Boggs Center for Energy and BiotechnologyTulane University

Faculty: Guoyong Wang, M.D., Ph.D.

Guoyong Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Structural and Cellular Biology

M.D. degree from Ningxia Medical College, China, 1990
Ph.D. degree from Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Physiology, 1994
Email: gwang@tulane.edu

Research Interests

Assistant Professor of Structural and Cellular Biology. Functional and structural organization of retinal ganglion cells.

Representative Publications

Wang, G-Y. van der List, D.A., Nemargut, J.P., Coombs, J.L., Chalupa, L.M. (2007) The sensitivity of Light-evoked responses of retinal ganglion cells is decreased in nitric oxide synthase gene knockout mice. Journal of Vision, 7(14):7, 1-13, http//journalofvision.org/7/14/7/,  doi:10.1167/7.14.7\

Wang, G-Y. (2006) Unique functional properties of the APB sensitive and insensitive rod pathways signaling

light decrements in mouse retinal ganglion cells. Visual Neuroscience, 23: 127-135.

Coombs, J., Van Der List, D., Wang, G-Y., Chalupa, LM. (2006) Morphological properties of mouse retinal ganglion cells. Neuroscience, 140: 123-136.

Wang, G-Y., Liets, LC., Chalupa, LM. (2003) Nitric oxide differentially modulates On and Off responses of retinal ganglion cells. Journal of Neurophysiology, 90: 1304-1313.

Huberman, A., Wang, G-Y., Liets, LC., Collins, OA., Chapman, B., Chalupa, LM. (2003) Eye-specific retinogeniculate segregation independent of normal neuronal activity. Science 300: 994-998.

Liets, LC., Olshausen, B.A., Wang, G-Y., Chalupa, L.M. (2003) Spontaneous activity of morphologically identified ganglion cells in the developing ferret retina. Journal of Neuroscience, 23(19): 7343-7350.

Wang, G-Y., Liets, LC., Chalupa, L.M. (2001) Unique functional properties of On and Off pathways in the developing mammalian retina. Journal of Neuroscience, 21(12): 4310-4317.

Wang, G-Y., Olshausen, B.A., Chalupa, L.M. (1999) Differential effects of apamin- and charybdotoxin-sensitive K+ conductances on spontaneous discharge patterns of developing retinal ganglion cells. Journal of Neuroscience, 19(7):2609-18.

Robinson, D.W. and Wang, G.Y. (1998) Development of intrinsic membrane properties in mammalian retinal ganglion cells. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 9(3):301-10.

Wang, G.Y., Robinson, D.W. and Chalupa, L.M. (1998) Calcium-activated potassium conductances in retinal ganglion cells of the ferret. Journal of Neurophysiology, 9(1):151-8.

Wang, G.Y., Ratto, G., Bisti, S., and Chalupa, L.M. (1997) Functional development of intrinsic properties in ganglion cells of the mammalian retina. Journal of Neurophysiology, 78(6):2895-903.

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