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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

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.