Trainees Members Information

Sheng Wang, DDS, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neural and Pain Sciences
School of Dentistry

Research Interests

• TRPV1
• TRPA1
• muscular pain
• experimental tooth movement pain

Research Approaches

• pain phenotyping
• molecular biology

Publications

1. S Wang, J Lim, J Joseph, S Wang, F Wei, JY Ro, MK Chung. Spontaneous and Bite-Evoked Muscle Pain Are Mediated by a Common Nociceptive Pathway With Differential Contribution by TRPV1. The Journal of Pain 18 (11), 1333-1345. 2017
2. Sheng Wang, Sen Wang, Jamila Asgar, John Joseph, Jin Y Ro, Feng Wei, James N Campbell, Man-Kyo Chung. Ca2+ and calpain mediate capsaicin-induced ablation of axonal terminals expressing transient receptor potential vanilloid 1. Journal of Biological Chemistry 292 (20), 8291-8303. 2017
3. S Wang, J Xu, R Ye, J Wang, Z Chen, R Huang, Q Peng, Y Xu, X Cai. Emerging roles of microRNAs in neural stem cells. Current stem cell research & therapy 9 (3), 234-243. 2014
4. R Ye, S Wang, Y Li, R Wu, J Pei, J Wang, Z Zhao. Primary dysmenorrhea is potentially predictive for initial orthodontic pain in female patients. The Angle Orthodontist 84 (3), 424-429. 2014 (co-first author)