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150
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72680
World Ranking
1167
National Ranking
676

Overview

Dun Xian Tan is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of neuroscience, with a significant focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience, endocrine and autonomic systems, clinical psychology, organic chemistry, and epidemiology.

Their work spans diverse topics related to neural health and drug studies, including:

  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • Chemical synthesis and alkaloids
  • Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research

The scientist has contributed multiple publications, notably:

  • Brain washing and neural health: role of age, sleep, and the cerebrospinal fluid melatonin rhythm, 2023, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  • Psilocybin's lasting action requires pyramidal cell types and 5-HT2A receptors, 2025, Nature
  • Melatonin in ventricular and subarachnoid cerebrospinal fluid: Its function in the neural glymphatic network and biological significance for neurocognitive health, 2022, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • Pyramidal cell types and 5-HT2A receptors are essential for psilocybin's lasting drug action, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Publisher Correction: Psilocybin's lasting action requires pyramidal cell types and 5-HT2A receptors, 2025, Nature

Their frequent co-authors include Clara Liao, Pasha A. Davoudian, Neil K. Savalia, Quan Jiang, and Cassandra Wojtasiewicz. This pattern of collaboration suggests active engagement in multidisciplinary projects within their field.

Dun Xian Tan's publications appear regularly in venues such as Nature, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Neural Regeneration Research. Nature and Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences are notable for having multiple contributions from this scientist, indicating a focus on high-impact outlets in neuroscience and molecular biology.

Best Publications

  • One molecule, many derivatives: a never-ending interaction of melatonin with reactive oxygen and nitrogen species?

    Dun Xian Tan;Lucien C. Manchester;Maria P. Terron;Luis J. Flores

  • Actions of melatonin in the reduction of oxidative stress

    Russel J. Reiter;Dun-xian Tan;Carmen Osuna;Eloisa Gitto

  • Melatonin as an antioxidant: under promises but over delivers.

    Russel J. Reiter;Juan C. Mayo;Dun Xian Tan;Rosa M. Sainz

  • Chemical and physical properties and potential mechanisms: melatonin as a broad spectrum antioxidant and free radical scavenger.

    Dun xian Tan;Russel J. Reiter;Lucien C. Manchester;Mei ting Yan

  • Extrapineal melatonin: sources, regulation, and potential functions.

    Darío Acuña-Castroviejo;Germaine Escames;Carmen Venegas;María E. Díaz-Casado

  • Melatonin: an ancient molecule that makes oxygen metabolically tolerable.

    Lucien C. Manchester;Ana Coto-Montes;Jose Antonio Boga;Lars Peter H Andersen

  • On the free radical scavenging activities of melatonin's metabolites, AFMK and AMK.

    Annia Galano;Dun Xian Tan;Russel J. Reiter

  • Melatonin as an antioxidant: biochemical mechanisms and pathophysiological implications in humans.

    Russel J. Reiter;Dun Xian Tan;Juan C. Mayo;Rosa M. Sainz

  • Melatonin: a multitasking molecule.

    Russel J Reiter;Dun-Xian Tan;Lorena Fuentes-Broto

  • Significance of melatonin in antioxidative defense system: reactions and products.

    Dun Xian Tan;Lucien C. Manchester;Russel J. Reiter;Wen Bo Qi

  • Melatonin, hydroxyl radical‐mediated oxidative damage, and aging: A hypothesis

    Burkhard Poeggeler;Russel J. Reiter;Dun‐Xian ‐X Tan;Li‐Dun ‐D Chen

  • Melatonin, energy metabolism, and obesity: a review.

    J. Cipolla-Neto;F. G. Amaral;S. C. Afeche;D. X. Tan

  • Melatonin: a hormone, a tissue factor, an autocoid, a paracoid, and an antioxidant vitamin

    Dun Xian Tan;Lucien C. Manchester;Rüdiger Hardeland;Silvia Lopez-Burillo

  • Melatonin as a Potent and Inducible Endogenous Antioxidant: Synthesis and Metabolism.

    Dun Xian Tan;Lucien C. Manchester;Eduardo Esteban-Zubero;Zhou Zhou

  • Kynuramines, metabolites of melatonin and other indoles: the resurrection of an almost forgotten class of biogenic amines

    Rüdigger Hardeland;Dun Xian Tan;Russel J. Reiter

  • Melatonin: Exceeding Expectations

    Russel J. Reiter;Dun Xian Tan;Annia Galano

  • Melatonin mitigates mitochondrial malfunction

    Josefa León;Darío Acuña-Castroviejo;Germane Escames;Dyn Xian Tan

  • Melatonin and its relation to the immune system and inflammation.

    Russel J. Reiter;Juan R. Calvo;Malgorzata Karbownik;Wenbo Qi

  • Effects of melatonin treatment in septic newborns.

    Eloisa Gitto;Malgorzata Karbownik;Malgorzata Karbownik;Russel J Reiter;Dun Xian Tan

  • The significance of the metabolism of the neurohormone melatonin: Antioxidative protection and formation of bioactive substances

    R. Hardeland;R.J. Reiter;B. Poeggeler;D.-X. Tan

Frequent Co-Authors

Russel J. Reiter
Russel J. Reiter The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Annia Galano
Annia Galano Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Darío Acuña-Castroviejo
Darío Acuña-Castroviejo University of Granada
Rüdiger Hardeland
Rüdiger Hardeland University of Göttingen
Juan R. Calvo
Juan R. Calvo University of Seville
Germaine Escames
Germaine Escames University of Granada
Zhulong Chan
Zhulong Chan Huazhong Agricultural University
Kyoungwhan Back
Kyoungwhan Back Chonnam National University
Salvatore Cuzzocrea
Salvatore Cuzzocrea University of Messina
Xiangnan Li
Xiangnan Li Chinese Academy of Sciences

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