Jie Zhang

Jie Zhang, PhD, MS

Languages spoken: English, Chinese

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Anesthesiology

Education History

Postdoctoral Fellowship University of California San Francisco
 Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Utah
 Postdoctoral Fellow
Doctoral Training University of Utah
 PhD
Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences
 MSc
Undergraduate Nanjing University
 BSc

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Sun L, Zhang J, Niu C, Deering-Rice CE, Hughen RW, Lamb JG, Rose K, Chase KM, Almestica-Roberts M, Walter M, Schmidt EW, Light AR, Olivera BM and Reilly CA (2023). CYP1B1-derived epoxides modulate the TRPA1 channel in chronic pain. Acta Pharm Sin B, 13(1), 68-81.
  2. Weavil J, Kwon OS, Hughen R, Zhang J, Light A and Amann M (2022). Gene and protein expression of dorsal root ganglion sensory receptors in normotensive and hypertensive male rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 323(2), R221-R226.
  3. Paguigan ND, Tun JO, Leavitt LS, Lin Z, Chase K, Dowell C, Deering-Rice CE, Lim AL, Karthikeyan M, Hughen RW, Zhang J, Peterson RT, Reilly CA, Light AR, Raghuraman S, McIntosh JM, Olivera BM, Schmidt EW (2021). Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Partial Antagonist Polyamides from Tunicates and Their Predatory Sea Slugs. ACS Chem Neurosci, 12(14), 2693.
  4. Niu C, Leavitt L, Lin Z, Paguigan N, Sun L, Zhang J, Torres J, Raghuraman S, Chase K, Karthikeyan M, Reilly C, Light A, Olivera B, Schmidt E (2021). Neuroactive Type-A γ-Aminobutyric Acid Receptor Allosteric Modulator Steroids from the Hypobranchial Gland of Marine Mollusk, Conus geographus. J Med Chem, 64(10), 7033-7043.
  5. Warner W, Yeoh S, Light AR, Zhang J, Mahan MA (2020). Rapid-stretch injury to peripheral nerves: Histologic results. Neurosurgery, 83(3), 437-445.
  6. Taylor NE, Pei J, Zhang J, Vlasov KY, Davis T, Taylor E, Weng F-J, VanDort CJ, Solt K, Brown EN (2019). The Role of Glutamatergic and Dopaminergic Neurons in the Periaqueductal Gray/Dorsal Raphe: Separating Analgesia and Anxiety. eNeuro, 6(1), 1-14.
  7. Zhang J, Bhattacharyya S, Hickner RC, Light AR, Lambert CJ, Gale BK, Fiehn O, Adams SH (2019). Skeletal muscle interstitial fluid metabolomics at rest and associated with an exercise bout: application in rats and humans. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 316(1), E43-E53.
  8. Zhang J, Light AR, Hoppel CL, Campbell C, Chandler CJ, Burnett DJ, Souza EC, Casazza GA, Gustafson MB, Hughen RW, Keim NL, Newman JW, Hunter GR, Fernandez JR, Garvey WT, Harper ME, Fiehn O, Adams SH (2017). Acylcarnitines track exercise-associated changes in fuel partitioning and may serve as signals to peripheral afferent neurons that interrogate muscle. Exp Physiol, 102(1), 48-69.
  9. Wang X, Zhang J, Eberhrt D, Urban R, Meda K, Yamanaka H, Rice D, Basbaum AI (2013). Excitatory superficial dorsal horn interneurons are functionally heterogeneous and required for the full behavioral expression of pain and itch. Neuron, 78(2), 312-24.
  10. Zhang J, Cavanaugh DJ, Nenenov MI, Basbaum AI (2013). The modality specific contribution of peptidergic and nonpeptidergic nociceptors is manifest at the level of dorsal horn nociresponsive neurons. J Physiol, 591(Pt 4), 1097-110.
  11. Scherrer G, Low SA, Wang X, Zhang J, Yamanaka H, Urban R, Solorzano C, Harper B, Hnasko TS, Edwards RH, Basbaum AI (2010). VGLUT2 expression in primary afferent neurons is essential for normal acute pain and injury-induced heat hypersensitivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 107(51), 22296-301. (Read full article)
  12. Light AR, Hughen RW, Zhang J, Rainier J, Liu Z, Lee J (2008). Dorsal root ganglion neurons innervating skeletal muscle respond to physiological combinations of protons, ATP, and lactate mediated by ASIC, P2X, and TRPV1. J Neurophysiol, 100(3), 1184-201. (Read full article)
  13. Zhang J, Tuckett RP (2008). Comparison of paclitaxel and cisplatin effects on the slowly adapting type I mechanoreceptor. Brain Res, 1214, 50-7. (Read full article)

Conference Proceedings

  1. Zhang J, Lu X, Meaney C, Wang X, Light AR, Mu H-H (2018). Blockade of Toll-like receptor 2 partially suppresses mycoplasma superantigen triggered arthritis pain in a mouse mode of autoimmune disease. Soc Neurosci, 302, 21/CC8.
  2. Zhang J, Bhattacharyya S, Light AR, Lambert CJ, Gale BK, Fiehn O, Hoppel CL, Adams SH (2016). New methods to interrogate the metabolome of muscle interstitial fluid during exercise. APS 2016 Intersociety Meeting: The Integrative Biology of Exercise VII, 8.9.
  3. Zhang J, Hughen RW, Huang W, Voll KJ, Jensen JC, Low SA, Scherrer G, Light AR (2016). Mu and Delta opioid receptors on muscle innervating Group III/IV afferent neurons modulate muscle fatigue and ache. Soc Neurosci, 615, 28/LL6.