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Overview

Wutian Wu is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China. Their primary research fields include Medicine and Neuroscience, with a focus on subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Neurology.

Their research interests broadly cover topics related to nerve injury and regeneration, spinal cord injury research, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, spinal dysraphism and malformations, as well as long-term effects of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.

Wutian Wu has published in various academic venues with some frequency in:

  • Neural Regeneration Research
  • Cell Research
  • Advanced Science
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Science Advances

Their recent papers include:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 infects human neural progenitor cells and brain organoids", 2020, Cell Research
  • "A 3D Fiber-Hydrogel Based Non-Viral Gene Delivery Platform Reveals that microRNAs Promote Axon Regeneration and Enhance Functional Recovery Following Spinal Cord Injury", 2021, Advanced Science
  • "Engineering Microenvironment for Endogenous Neural Regeneration after Spinal Cord Injury by Reassembling Extracellular Matrix", 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Integrating hydrogels manipulate ECM deposition after spinal cord injury for specific neural reconnections via neuronal relays", 2024, Science Advances
  • "Peptide ligands targeting FGF receptors promote recovery from dorsal root crush injury via AKT/mTOR signaling", 2021, Theranostics

Wutian Wu frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Kwok-Fai So
  • Limin Rong
  • Libing Zhou
  • Liumin He
  • Jian-Dong Huang

Best Publications

  • LINGO-1 antagonist promotes spinal cord remyelination and axonal integrity in MOG-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

    Sha Mi;Bing Hu;Bing Hu;Kyungmin Hahm;Yi Luo

  • Rescue of adult mouse motoneurons from injury-induced cell death by glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor.

    Linxi Li;Wutian Wu;Leu-Fen H. Lin;Ming Lei

  • Nano hemostat solution: Immediate hemostasis at the nanoscale

    Rutledge G. Ellis-Behnke;Rutledge G. Ellis-Behnke;Yu-Xiang Liang;David K.C. Tay;Phillis W.F. Kau

  • Reknitting the injured spinal cord by self-assembling peptide nanofiber scaffold

    Jiasong Guo;Huanxing Su;Yuanshan Zeng;Yu-Xiang Liang

  • Generation of integration-free neural progenitor cells from cells in human urine

    L Wang;W Huang;H Su;H Su;Y Xue;Y Xue

  • Functional Self-Assembling Peptide Nanofiber Hydrogels Designed for Nerve Degeneration

    Yuqiao Sun;Wen Li;Xiaoli Wu;Na Zhang

  • Generation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Umbilical Cord Matrix and Amniotic Membrane Mesenchymal Cells

    Jinglei Cai;Wen Li;Huanxing Su;Dajiang Qin

  • Neuronal nitric oxide synthase is induced in spinal neurons by traumatic injury.

    W. Wu;F.J. Liuzzi;F.P. Schinco;A.S. Depto

  • Chondroitinase ABC promotes axonal regeneration of Clarke's neurons after spinal cord injury.

    Leung-Wah Yick;Wutian Wu;Kwok-Fai So;Henry K. Yip

  • Microvascular endothelial cells engulf myelin debris and promote macrophage recruitment and fibrosis after neural injury

    Tian Zhou;Tian Zhou;Yiming Zheng;Li Sun;Smaranda Ruxandra Badea

  • LINGO-1 antagonist promotes functional recovery and axonal sprouting after spinal cord injury.

    Benxiu Ji;Mingwei Li;Wu-Tian Wu;Leung-Wah Yick

  • Axonal regeneration of Clarke's neurons beyond the spinal cord injury scar after treatment with chondroitinase ABC.

    Leung-Wah Yick;Pik-To Cheung;Kwok-Fai So;Wutian Wu

  • Three-dimensional aligned nanofibers-hydrogel scaffold for controlled non-viral drug/gene delivery to direct axon regeneration in spinal cord injury treatment.

    Lan Huong Nguyen;Mingyong Gao;Mingyong Gao;Junquan Lin;Wutian Wu

  • Self-assembling peptide nanofiber scaffold promotes the reconstruction of acutely injured brain.

    Jiasong Guo;Ka Kit Gilberto Leung;Huanxing Su;Qiuju Yuan

  • CHARACTERIZATION OF SPINAL MOTONEURON DEGENERATION FOLLOWING DIFFERENT TYPES OF PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY IN NEONATAL AND ADULT MICE

    Linxi Li;Lucien J. Houenou;Wutian Wu;Ming Lei

  • Lithium chloride reinforces the regeneration-promoting effect of chondroitinase ABC on rubrospinal neurons after spinal cord injury.

    Leung-Wah Yick;Kwok-Fai So;Pik-To Cheung;Wu-Tian Wu

  • Lithium enhances proliferation and neuronal differentiation of neural progenitor cells in vitro and after transplantation into the adult rat spinal cord

    Huanxing Su;Tak-Ho Chu;Wutian Wu;Wutian Wu

  • GDNF and BDNF Alter the Expression of Neuronal NOS, c-Jun, and p75 and Prevent Motoneuron Death following Spinal Root Avulsion in Adult Rats

    Wutian Wu;Linxi Li;Leung-Wah Yick;Hong Chai

  • Integration of donor mesenchymal stem cell-derived neuron-like cells into host neural network after rat spinal cord transection.

    Xiang Zeng;Xue-Cheng Qiu;Yuan-Huan Ma;Jing-Jing Duan

  • Blocking LINGO-1 function promotes retinal ganglion cell survival following ocular hypertension and optic nerve transection.

    Qing-Ling Fu;Bing Hu;Bing Hu;Wutian Wu;Wutian Wu;R. Blake Pepinsky

  • Neurology Nano hemostat solution: immediate hemostasis at the nanoscale

    Rutledge G. Ellis-Behnke;Yu-Xiang Liang;Gerald E. Schneider;Shuguang Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Kwok-Fai So
Kwok-Fai So University of Hong Kong
Ronald W. Oppenheim
Ronald W. Oppenheim Wake Forest University
You-Qiang Song
You-Qiang Song University of Hong Kong
David Prevette
David Prevette Wake Forest University
Seeram Ramakrishna
Seeram Ramakrishna Tsinghua University
Xiao Ming Xu
Xiao Ming Xu Indiana University
Eng-Ang Ling
Eng-Ang Ling National University of Singapore
Qi Cui
Qi Cui Chinese University of Hong Kong

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