Hongyu Xu

  • Position:
    Assistant Professor of Biology
  • College:
    College of Science, Mathematics and Technology
  • Office:
    CSMT 317

Education Background

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
Fourth Military Medical University

M.S. in Psychology
Fourth Military Medical University

Ph.D. in Neuroscience
Third Military Medical University

Courses teaching in WKU

General Biology (with Laboratory)

Biology and Society

Honors and Awards

2013-2015 Grant, Shaanxi Province Science Foundation for Youths (2013JQ4031)
2013-2016 Grant, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2013M542497)
2015-2017 Grant, Military Medical Science and technology youth training project (15QNP069)
2016-2018 Grant, Project of science and technology of social development in Shaanxi Province(2016SF-049)
2016-2019 Grant, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.81601178)

Selected Publications

  • Hongyu Xu, Yuqin Ye, Yelu Hao, Fei shi, Zhiqiang Yan, Yuefan Yang, Zhou Fei, Xiaosheng He. Sex differences in associations between maternal deprivation and alterations in hippocampal calcium-binding proteins and cognitive functions in rats. Behav Brain Funct, 2018, 15;14(1):10. doi: 10.1186/s12993-018-0142-y
  • Hongyu Xu#, Yuqin Ye#, Xuesi Zhang#, Yelu Hao#, Fei Shi, Guohao Yuan, Yan Wu, Zhou Fei*, Xiaosheng He*. Military experience helps setting reasonable personality characteristics but doesn’t alter the criminal behavior-related impression of negative parental experience and alcoholism in a Chinese population. Psychiatry Research, 2016, 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.06.043.
  • Hongyu Xu, Wendong Hu, Xuesi Zhang, Wei Gao, Ming Liang, Tao Chen, Xiaosheng He, Zhian Hu. The effect of different maternal deprivation paradigms on the expression of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors, calretinin and calbindin-D28k in male and female adolescent rats. Neurochemistry International, 2011, 59: 847-852.
  • Yuqin Ye#, Hongyu Xu#, Xinhong Su, Xiaosheng He. Role of MicroRNA in Governing Synaptyic Plasticity. Neural Plasticity, 2016. ID 4959523 (co-first authors)
  • Yuqin Ye#, Z Zhao#, Hongyu Xu#, Xin Zhang, Xinhong Su, Xiaosheng. Activation of Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Receptor 1 Enhances Hippocampus Neurogenesis in a Rat Model of Traumatic Brain Injury: An Involvement of MEK/Erk Signaling Pathway. Neural Plasticity, 2016. (co-first authors)
  • Fei Shi#, Yong-Chun Wang#, Ze-Bing Hu#, Hong-Yu Xu#, Jing Sun, Yuan Gao, Xiao-tao Li, Chang-Bin Yang, Chao Xie,  Cheng-Fei Li,  Jiang-Dong Zhao,  Shu Zhang,  Xin-Sheng Cao, Xi-Qing Sun. Simulated Microgravity Promotes Angiogenesis through RhoA-Dependent Rearrangement of the Actin Cytoskeleton. Cell Physiol Biochem 2017; 41:227-238 (co-first authors)
  • Yuqin Ye#, Hongyu Xu#, Xin ZhangZe LiYanfeng JiaXiaosheng He*, Jason H. Huang. Association between Toll-Like Receptor 4 Expression and Neural Stem Cell Proliferation in the Hippocampus Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice. International Journal of Molecular Science. 2014, 15(7), 12651-12664. (co-first authors)
  • Zhongliang Wu, Hongyu Xu#, Yalong He, Guitao Yang, Chunhua Liao, Wei Gao, Ming Liang, Xiaosheng He. Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides targeting connexin43 reduce cerebral astrocytosis and edema in a rat model of traumatic brain injury. Neurological Research, 2013, 255-262 (co-first authors)
  • Yuefan Yang, Peng Luo, Haoxiang Xu, Shuhui Dai, Wei Rao, Cheng Peng, Wenke Ma, Jiu Wang, Hongyu Xu, Lei Zhang, Sai Zhang and Zhou Fei. RNF146 Inhibits Excessive Autophagy by Modulating the Wnt-b-Catenin Pathway in Glutamate Excitotoxicity Injury. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2017,11. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00059
  • Gao Wei, Xu Hongyu, Liang Ming, Huang JH, He Xiaosheng. Association between reduced expression of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors and cognitive dysfunction in a rat model of traumatic brain injury due to lateral head acceleration. Neuroscience Letters, 2013, 533: pp50.
  • Yelu Hao#, Hongyu Xu#, Zhou Fei. Single 24-h Maternal Separation Induces Behavioral Resiliency and Upregulates Hippocampal Homer1a Protein Expression in Female C57BL/6 Mice. Behavior Process (revised, co-first author, co-contact author).
  • Ram Kuwar, Andrew Rolfe, Long Di, Hongyu Xu, Liu He, Yuqi Jiang, Shijun Zhang, Dong Sun. A novel small molecular NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitor alleviates neuroinflammatory response following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2019, 11;16(1):81. doi: 10.1186/s12974-019-1471-y.
  • Bo Fang, Ming Liang, Guitao Yang, Yuqin Ye, Hongyu Xu, Xiaosheng He and Jason H. Huang. Expression of S100A6 in rat hippocampus after traumatic brain injury due to lateral head acceleration. Int J Mol Sci. 2014, 15(4):6378-6390.