Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine
Dr. Hu's major research interest is in immunologically mediated neuropathogenesis and neurodegenerative diseases of the CNS, particularly related to viral diseases of the brain. She is also interested in the effects of opioids and other psychoactive substances on neurons, glial, and neuronal stem cells.
Selected publications:
Hu S, Cheeran MC-J, Sheng WS, Hsiao TN, Lokensgard JR, Peterson PK. Cocaine alters proliferation, migration, and differentiation of human fetal brain-derived neural precursor cells. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2006 Sep;318:1280-1286.
Rock RB, Hu S, Sheng WS, Peterson PK. Morphine stimulates CCL2 production by human neurons. J Neuroinflammation. 2006;3:32.
Cheeran, MC-J, Hu S Palmquist JM, Gekker G, Lokensgard JR. Dysregulated interferon-gamma responses during lethal cytomegalovirus brain infection of IL-10-deficient mice. Virus Research 2007, Virus Res. 2007 Jul 10.
Other links
http://www.dom.umn.edu/idim/faculty/resfac/hu.html
http://www.virology.umn.edu/virology/Investigators/Hu.html