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Hu, Shuxian
 Shuxian Hu, M.D. is an assistant professor of Medicine. She received her medical degree and pediatrics/neurology training from the Beijing University Medical School and had further fellowship training in the Neuroscience Program at the University of Minnesota before joining the Neuroimmunology Research Laboratory at MMRF. Dr. Hus major research interest is in immunologically mediated neuropathogenesis and neurodegenerative diseases of the CNS, in particular related to viral diseases of the brain. She is also interested in the effects of opioids and other pyschoactive substances on neurons and glial cells.
Selected Publications:
Hu S, Ali H, Sheng WS, Ehrlich LC, Peterson PK and Chao CC. Gp-41-mediated astrocyte inducible nitric oxide synthase mRNA expression: involvement of interleukin-1b production by microglia. J. Neurosci. 19:6468-6474, 1999.
Hu S, Sheng WS, Lokensgard JR, Peterson PK. Morphine induces apoptosis of human microglia and neurons. Neuropharmacology 42(6):829-36, 2002.
Cheeran MCJ, Hu S, Sheng WS, Peterson PK and Lokensgard JR. CXCL10 production from cytomegalovirus-stimulated microglia is regulated by both human and viral interleukin-10. J. Virol. 77(8):4502-15, 2003.
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