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Huizhong Tao, PhD

Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience

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Publications

  • A distributed auditory network mediated by pontine central gray underlies ultra-fast awakening in response to alerting soundsCurr Biol. 2024 Oct 21; 34(20):4597-4611. e5. . View in PubMed
  • Excitation-inhibition imbalance in medial preoptic area circuits underlies chronic stress-induced depression-like states Nat Commun. 2024 Oct 03; 15(1):8575. . View in PubMed
  • Cross-modal enhancement of defensive behavior via parabigemino-collicular projectionsCurr Biol. 2024 Aug 19; 34(16):3616-3631. e5. . View in PubMed
  • The Effect of Lactobacillus plantarum on the Fecal Microbiota, Short Chain Fatty Acids, Odorous Substances, and Blood Biochemical Indices of Cats Microorganisms. 2024 Jan 02; 12(1). . View in PubMed
  • The neural basis of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease Front Aging Neurosci. 2024; 16:1487875. . View in PubMed
  • High dietary inflammatory index is associated with decreased plaque stability in patients with coronary heart disease Nutr Res. 2023 Nov; 119:56-64. . View in PubMed
  • Intrinsically bioactive and biomimetic nanoparticle-derived therapies alleviate asthma by regulating multiple pathological cells Bioact Mater. 2023 Oct; 28:12-26. . View in PubMed
  • Eur J Med Res. 2023 Sep 29; 28(1):392. . View in PubMed
  • Dependence of Tensile Properties and Fracture Behaviors on the Fractions of Continuous and Discontinuous Precipitates in Peak-Aged AZ80A Magnesium Alloy Materials (Basel). 2023 Jun 23; 16(13). . View in PubMed
  • The medial preoptic area mediates depressive-like behaviors induced by ovarian hormone withdrawal through distinct GABAergic projections Nat Neurosci. 2023 09; 26(9):1529-1540. . View in PubMed
  • The combined impact of Type D personality and depression on cardiovascular events after acute myocardial infarction Psychol Med. 2023 03; 53(4):1379-1389. . View in PubMed
  • Proteogenomics of different urothelial bladder cancer stages reveals distinct molecular features for papillary cancer and carcinoma in situ Nat Commun. 2023 09 13; 14(1):5670. . View in PubMed
  • Serum amyloid A and risks of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis Ren Fail. 2023; 45(2):2250877. . View in PubMed
  • Sensory processing deficits and related cortical pathological changes in Alzheimer’s disease Front Aging Neurosci. 2023; 15:1213379. . View in PubMed
  • Glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons in pontine central gray mediate opposing valence-specific behaviors through a global networkNeuron. 2023 05 03; 111(9):1486-1503. e7. . View in PubMed
  • Enhancement and contextual modulation of visuospatial processing by thalamocollicular projections from ventral lateral geniculate nucleus Nat Commun. 2023 11 10; 14(1):7278. . View in PubMed
  • Distinct circuits in anterior cingulate cortex encode safety assessment and mediate flexibility of fear reactionsNeuron. 2023 11 15; 111(22):3650-3667. e6. . View in PubMed
  • Methyltransferase-like 3 aggravates endoplasmic reticulum stress in preeclampsia by targeting TMBIM6 in YTHDF2-dependent manner Mol Med. 2023 02 06; 29(1):19. . View in PubMed
  • Impact of anesthetic strategy on outcomes for patients with acute basilar artery occlusion undergoing mechanical thrombectomy J Neurointerv Surg. 2022 Nov; 14(11):1073-1076. . View in PubMed
  • The Potential Mediating Effects of Inflammation on the Association Between Type D Personality and Coronary Plaque Vulnerability in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: An Optical Coherence Tomography Study Psychosom Med. 2022 05 01; 84(4):468-477. . View in PubMed
  • Application of AAV1 for Anterograde Transsynaptic Circuit Mapping and Input-Dependent Neuronal Cataloging Curr Protoc. 2022 Jan; 2(1):e339. . View in PubMed
  • The Chinese Herbal Formula Huoxiang Zhengqi Dropping Pills Prevents Acute Intestinal Injury Induced by Heatstroke by Increasing the Expression of Claudin-3 in Rats Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2022; 2022:9230341. . View in PubMed
  • A bottom-up reward pathway mediated by somatostatin neurons in the medial septum complex underlying appetitive learning Nat Commun. 2022 03 07; 13(1):1194. . View in PubMed
  • Cellular anatomy of the mouse primary motor cortex Nature. 2021 10; 598(7879):159-166. . View in PubMed
  • Medial preoptic area antagonistically mediates stress-induced anxiety and parental behavior Nat Neurosci. 2021 04; 24(4):516-528. . View in PubMed
  • Balanced Enhancements of Synaptic Excitation and Inhibition Underlie Developmental Maturation of Receptive Fields in the Mouse Visual Cortex J Neurosci. 2021 12 08; 41(49):10065-10079. . View in PubMed
  • Corticostriatal control of defense behavior in mice induced by auditory looming cues Nat Commun. 2021 02 15; 12(1):1040. . View in PubMed
  • Phasic Off responses of auditory cortex underlie perception of sound duration Cell Rep. 2021 04 20; 35(3):109003. . View in PubMed
  • Investigation of nitrogen pollutants transformation and its pathways along the long-distance prechlorinated raw water distribution system Chemosphere. 2020 Sep; 255:126833. . View in PubMed
  • Impact of type D personality on major adverse cardiac events in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: The mediating role of cognitive appraisal and coping style J Psychosom Res. 2020 09; 136:110192. . View in PubMed
  • Zona Incerta: An Integrative Node for Global Behavioral Modulation Trends Neurosci. 2020 02; 43(2):82-87. . View in PubMed
  • A Differential Circuit via Retino-Colliculo-Pulvinar Pathway Enhances Feature Selectivity in Visual Cortex through Surround SuppressionNeuron. 2020 01 22; 105(2):355-369. e6. . View in PubMed
  • Revealing the changes of bacterial community from water source to consumers tap: A full-scale investigation in eastern city of China J Environ Sci (China). 2020 Jan; 87:331-340. . View in PubMed
  • Contextual and cross-modality modulation of auditory cortical processing through pulvinar mediated suppression Elife. 2020 03 06; 9. . View in PubMed
  • Luminescence Imaging of Acute Liver Injury by Biodegradable and Biocompatible Nanoprobes ACS Nano. 2020 09 22; 14(9):11083-11099. . View in PubMed
  • Synaptic Specificity and Application of Anterograde Transsynaptic AAV for Probing Neural Circuitry J Neurosci. 2020 04 15; 40(16):3250-3267. . View in PubMed
  • Cyclodextrin-Derived Intrinsically Bioactive Nanoparticles for Treatment of Acute and Chronic Inflammatory Diseases Adv Mater. 2019 Nov; 31(46):e1904607. . View in PubMed
  • A self-illuminating nanoparticle for inflammation imaging and cancer therapy Sci Adv. 2019 01; 5(1):eaat2953. . View in PubMed
  • Synaptic Mechanisms for Bandwidth Tuning in Awake Mouse Primary Auditory Cortex Cereb Cortex. 2019 07 05; 29(7):2998-3009. . View in PubMed
  • Sensory- and Motor-Related Responses of Layer 1 Neurons in the Mouse Visual Cortex J Neurosci. 2019 12 11; 39(50):10060-10070. . View in PubMed
  • Sparse Representation in Awake Auditory Cortex: Cell-type Dependence, Synaptic Mechanisms, Developmental Emergence, and Modulation Cereb Cortex. 2019 08 14; 29(9):3796-3812. . View in PubMed
  • Sparse Labeling and Neural Tracing in Brain Circuits by STARS Strategy: Revealing Morphological Development of Type II Spiral Ganglion Neurons Cereb Cortex. 2019 04 01; 29(4):1700. . View in PubMed
  • A cross-modality enhancement of defensive flight via parvalbumin neurons in zona incerta Elife. 2019 04 15; 8. . View in PubMed
  • Selective Strengthening of Intracortical Excitatory Input Leads to Receptive Field Refinement during Auditory Cortical Development J Neurosci. 2019 02 13; 39(7):1195-1205. . View in PubMed
  • A Broad-Spectrum ROS-Eliminating Material for Prevention of Inflammation and Drug-Induced Organ Toxicity Adv Sci (Weinh). 2018 Oct; 5(10):1800781. . View in PubMed
  • Multiscale and Multifunctional Emulsions by Host-Guest Interaction-Mediated Self-Assembly ACS Cent Sci. 2018 May 23; 4(5):600-605. . View in PubMed
  • Advanced emulsions via noncovalent interaction-mediated interfacial self-assembly Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Mar 28; 54(25):3174-3177. . View in PubMed
  • Type D personality, but not Type A behavior pattern, is associated with coronary plaque vulnerability Psychol Health Med. 2018 Feb; 23(2):216-223. . View in PubMed
  • Prognostic Value of Type D Personality for In-stent Restenosis in Coronary Artery Disease Patients Treated With Drug-Eluting Stent Psychosom Med. 2018 01; 80(1):95-102. . View in PubMed
  • A Non-canonical Reticular-Limbic Central Auditory Pathway via Medial Septum Contributes to Fear ConditioningNeuron. 2018 01 17; 97(2):406-417. e4. . View in PubMed
  • Spatial Asymmetry and Short-Term Suppression Underlie Direction Selectivity of Synaptic Excitation in the Mouse Visual Cortex Cereb Cortex. 2018 06 01; 28(6):2059-2070. . View in PubMed
  • Sparse Labeling and Neural Tracing in Brain Circuits by STARS Strategy: Revealing Morphological Development of Type II Spiral Ganglion Neurons Cereb Cortex. 2018 07 06. . View in PubMed
  • A Targeting Nanotherapy for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 11 27; 72(21):2591-2605. . View in PubMed
  • Inhibitory gain modulation of defense behaviors by zona incerta Nat Commun. 2018 03 20; 9(1):1151. . View in PubMed
  • Input-output organization of the mouse claustrum J Comp Neurol. 2018 10 15; 526(15):2428-2443. . View in PubMed
  • Transforming Sensory Cues into Aversive Emotion via Septal-Habenular PathwayNeuron. 2018 09 05; 99(5):1016-1028. e5. . View in PubMed
  • [Progress in c-di-GMP inhibitors] Sheng Wu Gong Cheng Xue Bao. 2017 Sep 25; 33(9):1466-1477. . View in PubMed
  • [Chemical agents modulating bacterial biofilm formation and development] Sheng Wu Gong Cheng Xue Bao. 2017 Sep 25; 33(9):1433-1465. . View in PubMed
  • Lower Circulating Folate Induced by a Fidgetin Intronic Variant Is Associated With Reduced Congenital Heart Disease Susceptibility Circulation. 2017 May 02; 135(18):1733-1748. . View in PubMed
  • AAV-Mediated Anterograde Transsynaptic Tagging: Mapping Corticocollicular Input-Defined Neural Pathways for Defense Behaviors Neuron. 2017 Jan 04; 93(1):33-47. . View in PubMed
  • Direction selectivity starts early Nat Neurosci. 2017 06 27; 20(7):899-901. . View in PubMed
  • Prediction of Bronchial Mucus Plugs Formation in Patients with Refractory Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Pneumonia J Trop Pediatr. 2017 04 01; 63(2):148-154. . View in PubMed
  • Diversity in Excitation-Inhibition Mismatch Underlies Local Functional Heterogeneity in the Rat Auditory Cortex Cell Rep. 2017 04 18; 19(3):521-531. . View in PubMed
  • Distinct Inhibitory Circuits Orchestrate Cortical beta and gamma Band OscillationsNeuron. 2017 12 20; 96(6):1403-1418. e6. . View in PubMed
  • Dcc Mediates Functional Assembly of Peripheral Auditory Circuits Sci Rep. 2016 Apr 04; 6:23799. . View in PubMed
  • EphA7 regulates spiral ganglion innervation of cochlear hair cells Dev Neurobiol. 2016 Apr; 76(4):452-69. . View in PubMed
  • Cross-Modality Sharpening of Visual Cortical Processing through Layer-1-Mediated Inhibition and Disinhibition Neuron. 2016 Mar 02; 89(5):1031-45. . View in PubMed
  • A superoxide dismutase/catalase mimetic nanomedicine for targeted therapy of inflammatory bowel disease Biomaterials. 2016 10; 105:206-221. . View in PubMed
  • Nanoparticles responsive to the inflammatory microenvironment for targeted treatment of arterial restenosis Biomaterials. 2016 10; 105:167-184. . View in PubMed
  • Thalamocortical Innervation Pattern in Mouse Auditory and Visual Cortex: Laminar and Cell-Type Specificity Cereb Cortex. 2016 06; 26(6):2612-25. . View in PubMed
  • Strengthening of Direction Selectivity by Broadly Tuned and Spatiotemporally Slightly Offset Inhibition in Mouse Visual Cortex Cereb Cortex. 2015 Sep; 25(9):2466-77. . View in PubMed
  • BMP7-Based Functionalized Self-Assembling Peptides for Nucleus Pulposus Tissue Engineering ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2015 Aug 12; 7(31):17076-87. . View in PubMed
  • Synaptic Basis for Differential Orientation Selectivity between Complex and Simple Cells in Mouse Visual Cortex J Neurosci. 2015 Aug 05; 35(31):11081-93. . View in PubMed
  • Differential Receptive Field Properties of Parvalbumin and Somatostatin Inhibitory Neurons in Mouse Auditory Cortex Cereb Cortex. 2015 Jul; 25(7):1782-91. . View in PubMed
  • Auditory cortex controls sound-driven innate defense behaviour through corticofugal projections to inferior colliculus Nat Commun. 2015 Jun 11; 6:7224. . View in PubMed
  • Sensory Cortical Control of a Visually Induced Arrest Behavior via Corticotectal Projections Neuron. 2015 May 06; 86(3):755-67. . View in PubMed
  • Ocular dominance plasticity disrupts binocular inhibition-excitation matching in visual cortex Curr Biol. 2015 Mar 16; 25(6):713-721. . View in PubMed
  • Synaptic mechanisms for generating temporal diversity of auditory representation in the dorsal cochlear nucleus J Neurophysiol. 2015 Mar 01; 113(5):1358-68. . View in PubMed
  • Functional response properties of VIP-expressing inhibitory neurons in mouse visual and auditory cortex Front Neural Circuits. 2015; 9:22. . View in PubMed
  • A feedforward inhibitory circuit mediates lateral refinement of sensory representation in upper layer 2/3 of mouse primary auditory cortex J Neurosci. 2014 Oct 08; 34(41):13670-83. . View in PubMed
  • Formation of excitation-inhibition balance: inhibition listens and changes its tune Trends Neurosci. 2014 Oct; 37(10):528-30. . View in PubMed
  • Scaling down of balanced excitation and inhibition by active behavioral states in auditory cortex Nat Neurosci. 2014 Jun; 17(6):841-50. . View in PubMed
  • The significance of YKL-40 protein in liver fibrosis Inflamm Res. 2014 Apr; 63(4):249-54. . View in PubMed
  • Monocular Deprivation in Mice Bio Protoc. 2014 Jan 20; 4(2). . View in PubMed
  • Thresholding of auditory cortical representation by background noise Front Neural Circuits. 2014; 8:133. . View in PubMed
  • Intracortical multiplication of thalamocortical signals in mouse auditory cortex Nat Neurosci. 2013 Sep; 16(9):1179-81. . View in PubMed
  • Linear transformation of thalamocortical input by intracortical excitation Nat Neurosci. 2013 Sep; 16(9):1324-30. . View in PubMed
  • Interaural level difference-dependent gain control and synaptic scaling underlying binaural computation Neuron. 2013 Aug 21; 79(4):738-53. . View in PubMed
  • Slit/Robo signaling mediates spatial positioning of spiral ganglion neurons during development of cochlear innervation J Neurosci. 2013 Jul 24; 33(30):12242-54. . View in PubMed
  • The role of methyl-CpG binding protein 2 in liver fibrosis Toxicology. 2013 Jul 05; 309:9-14. . View in PubMed
  • Downregulation of cortical inhibition mediates ocular dominance plasticity during the critical period J Neurosci. 2013 Jul 03; 33(27):11276-80. . View in PubMed
  • DNA methylation and MeCP2 regulation of PTCH1 expression during rats hepatic fibrosis Cell Signal. 2013 May; 25(5):1202-11. . View in PubMed
  • Synaptic mechanisms underlying functional dichotomy between intrinsic-bursting and regular-spiking neurons in auditory cortical layer 5 J Neurosci. 2013 Mar 20; 33(12):5326-39. . View in PubMed
  • Generation of intensity selectivity by differential synaptic tuning: fast-saturating excitation but slow-saturating inhibition J Neurosci. 2012 Dec 12; 32(50):18068-78. . View in PubMed
  • Broadening of inhibitory tuning underlies contrast-dependent sharpening of orientation selectivity in mouse visual cortex J Neurosci. 2012 Nov 14; 32(46):16466-77. . View in PubMed
  • Generation of spike latency tuning by thalamocortical circuits in auditory cortex J Neurosci. 2012 Jul 18; 32(29):9969-80. . View in PubMed
  • Broadening of cortical inhibition mediates developmental sharpening of orientation selectivity J Neurosci. 2012 Mar 21; 32(12):3981-91. . View in PubMed
  • MeCP2 controls the expression of RASAL1 in the hepatic fibrosis in rats Toxicology. 2011 Dec 18; 290(2-3):327-33. . View in PubMed
  • From elementary synaptic circuits to information processing in primary auditory cortex Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2011 Nov; 35(10):2094-104. . View in PubMed
  • Perspectives on: information and coding in mammalian sensory physiology: inhibitory synaptic mechanisms underlying functional diversity in auditory cortex J Gen Physiol. 2011 Sep; 138(3):311-20. . View in PubMed
  • Broad inhibition sharpens orientation selectivity by expanding input dynamic range in mouse simple cells Neuron. 2011 Aug 11; 71(3):542-54. . View in PubMed
  • [Effect of allogenic adipose-derived stem cell grafting on serum biochemical indicators and sporting ability of endurance trained rats] Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao. 2011 Jun; 31(7):1159-63. . View in PubMed
  • Functional elimination of excitatory feedforward inputs underlies developmental refinement of visual receptive fields in zebrafish J Neurosci. 2011 Apr 06; 31(14):5460-9. . View in PubMed
  • Visual representations by cortical somatostatin inhibitory neurons–selective but with weak and delayed responses J Neurosci. 2010 Oct 27; 30(43):14371-9. . View in PubMed
  • Fine-tuning of pre-balanced excitation and inhibition during auditory cortical development Nature. 2010 Jun 17; 465(7300):927-31. . View in PubMed
  • Preceding inhibition silences layer 6 neurons in auditory cortex Neuron. 2010 Mar 11; 65(5):706-17. . View in PubMed
  • Intervening inhibition underlies simple-cell receptive field structure in visual cortex Nat Neurosci. 2010 Jan; 13(1):89-96. . View in PubMed
  • History matters: illuminating metaplasticity in the developing brain Neuron. 2009 Oct 29; 64(2):155-7. . View in PubMed
  • Visual receptive field structure of cortical inhibitory neurons revealed by two-photon imaging guided recording J Neurosci. 2009 Aug 26; 29(34):10520-32. . View in PubMed
  • A genetic strategy for stochastic gene activation with regulated sparseness (STARS) PLoS One. 2009; 4(1):e4200. . View in PubMed
  • Lateral sharpening of cortical frequency tuning by approximately balanced inhibition Neuron. 2008 Apr 10; 58(1):132-43. . View in PubMed
  • Defining cortical frequency tuning with recurrent excitatory circuitry Nat Neurosci. 2007 Dec; 10(12):1594-600. . View in PubMed
  • Heterosynaptic scaling of developing GABAergic synapses: dependence on glutamatergic input and developmental stage J Neurosci. 2007 May 16; 27(20):5301-12. . View in PubMed
  • Vesicular glutamate transport at a central synapse limits the acuity of visual perception in zebrafish Neuron. 2007 Jan 04; 53(1):65-77. . View in PubMed
  • Nonmonotonic synaptic excitation and imbalanced inhibition underlying cortical intensity tuning Neuron. 2006 Nov 22; 52(4):705-15. . View in PubMed
  • Activity-dependent matching of excitatory and inhibitory inputs during refinement of visual receptive fields Neuron. 2005 Mar 24; 45(6):829-36. . View in PubMed
  • The assembly of neural circuits Neuron. 2004 Jul 22; 43(2):159-63. . View in PubMed
  • Reversal and stabilization of synaptic modifications in a developing visual system Science. 2003 Jun 20; 300(5627):1953-7. . View in PubMed
  • Moving visual stimuli rapidly induce direction sensitivity of developing tectal neurons Nature. 2002 Oct 03; 419(6906):470-5. . View in PubMed

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