Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Anti-nociceptive roles of the glia-specific metabolic inhibitor fluorocitrate in paclitaxel-evoked neuropathic pain. 
  • Electrical stimulation of the dorsal columns of the spinal cord for Parkinson's disease. 
  • Identifying local and descending inputs for primary sensory neurons. 
  • Microglia-mediated degradation of perineuronal nets promotes pain. 
  • Neuropathic pain is constitutively suppressed in early life by anti-inflammatory neuroimmune regulation. 
  • Repurposing cancer drugs identifies kenpaullone which ameliorates pathologic pain in preclinical models via normalization of inhibitory neurotransmission. 
  • Toll-like receptor 4 contributes to chronic itch, alloknesis, and spinal astrocyte activation in male mice. 
  • Transcriptional Profiling of Somatostatin Interneurons in the Spinal Dorsal Horn. 
  • β-arrestin-2 regulates NMDA receptor function in spinal lamina II neurons and duration of persistent pain. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Martucci, Katherine, Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience