Hines RC, O’Sullivan-Duffy AE, and Sheets PL (2026). Ozanimod and other sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 modulators normalize neuropathic injury-enhanced inhibition of central lateral amygdala neurons expressing corticotropin-releasing hormone. Under review at Neuropharmacology.

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Sun X, Yin Y, Song M, Droz BA, Lin Y, Beaty KN, Zhou B, Roh HC, Wilson JM, Cain PF, Samms RJ, Sheets PL, Ai M, Ren H (2026). Tirzepatide Synergizes with Leptin on Weight Loss and Restoring Metabolic Homeostasis in Diet-induced Obesity Model. bioRxiv [Preprint]. PMID: 41509321

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Sun X, Brueck L, Yang D, Sheets PL, Zhou B, Ren H (2025). Leptin and G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling: Therapeutic potential in obesity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. Nov;301(11) :110768. PMID: 41016636

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Bryant KG, Swygart D, Yin Y, Bauer MR, Morningstar MD, Timme NM, Barnett WH, McGonigle CE, Engleman EA, Sheets PL, and Lapish CC (2025). Acute alcohol in prefrontal cortex is characterized by enhanced inhibition that transitions to excitation. iScience. Jun 17;28(7):112920. PMID: 40687835

 

Basu R, Elmendorf AJ, Mahler CA, Lorentz B, Lazzaro O, App B, Zhou S, Yamamoto Y,  Suber M, Waan J, Roh HC, Sheets PL, Johnson TS, and Flak JN (2024). Ventromedial Hypothalamic Nucleus Subset Stimulates Tissue Thermogenesis via Preoptic Area Outputs. Molecular Metabolism, Jun;84:101951. PMID: 38729241

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Kummer K and Sheets PL (2024). Targeting prefrontal cortex dysfunction in pain. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, May 21;389(3):268-276. PMID: 38702195

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Yin Y, Haggerty DL, Zhou S, Atwood BK and Sheets PL (2024) Converging Effects of Chronic Pain and Binge Alcohol Consumption on Anterior Insular Cortex Neurons Projecting to the Dorsolateral Striatum. Journal of Neuroscience, 17 April 2024. PMID: 38453466

 

Zhou S, Yin Y, & Sheets PL (2023). Mouse models of surgical and neuropathic pain produce distinct functional alterations to prodynorphin expressing neurons in the prelimbic cortex. Neurobiology of pain (Cambridge, Mass.), 13, 100121. PMID: 36864928

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Li JN, Chen K, & Sheets PL (2022). Topographic organization underlies intrinsic and morphological heterogeneity of central amygdala neurons expressing corticotropin-releasing hormone. The Journal of comparative neurology, 530(13), 2286–2303. PMID: 35579999

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Mork BE, Lamerand SR, Zhou S, Taylor BK., & Sheets P L (2022). Sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 agonist SEW2871 alters membrane properties of late-firing somatostatin expressing neurons in the central lateral amygdala. Neuropharmacology, 203, 108885. PMID: 34798130

 

Grecco GG, Mork BE, Haggerty DL, Reeves KC, Gao Y, Hoffman H, Huang JY, Katner S, Eric A. Engleman, Masters AR, Metzger C, Newell EA, Kim J, Baucum AJ, Allen MR, Yamamoto BK, Wu YC, Lu HC, Sheets PL, and Atwood BK (2021).  Prenatal Methadone Exposure Disrupts Behavioral Development and Alters Motor Neuron Intrinsic Properties, Connectivity, and Morphology. eLife. Mar 16;10:e66230. PMID: 33724184

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Cheriyan J & Sheets PL (2020). Peripheral nerve injury reduces the excitation-inhibition balance of basolateral amygdala inputs to prelimbic pyramidal neurons projecting to the periaqueductal gray. Molecular brain, 13(1), 100. PMID: 32600466

 

Jara JH, Sheets PL, Nigro M, Peric M, Brooks C, Heller DB, Martina M, Andjus PR, and Ozdinler PH (2020). The molecular and electrophysiological determinants for corticospinal motor neuron vulnerability in ALS. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. May 19;13:73. PMID: 32508590

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Jones AF and Sheets PL (2020). Sex-specific disruption of distinct mPFC inhibitory neurons in spared-nerve injury model of neuropathic pain. Cell Reports. Jun 9;31(10):107729. PMID: 32521254

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Li J and Sheets PL (2020). Spared nerve injury differentially alters parabrachial monosynaptic excitatory inputs to molecularly specific neurons in distinct subregions of central amygdala.  PAIN. Jan;161(1):166-176. PMID: 31479066

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Reilly AM, Zhou S, Panigrahi S, Yan S, Conley JM, Sheets PL, Wardlaw SL, and Ren H (2019). Gpr17-deficiency in POMC neurons ameliorates the metabolic derangements caused by long-term high fat diet feeding. Nutrition and Diabetes. Oct 14;9(1):29. PMID: 31611548

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Cheriyan J and Sheets PL (2018).  Altered excitability and local connectivity of mPFC-PAG neurons in a mouse model of neuropathic pain. Journal of Neuroscience. May 16;38(20):4829-4839. PMID: 29695413.

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Li J and Sheets PL (2018).  The central amygdala to periaqueductal gray pathway comprises intrinsically distinct neurons differentially affected by inflammatory pain. Journal of Physiology. Dec; 596(24). PMID: 30281797.

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Cheriyan J, Kaushik M, Ferreira AN, and Sheets PL (2016).  Specific targeting of the basolateral amygdala to projectionally defined pyramidal neurons in prelimbic and infralimbic cortex. eNeuro. Mar 31; 3(2). PMID: 27022632.

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Ferreira AN, Yousuf H, Dalton S, and Sheets PL (2015). Highly differentiated cellular and circuit properties of mPFC neurons projecting to the periaqueductal gray and amygdala. Frontiers of Cellular Neuroscience. Apr 28; 9:161. PMID: 25972785.

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Ploplis VA, Donahue DL, Sandoval-Cooper MJ, Moreno-Caffaro M, Sheets P, Thomas SG, Walsh M, and Castellino FJ (2014). Systemic Platelet Dysfunction Is the Result of Local Dysregulated Coagulation and Platelet Activation in the Brain in a Rat Model of Isolated Traumatic Brain Injury. Journal of Neurotrauma. Oct 1;31(19):1672-5. PMID: 24605991.

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Balsara RD, Ferreira AN, Donahue DL, Castellino FJ, and Sheets PL (2014).  Probing NMDA NR2A and NR2B subunit expression and distribution in cortical neurons.  Neuropharmacology. Apr;79:542-9. PMID: 24440368.