Research Associates

Susana G. Sotocinal
Jean-Sebastien Austin

Postdoctoral Fellows

Robert E. Sorge
Loren J. Martin

Graduate Students

Alexander H. Tuttle
Jeffrey Wieskopf

Undergraduate Student Assistants


 
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Robert E. Sorge, Ph.D. (Concordia University)
2009-present

Translational Regulation and Pain

 

  • Langford, D.J., Bailey, A.L., Chanda, M.L., Clarke, S.E., Drummond, T.E., Echols, S., Glick, S., Ingrao, J., Klassen-Ross, T., LaCroix-Fralish, M.L., Matsumiya, L., Sorge, R.E., Sotocinal, S.G., Tabaka, J.M., Wong, D., van den Maagdenberg, A.M.J.M., Ferrari, M.D., Craig, K.D., and Mogil, J.S. Coding of facial expressions of pain in the laboratory mouse. Nat. Meth., 7:447-449, 2010.
  • Schorscher-Petcu, A., Sotocinal, S.G., Ciura, S., Dupre, A., Ritchie, J., Sorge, R.E., Crawley, J.N., Hu, S.-B., Nishimori, K., Young, L.J., Tribollet, E., Quirion, R., and Mogil, J.S. Oxytocin-induced analgesia and scratching are mediated by the vasopressin-1A receptor in the mouse.  J. Neurosci., 30:8274-8284, 2010. 
  • Sotocinal, S.G., Sorge, R.E., Zaloum, A., Tuttle, A.H., Martin, L.J., Wieskopf, J.S., Mapplebeck, J.C.S., Wei, P., Zhan, S., Zhang, S., McDougall, J.J., King, O.D., and Mogil, J.S. The Rat Grimace Scale: a partially automated method for quantifying pain in the laboratory rat via facial expressions. Mol. Pain, 7:55, 2011.
  • Mogil, J.S., Sorge, R.E., LaCroix-Fralish, M.L., Smith, S.B., Fortin, A., Sotocinal, S.G., Ritchie, J.R., Austin, J.-S., Schorscher-Petcu, A., Melmed, K., Czerminski, J., Bittong, R.A., Mokris, J.B., Neubert, J.K., Campbell, C.M., Edwards, R.R., Campbell, J.N., Crawley, J.N., Lariviere, W.R., Wallace, M.R., Sternberg, W.F., Balaban, C.D., Belfer, I., and Fillingim, R.B. Pain sensitivity and vasopressin analgesia are mediated by a gene-sex-environment interaction. Nat. Neurosci., 14:1569-1573, 2011.
  • Sorge, R.E., LaCroix-Fralish, M.L., Tuttle, A.H., Sotocinal, S.G., Austin, J.-S., Ritchie, J., Chanda, M.L., Graham, A.C., Topham, L., Beggs, S., Salter, M.W., and Mogil, J.S.  Spinal cord Toll-like receptor 4 mediates inflammatory and neuropathic hypersensitivity in male but not female mice.  J. Neurosci., 31:15450-15454, 2011.
  • Matsumiya, L.C., Sorge, R.E., Sotocinal, S.G., Tabaka, J.M., Wieskopf, J.S., Zaloum, A., King, O.D., and Mogil, J.S. Using the Mouse Grimace Scale to reevaluate the efficacy of postoperative analgesics in laboratory mice. J. Am. Assoc. Lab. Anim. Sci., 51:42-49, 2012.
  • Sorge, R.E., Trang, T., Dorfman, R., Smith, S.B., Beggs, S., Ritchie, J., Austin, J.-S., Zaykin, D.V., Vander Meulen, H., Costigan, M., Herbert, T.A., Yarkoni-Abitbul, M., Tichauer, D., Livneh, J., Gershon, E., Zheng, M., Tan, K., John, S.L., Slade, G.D., Jordan, J., Woolf, C.J., Peltz, G., Maixner, W., Diatchenko, L., Seltzer, Z., Salter, M.W., and Mogil, J.S. Genetically determined P2X7 receptor pore formation regulates variability in chronic pain sensitivity. Nat. Med., 18:595-599, 2012.
  • Malfait, A.M., Seymour, A.B., Gao, F., Tortorella, M.D., Hellio Le Graverand-Gastineau, M.P., Wood, L.S., Doherty, M., Doherty, S., Zhang, W., Arden, N.K., Vaughn, F.L., Leaverton, P.E., Spector, T.D., Hart, D.J., Maciewicz, R.A., Muir, K.R., Das, R., Sorge, R.E., Sotocinal, S.G., Schorscher-Petcu, A., Valdes, A.M., and Mogil, J.S.  A role for PACE4 in osteoarthritis pain: evidence from human genetic association and null mutant phenotype.  Ann. Rheum. Dis., 71:1042-1048, 2012.
  • Tsao, D., Wieskopf, J.S., Rashid, N., Sorge, R.E., Redler, R.L., Segall, S.K., Mogil, J.S., Maixner, W., Dokholyan, N.V., and Diatchenko, L. Serotonin-induced hypersensitivity via inhibition of catechol-O-methyltransferase activity. Molecular Pain, 8:25, 2012.