Ke Ren, PhD

Ke Ren, PhD
Professor, Department of Pain and Neural Sciences
SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY
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Research interests
Orofacial pain
Pain modulation
Pain therapy
Animal models
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Research approaches
Behavioral pharmacology
western blot
immunohistochemistry
RT-PCR
focal brain injection
animal pain models
ORCID ID kren
Lab or individual page
https://www.dental.umaryland.edu/neuralpain/faculty-and-staff/dr-ren/
Publications
- 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
- Ren K, Dubner R. Interactions between the immune and nervous systems in pain. Nat Med. 2010; 16:1267-76. PMCID: PMC3077564.
- 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
- 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
- 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.