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Michael Jankowski, PhD

Professor-Affiliate

Anesthesiology | College of Medicine

Education/Credentials
  • Postdoctoral Associates: University of Pittsburgh
  • Doctoral Degree: University of Pittsburgh (Neurobiology)
  • Master's Degree: University of Pittsburgh (Neuroscience)
  • Bachelor's Degree: University of Pittsburgh (Neuroscience/ Molecular Biology)
Contact Information
Research Interests

Our lab is interested in the molecular mechanisms of sensory neuron plasticity after peripheral injuries.  We have two main focuses: peripheral mechanisms of musculoskeletal pain specifically in the context of ischemia and the developmental sensitization of sensory afferents. 

Peer Reviewed Publications

He, Xuelian; Zhang, Liguo; Queme, Luis F; Liu, Xuezhao; Lu, Andrew; Waclaw, Ronald R; Dong, Xinran; Zhou, Wenhao; Kidd, Grahame; Yoon, Sung-Ok; Buonanno, Andres; Rubin, Joshua B; Xin, Mei; Nave, Klaus-Armin; Trapp, Bruce D; Jankowski, Michael P; Lu, Q Richard 2018. A histone deacetylase 3-dependent pathway delimits peripheral myelin growth and functional regeneration. Nature medicine, 24 3, 338-351

Ross, Jessica L; Queme, Luis F; Lamb, Jordan E; Green, Kathryn J; Jankowski, Michael P 2018. Sex differences in primary muscle afferent sensitization following ischemia and reperfusion injury. Biology of sex differences, 9 1, 2

Jankowski, Michael P 2017. A new role of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor receptor type 1 in neonatal inflammatory nociception: response to commentary. Pain reports, 2 4, e609

Jankowski, Michael P; Baumbauer, Kyle M; Wang, Ting; Albers, Kathryn M; Davis, Brian M; Koerber, H Richard 2017. Cutaneous neurturin overexpression alters mechanical, thermal, and cold responsiveness in physiologically identified primary afferents. Journal of neurophysiology, 117 3, 1258-1265

Jankowski, Michael P; Rau, Kristofer K; Koerber, H Richard 2017. Cutaneous TRPM8-expressing sensory afferents are a small population of neurons with unique firing properties. Physiological reports, 5 7,

Li, Zhuo; Peng, Yanyan; Hufnagel, Robert B; Hu, Yueh-Chiang; Zhao, Chuntao; Queme, Luis F; Khuchua, Zaza; Driver, Ashley M; Dong, Fei; Lu, Q Richard; Lindquist, Diana M; Jankowski, Michael P; Stottmann, Rolf W; Kao, Winston W Y; Huang, Taosheng 2017. Loss of SLC25A46 causes neurodegeneration by affecting mitochondrial dynamics and energy production in mice. Human molecular genetics, 26 19, 3776-3791

Liu, Xiaohua; Green, Kathryn J; Ford, Zachary K; Queme, Luis F; Lu, Peilin; Ross, Jessica L; Lee, Frank B; Shank, Aaron T; Hudgins, Renita C; Jankowski, Michael P 2017. Growth hormone regulates the sensitization of developing peripheral nociceptors during cutaneous inflammation. Pain, 158 2, 333-346

Queme, Luis F; Ross, Jessica L; Jankowski, Michael P 2017. Peripheral Mechanisms of Ischemic Myalgia. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 11 , 419

Ross, Jessica L; Queme, Luis F; Lamb, Jordan E; Green, Kathryn J; Ford, Zachary K; Jankowski, Michael P 2017. Interleukin 1? inhibition contributes to the antinociceptive effects of voluntary exercise on ischemia/reperfusion-induced hypersensitivity. Pain, ,

Molliver, Derek C; Rau, Kristofer K; Jankowski, Michael P; Soneji, Deepak J; Baumbauer, Kyle M; Koerber, H Richard 2016. Deletion of the murine ATP/UTP receptor P2Y2 alters mechanical and thermal response properties in polymodal cutaneous afferents. Neuroscience, 332 , 223-30

Queme, Luis F; Ross, Jessica L; Lu, Peilin; Hudgins, Renita C; Jankowski, Michael P 2016. Dual Modulation of Nociception and Cardiovascular Reflexes during Peripheral Ischemia through P2Y1 Receptor-Dependent Sensitization of Muscle Afferents. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 36 1, 19-30

Ross, Jessica L; Queme, Luis F; Cohen, Elysia R; Green, Kathryn J; Lu, Peilin; Shank, Aaron T; An, Suzie; Hudgins, Renita C; Jankowski, Michael P 2016. Muscle IL1? Drives Ischemic Myalgia via ASIC3-Mediated Sensory Neuron Sensitization. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 36 26, 6857-71

Wu, Lai Man Natalie; Wang, Jincheng; Conidi, Andrea; Zhao, Chuntao; Wang, Haibo; Ford, Zachary; Zhang, Liguo; Zweier, Christiane; Ayee, Brian G; Maurel, Patrice; Zwijsen, An; Chan, Jonah R; Jankowski, Michael P; Huylebroeck, Danny; Lu, Q Richard 2016. Zeb2 recruits HDAC-NuRD to inhibit Notch and controls Schwann cell differentiation and remyelination. Nature neuroscience, 19 8, 1060-72

Pooya, Shabnam; Liu, Xiaona; Kumar, V B Sameer; Anderson, Jane; Imai, Fumiyasu; Zhang, Wujuan; Ciraolo, Georgianne; Ratner, Nancy; Setchell, Kenneth D R; Yoshida, Yutaka; Jankowski, Michael P; Dasgupta, Biplab 2015. Corrigendum: The tumour suppressor LKB1 regulates myelination through mitochondrial metabolism. Nature communications, 6 , 6075

Jankowski, Michael P; Ross, Jessica L; Weber, Jonathon D; Lee, Frank B; Shank, Aaron T; Hudgins, Renita C 2014. Age-dependent sensitization of cutaneous nociceptors during developmental inflammation. Molecular pain, 10 , 34

Pooya, Shabnam; Liu, Xiaona; Kumar, V B Sameer; Anderson, Jane; Imai, Fumiyasu; Zhang, Wujuan; Ciraolo, Georgianne; Ratner, Nancy; Setchell, Kenneth D R; Yoshida, Yutaka; Yutaka, Yoshida; Jankowski, Michael P; Dasgupta, Biplab 2014. The tumour suppressor LKB1 regulates myelination through mitochondrial metabolism. Nature communications, 5 , 4993

Ross, Jessica L; Queme, Luis F; Shank, Aaron T; Hudgins, Renita C; Jankowski, Michael P 2014. Sensitization of group III and IV muscle afferents in the mouse after ischemia and reperfusion injury. The journal of pain : official journal of the American Pain Society, 15 12, 1257-70

Jankowski, Michael P; Rau, Kristofer K; Ekmann, Katrina M; Anderson, Collene E; Koerber, H Richard 2013. Comprehensive phenotyping of group III and IV muscle afferents in mouse. Journal of neurophysiology, 109 9, 2374-81

Jankowski, Michael P; Rau, Kristofer K; Soneji, Deepak J; Ekmann, Katrina M; Anderson, Collene E; Molliver, Derek C; Koerber, H Richard 2012. Purinergic receptor P2Y1 regulates polymodal C-fiber thermal thresholds and sensory neuron phenotypic switching during peripheral inflammation. Pain, 153 2, 410-9

Jankowski, Michael P; Soneji, Deepak J; Ekmann, Katrina M; Anderson, Collene E; Koerber, H Richard 2012. Dynamic changes in heat transducing channel TRPV1 expression regulate mechanically insensitive, heat sensitive C-fiber recruitment after axotomy and regeneration. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 32 49, 17869-73

Li, Lishi; Rutlin, Michael; Abraira, Victoria E; Cassidy, Colleen; Kus, Laura; Gong, Shiaoching; Jankowski, Michael P; Luo, Wenqin; Heintz, Nathaniel; Koerber, H Richard; Woodbury, C Jeffery; Ginty, David D 2011. The functional organization of cutaneous low-threshold mechanosensory neurons. Cell, 147 7, 1615-27

Molliver, Derek C; Rau, Kristofer K; McIlwrath, Sabrina L; Jankowski, Michael P; Koerber, H Richard 2011. The ADP receptor P2Y1 is necessary for normal thermal sensitivity in cutaneous polymodal nociceptors. Molecular pain, 7 , 13

Jankowski, Michael P; Rau, Kristofer K; Soneji, Deepak J; Anderson, Collene E; Koerber, H Richard 2010. Enhanced artemin/GFR?3 levels regulate mechanically insensitive, heat-sensitive C-fiber recruitment after axotomy and regeneration. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 30 48, 16272-83

Koerber, H Richard; McIlwrath, Sabrina L; Lawson, Jeffrey J; Malin, Sacha A; Anderson, Collene E; Jankowski, Michael P; Davis, Brian M 2010. Cutaneous C-polymodal fibers lacking TRPV1 are sensitized to heat following inflammation, but fail to drive heat hyperalgesia in the absence of TPV1 containing C-heat fibers. Molecular pain, 6 , 58

Jankowski, Michael P; Lawson, Jeffrey J; McIlwrath, Sabrina L; Rau, Kristofer K; Anderson, Collene E; Albers, Kathryn M; Koerber, H Richard 2009. Sensitization of cutaneous nociceptors after nerve transection and regeneration: possible role of target-derived neurotrophic factor signaling. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 29 6, 1636-47

Jankowski, Michael P; McIlwrath, Sabrina L; Jing, Xiaotang; Cornuet, Pamela K; Salerno, Kathleen M; Koerber, H Richard; Albers, Kathryn M 2009. Sox11 transcription factor modulates peripheral nerve regeneration in adult mice. Brain research, 1256 , 43-54

Rau, Kristofer K; McIlwrath, Sabrina L; Wang, Hong; Lawson, Jeffrey J; Jankowski, Michael P; Zylka, Mark J; Anderson, David J; Koerber, H Richard 2009. Mrgprd enhances excitability in specific populations of cutaneous murine polymodal nociceptors. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 29 26, 8612-9

Jankowski, Michael P; Sesack, Susan R 2004. Prefrontal cortical projections to the rat dorsal raphe nucleus: ultrastructural features and associations with serotonin and gamma-aminobutyric acid neurons. The Journal of comparative neurology, 468 4, 518-29

Pinto, Aline; Jankowski, Michael; Sesack, Susan R 2003. Projections from the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus to the rat prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens shell: ultrastructural characteristics and spatial relationships with dopamine afferents. The Journal of comparative neurology, 459 2, 142-55

Lu, Peilin; Hudgins, Renita C; Liu, Xiaohua; Ford, Zachary K; Hofmann, Megan C; Queme, Luis F; Jankowski, Michael Paul . Upregulation of P2Y1 in neonatal nociceptors regulates heat and mechanical sensitization during cutaneous inflammation. Molecular pain, 13 , 1744806917730255