Ru-Rong Ji

Overview

Best Publications

• Central sensitization and LTP: do pain and memory share similar mechanisms?

  Ru-Rong Ji;Tatsuro Kohno;Kimberly A Moore;Clifford J Woolf

  1820
  Citations

• Cytokine Mechanisms of Central Sensitization: Distinct and Overlapping Role of Interleukin-1β, Interleukin-6, and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α in Regulating Synaptic and Neuronal Activity in the Superficial Spinal Cord

  Yasuhiko Kawasaki;Ling Zhang;Jen-Kun Cheng;Ru-Rong Ji

  1545
  Citations

• p38 MAPK activation by NGF in primary sensory neurons after inflammation increases TRPV1 levels and maintains heat hyperalgesia.

  Ru-Rong Ji;Tarek A. Samad;Shan-Xue Jin;Raymond Schmoll

  1488
  Citations

• Neuroinflammation and Central Sensitization in Chronic and Widespread Pain

  Ru-Rong Ji;Andrea Nackley;Yul Huh;Niccolò Terrando

  1443
  Citations

• Different immune cells mediate mechanical pain hypersensitivity in male and female mice

  Robert E. Sorge;Josiane C.S. Mapplebeck;Sarah Rosen;Simon Beggs

  1419
  Citations

• Glia and pain: Is chronic pain a gliopathy?

  Ru-Rong Ji;Temugin Berta

  1283
  Citations

• Pain regulation by non-neuronal cells and inflammation.

  Ru-Rong Ji;Alexander Chamessian;Yu-Qiu Zhang

  1280
  Citations

• p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase is activated after a spinal nerve ligation in spinal cord microglia and dorsal root ganglion neurons and contributes to the generation of neuropathic pain

  Shan-Xue Jin;Zhi-Ye Zhuang;Clifford J. Woolf;Ru-Rong Ji

  1223
  Citations

• MAP kinase and pain

  Ru-Rong Ji;Robert W. Gereau;Marzia Malcangio;Gary R. Strichartz

  1180
  Citations

• Emerging targets in neuroinflammation-driven chronic pain

  Ru-Rong Ji;Zhen-Zhong Xu;Yong-Jing Gao

  1149
  Citations

• Nociceptive-specific activation of ERK in spinal neurons contributes to pain hypersensitivity.

  Ru-Rong Ji;Hiroshi Baba;Gary J. Brenner;Clifford J. Woolf

  961
  Citations

• Neuronal plasticity and signal transduction in nociceptive neurons: implications for the initiation and maintenance of pathological pain.

  Ru-Rong Ji;Clifford J. Woolf

  921
  Citations

• ERK is sequentially activated in neurons, microglia, and astrocytes by spinal nerve ligation and contributes to mechanical allodynia in this neuropathic pain model.

  Zhi Ye Zhuang;Peter Gerner;Clifford J. Woolf;Ru-Rong Ji

  900
  Citations

• Distinct roles of matrix metalloproteases in the early- and late-phase development of neuropathic pain

  Yasuhiko Kawasaki;Zhen Zhong Xu;Xiaoying Wang;Jong Yeon Park

  868
  Citations

• Nociceptors are interleukin-1beta sensors

  Alexander M. Binshtok;Haibin Wang;Katharina Zimmermann;Fumimasa Amaya

  750
  Citations

• Chemokines, neuronal-glial interactions, and central processing of neuropathic pain.

  Yong-Jing Gao;Ru-Rong Ji

  746
  Citations

• Microglia in Pain: Detrimental and Protective Roles in Pathogenesis and Resolution of Pain.

  Gang Chen;Yu-Qiu Zhang;Yawar J. Qadri;Charles N. Serhan

  726
  Citations

• A Peptide c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase (JNK) Inhibitor Blocks Mechanical Allodynia after Spinal Nerve Ligation: Respective Roles of JNK Activation in Primary Sensory Neurons and Spinal Astrocytes for Neuropathic Pain Development and Maintenance

  Zhi Ye Zhuang;Yeong Ray Wen;De Ren Zhang;Tiziana Borsello

  719
  Citations

• Resolvins RvE1 and RvD1 attenuate inflammatory pain via central and peripheral actions

  Zhen-Zhong Xu;Ling Zhang;Tong Liu;Jong Yeon Park

  692
  Citations

• P38 MAPK, microglial signaling, and neuropathic pain

  Ru Rong Ji;Marc R. Suter

  681
  Citations

• JNK-Induced MCP-1 Production in Spinal Cord Astrocytes Contributes to Central Sensitization and Neuropathic Pain

  Yong-Jing Gao;Ling Zhang;Omar Abdel Samad;Marc R. Suter

  666
  Citations