Michael Caterina MD, PhD

Solomon H. Snyder Professor of Neurosurgery; Professor of Biological Chemistry; Professor of Neuroscience; Director, Department of Biological Chemistry; Director, Neurosurgery Pain Research Institute




Recent Publications:

Rubright R., Caterina MJ, Belzberg A, Ostrow KL (2025) "Conditioned medium from painful non-NF2 schwannomatosis tumors increases pain behaviors in mice." Sci Rep. 2019 Sep 11;9(1):13098. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-49705-w.PMID: 31511601 

Tsai SJ, Gong Y, Dabbs A, Zahra F, Xu J, Geske A, Caterina MJ, Gould SJ. (2025) Enhanced kinase translocation reporters for simultaneous real-time measurement of PKA, ERK, and calcium. J Biol Chem. 2025 Jan 13:108183. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2025.108183. PMID: 39814226

Weinberg R.L., Kim S., Pang Z., Awad S., Hanback T., Pan B., Bettin L., Chang D., Polydefkis M.J., Qu L.*, Caterina M.J.* (2024) Pain Hypersensitivity in Slurp1 and Slurp2 Knockout Mouse Models of Hereditary Palmoplantar Keratoderma.(2024) J Neurosci. 2024 Jul 10;44(28):e0260232024. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0260-23.2024.PMID: 38866482

Villalón Landeros E, Kho SC, Church TR, Brennan A, Türker F, Delannoy M, Caterina MJ, Margolis SS. (2024) The nociceptive activity of peripheral sensory neurons is modulated by the neuronal membrane proteasome. Cell Rep. 2024 Apr 23;43(4):114058. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114058. Epub 2024 Apr 12. PMID: 38614084 

Jeon S.M.*, Pradeep A., Chang, D., McDonough L., Chen Y., Latremoliere A., Crawford L.K., and Caterina M.J. * (2024) Skin Reinnervation by Collateral Sprouting Following Spared Nerve Injury in Mice. J Neurosci. 2024 Apr 10;44(15):e1494232024. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1494-23.2024. PMID: 38471780

Li X., Jin D.S., Eadara S., Caterina M.J., and Meffert M.K. (2023) Regulation by Noncoding RNAs of Local Translation, Injury Responses, and Pain in the Peripheral Nervous System Neurobiology of Pain, Jan 24:13:100119. doi: 10.1016/j.ynpai.2023.100119.

Beauchene C., Zurn C.A., Eherns, D., Duff I., Duan W., Caterina M., Guan Y., Sarma S.V. (2022) Steering Towards Normative Wide-Dynamic-Range Neuron Activity in Nerve-Injured Rats with Closed-Loop Peripheral Nerve Stimulation.  Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface. 2022 Nov 16:S1094-7159(22)013290. PMID: 36402658

Liu U., Caterina M.J., and Qu, L. (2022) Sensory Neuron Expressed FcγRI Mediates Postinflammatory Arthritis Pain in Female Mice Front Immunol. 2022 Jun 27;13:889286. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.889286.PMID: 35833115

Liu Y, Liu Y, Limjunyawong N, Narang C, Jamaldeen H, Yu S, Patiram S, Nie H, Caterina MJ, Dong X, Qu L. (2022) Sensory neuron expressed TRPC3 mediates acute and chronic itch. Pain. 2022 May 4. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002668. PMID: 35507377

Liu Y, Jeon SM, Caterina MJ, Qu L. (2021) miR-544-3p mediates arthritis pain through regulation of FcγRI. Pain. 2021 Nov 12. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002531. Online ahead of print.PMID: 34784311 (also presented as bioRxiv 2021.06.13.448256; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.13.448256)

 Xu Q., Ford N.C., He S., Huang Q., Anderson M., Chen Z., Yang F., Crawford L.K., Caterina M.J., Guan Y., and Dong X. (2021) Astrocytes contribute to pain gating in the spinal cord Sci Adv. 2021 Nov 5;7(45):eabi6287. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abi6287. Epub 2021 Nov 3.PMID: 34730998

Li X., Eadara S., Jeon S. Liu Y., Muwanga G., Qu L., Caterina M.J., and Meffert, M.K. (2021) Combined single-molecule fluorescence in-situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry analysis in intact dorsal root ganglia and sciatic nerve.  STAR Protoc. 2021 Jun 3;2(2):100555. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100555. eCollection 2021 Jun 18.PMID: 34142098 

Jeon, S.*, Chang, D.*, Geske, A., Ginty, D.D., and Caterina, M.J.  (2021) Sex-Dependent Reduction in Mechanical Allodynia in the Sural-Sparing Nerve Injury Model in Mice Lacking Merkel Cells. J Neurosci. 2021 Jun 30;41(26):5595-5619. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34031166/.*Denotes equal contributions

Weinberg R.L., Polydefkis M., Coulombe P.A., and Caterina M.J. Pain mechanisms in hereditary palmoplantar keratodermas (2020) Br. J. Dermatol. 182(3):543-551. PMID:30883689 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30883689/

Joseph J., Qu L., Wang S., Kim M., Bennett D., Ro J., Caterina M., and Chung M.K. (2019) Phosphorylation of TRPV1 S801 contributes to modality-specific hyperalgesia in mice J. Neuroscience Dec 11;39(50):9954-9966. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31676602/

Ostrow, K., Donaldson K.J., Caterina M.J., Belzberg A., and Hoke A. (2019) The Secretomes of Painful Versus Nonpainful Human Schwannomatosis Tumor Cells Differentially Influence Sensory Neuron Gene Expression and Sensitivity Scientific Reports Sep 11;9(1):13098 

Wang L., Jiang X., Zheng Q., Jeon S.M., Chen T., Kulaga H., Reed R., Dong X., Caterina M.J., and Qu L. (2019) Neuronal FcgRI mediates acute and chronic joint pain through a noninflammatory mechanism J Clin Invest. Jun 18;130:3754-3769. PMID:31211699

 A more extensive list of publications can be found at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1XyKtr6en1Y50/bibliography/public/