Faculty Member Profiles

Richard Traub , Ph.D.

Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neural and Pain Sciences
SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY

Research Interests

• Visceral pain
• Sex differences
• Gonadal hormone modulation
• Stress
• Comorbid pain conditions/mechanism

Research Approaches

• in vivo electrophysiology
• EMG recording
• Immunocytochemistry
• biochemistry

Publications

1. Ji, Y., Tang, B., Cao, D-Y., Wang, G. and Traub, R.J. Sex differences in spinal processing of transient and inflammatory colorectal stimuli in the rat, Pain, 153:1965-1973, 2012. PMID: 22819535
2. Traub, R.J. and Ji, Y. Sex differences and hormonal modulation of deep tissue pain, Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 34:350-366, 2013. PMID: 23872333
3. Traub, R.J., Cao, D-Y., Karpowicz, J., Pandya, S., Dorsey, S., Dessem, D. A clinically relevant animal model of temporomandibular disorder and irritable bowel syndrome comorbidity.  J Pain 15(9):956-66, 2014. PMID: 24981128
4. Cao, D-Y., Bai, G., Ji, Y., Karpowicz, J., Traub, R.J. Epigenetic upregulation of metabotropic glutamate receptor 2 in the spinal cord attenuates estrogen-induced visceral hypersensitivity, GUT, 2014 Nov 6. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2014-307748
5. Ji, Y., Cao, D-Y., Bai, G. and Traub, R.J. Estradiol modulates visceral hyperalgesia by increasing thoracolumbar spinal GluN2B subunit expression in female rats. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 2015, In press.

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