Jenesis Gayden

Phone

412-648-0033

E-mail

jdg110@pitt.edu

Education & Training

M.S., Georgetown University (2019)
B.S., Syracuse University (2017)

Campus Address

E1605 BSTWR

Mentor

Zachary Freyberg

Graduation Year

2019

One-Line Research Description

Examining the characteristics of different dopamine-receptor-expressing striatal medium spiny neurons subpopulations and their contributions to opioid addiction behavior

Representative Publications

Kosar, K., Cornuet, P., Singh, S., Lee, E., Liu, S., Gayden, J., Sato, T., Freyberg, Z., Arteel, G., & Nejak-Bowen, K. (2021). WNT7B Regulates Cholangiocyte Proliferation and Function During Murine Cholestasis. Hepatology communications, 5(12), 2019–2034. PMID: 34558852; PMCID: PMC8631094. 

Gayden J.D. and Freyberg Z (2020) Commentary: Ghrelin promotes midbrain neural stem cells
differentiation to dopaminergic neurons through the Wnt/β-catenin pathway. Front. Cell. Neurosci.
14:248. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2020.00248

Luo, L., Guan, X., Begum, G., Ding, D., Gayden, J., Hasan, M. N., Fiesler, V. M., Dodelson, J.,
Kohanbash, G., Hu, B., Amankulor, N. M., Jia, W., Castro, M. G., Sun, B., & Sun, D. (2020). Blockade
of Cell Volume Regulatory Protein NKCC1 Increases TMZ-Induced Glioma Apoptosis and Reduces
Astrogliosis. Molecular cancer therapeutics, 19(7), 1550–1561. https://doi.org/10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-
19-0910

Kikuchi, A., Singh, S., Poddar, M., Nakao, T., Schmidt, H. M., Gayden, J. D., Sato, T., Arteel, G. E., &
Monga, S. P. (2020). Hepatic stellate cell-specific platelet-derived growth factor receptor α loss reduces
fibrosis and promotes repair following hepatocellular injury. The American journal of pathology, S0002-
9440(20)30297-2. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2020.06.006