Kayla L. Nguyen

TNFR2 Agonism as a Sex-Specific Therapy for Novel Osteoarthritis-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction

This study shows that TNFR2 agonism can prevent and reverse OA-induced cardiac dysfunction in female mice and delay systolic decline in males, revealing sex-specific cardiac effects of OA.

Hippocampal CA3 Nex/Neurod6+ neuron-specific TNFR2 alleviates chronic neuropathic pain by sex-dependently engaging opioid and endocannabinoid pathways

This study shows that TNFR2 signaling in hippocampal Nex/Neurod6 neurons is critical for chronic neuropathic pain recovery, acting through sex-dependent opioid and endocannabinoid pathways.

ER oxidoreductin-1α and unfolded protein response as sex-dependent drivers of cardiorenal dysfunction in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

This study investigates sex-specific cardiorenal dysfunction in EAE, finding distinct ER stress/UPR alterations and sex-dependent therapeutic responses to ERO1 inhibition and IRE1 activation.

TNFR1/p38αMAPK signaling in Nex+ supraspinal neurons regulates sex-specific chronic neuropathic pain

This study investigates TNFR1/p38αMAPK signaling in Nex+ supraspinal neurons and its role in sex-specific chronic neuropathic pain, finding that it is male-specific and that estrogen receptor β interference affects therapeutic efficacy in females.