Contact Information

UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive Disease
900 Veteran Avenue
Warren Hall, Room 14-129
Los Angeles, CA 90095
On-campus mail: 178622
Tel: (310) 206-7596
Fax: (310) 794-4166
Email: yhw@ucla.edu

Biosketch

Yuhua Wang has been working in the research lab of Department of Medicine, UCLA for more than 10 years. She is fully trained in the techniques required for the in vitro electrophysiological experiments of vagal and spinal afferent fiber activity from the gastrointestinal tract. She has made important contribution in developing few in vitro preparations and received twice UCLA incentive awards. From September 2001, she has employed by Dr. Mayer as an experienced electrophysiologist. Using a rat colonic preparation and single unit recording technique, she involved research projects of "Role of peripheral NMDA receptors in visceral nociception" and "The effect of tegaserod on the baseline activity of inferior splachnic afferents in vitro".

Selected References

YH Wang, VLW Go, SV Wu and JY Wei. (1997). Stem cell factor alters membrane potential of purified peritoneal mast cells in culture. American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology. 272:41, C1017-C1024.

YH Wang, Y Taché, AB Sheibel, VLW Go and JY Wei. (1997). Two types of leptin responsive gastric vagal afferent terminals: an in vitro single-unit study in rats. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 273:42, R833-R837.

JY Wei and YH Wang. (2000). Effect of cholecystokinin pretreatment of the CCK sensitivity of rat polymodal gastric vagal afferent in vitro. American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism. 279: E695-E706.

JY Wei and YH Wang. (2002). Leptin improves rat gastric vagal afferents responsiveness to CCK regardless the change of circulating CCK level: an in vitro study. Gut-Brain Peptides in the New Millennium, edited by Y. Taché CURE Foundation, Los Angeles, CA. Chapter 28, pp313-322.

Glatzle J, Wang YH, Adelson DW, Kalogeris TJ, Zittel TT, Tso P, Wei JY, Raybould HE. (2003) Chylomicron components activate duodenal vagal afferents via a cholecystokinin A receptor-mediated pathway to inhibit gastric motor function in the rat. Am J Physiol 2003 Jul 15;550(Pt 2):657-64.