Nausea

Hu, S., Loureiro, A., Zhang, C. Sensory Signals for Nausea. Trends Neurosci. 2025 Sep 18:S0166-2236(25)00170-5. PMID: 40973603.

Zhang, C. Neural Pathways of Nausea and Roles in Energy Balance. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2025, 90:102963. PMID: 39765206.

Fulton, S., Horn, C. C. & Zhang, C. Characterizing a New Tool to Manipulate Area Postrema GLP1R+ Neurons Across Species. Physiol Behav, 114474 (2024). PMID: 38272107.

Zhang C., Vincelette K. L., Reimann F., & Liberles S. D. (2022). A Brainstem Circuit for Nausea Suppression. Cell Reports.2022 Jun 14;39(11):110953. PMID: 35705049.

Zhang C., Kaye J. A., Cai Z., Wang Y., Prescott S. L., & Liberles S. D. Area Postrema Cell Types that Mediate Nausea-Associated Behaviors. Neuron, 2021. 109(3): p. 461-472.e5. PMID: 33278342.

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Pain

Zhang C., Sánchez E.E., Medzihradszky K.E., Basbaum A.I., and Julius D. Lys49 myotoxin from the Brazilian lancehead pit viper elicits pain through regulated ATP release. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017.114(12): p. E2524-E2532. PMCID: PMC5373363.

Bellono N.W., Bayrer J.R., Leitch D.B., Castro J., Zhang C., O’Donnell T.A., Brierley S.M., Ingraham H.A., Julius D. Enterochromaffin Cells Are Gut Chemosensors that Couple to Sensory Neural Pathways. Cell, 2017. 170(1): p. 185-198 e16. PMCID: PMC5839326.

Osteen J.D., Herzig V., Gilchrist J., Emrick J.J., Zhang C., Wang X., Castro J., Garcia-Caraballo S., Grundy L., Rychkov G.Y., Weyer A.D., Dekan Z., Undheim E.A., Alewood P., Stucky C.L., Brierley S.M., Basbaum A.I., Bosmans F., King G.F. and Julius D. Selective spider toxins reveal a role for the Nav1.1 channel in mechanical pain. Nature 2016, 534(7608): 494-499. PMCID: PMC4919188.

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