Stephen D. Roper

The paper describes a low-cost, battery-powered warming pad for mice and rats to maintain core body temperature during anesthesia, showing it can keep animals normothermic for over 6 hours.

The paper investigates how mouse trigeminal neurons respond to thermal and chemesthetic stimuli, finding that these neurons respond to cool, warm, and nociceptive temperatures, and that chemesthetic compounds modulate their responses.

The paper investigates responses of mouse trigeminal ganglion neurons to kokumi substances using in vivo confocal Ca2+ imaging, finding that these substances evoke responses in a small fraction of neurons.