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Cheryl Rockwell

Cheryl Rockwell , PhD

she/her/hers
Associate Professor
Pharmacology & Toxicology
214 Food Safety & Toxicology

Employment

Associate Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 2017 - Present
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 2011 - 2017

Publications

Angiotensin II Infusion Promotes Activation and Selective Cytokine Responses in Activated CD4 and CD8 T cells (2025)

Sex differences in cytokine induction by activated T cells from hypertensive BPH/2 and normotensive BPN/3 mice (2025)

Single-nucleus analysis of thoracic perivascular adipose tissue reveals critical changes in cell composition, communication, and gene regulatory networks induced by a high fat hypertensive diet (2025)

A cell atlas of thoracic aortic perivascular adipose tissue: a focus on mechanotransducers American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology (2024)

Trivalent arsenic impairs the effector response of human CD4+ and CD8+ T cells to influenza A virus ex vivo Food and Chemical Toxicology (2022)

Chronic low-level cadmium exposure in rats affects cytokine production by activated T cells Toxicology Research (2019)

Differential Sensitivity of Kupffer Cells and Hepatic Monocyte-Derived Macrophages to Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide Clin Exp Gastroenterol Hepatol (2019)

Comparison of Hepatic NRF2 and Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Binding in 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-Treated Mice Demonstrates NRF2-Independent PKM2 Induction Mol Pharmacol (2018)

Differential effects of the Nrf2 activators tBHQ and CDDO-Im on the early events of T cell activation Biochem Pharmacol (2018)

Identification of an Unfavorable Immune Signature in Advanced Lung Tumors from Nrf2-Deficient Mice Antioxid Redox Signal (2018)

In the News

Immune System Remains an Unending Source of Fascination for Dr. Cheryl Rockwell

Mysterious, complicated, and misunderstood, the body's immune remains a source of fascination for Dr. Cheryl Rockwell. "I need to find things not to work sometimes,” she said. “Because that brings the new questions, and that’s what makes it interesting."