Ke Ren

Overview

Best Publications

• Interactions between the immune and nervous systems in pain

  Ke Ren;Ronald Dubner

  1035
  Citations

• Mechanisms of Acupuncture-Electroacupuncture on Persistent Pain

  Ruixin Zhang;Lixing Lao;Ke Ren;Brian M. Berman

  939
  Citations

• Role of interleukin-1β during pain and inflammation

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  801
  Citations

• Glial–Cytokine–Neuronal Interactions Underlying the Mechanisms of Persistent Pain

  Wei Guo;Hu Wang;Mineo Watanabe;Kohei Shimizu

  651
  Citations

• The effects of a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist, MK-801, on behavioral hyperalgesia and dorsal horn neuronal activity in rats with unilateral inflammation.

  Ke Ren;Janice L.K. Hylden;Gene M. Williams;M. A. Ruda

  623
  Citations

• Descending modulation in persistent pain: an update.

  Ke Ren;Ronald Dubner

  605
  Citations

• Supraspinal Glial–Neuronal Interactions Contribute to Descending Pain Facilitation

  Feng Wei;Wei Guo;Shiping Zou;Ke Ren

  424
  Citations

• Central Terminal Sensitization of TRPV1 by Descending Serotonergic Facilitation Modulates Chronic Pain

  Yu Shin Kim;Yuxia Chu;Liang Han;Man Li;Man Li

  381
  Citations

• Neuron-glia crosstalk gets serious: Role in pain hypersensitivity

  Ke Ren;Ronald Dubner

  362
  Citations

• Cannabinoids suppress inflammatory and neuropathic pain by targeting α3 glycine receptors

  Wei Xiong;Tanxing Cui;Kejun Cheng;Fei Yang

  362
  Citations

• An Improved Method for Assessing Mechanical Allodynia in the Rat

  Ke Ren

  326
  Citations

• Tyrosine Phosphorylation of the NR2B Subunit of the NMDA Receptor in the Spinal Cord during the Development and Maintenance of Inflammatory Hyperalgesia

  Wei Guo;Shiping Zou;Yun Guan;Tetsuya Ikeda

  317
  Citations

• IL-1ra alleviates inflammatory hyperalgesia through preventing phosphorylation of NMDA receptor NR-1 subunit in rats

  Rui-Xin Zhang;Aihui Li;Bing Liu;Linbo Wang

  270
  Citations

• Molecular depletion of descending serotonin unmasks its novel facilitatory role in the development of persistent pain.

  Feng Wei;Ronald Dubner;Shiping Zou;Ke Ren

  270
  Citations

• Spinal glial activation in a new rat model of bone cancer pain produced by prostate cancer cell inoculation of the tibia

  Rui-Xin Zhang;Bing Liu;Linbo Wang;Ke Ren

  269
  Citations

• Enhanced descending modulation of nociception in rats with persistent hindpaw inflammation.

  K. Ren;R. Dubner

  266
  Citations

• NMDA receptor antagonists attenuate mechanical hyperalgesia in rats with unilateral inflammation of the hindpaw

  Ke Ren;Ronald Dubner

  263
  Citations

• Inflammatory Models of Pain and Hyperalgesia.

  Ke Ren;Ronald Dubner

  261
  Citations

• Characterization of basal and re-inflammation-associated long-term alteration in pain responsivity following short-lasting neonatal local inflamatory insult

  K. Ren;V. Anseloni;S. P. Zou;E. B. Wade

  253
  Citations

• Supraspinal Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Signaling: A Novel Mechanism for Descending Pain Facilitation

  Wei Guo;Meredith T Robbins;Feng Wei;Shiping Zou

  253
  Citations

• Central nervous system plasticity and persistent pain.

  K Ren;R Dubner

  231
  Citations