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Jian Zuo is a researcher affiliated with Creighton University in the United States. Their academic work predominantly focuses on Neuroscience, with significant contributions to Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans key subfields including Sensory Systems, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Biomedical Engineering, and Cancer Research.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics related to hearing and auditory functions, including cochlear processes, tinnitus, and genetics. Additional areas of focus involve electron and X-ray spectroscopy techniques, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, melanoma and MAPK pathways, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, and vestibular and auditory disorders.

Jian Zuo has published extensively in various scientific venues. Their frequent publication sources include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with four papers, Journal of Neuroscience with three publications, SSRN Electronic Journal with three papers, Scientific Reports with two articles, and Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience with two papers.

Frequent co-authors in Jian Zuo's research include Zhenhang Xu, Shu Tu, Tal Teitz, Matthew A. Ingersoll, and Huizhan Liu.

Selected recent papers by Jian Zuo highlight diverse research themes and publication venues:

  • The immune response after noise damage in the cochlea is characterized by a heterogeneous mix of adaptive and innate immune cells, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • BRAF inhibition protects against hearing loss in mice, 2020, Science Advances
  • Profiling mouse cochlear cell maturation using 10× Genomics single-cell transcriptomics, 2022, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Small Molecule Sequestration of the Intrinsically Disordered Protein, p27Kip1, Within Soluble Oligomers, 2021, Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Aldh inhibitor restores auditory function in a mouse model of human deafness, 2020, PLoS Genetics

Best Publications

  • Prestin is required for electromotility of the outer hair cell and for the cochlear amplifier.

    M. Charles Liberman;Jiangang Gao;David Z. Z. He;Xudong Wu;Xudong Wu

  • Prestin-based outer hair cell motility is necessary for mammalian cochlear amplification

    Peter Dallos;Xudong Wu;Mary Ann Cheatham;Jiangang Gao

  • Purkinje cell degeneration (pcd) Phenotypes Caused by Mutations in the Axotomy-Induced Gene, Nna1

    Angeles Fernandez-Gonzalez;Albert R. La Spada;Jason Treadaway;Jason C. Higdon

  • Wnt signaling induces proliferation of sensory precursors in the postnatal mouse cochlea

    Renjie Chai;Bryan Kuo;Tian Wang;Eric J. Liaw

  • Spontaneous hair cell regeneration in the neonatal mouse cochlea in vivo

    Brandon C. Cox;Renjie Chai;Renjie Chai;Anne Lenoir;Anne Lenoir;Zhiyong Liu;Zhiyong Liu

  • Slc2a5 (Glut5) Is Essential for the Absorption of Fructose in the Intestine and Generation of Fructose-induced Hypertension

    Sharon Barone;Stacey L. Fussell;Anurag Kumar Singh;Fred Lucas

  • Age-dependent in vivo conversion of mouse cochlear pillar and Deiters' cells to immature hair cells by Atoh1 ectopic expression

    Zhiyong Liu;Jennifer A. Dearman;Brandon C. Cox;Brandon J. Walters

  • Cochlear function in Prestin knockout mice

    M. A. Cheatham;K. H. Huynh;J. Gao;J. Zuo

  • The Retinitis Pigmentosa 1 Protein Is a Photoreceptor Microtubule-Associated Protein

    Qin Liu;Jian Zuo;Eric A. Pierce

  • Lgr5+ cells regenerate hair cells via proliferation and direct transdifferentiation in damaged neonatal mouse utricle

    Tian Wang;Renjie Chai;Grace S. Kim;Nicole Pham

  • In Vivo Interplay between p27Kip1, GATA3, ATOH1, and POU4F3 Converts Non-sensory Cells to Hair Cells in Adult Mice

    Bradley J. Walters;Emily Coak;Jennifer Dearman;Grace Bailey

  • Progressive photoreceptor degeneration, outer segment dysplasia, and rhodopsin mislocalization in mice with targeted disruption of the retinitis pigmentosa-1 (Rp1) gene.

    Jiangang Gao;Kyeongmi Cheon;Steven Nusinowitz;Qin Liu

  • Efferent Protection from Acoustic Injury Is Mediated via α9 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors on Outer Hair Cells

    Stéphane F. Maison;Anne E. Luebke;M. Charles Liberman;Jian Zuo

  • Identification and subcellular localization of the RP1 protein in human and mouse photoreceptors.

    Qin Liu;Jie Zhou;Stephen P. Daiger;Debora B. Farber

  • In Vivo Proliferative Regeneration of Balance Hair Cells in Newborn Mice

    Joseph C. Burns;Brandon C. Cox;Benjamin R. Thiede;Jian Zuo

  • The Contribution of Immune Infiltrates to Ototoxicity and Cochlear Hair Cell Loss.

    Megan B. Wood;Jian Zuo

  • In Vivo Cochlear Hair Cell Generation and Survival by Coactivation of β-Catenin and Atoh1.

    Bryan R. Kuo;Emily M. Baldwin;Wanda S. Layman;Makoto Mark Taketo

  • Visualization of alpha9 acetylcholine receptor expression in hair cells of transgenic mice containing a modified bacterial artificial chromosome

    Jian Zuo;Jason Treadaway;Tyler W. Buckner;Bernd Fritzsch

  • Hearing threshold elevation precedes hair-cell loss in prestin knockout mice

    Xudong Wu;Jiangang Gao;Yunkai Guo;Jian Zuo

  • Vibration of the organ of Corti within the cochlear apex in mice.

    Simon S. Gao;Rosalie Wang;Patrick D. Raphael;Yalda Moayedi

  • Progressive Photoreceptor Degeneration, Outer Segment Dysplasia and Rhodopsin Mislocalization in Mice with Targeted Disruption of the Retinitis Pigmentosa-1 (Rp1) Gene

    K Cheon;J Gao;S Nusinowitz;Q Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Dallos
Peter Dallos Northwestern University
David Z.Z. He
David Z.Z. He Creighton University
Ian J. Russell
Ian J. Russell University of Brighton
Stephen P. Daiger
Stephen P. Daiger The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
M. Charles Liberman
M. Charles Liberman Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Bernd Fritzsch
Bernd Fritzsch University of Nebraska Medical Center
David R. Cox
David R. Cox Stanford University
Eric A. Pierce
Eric A. Pierce Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Nathaniel Heintz
Nathaniel Heintz Rockefeller University
Richard M. Myers
Richard M. Myers HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

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