Name: Mingxia Cui

Professional Title：Associate Professor，

                    Master’s Supervisor

Office:

E-mail: cuimx@lzu.edu.cn

Research Interests: Pharmacology of new drugs, Antidiabetic and antiobesity pharmacology

 

Education/Training:

1997  B.Sc. in Pharmacy, Lanzhou Medical College

2003  M.Sc. in Pharmacology, Lanzhou Medical College

2009  Ph. D. in Cell Biology, Lanzhou University

2010 —2011  Visiting scholar, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York

 

Awards & Honors:

2008  Pharmacology, toxicology and mechanism of different protein drugs in tissue repair and inflammatory process. Second prize of Scientific and Technological Advancement of Gansu province.

Projects: 

1.    The Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural  Science Foundation of China. The study on mechanism of recombinant human ciliary neurotrophic factor against experimental nonalcoholic fatty liver, 2007-2009

2.  Gansu Natural Science Fund. The therapeutic effect of rhvCNTF on atherosclerosis, 2006－2007

3.  The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. Effects of rhvCNTF on metabolic disorders in obesity-resistant rats. 2011. 07—2013. 06

4.  The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. Mechanism of CNTF on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease induced by high fructose or high-fat diet based on insulin signaling pathway of hepatic glucose and lipid metabolism. 2017. 01—2018. 12

 

Publications:

Cui MX, Yang LN, Wang  XX, Wang L, Li RL, Han W, Wu YJ*. Alleviative effect of ciliary neurotrophic factor analogue on high fat-induced hepatic steatosis is partially independent of the central regulation. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 2017;44:395–402.

Cui MX, Jiang JJ, Min GN, Han W, and Wu YJ.*. Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor Analogue Aggravates CCl₄-induced Acute Hepatic Injury in Rats. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. 2017;95:620–623.

Jiang JJ, Zhai J, Liu ZRJ, Chao L, Zhao YF, Wu YJ*, Cui MX*. Ampelopsin sodium induces mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis in human lung adenocarcinoma SPC-A-1 cell line. Pharmazie. 2016;71:455–459.

Jiang JJ, Wu YJ, Wang XX, Lu L, Wang L, Zhang BL, Cui MX*. Blood free fatty acids were not increased in high-fat diet induced obese insulin-resistant animals. Obesity Research & Clinical Practice. 2016;10:207–210.

Cui MX, Yu H, Wang JL, Gao JJ, and Li J*. Chronic Caloric Restriction and Exercise Improve Metabolic Conditions of Dietary-Induced Obese Mice in Autophagy Correlated Manner without Involving AMPK. Journal of Diabetes Research. 2013:852754.