Selected Publications
[1] Wei Chen, Xinxin Ge, Qinrong Zhang, Ryan Natan, Jianglan Fang, Massimo Scanziani, Na Ji, “High-throughput volumetric mapping of synaptic transmission”, Nature Methods (in press), 2024
[2] Wei Chen, Ryan Natan, Yuhan Yang, Shih-Wei Chou, Qinrong Zhang, and Ehud Isacoff, Na Ji, “In vivo volumetric imaging of calcium and glutamate activity at synapses with high spatiotemporal resolution”, Nature Communications, 2021
[3] Chenyan Ma, Bing Li, Daniel Silverman, Xinlu Ding, Anan Li, Chi Xiao, Ganghua Huang, Kurtresha Worden, Sandra Muroy, Wei Chen, Zhengchao Xu, Chak Foon Tso, Yixuan Huang, Yufan Zhang, Qingming Luo, Kaoru Saijo, Yang Dan, “Microglia regulate sleep through calcium-dependent modulation of norepinephrine transmission”, Nature Neuroscience, 2024
[4] Rika Ohkubo*, Chih Ling Wang*, Wei-Chieh Mu*, Wei Chen, Jiang Lan Fan, Zehan Song, Andrew Widjaja, Peter Sudmant, Angela Pisco, Dena Dubal, Na Ji, Danica Chen, “The Mitochondrial Protein Folding Stress Regulates Cognitive Aging”, Cell Metabolism, 2023
[5] Qinrong Zhang*, Yuhan Yang*, Kevin Cao, Wei Chen, Santosh Paidi, Chun-Hong Xia, Richard H. Kramer, Xiaohua Gong, Na Ji, “Retinal microvascular and neuronal pathologies probed in vivo by adaptive optical twophoton fluorescence microscopy”, eLife, 2023
[6] Yuhan Yang, Wei Chen, Jianglai Fang, Na Ji, “Adaptive optics enables aberration-free remote focusing for two-photon fluorescence microscopy”, Biomedical Optical Express, 12 (1), 354-366， 2021
[7] Wei Chen, K. Park, Nora D. Volkow, Yingtian Pan, Alan P. Koretsky, Congwu Du, “Interactions between task-evoked cortical activity and spontaneous slow oscillations measured with neuronal calcium”, NeuroImage, 210, 116554，2020
[8] Wei Chen, Nora D Volkow, James Li, Yingtian Pan, Congwu Du, “Cocaine Decreases Spontaneous Neuronal Activity and Increases Low-Frequency Neuronal and Hemodynamic Cortical Oscillations”, Cerebral Cortex, 29 (4), 1594-1606，2018.
[9] Wei Chen, Congwu Du, Yingtian Pan, “Cerebral capillary flow imaging by wavelength-divisionmultiplexing swept-source optical Doppler tomography”, Journal of Biophotonics, 11 (8), 2018.
[10] Xiaochun Gu, Wei Chen, Nora Volkow, Alan Koretsky, Congwu Du, Yingtian Pan, “Synchronized Astrocytic Ca2+ Responses in Neurovascular Coupling during Somatosensory Stimulation and for the Resting State”, Cell Reports, 23 (13), 3878-3890，2018.
[11] Xiaochun Gu, Wei Chen, Jiang You, Alan P Koretsky, ND Volkow, Yingtian Pan, Congwu Du, “Longterm optical imaging of neurovascular coupling in mouse cortex using GCaMP6f and intrinsic hemodynamic signals”, NeuroImage, 165, 251-264， 2018.
[12] Kicheon Park, Wei Chen, Nora D. Volkow, Craig P. Allen, Yingtian Pan, Congwu Du, “Hemodynamic and Neuronal Responses to Cocaine Differ in Awake versus Anesthetized Animals: Optical Brain Imaging Study”, NeuroImage, 188, 188-197， 2018.
[13] Wei Chen*, Peng Liu*, Nora Volkow, Yingtian Pan, and Congwu Du, "Cocaine attenuates blood flow but not neuronal responses to stimulation while preserving neurovascular coupling for resting brain activity," Molecular Psychiatry, 21 (10), 1408-1416, 2016.
[14] Wei Chen, Kicheon Park, Nora Volkow, Yingtian Pan, and Congwu Du, "Cocaine Induced Abnormal Cerebral Hemodynamic Responses to Forepaw Stimulation Assessed by Integrated Multi-wavelength Spectroimaging and Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 22(4):6802608， 2016.
Patents:
[1] Yingtian Pan, Wei Chen, Congwu Du, Wavelength-division-multiplexing swept-source optical doppler tomography, U. S. Patent: US20210196126A1.
