Heng Zhao

Best Publications

• Interrupting reperfusion as a stroke therapy: ischemic postconditioning reduces infarct size after focal ischemia in rats.

  Heng Zhao;Robert M Sapolsky;Gary K Steinberg

  462
  Citations

• Bcl-2 overexpression protects against neuron loss within the ischemic margin following experimental stroke and inhibits cytochrome c translocation and caspase-3 activity.

  Heng Zhao;Midori A. Yenari;Danye Cheng;Robert M. Sapolsky

  408
  Citations

• Phosphoinositide-3-kinase/akt survival signal pathways are implicated in neuronal survival after stroke.

  Heng Zhao;Robert M Sapolsky;Gary K Steinberg

  389
  Citations

• Akt contributes to neuroprotection by hypothermia against cerebral ischemia in rats.

  Heng Zhao;Takayoshi Shimohata;Jade Q. Wang;Guohua Sun

  345
  Citations

• Dual roles of the MAPK/ERK1/2 cell signaling pathway after stroke

  Nik Sawe;Gary Steinberg;Heng Zhao

  310
  Citations

• Chaperones, protein aggregation, and brain protection from hypoxic/ischemic injury.

  Rona G. Giffard;Lijun Xu;Heng Zhao;Whitney Carrico

  286
  Citations

• Limb remote-preconditioning protects against focal ischemia in rats and contradicts the dogma of therapeutic time windows for preconditioning.

  Chuancheng Ren;Xuwen Gao;Gary K. Steinberg;Heng Zhao

  267
  Citations

• Ischemic postconditioning as a novel avenue to protect against brain injury after stroke

  Heng Zhao

  265
  Citations

• Increased Brain-Specific MiR-9 and MiR-124 in the Serum Exosomes of Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients.

  Qiuhong Ji;Qiuhong Ji;Yuhua Ji;Yuhua Ji;Jingwen Peng;Xin Zhou

  261
  Citations

• Perylene-diimide-based nanoparticles as highly efficient photoacoustic agents for deep brain tumor imaging in living mice.

  Quli Fan;Quli Fan;Kai Cheng;Zhen Yang;Ruiping Zhang;Ruiping Zhang

  259
  Citations

• The Akt signaling pathway contributes to postconditioning’s protection against stroke; the protection is associated with the MAPK and PKC pathways

  Xuwen Gao;Hanfeng Zhang;Tetsuya Takahashi;Jason Hsieh

  252
  Citations

• General versus specific actions of mild-moderate hypothermia in attenuating cerebral ischemic damage

  Heng Zhao;Gary K Steinberg;Robert M Sapolsky

  243
  Citations

• Limb remote ischemic postconditioning protects against focal ischemia in rats.

  Chuancheng Ren;Zhimin Yan;Dingtai Wei;Xuwen Gao

  229
  Citations

• Preconditioning in neuroprotection: From hypoxia to ischemia

  Sijie Li;Adam Hafeez;Fatima Noorulla;Xiaokun Geng

  221
  Citations

• Gene transfer of HSP72 protects cornu ammonis 1 region of the hippocampus neurons from global ischemia: Influence of Bcl-2

  Stephen Kelly;Zhijian J. Zhang;Heng Zhao;Lijun Xu

  178
  Citations

• Delayed postconditioning protects against focal ischemic brain injury in rats.

  Chuancheng Ren;Chuancheng Ren;Xuwen Gao;Gang Niu;Zhimin Yan

  165
  Citations

• From Rapid to Delayed and Remote Postconditioning: The Evolving Concept of Ischemic Postconditioning in Brain Ischemia

  Heng Zhao;Chuancheng Ren;Xingmiao Chen;Jiangang Shen

  142
  Citations

• Glycogen synthase kinase 3β inhibitor Chir025 reduces neuronal death resulting from oxygen-glucose deprivation, glutamate excitotoxicity and cerebral ischemia

  Stephen Kelly;Heng Zhao;Guo Hua Sun;Danye Cheng

  140
  Citations

• IL-4-polarized BV2 microglia cells promote angiogenesis by secreting exosomes.

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  138
  Citations

• CCR2-dependent monocytes/macrophages exacerbate acute brain injury but promote functional recovery after ischemic stroke in mice.

  Weirong Fang;Xuan Zhai;Xuan Zhai;Dong Han;Xiaoxing Xiong

  130
  Citations

• Protective effects of ischemic postconditioning compared with gradual reperfusion or preconditioning

  Xuwen Gao;Chuancheng Ren;Chuancheng Ren;Heng Zhao

  128
  Citations

• Cellular and molecular events underlying ischemia-induced neuronal apoptosis.

  Zhen Zheng;Heng Zhao;Gary K Steinberg;Midori A Yenari

  116
  Citations