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Chun Cheng


Mentor: Michael Welsh, M.D.
Lab Phone: 335-6540

Price MP, McIlwrath SL, Xie J, Cheng C, Qiao J, Tarr DE, Sluka KA, Brennan TJ, Lewin GR, Welsh MJ. The DRASIC cation channel contributes to the detection of cutaneous touch and acid stimuli in mice. Neuron. 2001 Dec 20;32(6):1071-83. Erratum in: Neuron 2002 Jul 18;35(2):407. PubMed PMID: 11754838.

Price MP, Lewin GR, McIlwrath SL, Cheng C, Xie J, Heppenstall PA, Stucky CL, Mannsfeldt AG, Brennan TJ, Drummond HA, Qiao J, Benson CJ, Tarr DE, Hrstka RF, Yang B, Williamson RA, Welsh MJ. The mammalian sodium channel BNC1 is required for normal touch sensation. Nature. 2000 Oct 26;407(6807):1007-11. Erratum in: Nature 2002 Jul 18;418(6895):352. PubMed PMID: 11069180.

Askwith CC, Cheng C, Ikuma M, Benson C, Price MP, Welsh MJ. Neuropeptide FF and FMRFamide potentiate acid-evoked currents from sensory neurons and proton-gated DEG/ENaC channels. Neuron. 2000 Apr;26(1):133-41. PubMed PMID:10798398.

Cheng C, Prince LS, Snyder PM, Welsh MJ. Assembly of the epithelial Na+channel evaluated using sucrose gradient sedimentation analysis. J Biol Chem. 1998 Aug 28;273(35):22693-700. PubMed PMID: 9712899.

Snyder PM, Cheng C, Prince LS, Rogers JC, Welsh MJ. Electrophysiological and biochemical evidence that DEG/ENaC cation channels are composed of nine subunits. J Biol Chem. 1998 Jan 9;273(2):681-4. PubMed PMID: 9422716.