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Rajesh Khanna is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and is active in the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Their research portfolio spans extensively across molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, neurology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The primary topics of their work focus on pain mechanisms and treatments, ion channel regulation and function, axon guidance and neuronal signaling, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neuropeptides and animal physiology, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study, and mitochondrial function and pathology.

Rajesh Khanna has published frequently in several scientific venues including:

  • Pain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Pain
  • Neurobiology of Pain
  • Biophysical Journal

Their recent scholarly papers include:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 spike protein co-opts VEGF-A/neuropilin-1 receptor signaling to induce analgesia," 2020, Pain
  • "Dysregulation of serum prolactin links the hypothalamus with female nociceptors to promote migraine," 2022, Brain
  • "Targeting T-type/CaV3.2 channels for chronic pain," 2021, Translational Research
  • "The prolactin receptor long isoform regulates nociceptor sensitization and opioid-induced hyperalgesia selectively in females," 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • "Synaptic zinc inhibition of NMDA receptors depends on the association of GluN2A with the zinc transporter ZnT1," 2020, Science Advances

The research collaborations of Rajesh Khanna include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Aubin Moutal
  • Kimberly Gómez
  • Aida Calderón-Rivera
  • Samantha Perez-Miller
  • Santiago Loya-López

Best Publications

  • hSK4/hIK1, a calmodulin-binding KCa channel in human T lymphocytes. Roles in proliferation and volume regulation.

    Rajesh Khanna;Martin C. Chang;William J. Joiner;Leonard K. Kaczmarek

  • Suppression of inflammatory and neuropathic pain by uncoupling CRMP-2 from the presynaptic Ca2+ channel complex

    Joel M. Brittain;Djane B. Duarte;Sarah M. Wilson;Weiguo Zhu

  • An Atypical Role for Collapsin Response Mediator Protein 2 (CRMP-2) in Neurotransmitter Release via Interaction with Presynaptic Voltage-gated Calcium Channels *

    Joel M. Brittain;Andrew D. Piekarz;Yuying Wang;Takako Kondo

  • K+ channels and the microglial respiratory burst.

    Rajesh Khanna;Rajesh Khanna;Lipi Roy;Lipi Roy;Xiaoping Zhu;Lyanne C. Schlichter;Lyanne C. Schlichter

  • SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein co-opts VEGF-A/Neuropilin-1 receptor signaling to induce analgesia

    Aubin Moutal;Laurent F. Martin;Lisa Boinon;Kimberly Gomez

  • Regulation of N-type voltage-gated calcium channels (Cav2.2) and transmitter release by collapsin response mediator protein-2 (CRMP-2) in sensory neurons.

    Xian Xuan Chi;Brian S. Schmutzler;Joel M. Brittain;Yuying Wang

  • Calmodulin regulates assembly and trafficking of SK4/IK1 Ca2+-activated K+ channels.

    William J. Joiner;Rajesh Khanna;Lyanne C. Schlichter;Leonard K. Kaczmarek

  • Hierarchical CRMP2 posttranslational modifications control NaV1.7 function.

    Erik T. Dustrude;Aubin Moutal;Xiaofang Yang;Yuying Wang

  • Social learning and amygdala disruptions in Nf1 mice are rescued by blocking p21-activated kinase

    Andrei I. Molosh;Philip L. Johnson;John P. Spence;David Arendt

  • Neuroexcitatory effects of morphine-3-glucuronide are dependent on Toll-like receptor 4 signaling.

    Michael R Due;Andrew D Piekarz;Natalie Wilson;Polina Feldman

  • The persistent release of HMGB1 contributes to tactile hyperalgesia in a rodent model of neuropathic pain

    Polina Feldman;Michael R Due;Matthew S Ripsch;Rajesh Khanna

  • Internalization of the Kv1.4 Potassium Channel Is Suppressed by Clustering Interactions with PSD-95

    Denis G.M. Jugloff;Denis G.M. Jugloff;Rajesh Khanna;Rajesh Khanna;Lyanne C. Schlichter;Lyanne C. Schlichter;Owen T. Jones;Owen T. Jones

  • Long-lasting antinociceptive effects of green light in acute and chronic pain in rats.

    Mohab M. Ibrahim;Amol Patwardhan;Kerry B. Gilbraith;Aubin Moutal

  • CRMP2 protein SUMOylation modulates NaV1.7 channel trafficking.

    Erik T. Dustrude;Sarah M. Wilson;Weina Ju;Yucheng Xiao

  • Opening Pandora's jar: a primer on the putative roles of CRMP2 in a panoply of neurodegenerative, sensory and motor neuron, and central disorders.

    Rajesh Khanna;Sarah M Wilson;Joel M Brittain;Jill M Weimer

  • Dysregulation of serum prolactin links the hypothalamus with female nociceptors to promote migraine.

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  • CRMPs: critical molecules for neurite morphogenesis and neuropsychiatric diseases.

    T T Quach;T T Quach;J Honnorat;J Honnorat;P E Kolattukudy;R Khanna

  • Glycosylation Increases Potassium Channel Stability and Surface Expression in Mammalian Cells

    Rajesh Khanna;Michael P. Myers;Muriel Lainé;Diane M. Papazian

  • Compensatory Anion Currents in Kv1.3 Channel-deficient Thymocytes

    Pandelakis A. Koni;Rajesh Khanna;Martin C. Chang;Michael D. Tang

  • Neuroprotection against Traumatic Brain Injury by a Peptide Derived from the Collapsin Response Mediator Protein 2 (CRMP2)

    Joel M. Brittain;Liang Chen;Sarah M. Wilson;Tatiana Brustovetsky

  • Collapsin response mediator protein 2 (CRMP2) interacts with N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor and Na+/Ca2+ exchanger and regulates their functional activity

    Tatiana Brustovetsky;Jessica J. Pellman;Xiao Fang Yang;Rajesh Khanna

  • Identification of a functional interaction of HMGB1 with Receptor for Advanced Glycation End-products in a model of neuropathic pain.

    Yohance M. Allette;Michael R. Due;Sarah M. Wilson;Polina Feldman

  • A membrane-delimited N-myristoylated CRMP2 peptide aptamer inhibits CaV2.2 trafficking and reverses inflammatory and postoperative pain behaviors.

    Liberty François-Moutal;Yue Wang;Aubin Moutal;Karissa E. Cottier

Frequent Co-Authors

Fletcher A. White
Fletcher A. White Indiana University
Todd W. Vanderah
Todd W. Vanderah University of Arizona
Theodore R. Cummins
Theodore R. Cummins Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
David K. Meyerholz
David K. Meyerholz University of Iowa
Philip L. Johnson
Philip L. Johnson Indiana University
Peter W. Kalivas
Peter W. Kalivas Medical University of South Carolina
Gerald W. Zamponi
Gerald W. Zamponi University of Calgary
Elias Aizenman
Elias Aizenman University of Pittsburgh
Margaret R. Wallace
Margaret R. Wallace University of Florida
Michael R. Vasko
Michael R. Vasko Indiana University

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