Dr Dennis Wang

MD, PhD

Position:

• NHMRC Peter Doherty Research Fellow

Research Interests:

• To develop innovative and effective immunological and pharmacological treatments on Parkinson’s disease (PD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Stroke.         
• To explore cognitive dysfunctions in CNS diseases like PD, AD and vascular dementia (VD).
• Statins’ applications on neurodegenerative diseases.
• Inflammatory mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases like PD, AD and Stroke.

Publications:

• Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date.

Top Publications:

• Qing Wang(corresponding author), Ayse Zengin, Weihai Ying, Kelly A Newell, Penghua Wang, Wilf Yeo, Peter T Wong, Midori A Yenari, Xu-Feng Huang (2008). Chronic treatment with simvastatin upregulates muscarinic M1/4 receptor binding in the rat brain. Neuroscience. 154(3):1100-6.
  
  
• Yinghua Yu, Tim South, Qing Wang, Xufeng Huang (2008). Differential expression of hypothalamic CART mRNA in response to body weight change following different dietary interventions. Neurochemistry International. 52(8):1422-30.
  
  
• Xufeng Huang, Tim South, Deng Chao, Qing Wang. Ventromedial hypothalamic NPY Y2 receptor in the maintenance of body weight in diet-induced obesity in mice (2008). Neurochemical Research. 33 (9):1881-8.
  
  
• Qing Wang(corresponding author), Xu-Feng Huang (2008). Effects of chronic treatment of olanzapine and haloperidol on peptide YY binding desities in the rat brain. Experimental Neurology. 209(1):261-7.

Last reviewed: 24 July, 2008