Publications

Thomas, P. A., Goodin, B. R., Meints, S. M., Owens, M. A., Wiggins, A. M., Quinn, T., Long, L., Aroke, E. N., Morris, M. C., Sorge, R. E., & Overstreet, D. S. (2024). Adverse Childhood Experiences and Chronic Low Back Pain In Adulthood: The Role of Emotion Regulation. J Pain, epub Apr 29.

Overstreet, D. S., Strath, L. J., Sorge, R. E., Thomas, P. A., He, J., Wiggins, A. M., Hobson, J., Long, D. L., Meints, S. M., Aroke, E. N., & Goodin, B. R. (2024). Race-specific associations: inflammatory mediators and chronic low back pain. Pain, 165: 1513-1522.

Totsch, S. K., & Sorge, R. E. (2023). A novel investigation of placebo analgesia through social communication in mice. Behav Brain Res, epub Nov 23.

Aroke, E. N., Wiggins, A. M., Hobson, J. M., Srinivasasainagendra, V., Quinn, T. L., Kottae, P., Tiwari, H. K., Sorge, R. E., & Goodin, B. R. (2023). The pace of biological aging helps explain the association between insomnia and chronic low back pain. Mol Pain, 19: 1-9.

Gilstrap, S. R, Hobson, J. M., Owens, M. A., White, D. M., Sammy, M.J., Ballinger, S., Sorge, R. E., & Goodin, B. R. (2023). Mitochondrial reactivity following acute exposure to experimental pain testing in people with HIV and chronic pain. Mol Pain, 19.

Overstreet, D. S., Strath, L. J., Hasan, F. N., Sorge, R. E., Penn, T., Rumble, D. D., Aroke, E. N., Wiggins, A. M., Dembowski, J. G., Bajaj, E. K., Quinn, T. L., Long, D. L., & Goodin, B. R. (2022). Racial differences in 25-hydroxy vitamin D and self-reported pain severity in a sample of individuals living with non-specific chronic low back pain. J Pain Res, epub Dec 7.

Sorge, R. E., Si, Y., Norian, L. A., Guha, A., Moore, G. E., Nabors, L. B., Filippova, N., Yang, X., Smith, R., Chellappan, R., & King, P.H. (2022). Inhibition of the RNA Regulator HuR by SRI-42127 Attenuates Neuropathic Pain After Nerve Injury Through Suppression of Neuroinflammatory Responses. Neurotherapeutics, epub Jul 21.

Hobson, J. M., Moody, M. D., Sorge, R. E., & Goodin, B. R. (2022). The neurobiology of social stress resulting from Racism: Implications for pain disparities among racialized minorities. Neurobiol Pain, epub Aug 20.

Strath, L. J., Sims, A. M., Overstreet, D. S., Penn, T. M., Bakshi, R. J., Stansel, B. K., Quinn, T. L., Sorge, R. E., Long, D. L., & Goodin, B. R. (2022). Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) is Associated with Movement-Evoked Pain Severity in Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: Sociodemographic Differences. J Pain, 23: 1437-1447.

Wiggins, A. M. & Sorge, R. E. (2022). An improved model of type 2 diabetes with effects on glucose tolerance, neuropathy and retinopathy with and without obesity. Physiol Behav, epub May 1.

Strath, L. J. & Sorge, R. E. (2022). Racial differences in pain, nutrition and oxidative stress. Pain Ther, 11: 37-56.

Strath, L. J., Brooks, M. S., Sorge, R. E. & Judd, S. E. (2022). Relationship between diet and relative risk of pain in a cross-sectional analysis of the REGARDS longitudinal study. Pain Management, 12: 168-179.

Strath, L. J., Totsch, S. K., Quinn, T. L., Menard, M., Philip George, A., Lukens, S. L., Simmons, J., Zhang, Y., & Sorge, R. E. (2021). The effect of the Standard American Diet on Iba-1 immunoreactivity in the spinal cord before and after peripheral inflammatory injury in rats. PharmaNutrition, 18.

Rumble, D. D., O’Neal, K., Overstreet, D. S., Penn, T. M., Jackson, P., Aroke, E. N., Sims, A. M., King, A. L., Hasan, F. N., Quinn, T. L., Long, D. L., Sorge, R. E., & Goodin, B. R. (2021). Sleep and neighborhood socioeconomic status: a micro longitudinal study of chronic low back pain and pain-free individuals. J Behav Med., 44: 811-821.

Overstreet, D.S., Michl, A.N., Penn, T.M., Rumble, D.D., Aroke, A.N., Sims, A.M., King, A.L., Hasan, F.N., Quinn, T.L., Long, D.L., Sorge, R. E., & Goodin, B.R. (2021). Temporal summation of mechanical pain prospectively predicts movement-evoked pain severity in adults with chronic low back pain. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 22.

Boi, S. K., Orlandella, R. M., Gibson, J. T., Turbitt, W. J., Thomas, L., Buchta Rosean, C., Norris, K. E., Bing, M., Bertrand, L., Gross, B. P., Makkouk, A., Starenki, D., Farag, K. I., Sorge, R. E., Brown, J. A., Gordetsky, J., Yasin, H., Garje, R., Nandagopal, L., Weiner, G. J., Lubaroff, D. M., Arend, R. C., Li, P., Zakharia, Y., Yang, E., Salem, A. K., Nepple, K., Marquez-Lago, T. T., & Norian, L. A. (2020). Obesity diminishes response to PD-1-based immunotherapies in renal cancer. J Immunother Cancer, 8(2): e000725.

Kaushik, A. S., Strath, L. J., & Sorge, R. E. (2020). Dietary interventions for treatment of chronic pain: oxidative stress and inflammation. Pain Ther, 9(2): 487-498.

Totsch, S. K., Kemp, K. M., Lopez, S. A., Quinn, T. L., Meir, R. Y., Gower, B. A. & Sorge, R. E. (2020). The sad weekend: a perilous North American tradition. Neurobiology of Pain, 8: 100053.

Gibson, J. T., Orlandella, R. M., Turbitt, W. J., Behring, M., Manne, U., Sorge, R. E. & Norian, L. A. (2020). Obesity-associated myeloid-derived suppressor cells promote apoptosis of tumor-infiltrating CD8 T cells and immunotherapy resistance in breast cancer. Frontiers Immunology, 11: 590794.

Amthor, F. R., Totsch, S. K. & Sorge, R. E. (2020). Somatosensory system. In F. R. Amthor, A. B. Thiebert, D. G. Standaert & E. D. Roberson (Eds.), Essentials of modern neuroscience (pp.257-272). McGraw Hill, New York.

Sorge, R. E. (2020). Chapter 3: Inflammation and the Immune System. In R. E. Sorge (Ed.), Dynamics of Pain. Great River Learning. https://uab.grlcontent.com/dynpain

Sorge, R. E. (2020). Chapter 6: The Basics – Theories of Pain. In R. E. Sorge (Ed.), Dynamics of Pain. Great River Learning. https://uab.grlcontent.com/dynpain

Overstreet, D., Sorge, R. E., & Goodin, B. R. (2020). Chapter 10: Pain in People – Endogenous Pain Modulation and Quantitative Sensory Testing. In R. E. Sorge (Ed.), Dynamics of Pain. Great River Learning. https://uab.grlcontent.com/dynpain

Sorge, R. E. (2020). Chapter 12: Changing Pain – Individual Differences. In R. E. Sorge (Ed.), Dynamics of Pain. Great River Learning. https://uab.grlcontent.com/dynpain

Sorge, R. E. (2020). Chapter 15: Changing pain – Diet Modulation. In R. E. Sorge (Ed.), Dynamics of Pain. Great River Learning. https://uab.grlcontent.com/dynpain

Strath, L. J., Sorge, R. E., Owens, M. A., Gonzalez, C. E., Okunbor, J. I., White, D. M., Merlin, J. S., & Goodin, B. R. (2020). Sex and Gender are Not the Same: Why Identity Is Important for People Living with HIV and Chronic Pain. J Pain Res, epub Apr 24.

Reed, W. R., Little, J. W., Lima, C. R., Sorge, R. E., Yarar-Fisher, C., Eraslan, M., Hurt, C. P., Ness, T. J., Gu, J. G., Martins, D. F., & Li, P. (2020). Spinal Mobilization Prevents NGF-Induced Trunk Mechanical Hyperalgesia and Attenuates Expression of CGRP. Front Neurosci, epub Apr 30.

Strath, L. J., Jones, C. D., Philip George, A., Lukens, S. L., Morrison, S. L., Soleymani, T., Locher, J. L., Gower, B. A. & Sorge R. E. (2020). The Effect of Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diets on Pain in Individuals with Knee Osteoarthritis. Pain Medicine, 21: 150-160.

Totsch, S. K., Meir, R. Y., Orlandella, R. M., Norian, L. A. & Sorge, R. E. (2018). Effects of diet on immune cells within the central nervous system. Physiology & Behav,196: 158-164.

Sorge, R. E. & Strath, L. J. (2018). Sex differences in pain responses. Current Opinion in Physiology, 6: 75-81.

Totsch, S. K., Meir, R. Y., Quinn, T. L., Lopez, S. A., Gower, B. A. & Sorge, R. E. (2018). Effects of a Standard American Diet and an Anti-Inflammatory Diet in male and female mice. European Journal of Pain, 22: 1203-1213.

Kolata, S. M, Nakao, K, Jeevakumar, V. Farmer-Alroth, E. L., Fujita, Y., Bartley, A., Rompala, G. R., Sorge, R. E., Jimenez, D. V., Martinowich, K., Mateo, Y., Hashimoto, K., Dobrunz, L. E., & Nakazawa, K. (2018). Neuropsychiatric Phenotypes Produced by GABA Reduction in Mouse Cortex and Hippocampus. Neuropsychopharm, 43: 1445-1456.

Totsch, S. K., Quinn, T. L., Strath, L. J., McMeekin, L. J., Cowell, R. M., Gower, B. A. & Sorge, R. E. (2017). The impact of the standard American diet in rats: effects on behavior, physiology and recovery from inflammatory injury. Scandinav J Pain, 17: 316-324.

Totsch, S. K. & Sorge, R. E. (2017). Immune system involvement in specific pain conditions. Mol Pain. Epub Jan 1.

Martin, L. J., Smith, S. B., Khoutorsky, A., Magnussen, C. A., Samoshkin, A., Sorge, R. E., Cho, C., Yosefpour, N., Sivaselvachandran, S., Tohyama, S., Cole, T., Khuong, T. M., Mir, E., Gibson, D. G., Wieskopf, J. S., Sotocinal, S. G., Austin, J. S., Meloto, C. B., Gitt, J. H., Gkogkas, C.,Sonenberg, N., Greenspan, J., Fillingim, R. B., Ohrbach, R., Slade, G. D., Knott, C., Dubner, R., Nackley, A. G., Ribeiro-da-Silva, A., Neely, G. G., Maixner, W., Zaykin, D. Z., Mogil, J. S., & Diatchenko, L. (2017). Epiregulin and EGFR interactions are involved in pain processing. Journal of Clinical Investigations, 127. Epub Aug 7.

Taylor, J. C., Dewberry, L. S., Totsch, S. K., Yessick, L. R., DeBerry, J. J., Watts, S. A. & Sorge, R. E. (2017). A novel zebrafish-based model of nociception. Physiology & Behavior, 174:  83-88.

Merlin, J. S., Westfall, A. O., Heath, S. L., Goodin, B. R., Stewart, J. C., Sorge, R. E., Younger J. W. (2017). IL-1β levels are associated with chronic multisite pain in people living with HIV. J Acquir Immune Def Syndr, 75: e99-e103.

Sorge, R. E. & Totsch, S. K. (2017). Sex differences in pain. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 95: 1271-1281.

Sorge, R. E., Khoutorsky, A., Prager-Khoutorsky, M., Pawlowski, S. A., Longo, G., Jafarnejad, S. M., Tahmasebi, S., Martin, L. J., Pitcher, M. H., Ghogkas, C. G., Sharif-Naeini, R., Ribeiro-da-Silva, A., Bourque, C. W., Cervero, F., Mogil, J. S. & Sonenberg, N. (2016). eIF2alpha phosphorylation controls thermal nociception. Proc Natl Acad Sci, 113: 11949-11954.

Totsch, S. K., Waite, M. E., Tomkovich, A., Quinn, T. L., Gower, B. A. & Sorge, R. E. (2016) Total Western Diet Alters Mechanical and Thermal Sensitivity and Prolongs Hypersensitivity Following Complete Freund’s Adjuvant in Mice. J Pain, 17: 119-125.

Khoutorsky, A., Bonin, R. P., Sorge, R. E., Gkokas, C., Jafarnejad, M., Alain, T., Perez-Sanchez, J., Martin, L. J., De Koninck, Y., Mogil, J. S. & Sonenberg, N. (2015). Translational control of nociception via 4E-binding protein 1.eLife.

Sorge, R. E, Mapplebeck, J. C, Rosen, S., Beggs, S., Taves, S., Alexander, J. K., Martin, L. J., Austin, J. S., Sotocinal, S., Chen, D., Yang, M., Shi, X. Q., Huang, H., Pillon, N. J., Bilan, P. J., Tu, Y., Klip, A., Ji, R. R., Zhang, J., Salter, M. W., Mogil, J. S. (2015). Different immune cells mediate mechanical pain hypersensitivity in male and female mice. Nat Neurosci, 18: 1081-3.

Kim, J. Y., Tillu, D. V., Quinn, T. L., Mejia, G. L., Shy, A., Asiedu, M. N. K., Murad, E., Totsch, S. K., Sorge, R. E., Mantyh, P. W., Dussor, G. & Price, T. J. (2015). Spinal dopaminergic projections control the transition to pathological pain plasticity via a D1/D5-mediated mechanism. J Neuroscience, 35: 6307-17.

Waite, M. E., Tomkovich, A., Quinn, T. L., Schumann, A. P., Dewberry, L. S., Totsch, S. K. & Sorge, R. E. (2015). Efficacy of common analgesics for spontaneous postsurgical pain in rats. JAALAS, 54: 420-5.

Totsch, S. K., Waite, M. E., & Sorge, R. E. (2015). Dietary influence on pain via the immune system. In T. J. Price & G. O. Dussor (Eds). Molecular Biology of Pain, Progress in Molecular and Translational Science. Elsevier. 131: 435-69.

Tillu, D. V., Hassler, S. N., Burgos-Vega, C. C., Quinn, T. L., Sorge, R. E., Dussor, G., Boitano, S., Vagner, J. & Price T. J. (2015). Protease activated receptor 2 (PAR2) activation is sufficient to induce the transition to a chronic pain state. Pain, 156: 859-67.

Cahill, L. S., Laliberte, C. L., Liu, X. J., Bishop, J., Nieman, B. J., Mogil, J. S., Sorge, R. E., Jones, C. D., Salter, M. W. & Henkelman R. M. (2014). Quantifying blood-spinal cord barrier permeability after peripheral nerve injury in the living mouse. Mol Pain, 10: 60.

Si, Y., Cui, X., Kim, S., Wians, R., Sorge, R. E., Oh, S., Al-Sharabati, M., Lu, L., Claussen, G., Anderson, T., Yu, S., Morgan, D., Kazamel, M., & King, P. H. (2014). Smads as biomarkers in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Annals Clin Transl Neurol, 10: 778-87.