Current Research Funding
R01 NS102481 (MPI: Sheets and Brad Taylor (UPitt))“Lipid signaling in supraspinal pain modulation”
04/01/20–03/30/25
R21 AA029176 (PI: Christopher Lapish; Co-I: Sheets)
“Determining the acute pharmacological effects of alcohol in rodent medial prefrontal cortex”
05/01/21–04/30/23
R21 NS130417 (MPI: Fehrenbacher and Sheets)
“The role of a lysosomal mechano-sensitive ion channel in pain”
09/28/22–08/31/24
Recent Publications
Zhou S, Yin Y and Sheets PL (2022). Mouse models of surgical and neuropathic pain produce distinct functional alterations to prodynorphin-expressing neurons in the prelimbic cortex. Under review at Neurobiology of Pain
Li J, Chen K, and Sheets PL (2022). Topographic organization underlies intrinsic and morphological heterogeneity of corticotropin-releasing hormone central amygdala neurons. Journal of Comparative Neurology. Sep;530(13):2286-2303. PMID: 35579999
Mork BE, Lamerand SR, Zhou S, Taylor BK, and Sheets PL (2022). Sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 agonist SEW2871 uniquely alters membrane properties of late-firing somatostatin amygdala neurons. Neuropharmacology. Feb 1;203:108885. PMID: 34798130
Cheriyan J and Sheets PL (2020). Peripheral nerve injury reduces the excitation-inhibition balance of basolateral amygdala inputs to prelimbic pyramidal neurons projecting to the periaqueductal gray. Molecular Brain. Jun 29;13(1):100. PMID: 32600466
Jones AF and Sheets PL (2020). Sex-specific disruption of distinct mPFC inhibitory neurons in spared-nerve injury model of neuropathic pain. Cell Reports. Jun 9;31(10):107729. PMID: 32521254