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Overview

Yan Zhou is a researcher affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields, including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. The main subfields Zhou focuses on are Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Oncology.

Zhou's research topics cover a range of areas with emphasis on advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, biosensors and analytical detection, neuropeptides and animal physiology, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, receptor mechanisms and signaling, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, as well as memory and neural mechanisms.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis imbalance and inflammation contribute to sex differences in separation- and restraint-induced depression" (2020) published in Hormones and Behavior
  • "Preclinical Studies on Nalfurafine (TRK-820), a Clinically Used KOR Agonist" (2021) published in Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
  • "Intraoperative application of intelligent, responsive, self-assembling hydrogel rectifies oxygen and energy metabolism in traumatically injured brain" (2024) published in Biomaterials
  • "Isothermal amplification based on specific signal extraction and output for fluorescence and colorimetric detection of nucleic acids" (2022) published in Talanta
  • "Simultaneous Determination of 16 Kinds of Synthetic Cathinones in Human Urine Using a Magnetic Nanoparticle Solid-Phase Extraction Combined with Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry" (2021) published in Separations

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Yan Zhou include:

  • Mary Jeanne Kreek
  • Hongfei He
  • Jiazhen Lyu
  • Megan A. Johnson
  • Bruce S. McEwen

Yan Zhou has published multiple works in prominent venues, with several papers appearing in Talanta, Synapse, Neurobiology of Stress, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Biomaterials. These venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of Zhou's research, bridging chemistry, biology, neuroscience, and clinical applications.

Best Publications

  • MicroRNA-7 targets Nod-like receptor protein 3 inflammasome to modulate neuroinflammation in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease

    Yan Zhou;Ming Lu;Ren-Hong Du;Chen Qiao

  • Opiate addiction and cocaine addiction: underlying molecular neurobiology and genetics

    Mary Jeanne Kreek;Orna Levran;Brian Reed;Stefan D. Schlussman

  • Differential gene expression in the rat caudate putamen after "binge" cocaine administration: advantage of triplicate microarray analysis.

    Vadim Yuferov;Thomas Kroslak;K. Steven Laforge;Yan Zhou

  • Corticotropin-releasing factor and type 1 corticotropin-releasing factor receptor messenger RNAs in rat brain and pituitary during "binge"-pattern cocaine administration and chronic withdrawal.

    Y Zhou;R Spangler;K S LaForge;C E Maggos

  • Regulation of kappa opioid receptor mRNA in the rat brain by "binge' pattern cocaine administration and correlation with preprodynorphin mRNA.

    Rudolph Spangler;Ann Ho;Yan Zhou;Christopher E. Maggos

  • Increased release of immunoreactive cholecystokinin octapeptide by morphine and potentiation of μ-opioid analgesia by CCKB receptor antagonist L-365,260 in rat spinal cord

    Yan Zhou;Yu-Hua Sun;Zhi-Wen Zhang;Ji-Shen Han

  • Mu opioid receptor and orexin/hypocretin mRNA levels in the lateral hypothalamus and striatum are enhanced by morphine withdrawal

    Yan Zhou;Jacob Bendor;Lauren Hofmann;Matthew Randesi

  • Involvement of arginine vasopressin and V1b receptor in heroin withdrawal and heroin seeking precipitated by stress and by heroin.

    Yan Zhou;Francesco Leri;Erin Cummins;Marisa Hoeschele

  • Reduced hypothalamic POMC and anterior pituitary CRF1 receptor mRNA levels after acute, but not chronic, daily binge intragastric Alcohol administration

    Yan Zhou;Johan Franck;Rudolph Spangler;Christopher E. Maggos

  • EFFECTS OF COCAINE PLACE CONDITIONING, CHRONIC ESCALATING-DOSE BINGE PATTERN COCAINE ADMINISTRATION AND ACUTE WITHDRAWAL ON OREXIN/HYPOCRETIN AND PREPRODYNORPHIN GENE EXPRESSIONS IN LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS OF FISCHER AND SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS

    Yan Zhou;Cai-Lian Cui;Cai-Lian Cui;Stefan D. Schlussman;Jason C. Choi

  • Prodynorphin, proenkephalin and κ opioid receptor mRNA responses to acute “binge” cocaine

    Rudolph Spangler;Yan Zhou;Christopher E Maggos;Stefan D Schlussman

  • MicroRNA-7 Enhances Subventricular Zone Neurogenesis by Inhibiting NLRP3/Caspase-1 Axis in Adult Neural Stem Cells

    Zheng Fan;Ming Lu;Chen Qiao;Yan Zhou

  • Psychostimulants induce low-frequency oscillations in the firing activity of dopamine neurons

    Wei-Xing Shi;Chen-Lun Pun;Yan Zhou

  • Increased release of immunoreactive CCK-8 by electroacupuncture and enhancement of electroacupuncture analgesia by CCK-B antagonist in rat spinal cord

    Y. Zhou;Y.-H. Sun;J.-M. Shen;J.-S. Han

  • Effects of High-Dose Methadone Maintenance on Cocaine Place Conditioning, Cocaine Self-Administration, and Mu-Opioid Receptor mRNA Expression in the Rat Brain

    Francesco Leri;Yan Zhou;Benjamin Goddard;Erin Cummins

  • Acute "binge" cocaine increases mu-opioid receptor mRNA levels in areas of the rat mesolimbic mesocortical dopamine system.

    Vadim Yuferov;Yan Zhou;Rudolph Spangler;Christopher E Maggos

  • Dopamine antagonist and "binge' cocaine effects on rat opioid and dopamine transporter mRNAs.

    Rudolph Spangler;Yan Zhou;Christopher E. Maggos;Andrey Zlobin

  • Increased CRH mRNA levels in the rat amygdala during short-term withdrawal from chronic 'binge' cocaine.

    Yan Zhou;Rudolph Spangler;Ann Ho;Mary Jeanne Kreek

  • Involvement of arginine vasopressin and V1b receptor in alcohol drinking in Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats.

    Yan Zhou;Giancarlo Colombo;Mauro A. M. Carai;Ann Ho

  • Optimizing primer--probe design for fluorescent PCR.

    Dmitri Proudnikov;Vadim Yuferov;Yan Zhou;K.Steven LaForge

  • Acute intermittent morphine increases preprodynorphin and kappa opioid receptor mRNA levels in the rat brain.

    Xiao-Min Wang;Yan Zhou;Rudolph Spangler;Ann Ho

Frequent Co-Authors

Teresa A. Milner
Teresa A. Milner Cornell University
Bruce S. McEwen
Bruce S. McEwen Rockefeller University
Ellen M. Unterwald
Ellen M. Unterwald Temple University
Donald W. Pfaff
Donald W. Pfaff Rockefeller University
June Chan
June Chan Cornell University
Francis S. Lee
Francis S. Lee Cornell University
Virginia M. Pickel
Virginia M. Pickel Cornell University
Marcelo Rubinstein
Marcelo Rubinstein University of Buenos Aires
Yanfeng Zhang
Yanfeng Zhang Peking University
Jixue Li
Jixue Li Zhejiang University

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