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Ke Ren, PhD

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Ke Ren, PhD

Professor, Department of Pain and Neural Sciences

SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY

Research interests

Orofacial pain

Pain modulation

Pain therapy

Animal models

Research approaches

Behavioral pharmacology

western blot

immunohistochemistry

RT-PCR

focal brain injection

animal pain models

 

ORCID ID   kren

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https://www.dental.umaryland.edu/neuralpain/faculty-and-staff/dr-ren/

 

Publications

  1. Guo W, Wang H, Zou S, Wei F, Dubner R, Ren K. Long lasting pain hypersensitivity following ligation of the tendon of the masseter muscle in rats: A model of myogenic orofacial pain. Mol Pain 2010; 6:40. PMCID: PMC2914030
  2. Ren K, Dubner R. Interactions between the immune and nervous systems in pain. Nat Med. 2010; 16:1267-76. PMCID: PMC3077564.
  3. Guo W, Wang H, Zou S, Gu M, Watanabe M, Wei F, Dubner R, Huang GT, Ren K. Bone marrow stromal cells produce long-term pain relief in rat models of persistent pain. Stem Cells. 2011; 29(8):1294-303. PMCID: PMC3277433
  4. Guo W, Wang H, Zou S, Dubner R, Ren K. Chemokine signaling involving chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 2 plays a role in descending pain facilitation. Neurosci Bull 2012; 28:193-207. PMCID: PMC3925328
  5. Guo W, Imai S, Dubner R, Ren K. Multipotent stromal cells for arthritic joint pain therapy and beyond. Pain Manag. 2014; 4(2):153-62. PMID: 24641438.
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