Currently Asst. Prof. of Anesthesiology at University of Pittsburgh
Lariviere, W.R., Chesler, E.J., and Mogil, J.S. Transgenic studies of pain and analgesia: mutation or background genotype? J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 297:467-473, 2001.
Lariviere, W.R., Wilson, S.G., Laughlin, T.M., Kokayeff, A., West, E.E., Adhikari, S.M., Wan, Y., and Mogil, J.S. Heritability of nociception. III. Genetic relationships among commonly used assays of nociception and hypersensitivity. Pain, 97:75-86, 2002.
Chesler, E.J., Wilson, S.G., Lariviere, W.R., Rodriguez-Zas, S.L., and Mogil, J.S. Influences of laboratory environment on behavior. Nature Neurosci., 5:1101-1102, 2002.
Chesler, E.J., Wilson, S.G., Lariviere, W.R., Rodriguez-Zas, S.L., and Mogil, J.S. Identification and ranking of genetic and laboratory environment factors influencing a behavioral trait, thermal nociception, via computational analysis of a large data archive. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev., 26:907-923, 2002.
Wilson, S.G., Bryant, C.D., Lariviere, W.R., Olsen, M.S., Giles, B.E., Chesler, E.J., and Mogil, J.S. The heritability of antinociception II: pharmacogenetic mediation of three over-the-counter analgesics in mice. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 305:755-764, 2003.
Chesler, E.J., Ritchie, J., Kokayeff, A., Lariviere, W.R., Wilson, S.G., and Mogil, J.S. Genotype-dependence of gabapentin and pregabalin sensitivity: the pharmacogenetic mediation of analgesia is specific to the type of pain being inhibited. Pain, 106:325-335, 2003.
Mogil, J.S., Wilson, S.G., Chesler, E.J., Rankin, A.J., Nemmani, K.V.S., Lariviere, W.R., Groce, M.K., Wallace, M.R., Kaplan, L., Staud, R., Ness, T.J., Glover, T.L., Stankova, M., Mayorov, A., Hruby, V.J., Grisel, J.E., and Fillingim, R.B. The melanocortin-1 receptor gene mediates female-specific mechanisms of analgesia in mice and humans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100:4867-4872, 2003.
Lariviere, W.R. and Mogil, J.S. Genetic basis of pain induction and modulation. In: Chen, J., Chen, A.C.N., Han, J.-S., and Willis, W.D. (Eds.) Experimental Pathological Pain: From Molecules to Brain Functions. Science Press, Beijing, 2003.