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Jie Zhang, PhD, MS

Languages spoken: English, Chinese

Academic Information

Departments: Anesthesiology - Research Assistant Professor

Academic Office Information

Jie.Zhang@hci.utah.edu

Education History

Postdoctoral Fellowship University of California San Francisco
Neuroscience of pain
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Utah
Neuroscience of pain
Postdoctoral Fellow
Doctoral Training University of Utah
Physiology
Ph.D.
Graduate Training Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences
Neurophysiology
M.Sc.
Undergraduate Nanjing University
Biology/Physiology
B.Sc.

Selected Publications

  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 (2022). CYP1B1-derived epoxides modulate the TRPA1 channel in chronic pain. Acta Pharm Sin B, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsb.2022.09.007 (e-pub ahead of print).
  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.
  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.
  13. Zhang J, Tuckett RP (2008). Comparison of paclitaxel and cisplatin effects on the slowly adapting type I mechanoreceptor. Brain Res, 1214, 50-7.

Global Impact

Education History

Type School Degree
Graduate Training Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences
Neurophysiology
M.Sc.
Undergraduate Nanjing University
Biology/Physiology
B.Sc.