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Overview

Yu Min Kuo is affiliated with National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan and specializes in neuroscience and medicine, with a particular focus on neurology, physiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biological psychiatry, and molecular biology. Their research portfolio spans 40 publications in neuroscience and 32 in medicine.

Their work covers multiple topics, including:

  • Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Regulation of appetite and obesity
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms

Yu Min Kuo has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • BDNF reverses aging-related microglial activation (2020), published in Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • High-fat diet induces depression-like phenotype via astrocyte-mediated hyperactivation of ventral hippocampal glutamatergic afferents to the nucleus accumbens (2022), published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • Pioglitazone rescues high-fat diet-induced depression-like phenotypes and hippocampal astrocytic deficits in mice (2021), published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy
  • Identification of potential therapeutic antimicrobial peptides against Acinetobacter baumannii in a mouse model of pneumonia (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • Pancreas-Brain Crosstalk (2021), published in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Their frequent coauthors include Sheng-Feng Tsai, Pei-Chun Chen, Po See Chen, Shun-Fen Tzeng, and Yun-Wen Chen. Collaborations with these researchers have contributed to a significant portion of their scientific output.

The primary venues where Yu Min Kuo publishes include:

  • Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • Life Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Best Publications

  • Soluble Amyloid β Peptide Concentration as a Predictor of Synaptic Change in Alzheimer’s Disease

    Lih Fen Lue;Yu Min Kuo;Alex E. Roher;Libuse Brachova

  • Water-soluble Abeta (N-40, N-42) oligomers in normal and Alzheimer disease brains.

    Yu Min Kuo;Mark R. Emmerling;Carmen Vigo-Pelfrey;Timothy C. Kasunic

  • Morphology and Toxicity of Aβ-(1-42) Dimer Derived from Neuritic and Vascular Amyloid Deposits of Alzheimer's Disease

    Alex E. Roher;Michael O. Chaney;Yu Min Kuo;Scott D. Webster

  • Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: Amyloid β Accumulates in Putative Interstitial Fluid Drainage Pathways in Alzheimer's Disease

    Roy O. Weller;Adrian Massey;Tracey A. Newman;Margaret Hutchings

  • Amyloid beta peptides in human plasma and tissues and their significance for Alzheimer's disease

    Alex E. Roher;Chera L. Esh;Tyler A. Kokjohn;Eduardo Miguel Castaño

  • Elevated Low-Density Lipoprotein in Alzheimer's Disease Correlates with Brain Aβ 1–42 Levels

    Yu-Min Kuo;Mark R. Emmerling;Charles L. Bisgaier;Arnold D. Essenburg

  • Exercise Benefits Brain Function: The Monoamine Connection

    Tzu Wei Lin;Yu Min Kuo

  • Specific Domains of β-Amyloid from Alzheimer Plaque Elicit Neuron Killing in Human Microglia

    Dana Giulian;Lanny J. Haverkamp;J. H. Yu;William Karshin

  • Increased Aβ Peptides and Reduced Cholesterol and Myelin Proteins Characterize White Matter Degeneration in Alzheimer's Disease†

    Alex E. Roher;Nicole Weiss;Tyler A. Kokjohn;Yu Min Kuo

  • Comparative Analysis of Amyloid-β Chemical Structure and Amyloid Plaque Morphology of Transgenic Mouse and Alzheimer's Disease Brains

    Yu Min Kuo;Tyler A. Kokjohn;Thomas G. Beach;Lucia I. Sue

  • Amyloid- β Induces Chemokine Secretion and Monocyte Migration across a Human Blood-Brain Barrier Model

    Milan Fiala;Ling Zhang;Xiaohu Gan;Barbara Sherry

  • Cortical and Leptomeningeal Cerebrovascular Amyloid and White Matter Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease

    Alex E Roher;Yu-Min Kuo;Chera Esh;Carmen Knebel

  • Exercise enhances the proliferation of neural stem cells and neurite growth and survival of neuronal progenitor cells in dentate gyrus of middle-aged mice

    Chih Wei Wu;Ya Ting Chang;Lung Yu;Hsiun Ing Chen

  • Alterations of Alzheimer's disease in the cholesterol-fed rabbit, including vascular inflammation. Preliminary observations.

    D. Larry Sparks;Yu-Min Kuo;Alex Roher;Tim Martin

  • Isolation, Chemical Characterization, and Quantitation of Aβ 3-Pyroglutamyl Peptide from Neuritic Plaques and Vascular Amyloid Deposits

    Yu Min Kuo;Mark R. Emmerling;Amina S. Woods;Robert J. Cotter

  • Differential effects of treadmill running and wheel running on spatial or aversive learning and memory: roles of amygdalar brain-derived neurotrophic factor and synaptotagmin I.

    Yu‐Fan Liu;Hsiun‐ing Chen;Chao‐Liang Wu;Yu‐Min Kuo

  • Amyloid-β peptides interact with plasma proteins and erythrocytes: Implications for their quantitation in plasma

    Yu Min Kuo;Tyler A. Kokjohn;Walter Kalback;Dean Luehrs

  • Running exercise protects the substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons against inflammation-induced degeneration via the activation of BDNF signaling pathway

    Shih Ying Wu;Tzu Feng Wang;Lung Yu;Chauying J. Jen

  • High Levels of Circulating Aβ42 Are Sequestered by Plasma Proteins in Alzheimer's Disease

    Yu Min Kuo;Mark R. Emmerling;Heather C. Lampert;Stephen R. Hempelman

  • Treadmill exercise counteracts the suppressive effects of peripheral lipopolysaccharide on hippocampal neurogenesis and learning and memory

    Chih-Wei Wu;Yi-Chieh Chen;Lung Yu;Hsiun-ing Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex E. Roher
Alex E. Roher Banner Health
Thomas G. Beach
Thomas G. Beach Banner Health
Douglas G. Walker
Douglas G. Walker Arizona State University
Robert J. Cotter
Robert J. Cotter Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Amina S. Woods
Amina S. Woods National Institute on Drug Abuse
Matthias Staufenbiel
Matthias Staufenbiel University of Tübingen
Chiou Feng Lin
Chiou Feng Lin Taipei Medical University
Ih-Jen Su
Ih-Jen Su National Health Research Institutes
Po See Chen
Po See Chen National Cheng Kung University
Kirk I. Erickson
Kirk I. Erickson University of Pittsburgh

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