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  • Bush K, Wairkar Y, Tang SJ. Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors Are the Major Class of HIV Antiretroviral Therapeutics That Induce Neuropathic Pain in Mice. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Aug 21;25(16):9059
  • Chen X, Tang SJ. Neural Circuitry Polarization in the Spinal Dorsal Horn (SDH): A Novel Form of Dysregulated Circuitry Plasticity during Pain Pathogenesis. Cells. 2024 Feb 25;13(5):398
  • Gordon C, Trainor J, Shah RJ, Studholme K, Gelman A, Doswell F, Sadar F, Giovannetti A, Gershenson J, Khan A, Nicholson J, Huang Z, Spurgat M, Tang SJ, Wang H, Ojima I, Carlson D, Komatsu DE, Kaczocha M. Fatty acid binding protein 5 inhibition attenuates pronociceptive cytokine/chemokine expression and suppresses osteoarthritis pain: A comparative human and rat study. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2023 Nov 28:S1063-4584
  • Liu X, Tang SJ. Pathogenic mechanisms of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated pain. Mol Psychiatry. 2023 Oct 19
  • Hankerd K, Koo H, McDonough KE, Wang J, Pariyar R, Tang SJ, Chung JM, La JH. Gonadal hormone-dependent nociceptor sensitization maintains nociplastic pain state in female mice. Pain. 2023 Feb 1;164(2):402-412.
  • Ou M, Chen Y, Liu J, Zhang D, Yang Y, Shen J, Miao C, Tang SJ, Liu X, Mulkey DK, Zhu T, Zhou C. Spinal Astrocytic MeCP2 Regulates Kir4.1 for the Maintenance of Chronic Hyperalgesia in Neuropathic Pain. Prog Neurobiol. 2023 Mar 15:102436.
  • Liu X, Bae C, Liu B, Zhang YM, Zhou X, Zhang D, Zhou C, DiBua A, Schutz L, Kaczocha M, Puopolo M, Yamaguchi TP, Chung JM, Tang SJ. Development of opioid-induced hyperalgesia depends on reactive astrocytes controlled by Wnt5a signaling. Mol Psychiatry. 2022 Oct 6.
  • Hankerd K, Koo H, McDonough KE, Wang J, Pariyar R, Tang SJ, Chung JM, La JH. Gonadal hormone-dependent nociceptor sensitization maintains nociplastic pain state in female mice. Pain. 2022 Jun 16
  • Watson Z, Tang SJ. Aberrant Synaptic Pruning in CNS Diseases: A Critical Player in HIV-Associated Neurological Dysfunction? Cells. 2022 Jun 16;11(12):1943
  • Tang SJ. Reactive astrocytes in pain neural circuit pathogenesis. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2022 Jun 16;75
  • Liu X, Bae C, Gelman BB, Chung JM, Tang SJ. A neuron-to-astrocyte Wnt5a signal governs astrogliosis during HIV-associated pain pathogenesis. Brain. 2022 Jan 18.
  • Jie Z, Ko CJ, Wang H, Xie X, Li Y, Gu M, Zhu L, Yang JY, Gao T, Ru W, Tang SJ, Cheng X, Sun SC. Microglia promote autoimmune inflammation via the noncanonical NF-κB pathway. Sci Adv. 2021 Sep 3;7(36)
  • Liu X, Liu BL, Yang Q, Zhou X, Tang SJ. Microglial ablation does not affect opioid-induced hyperalgesia in rodents. Pain. 2022 Mar 1;163(3):508-517
  • Ru W, Liu X, Bae C, Shi Y, Walikonis R, Mo Chung J, Tang SJ. Microglia Mediate HIV-1 gp120-Induced Synaptic Degeneration in Spinal Pain Neural Circuits. J Neurosci. 2019 Oct 16;39(42):8408-8421
  • Yuan SB, Shi Y, Chen J, Zhou X, Li G, Gelman BB, Lisinicchia JG, Carlton SM, Ferguson MR, Tan A, Sarna SK, Tang SJ. Gp120 in the pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus-associated pain. Ann Neurol. 2014 Jun;75(6):837-50.
  • Shi Y, Gelman BB, Lisinicchia JG, Tang SJ. Chronic-pain-associated astrocytic reaction in the spinal cord dorsal horn of human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients. J Neurosci. 2012 Aug 8;32(32):10833-40.
  • Wan XZ, Li B, Li YC, Yang XL, Zhang W, Zhong L, Tang SJ. Activation of NMDA receptors upregulates a disintegrin and metalloproteinase 10 via a Wnt/MAPK signaling pathway. J Neurosci. 2012 Mar 14;32(11):3910-6.
  • Li B, Shi Y, Shu J, Gao J, Wu P, Tang SJ. Wingless-type mammary tumor virus integration site family, member 5A (Wnt5a) regulates human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein 120 (gp120)-induced expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines via the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) signaling pathways. J Biol Chem. 2013 May 10;288(19):13610-9.
  • Chen J, Park CS, Tang SJ. Activity-dependent synaptic Wnt release regulates hippocampal long term potentiation. J Biol Chem. 2006 Apr 28;281(17):11910-6.
  • Tang SJ, Reis G, Kang H, Gingras AC, Sonenberg N, Schuman EM. A rapamycin-sensitive signaling pathway contributes to long-term synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Jan 8;99(1):467-72.
  • Tang SJ, Meulemans D, Vazquez l, Colaco N, Schuman E. A role for a rat homolog of staufen in the transport of RNA to neuronal dendrites. Neuron. 2001 Nov 8;32(3):463-75.