Basic Information
Name: Qianru.Zhao
Email Address：Qianru.Zhao@scuec.edu.cn
Research Area
Neuropharmacology
Study on the effects and mechanisms of drugs targeting ion channels and receptors
Education
2019.08-Present, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South-central Minzu University, Lecturer
2018.07—2019.06, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Postdoc, Co-adviser: Peter Somogyi
2013.09—2018.06, Department of Biophysics and Physiology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, PhD, Supervisor: Yanai Mei
2009.09—2013.07, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Bachelor
Fundings
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Program，32000685，Effects and mechanisms of conditional knockout of cannabinoid type 1 receptors on hippocampal basket neuron plasticity，2021/01-2023/12
2. Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation Youth Program，2020CFB348，The effects and mechanisms of Neuritin on interneuron plasticity and memory in mice through CB1R，2020/03-2022/03
3. National Natural Science Foundation of China Overseas, Hong Kong and Macao Scholars Cooperative Research Fund Program，31428003，Calcineurin-NFATc4 is involved in the molecular mechanism of Neuritin's regulation of Kv4.2 expression and excitability in neurons，2015/01-2016/12
4. Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China，National Key Basic Research and Development Program（973 Project），2011CB503700，Basic research on the effects and mechanisms of electromagnetic radiation on health and medical protection，2011/01-2015/12
Articles
1. Shujuan Shi#, Qianru Zhao#, Caihua Ke, Siru Long, Feng Zhang, Xu Zhang, Yi Li, Xinqiao Liu, Hongzhen Hu, Shijin Yin*. Loureirin B Exerts its Immunosuppressive Effects by Inhibiting STIM1/Orai1 and KV1.3 Channels. 2021. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 12(685092).
2. Junmei Lu, Zhaoyang Li, Qianru Zhao, Dongdong Liu, Yan-Ai Mei*. Neuritin improves the neurological functional recovery after experimental intracerebral hemorrhage in mice. 2021. Neurobiology of Disease. 156(105407).
3. Zhao QR*, Lu JM, Li ZY, Mei YA*. Neuritin promotes neurite and spine growth in rat cerebellar granule cells via L-type calcium channel-mediated calcium influx. 2018. Journal of Neurochemistry. 147(1).
4. Jin-jing Yao#, Qian-Ru Zhao#, Dong-Dong Liu, Chi-Wing Chow, and Yan-Ai Mei*. Neuritin Up-regulates KV4.2 α-Subunit of Potassium Channel Expression and Affects Neuronal Excitability by Regulating the Calcium-Calcineurin-NFATc4 Signaling Pathway. 2016. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(33).
5. Zhao QR, Lu JM, Yao JJ, Zhang ZY, Ling C, Mei YA*. Neuritin reverses deficits in murine novel object associative recognition memory caused by exposure to extremely low-frequency (50 Hz) electromagnetic fields. 2015. Scientific Reports. 5(11768).
6. He YL, Wang K, Zhao QR, Mei YA*. Cyproheptadine regulates pyramidal neuron excitability in mouse medial prefrontal cortex. 2018. Neuroscience Bulletin. 34(5).
7. Jin-Jing Yao, Qian-Ru Zhao, Jun-Mei Lu, Yan-Ai Mei*. Functions and the related signaling pathways of the neurotrophic factor neuritin. 2017. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica. 39(9).
8. Wang K, Lu JM, Xing ZH, Zhao QR, Hu LQ, Xue L, Zhang J, Mei YA*. Effect of 1.8 GHz radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation on novel object associative recognition memory in mice. 2017. Scientific Reports. 7(44521).
9. Liu DD, Lu JM, Zhao QR, Hu C, Mei YA*. Growth differentiation factor-15 promotes glutamate release in medial prefrontal cortex of mice through upregulation of T-type calcium channels. 2016. Scientific Reports. Jun 29 (6): 28653.
10.Liu DD, Ren Z, Yang G, Zhao QR, Mei YA*. Melatonin protects rat cerebellar granule cells against electromagnetic field-induced increases in Na+ currents through intracellular Ca2+ release. 2014. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 305(2).
11. Yao JJ#, Sun J#, Zhao QR, Wang CY, Mei YA*. Neuregulin-1/ErbB4 signaling regulates Kv4.2-mediated transient outward K+ current through the Akt/mTOR pathway. 2013. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. 18(6).
