optimizes hemodynamic predictors of spinal cord injury outcome.
  PloS one 2022 Chou A, Torres-Espin A, Kyritsis N, Huie JR, Khatry S, Funk J, Hay J, Lofgreen A, Shah R, McCann C, Pascual LU, Amorim E, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, Dhall SS, Pan JZ, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Whetstone…
• Empowering Data Sharing and Analytics through the Open Data Commons for Traumatic Brain Injury Research.
  Neurotrauma reports 2022 Chou A, Torres-Espín A, Huie JR, Krukowski K, Lee S, Nolan A, Guglielmetti C, Hawkins BE, Chaumeil MM, Manley GT, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC, Martone ME, Grethe JS, Rosi S, Ferguson AR
• Decision tree-based machine learning analysis of intraoperative vasopressor use to optimize neurological improvement in acute spinal cord injury.
  Neurosurgical focus 2022 Agarwal N, Aabedi AA, Torres-Espin A, Chou A, Wozny TA, Mummaneni PV, Burke JF, Ferguson AR, Kyritsis N, Dhall SS, Weinstein PR, Duong-Fernandez X, Pan J, Singh V, Hemmerle DD, Talbott JF, Whetstone …
• Appendicular Fracture and Polytrauma Correlate with Outcome of Spinal Cord Injury: A Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Spinal Cord Injury Study.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2022 Miclau TA, Torres-Espin A, Morshed S, Morioka K, Huie JR, El Naga AN, Chou A, Pascual L, Duong-Fernandez X, Kuo YH, Weinstein P, Dhall SS, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Digiorgio A, Ferguson AR, …
• Using hierarchical unsupervised learning to integrate and reduce multi-level and multi-paraspinal muscle MRI data in relation to low back pain.
  European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society 2022 Torres-Espin A, Keller A, Johnson GTA, Fields AJ, Krug R, Ferguson AR, Hargens AR, O'Neill CW, Lotz JC, Bailey JF
• Mixture Model Framework for Traumatic Brain Injury Prognosis Using Heterogeneous Clinical and Outcome Data.
  IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics 2022 Kaplan AD, Cheng Q, Mohan KA, Nelson LD, Jain S, Levin H, Torres-Espin A, Chou A, Huie JR, Ferguson AR, McCrea M, Giacino J, Sundaram S, Markowitz AJ, Manley GT
• Topological network analysis of patient similarity for precision management of acute blood pressure in spinal cord injury.
  eLife 2021 Torres-Espín A, Haefeli J, Ehsanian R, Torres D, Almeida CA, Huie JR, Chou A, Morozov D, Sanderson N, Dirlikov B, Suen CG, Nielson JL, Kyritsis N, Hemmerle DD, Talbott JF, Manley GT, Dhall SS, …
• FAIR Data Reuse in Traumatic Brain Injury: Exploring Inflammation and Age as Moderators of Recovery in the TRACK-TBI Pilot.
  Frontiers in neurology 2021 Huie JR, Chou A, Torres-Espin A, Nielson JL, Yuh EL, Gardner RC, Diaz-Arrastia R, Manley GT, Ferguson AR, TRACK-TBI Investigators
• Quantifying the kinematic features of dexterous finger movements in nonhuman primates with markerless tracking.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2021 North R, Wurr R, Macon R, Mannion C, Hyde J, Torres-Espin A, Rosenzweig ES, Ferguson AR, Tuszynski MH, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC, Joiner WM
• Promoting FAIR Data Through Community-driven Agile Design: the Open Data Commons for Spinal Cord Injury (odc-sci.org).
  Neuroinformatics 2021 Torres-Espín A, Almeida CA, Chou A, Huie JR, Chiu M, Vavrek R, Sacramento J, Orr MB, Gensel JC, Grethe JS, Martone ME, Fouad K, Ferguson AR, STREET-FAIR Workshop Participants
• Beyond the lesion site: minocycline augments inflammation and anxiety-like behavior following SCI in rats through action on the gut microbiota.
  Journal of neuroinflammation 2021 Schmidt EKA, Raposo PJF, Torres-Espin A, Fenrich KK, Fouad K
• Excavating FAIR Data: the Case of the Multicenter Animal Spinal Cord Injury Study (MASCIS), Blood Pressure, and Neuro-Recovery.
  Neuroinformatics 2021 Almeida CA, Torres-Espin A, Huie JR, Sun D, Noble-Haeusslein LJ, Young W, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC, Nielson JL, Ferguson AR
• Diagnostic blood RNA profiles for human acute spinal cord injury.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 2021 Kyritsis N, Torres-Espín A, Schupp PG, Huie JR, Chou A, Duong-Fernandez X, Thomas LH, Tsolinas RE, Hemmerle DD, Pascual LU, Singh V, Pan JZ, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Burke JF, DiGiorgio AM, Weinstein…
• Automation of training and testing motor and related tasks in pre-clinical behavioural and rehabilitative neuroscience.
  Experimental neurology 2021 Mah KM, Torres-Espín A, Hallworth BW, Bixby JL, Lemmon VP, Fouad K, Fenrich KK
• Cisplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy is associated with neuronal senescence-like response.
  Neuro-oncology 2021 Calls A, Torres-Espin A, Navarro X, Yuste VJ, Udina E, Bruna J
• Reproducible analysis of disease space via principal components using the novel R package syndRomics.
  eLife 2021 Torres-Espín A, Chou A, Huie JR, Kyritsis N, Upadhyayula PS, Ferguson AR
• Self-directed rehabilitation training intensity thresholds for efficient recovery of skilled forelimb function in rats with cervical spinal cord injury.
  Experimental neurology 2020 Fenrich KK, Hallworth BW, Vavrek R, Raposo PJF, Misiaszek JE, Bennett DJ, Fouad K, Torres-Espin A
• Injury volume extracted from MRI predicts neurologic outcome in acute spinal cord injury: A prospective TRACK-SCI pilot study.
  Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2020 Mummaneni N, Burke JF, DiGiorgio AM, Thomas LH, Duong-Fernandez X, Harris M, Pascual LU, Ferguson AR, Russell Huie J, Pan JZ, Hemmerle DD, Singh V, Torres-Espin A, Omondi C, Kyritsis N, Weinstein PR, …
• Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Spinal Cord Injury (TRACK-SCI): an overview of initial enrollment and demographics.
  Neurosurgical focus 2020 Tsolinas RE, Burke JF, DiGiorgio AM, Thomas LH, Duong-Fernandez X, Harris MH, Yue JK, Winkler EA, Suen CG, Pascual LU, Ferguson AR, Huie JR, Pan JZ, Hemmerle DD, Singh V, Torres-Espin A, Omondi C, …
• Fecal transplant prevents gut dysbiosis and anxiety-like behaviour after spinal cord injury in rats.
  PloS one 2020 Schmidt EKA, Torres-Espin A, Raposo PJF, Madsen KL, Kigerl KA, Popovich PG, Fenrich KK, Fouad K
• FAIR SCI Ahead: The Evolution of the Open Data Commons for Pre-Clinical Spinal Cord Injury Research.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2019 Fouad K, Bixby JL, Callahan A, Grethe JS, Jakeman LB, Lemmon VP, Magnuson DSK, Martone ME, Nielson JL, Schwab JM, Taylor-Burds C, Tetzlaff W, Torres-Espin A, Ferguson AR, FAIR-SCI Ahead Workshop …
• Single-session cortical electrical stimulation enhances the efficacy of rehabilitative motor training after spinal cord injury in rats.
  Experimental neurology 2019 Batty NJ, Torres-Espín A, Vavrek R, Raposo P, Fouad K
• Disorders of the Nervous System, Motor Systems
  Mechanisms of Behavioral Changes After Spinal Cord Injury 2019
• Rehabilitative Training in Animal Models of Spinal Cord Injury.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2018 Torres-Espín A, Beaudry E, Fenrich K, Fouad K
• Eliciting inflammation enables successful rehabilitative training in chronic spinal cord injury.
  Brain : a journal of neurology 2018 Torres-Espín A, Forero J, Fenrich KK, Lucas-Osma AM, Krajacic A, Schmidt E, Vavrek R, Raposo P, Bennett DJ, Popovich PG, Fouad K
• Following Spinal Cord Injury Transected Reticulospinal Tract Axons Develop New Collateral Inputs to Spinal Interneurons in Parallel with Locomotor Recovery.
  Neural plasticity 2017 May Z, Fenrich KK, Dahlby J, Batty NJ, Torres-Espín A, Fouad K
• A motorized pellet dispenser to deliver high intensity training of the single pellet reaching and grasping task in rats.
  Behavioural brain research 2017 Torres-Espín A, Forero J, Schmidt EKA, Fouad K, Fenrich KK
• Cyclosporine-immunosuppression does not affect survival of transplanted skin-derived precursor Schwann cells in the injured rat spinal cord.
  Neuroscience letters 2017 May Z, Torres-Espín A, Lucas-Osma AM, Batty NJ, Raposo P, Fenrich KK, Stykel MG, Führmann T, Shoichet M, Biernaskie J, Fouad K
• Effects of the Post-Spinal Cord Injury Microenvironment on the Differentiation Capacity of Human Neural Stem Cells Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.
  Cell transplantation 2016 López-Serrano C, Torres-Espín A, Hernández J, Alvarez-Palomo AB, Requena J, Gasull X, Edel MJ, Navarro X
• Beneficial effects of IL-37 after spinal cord injury in mice.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2016 Coll-Miró M, Francos-Quijorna I, Santos-Nogueira E, Torres-Espin A, Bufler P, Dinarello CA, López-Vales R
• Single pellet grasping following cervical spinal cord injury in adult rat using an automated full-time training robot.
  Behavioural brain research 2015 Fenrich KK, May Z, Torres-Espín A, Forero J, Bennett DJ, Fouad K
• Increased migration of olfactory ensheathing cells secreting the Nogo receptor ectodomain over inhibitory substrates and lesioned spinal cord.
  Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS 2015 Reginensi D, Carulla P, Nocentini S, Seira O, Serra-Picamal X, Torres-Espín A, Matamoros-Angles A, Gavín R, Moreno-Flores MT, Wandosell F, Samitier J, Trepat X, Navarro X, del Río JA
• Immunosuppression of allogenic mesenchymal stem cells transplantation after spinal cord injury improves graft survival and beneficial outcomes.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2015 Torres-Espín A, Redondo-Castro E, Hernandez J, Navarro X
• Activity dependent therapies modulate the spinal changes that motoneurons suffer after a peripheral nerve injury.
  Experimental neurology 2014 Arbat-Plana A, Torres-Espín A, Navarro X, Udina E
• Dithiocarb (N,N-diethyldithiocarbamate, DEDTC) decreases levels of biogenic monoamines in the adult mouse brain.
  Neuropathology and applied neurobiology 2014 Redondo-Castro E, Romero R, Torres-Espín A, Utrera J, Duque D, Junyent F, Auladell C
• Neurite-J: an image-J plug-in for axonal growth analysis in organotypic cultures.
  Journal of neuroscience methods 2014 Torres-Espín A, Santos D, González-Pérez F, del Valle J, Navarro X
• Bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells and olfactory ensheathing cells transplantation after spinal cord injury--a morphological and functional comparison in rats.
  The European journal of neuroscience 2014 Torres-Espín A, Redondo-Castro E, Hernández J, Navarro X
• Gene expression changes in the injured spinal cord following transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells or olfactory ensheathing cells.
  PloS one 2013 Torres-Espín A, Hernández J, Navarro X
• Neuroprotection and axonal regeneration after lumbar ventral root avulsion by re-implantation and mesenchymal stem cells transplant combined therapy.
  Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2013 Torres-Espín A, Corona-Quintanilla DL, Forés J, Allodi I, González F, Udina E, Navarro X
• Quantitative assessment of locomotion and interlimb coordination in rats after different spinal cord injuries.
  Journal of neuroscience methods 2013 Redondo-Castro E, Torres-Espín A, García-Alías G, Navarro X
• Adult stem cell transplants for spinal cord injury repair: current state in preclinical research.
  Current stem cell research & therapy 2011 Hernández J, Torres-Espín A, Navarro X
• Functional involvement of the lumbar spinal cord after contusion to T8 spinal segment of the rat.
  Restorative neurology and neuroscience 2010 García-Alías G, Torres-Espín A, Vallejo C, Navarro X