Education

Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience and Neurology, Capital Medical University, China, 2007

Current position

Research Associate, Department of Neuroscience, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH

Publications (selected)

1. Yamasaki, R.*, Lu, H.*, Butovsky, O.*, Ohno, N., Rietsch, A. M., Cialic, R., Wu, P. M., Doykan, C. E., Lin, J., Cotleur, A. C., Kidd, G., Zorlu, M. M., Sun, N., Hu, W., Liu, L., Lee, J. C., Taylor, S. E., Uehlein, L., Dixon, D., Gu, J., Floruta, C. M., Zhu, M., Charo, I. F., Weiner, H. L. and Ransohoff, R. M. (2014). Differential roles of microglia and monocytes in the inflamed central nervous system. J Exp Med 211(8): 1533-1549. (*Co-first author)
   
2. Katsumoto, A., Lu, H., Miranda, A. S. and Ransohoff, R. M. (2014). Ontogeny and functions of central nervous system macrophages. J Immunol 193(6): 2615-2621.
   
3. Liu, Z., Lu, H., Kiran, R. P., Ni, R., Remzi, F. H. and Shen, B. (2012). Pre-colectomy appendectomy and risk for Crohn's disease in patients with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis. J Gastrointest Surg 16(7): 1370-1378.
   
4. Lu, H., Huang, D., Ransohoff, R. M. and Zhou, L. (2011). Acute skeletal muscle injury: CCL2 expression by both monocytes and injured muscle is required for repair. FASEB J 25(10): 3344-3355.
   
5. Lu, H., Huang, D., Saederup, N., Charo, I. F., Ransohoff, R. M. and Zhou, L. (2011). Macrophages recruited via CCR2 produce insulin-like growth factor-1 to repair acute skeletal muscle injury. FASEB J 25(1): 358-369.
   
6. Beastrom, N., Lu, H., Macke, A., Canan, B. D., Johnson, E. K., Penton, C. M., Kaspar, B. K., Rodino-Klapac, L. R., Zhou, L., Janssen, P. M. and Montanaro, F. (2011). mdx((5)cv) mice manifest more severe muscle dysfunction and diaphragm force deficits than do mdx Mice. Am J Pathol 179(5): 2464-2474.
   
7. Huang, P., Cheng, G., Lu, H., Aronica, M., Ransohoff, R. M. and Zhou, L. (2011). Impaired respiratory function in mdx and mdx/utrn(+/-) mice. Muscle Nerve 43(2): 263-267.
   
8. Zhou, L. and Lu, H. (2010). Targeting fibrosis in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 69(8): 771-776.
   
9. Lv, H., Jia, L. and Jia, J. (2008). Promoter polymorphisms which modulate APP expression may increase susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology of aging 29(2): 194-202.
   
10. Jia, L., Ye, J., Haiyan, L., Wang, W., Zhou, C., Zhang, X., Xu, J., Wang, L. and Jia, J. (2007). Genetic association between polymorphisms of Pen2 gene and late onset Alzheimer's disease in the North Chinese population. Brain research 1141: 10-14.
    
11. Zheng, L., Longfei, J., Jing, Y., Xinqing, Z., Haiqing, S., Haiyan, L., Fen, W., Xiumin, D. and Jianping, J. (2008). PRNP mutations in a series of apparently sporadic neurodegenerative dementias in China. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 147(6): 938-944.
    
12. Chen, Y., Jia, L., Wei, C., Wang, F., Lv, H. and Jia, J. (2008). Association between polymorphisms in the apolipoprotein D gene and sporadic Alzheimer's disease. Brain research 1233: 196-202.
    
13. Jia, L., Zhou, C., Lv, H., Wang, W., Ye, J., Zhang, X., Zhou, W., Xu, J., Wang, L. and Jia, J. (2006). Association between presenilin 1 intronic polymorphism and late onset Alzheimer's disease in the North Chinese population. Brain research 1116(1): 201-205.
    
14. Wu, Y., Liang, Q. and Lu, H. (2004). Effect of tumor necrosis factor-alpha pretreatment on cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats.