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Professor Xu-Feng Huang

MSc, MBBS, PhD

Positions:

• Professor in the School of Health Sciences
• Director of the CTN (Centre for Translational Neuroscience)
• Director the Schizophrenia Research Institute Wollongong Centre

Teaching & Coordinating:

• BMS300 Regional Anatomy
• BMS346 Motor Control and Dysfunction

Research Interests:

• Obesity: We have developed animal models of diet-induced obesity for investigation of the regulatory mechanisms of energy balance, and for testing therapeutic approaches to obesity. I am also involved in research aiming to identify novel neuropeptides in the hypothalamus that are activated or suppressed during the breakdown of energy balance regulation with prolonged high energy feeding;
• Schizophrenia: We aim to determine which key chemical molecules are altered in the human brain of schizophrenia; We have developed animal models for testing therapeutic approaches for studying the neuropathology of schizophrenia;
• Developmental neural biology: We study the impact of early brain development interruption, which may affect brain function in adulthood. We have developed animal models for testing treatment strategies and brain remodelling.

Publications:

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

Huang, X.F ., C. Deng and K. Zavitsanou (2006) Neuropeptide Y mRNA expression levels following chronic olanzapine, clozapine and haloperidol administration in rats.

Huang, X.F ., Y.H. Yu, K. Zavitsanou, M. Han, and L.H. Storlien (2005) Differential expression of dopamine D2 and D4 receptor and TH mRNA expression in mice prone, or resistant, to chronic high-fat diet-induced obesity. Molecular Brain Research.

Huang, X.F ., M. Han, and L.H. Storlien (2004) Differential expression of 5-HT2a and 5-HT2c receptor mRNA in mice prone, or resistant, to high-fat diet-induced obesity. Molecular Brain Research. 127:39-47.

Huang, X.F ., X. Huang, M. Han, F. Chen, L.H. Storlien and A. Lawrence (2004) 5-HT2A/2C receptor and 5-HT transporter densities in mice prone or resistant to chronic high-fat diet-induced obesity: a quantitative autoradiography study. Brain Research. 1018:227-235.

Huang, X.F ., X. Xin, P. McLennan and L.H. Storlien (2004) Role of fat amount and type in ameliorating diet-induced obesity: insights at the level of hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, leptin receptor, neuropeptide Y and pro-opiomelanocortin mRNA expression. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. 6(1) 35-45.