{"id":4742,"date":"2026-05-02T17:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:24:15","slug":"congratulations-to-dr-lauren-mckibben-and-team-on-the-acceptance-of-our-manuscript-in-the-journal-of-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/2026\/05\/congratulations-to-dr-lauren-mckibben-and-team-on-the-acceptance-of-our-manuscript-in-the-journal-of-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Dr. Lauren McKibben and team on the acceptance of our manuscript in the Journal of Pain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Our lab is proud to share that a research project led by Dr. Lauren McKibben was recently published in the\u00a0<i>Journal of Pain<\/i>. The manuscript, titled\u00a0<i>\u201cPeritraumatic C-reactive protein levels predict pain outcomes following traumatic stress exposure in a sex-dependent manner,\u201d<\/i> includes contributions from Miranda Layne, Liz Albertorio-Saez, Ying Zhao, and Erica Branham of the Linnstaedt Lab. This work is part of a long-standing collaboration with Dr. Samuel McLean and many outstanding colleagues from the AURORA study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This study shows that early inflammatory responses following trauma, measured by C-reactive protein (CRP), can help predict who is more likely to develop chronic pain, with important differences observed between women and men.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"markaoh61pho6 uM2yb\" data-markjs=\"true\">Congratulations<\/span>\u00a0to all involved!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4751 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-113844.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"949\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-113844.png 949w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-113844-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-113844-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-113844-600x336.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 949px) 100vw, 949px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lab is proud to share that a research project led by Dr. Lauren McKibben was recently published in the\u00a0Journal of Pain. The manuscript, titled\u00a0\u201cPeritraumatic C-reactive protein levels predict pain outcomes following traumatic stress exposure in a sex-dependent manner,\u201d includes contributions from Miranda Layne, Liz Albertorio-Saez, Ying Zhao, and Erica Branham of the Linnstaedt Lab. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/2026\/05\/congratulations-to-dr-lauren-mckibben-and-team-on-the-acceptance-of-our-manuscript-in-the-journal-of-pain\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Congratulations to Dr. Lauren McKibben and team on the acceptance of our manuscript in the Journal of Pain!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116376,"featured_media":4749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-113607.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-113607-300x242.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-113607-768x621.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-113607.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-113607-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4754,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/4754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}