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Yutao Liu is affiliated with Augusta University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work covers significant subfields including Molecular Biology, Ophthalmology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Immunology, and Neurology.

The scientist's research topics center on extracellular vesicles in disease, glaucoma and retinal disorders, corneal surgery and disorders, retinal diseases and treatments, corneal surgery and treatments, microRNA in disease regulation, and RNA interference and gene delivery.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yutao Liu include:

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries (2021) in Nature Communications
  • Dendritic cell derived exosomes loaded with immunoregulatory cargo reprogram local immune responses and inhibit degenerative bone disease in vivo (2020) in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles
  • Freeze-Dried Extracellular Vesicles From Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Prevent Hypoxia-Induced Muscle Cell Injury (2020) in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Critical immunosuppressive effect of MDSC-derived exosomes in the tumor microenvironment (2021) in Oncology Reports
  • Nebulization of extracellular vesicles: A promising small RNA delivery approach for lung diseases (2022) in Journal of Controlled Release

Yutao Liu frequently publishes in venues such as Experimental Eye Research, UNC Libraries, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Stem Cell Research, and Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.

Co-authors who have collaborated repeatedly with Yutao Liu include Jingwen Cai, Louis R. Pasquale, Michael A. Hauser, Douglas Gaasterland, and Sayoko E. Moroi.

Best Publications

  • A Comparative Study of Serum Exosome Isolation Using Differential Ultracentrifugation and Three Commercial Reagents

    Inas Helwa;Jingwen Cai;Michelle D. Drewry;Arthur Zimmerman

  • Exosomes/microvesicles from induced pluripotent stem cells deliver cardioprotective miRNAs and prevent cardiomyocyte apoptosis in the ischemic myocardium

    Yingjie Wang;Lan Zhang;Yongjun Li;Lijuan Chen

  • The genetic and environmental factors for keratoconus.

    Ariela Gordon-Shaag;Michel Millodot;Einat Shneor;Yutao Liu

  • Common Variants at 9p21 and 8q22 Are Associated with Increased Susceptibility to Optic Nerve Degeneration in Glaucoma

    Janey L. Wiggs;Brian L. Yaspan;Michael A. Hauser;Jae H. Kang

  • The genetics of primary open-angle glaucoma: a review.

    R. Rand Allingham;Yutao Liu;Douglas J. Rhee

  • Consensus recommendations for trabecular meshwork cell isolation, characterization and culture

    Kate E. Keller;Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya;Theresa Borrás;Thomas M. Brunner

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies TXNRD2 , ATXN2 and FOXC1 as susceptibility loci for primary open-angle glaucoma

    Jessica N.Cooke Bailey;Stephanie J. Loomis;Jae H. Kang;R. Rand Allingham

  • Extracellular vesicles in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis

    Joseph Withrow;Cameron Murphy;Yutao Liu;Monte Hunter

  • MicroRNA-183-5p Increases with Age in Bone-Derived Extracellular Vesicles, Suppresses Bone Marrow Stromal (Stem) Cell Proliferation, and Induces Stem Cell Senescence.

    Colleen Davis;Amy Dukes;Michelle Drewry;Inas Helwa

  • Gender-specific differential expression of exosomal miRNA in synovial fluid of patients with osteoarthritis

    Ravindra Kolhe;Monte Hunter;Siyang Liu;Ravirajsinh N. Jadeja

  • Extracellular vesicles in diagnosis and therapy of kidney diseases

    Wei Zhang;Xiangjun Zhou;Hao Zhang;Qisheng Yao

  • Muscle-derived miR-34a increases with age in circulating extracellular vesicles and induces senescence of bone marrow stem cells.

    Sadanand T Fulzele;Bharati Mendhe;Andrew Khayrullin;Maribeth H Johnson

  • Major review: Molecular genetics of primary open-angle glaucoma.

    Yutao Liu;R. Rand Allingham

  • HIF-1-mediated production of exosomes during hypoxia is protective in renal tubular cells

    Wei Zhang;Xiangjun Zhou;Qisheng Yao;Yutao Liu

  • Genetic association study of exfoliation syndrome identifies a protective rare variant at LOXL1 and five new susceptibility loci

    Tin Aung;Tin Aung;Mineo Ozaki;Mei Chin Lee;Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt

  • Analysis of LOXL1 polymorphisms in a United States population with pseudoexfoliation glaucoma.

    Pratap Challa;Silke Schmidt;Yutao Liu;Xuejun Qin

  • A common variant mapping to CACNA1A is associated with susceptibility to exfoliation syndrome

    Tin Aung;Tin Aung;Tin Aung;Mineo Ozaki;Takanori Mizoguchi;R. Rand Allingham

  • Human aqueous humor exosomes

    W. Michael Dismuke;Pratap Challa;Iris Navarro;W. Daniel Stamer

  • A common variant near TGFBR3 is associated with primary open angle glaucoma

    Zheng Li;R. Rand Allingham;Masakazu Nakano;Liyun Jia

  • Major LOXL1 risk allele is reversed in exfoliation glaucoma in a black South African population.

    Susan E.I. Williams;Benjamin T. Whigham;Yutao Liu;Trevor R. Carmichael

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Hauser
Michael A. Hauser Duke University
Janey L. Wiggs
Janey L. Wiggs Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Louis R. Pasquale
Louis R. Pasquale Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Allison E. Ashley-Koch
Allison E. Ashley-Koch Duke University
Julia E. Richards
Julia E. Richards University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jonathan L. Haines
Jonathan L. Haines Case Western Reserve University
Donald J. Zack
Donald J. Zack Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Robert N. Weinreb
Robert N. Weinreb University of California, San Diego
Joel S. Schuman
Joel S. Schuman Wills Eye Hospital
John H. Fingert
John H. Fingert University of Iowa

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