Michael L. Lacroix-Fralish, Ph.D. (Dartmouth) 2007-2009 Pain Genetics
Currently a Scientist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
LaCroix-Fralish, M.L., Rutkowski, M.D., Weinstein, J.N., Mogil, J.S., and DeLeo, J.A. The magnitude of mechanical allodynia in a rodent model of lumbar radiculopathy is dependent on strain and sex. Spine 30:1821-1827, 2005.
LaCroix-Fralish, M.L., Ledoux, J.B., and Mogil, J.S. The Pain Genes Database: an interactive browser of pain-related transgenic knockout studies. Pain 131:3.e1-3e4, 2007.
Rice, A.S.C., Cimino-Brown, D., Eisenach, J.C., Kontinen, V.K., LaCroix-Fralish, M.L., Machin, I., Mogil, J.S., and Stohr, T. Animal models and the prediction of efficacy in clinical trials of analgesic drugs: a critical appraisal and call for uniform reporting standards. Pain 139:241-245, 2008.
LaCroix-Fralish, M.L. and Mogil, J.S. Progress in genetic studies of pain and analgesia. Annu. Rev. Pharmacol. 49:97-121, 2009.
LaCroix-Fralish, M.L., Mo, G., Smith, S.B., Sotocinal, S.G., Ritchie, J., Austin, J.-S., Melmed, K., Schorscher-Petcu, A., Laferriere, A., Lee, T.H., Romanovsky, D., Liao, G., Behlke, M.A., Clark, J.D., Peltz, G., Seguela, P., Dobretsov, M., and Mogil, J.S. The beta3 subunit of the Na+,K+-ATPase mediates variable nociceptive sensitivity in the formalin test. Pain, 144:294-302, 2009.
Langford, D.J., Bailey, A.L., Chanda, M.L., Clarke, S.E., Drummond, T.E., Echols, S., Glick, S., Ingrao, J., Klassen-Ross, T., LaCroix-Fralish, M.L., Matsumiya, L., Sorge, R.E., Sotocinal, S.G., Tabaka, J.M., Wong, D., van den Maagdenberg, A.M.J.M., Ferrari, M.D., Craig, K.D., and Mogil, J.S. Coding of facial expressions of pain in the laboratory mouse. Nature Methods, in press.