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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

The Plant Compound Sulforaphane Attenuates Induction of Cytokines and Other Early Activation Events in Jurkat Cells Journal of Dietary Supplements (2026)

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)

A high-fat hypertensive diet induces a coordinated perturbation signature across cell types in thoracic perivascular adipose tissue (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)

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."