Kathleen Anne Sluka

This study characterizes the electrophysiological properties of hypothalamic A11 dopamine neurons in mice and shows that mu-opioid receptor activation reduces their pacemaking activity.

This study shows that BDNF contributes to activity-induced muscle pain in male mice but not female mice, with no sex differences in BDNF expression changes.

A selective androgen receptor modulator microparticle formulation alleviates widespread muscle pain in male and female mice while being non-toxic.

The paper examines the translatability of clinical pain and function assessments to preclinical models of chronic musculoskeletal pain in fibromyalgia.

The paper investigates how regular physical activity affects mu-opioid receptor expression in spinally projecting neurons from the RVM, finding reduced expression in physically active animals.