Dr. Cui is Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and member of the College of Pharmacy Division of Radiation Health.
Dr. Cui’s research focuses on cancer and radiation, particularly on mechanisms of how to make radiation therapy more tolerable, safer, and more effective, by addressing oxidative stress in radiation, gene-therapy in amelioration of radiation-associated oxidative stress and signaling pathways in cell death/damage following oxidative stress elicited by ionizing radiation.
Dr. Cui received her MD degree from Wuhan University School of Medicine, P.R.China, in 1982 and her PhD degree from the department of pediatric Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, in 1999.
Dr. Cui has published 30 peer reviewed scientific articles and book chapters. Images in her papers were selected five times as cover page of the respective journals. She has had a broad research interest in Nutrition and Neuroscience. Before accepting her current position, Dr Cui was trained in Kyushu University and Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan, and University of Florida and Mayo Clinic in USA. Dr. Cui is versatile in applications of cutting-edge molecular biology techniques, attributable to her training in various research fields. She has served as external reviewer for several scientific journals.
Dr. Cui received a Pilot Project Grants Award in Alzheimer’s disease Research, Mayo Clinic in 2003; The Academic Award for the Fourth Japan Society for Biomedical Research on Trace Elements in 1998, Sapporo Japan; An Award of Scholarship from the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Osaka University Medical School Japan; and a Visiting Scholars Training Grant of the Chinese Government.
Recent Publications
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Cui L, Hofer T, Rani A, Leeuwenburgh C, Foster TC: Comparison of lifelong and late life exercise on oxidative stress in the cerebellum. Neurobiol Aging 2008 in press. PMID: 17976863
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Aenlle KK, Kumar A, Cui L, Jackson TC, Foster TC: Estradiol effects on cognition and hippocampal transcription in middle-aged mice. Neurobiol Aging 2008 in press. PMID: 17950954
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Xu Y, Ku B, Cui L, Li X, Barish PA, Foster TC, Ogle WO: Curcumin reverses impaired hippocampal neurogenesis, serotonin receptor 1A mRNA and brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in chronically-stressed rats. Brain Res 2007;1162:9-18. PMID: 17617388
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Foster TC, Rani A, Kumar A, Cui L, Semple-Rowland SL: Viral vector-mediated delivery of estrogen receptor-alpha to the hippocampus improves spatial learning in estrogen receptor-alpha knockout mice. Mol Ther 2008;16:1587-1593. PMID: 18594506
