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Kechun Yang

Neurosciences Institute(US)University of Pennsylvania(US)

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Most-Cited Works

→ Dopamine Regulates Aversive Contextual Learning and Associated In Vivo Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus(2016)174 cited
→ Mechanisms Involved in Systemic Nicotine-Induced Glutamatergic Synaptic Plasticity on Dopamine Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area(2010)95 cited
→ Midbrain dopaminergic innervation of the hippocampus is sufficient to modulate formation of aversive memories(2021)86 cited
→ Functional Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Containing α6 Subunits Are on GABAergic Neuronal Boutons Adherent to Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons(2011)83 cited
→ Distinctive nicotinic acetylcholine receptor functional phenotypes of rat ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons(2008)74 cited
→ Mysterious α6-containing nAChRs: function, pharmacology, and pathophysiology(2009)66 cited

→ Dopamine receptor activity participates in hippocampal synaptic plasticity associated with novel object recognition(2016)

62 cited

→ Dopamine D1 and D5 Receptors Modulate Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity at Medial Perforant Path to Dentate Granule Cell Synapses(2014)61 cited

→ Subventricular zone neural progenitors from rapid brain autopsies of elderly subjects with and without neurodegenerative disease(2009)55 cited

→ Dopamine and norepinephrine receptors participate in methylphenidate enhancement of in vivo hippocampal synaptic plasticity(2014)50 cited