James Grau

Biography

Selected Publications

• • Turtle, J. D., Strain, M. M., Aceves, M., Huang, Y.-J., Reynolds, J. A., Hook, M. A., & Grau, J. W. (2017). Pain input impairs recovery after spinal cord injury: Treatment with lidocaine. Journal of Neurotrauma, 34, 1200-1208.

  • Grau, J. W., Huang, Y.-J., Turtle, J. D., Strain, M. M., Miranda, R. M., Garraway, S.M., & Hook, M. A. (2017). When pain hurts: Nociceptive stimulation induces a state of maladaptive plasticity and impairs recovery after spinal cord injury. Journal of Neurotrauma, 34, 1873-1890.

  • Huang, Y.J., Lee, K. H., & Grau, J. W. (2017). Complete spinal cord injury (SCI) transforms how brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) affects nociceptive sensitization. Experimental Neurology, 288, 38-50.

  • Baumbauer, K. M., Turtle, J. D., & Grau, J. W. (2017). Fixed spaced stimulation restores adaptive plasticity within the spinal cord: Identifying the eliciting conditions. Physiology & Behavior, 174, 1-9.

  • Grau, J.W. & Huang, Y.-Y. (2018) Metaplasticity within the spinal cord: Evidence brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and alterations in GABA function (ionic plasticity) modulate pain and the capacity to learn. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 154, 121-135.

  • Huang, Y.J., & Grau, J.W. (2018). Ionic plasticity and pain: The loss of descending serotonergic fibers after spinal cord injury transforms how GABA affects pain. Experimental Neurology, 306, 105-116.

  • Turtle, J.D., Strain, M., Reynolds, J., Huang, Y.J., Lee, K., Henwood, M.K., Garraway, S., & Grau, J.W. (2018). Pain input after spinal cord injury undermines long-term recovery and engages signal pathways that promote cell death. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 12,

  • Turtle, J. D., Brumley, M.K., Strain, M.M., Huang, Y.J., Miranda, R.C., & Grau, J.W. (2019). Engaging pain fibers after a spinal cord injury (SCI) fosters hemorrhage and expands the area of secondary injury. Experimental Neurology, 311, 115-124.

  • Reynolds, J. A., 1Henwood, M. K., 4Turtle, J. D., 1Baine, R. E., 2Johnston, D. T., & Grau, J. W. (2019). Spared fibers can fuel pain-induced hemorrhage at
    the site of injury and increase tissue loss after spinal cord injury. Frontiers
    in Systems Neuroscience, 13, doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2019.00044 (Impact,
    2018: 3.93)

  • *Grau, J. W. (2019) Achieving adaptive plasticity in the spinal cord. Oxford
    Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, ed. Murray Sherman. New York
    and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.013.00243 (New outlet, impact
    score not available.)
    *Papers submitted for publication in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia
    were peer reviewed (available upon request).

  • Strain, M. M., Hook, M. A., 1Reynolds, J. D., 4Huang, Y.-J., 1Henwood, M. K., & Grau, J. W. (2019). A brief period of moderate noxious stimulation
    induces hemorrhage and impairs locomotor recovery after spinal cord
    injury. Physiology & Behavior, 212, 112695. (5-yr. impact, 2018: 2.85)