Mei YY, Lee MH, Cheng TC, Hsiao IH, Wu DC*, Zhou N*. NMDA receptors sustain but do not initiate neuronal depolarization in spreading depolarization. Neurobiol Dis. 2020 Sep 2;145:105071. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2020.105071.
Mei YY, Wu DC, Zhou N*. Astrocytic Regulation of Glutamate Transmission in Schizophrenia. Front. Psychiatry. 2018 Nov; 9:544. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00544.
Wu DC, Chen RYT, Cheng TC, Chiang YC, Shen ML, Hsu LL, Zhou N*. Spreading Depression Promotes Astrocytic Calcium Oscillations and Enhances Gliotransmission to Hippocampal Neurons. Cerebral Cortex. 2018 Sep 1;28(9):3204-3216. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhx192.
Lin CH, Hsu SP, Cheng TC, Huang CW, Chiang YC, Hsiao IH, Lee MH, Shen ML, Wu DC, Zhou N*. Effects of anti-epileptic drugs on spreading depolarization-induced epileptiform activity in mouse hippocampal slices. Scientific Reports. 2017 Sep 19;7(1):11884. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-12346-y.
Shen ML, Wang CH, Chen RY, Zhou N*, Kao ST*, Wu DC*. Luteolin inhibits GABAA receptors in HEK cells and brain slices. Scientific Reports. 2016 Jun 13; (6)27695.
Rosenegger DG, Tran CH, LeDue J, Zhou N, Gordon GR. A high performance, cost-effective, open-source microscope for scanning two-photon microscopy that is modular and readily adaptable. PLoS One. 2014 Oct 21;9(10):e110475. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110475.
Zhou N, Wang CH, Zhang S, Wu DC. The GLRA1 Missense Mutation W170S Associates Lack of Zn2+ Potentiation with Human Hyperekplexia. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2013, 33(45):17675-81.
Zhou N, Rungta RL, Malik A, Han H, Wu DC, Feighan D MacVicar B.A. (2013) Regenerative glutamate release by presynaptic NMDA receptors contributes to spreading depression. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 33(10), 1582-94
Choi H.B., Gordon G.R.J., Zhou N., Tai C., Rungta RL, Martinez J, Milner TA, Ryu J.K., McLarnon J.G., Tresguerres M., Levin L.R., Buck J., MacVicar B.A. (2012). Metabolic communication between neurons and astrocytes via bicarbonate-responsive soluble adenylyl cyclase. Neuron, 75 (6).
Zhou N, Gordon GRJ, Feighan D, MacVicar BA (2010) Transient swelling, acidification and mitochondrial depolarization occurs in neurons but not astrocytes during spreading depression. Cerebral Cortex, 20 (11):2614-2624.
Thompson RJ, Zhou N, MacVicar BA (2006) Ischemia opens neuronal gap junction hemichannels. Science 312:924-927.
Brust TB, Cayabyab FS, Zhou N, MacVicar BA (2006) p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase contributes to adenosine A1 receptor-mediated synaptic depression in area CA1 of the rat hippocampus. The Journal of Neuroscience. 26: 12427 -12438.
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