Cunfeng F. Pu
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Academic title Assistant Professor of Pathology
College College of Medicine
Campuses Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Department Pathology
Graduate programs
Email Phone
  cunfengpu@psu.edu
  717 531 8351
 
Educational background
  M.S., Capital Institute of Medicine, China, 1987
Ph.D, University of Cincinnati, 1995
M.D., Xuzhou Medical College, China, 1984
Residency, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Fellowship, Washington University School of Medicine
Research interests
 

Neurodegeneration


Brain tumor


Muscle pathology

Areas of expertise
 
Caudate NucleusDopamine Uptake Inhibitors
MethamphetamineNeurotoxins
PutamenBiogenic Monoamines
Corpus StriatumGlial Fibrillary Acidic Protein
Glutamic AcidNeurons
Somatosensory CortexDizocilpine Maleate
ImmunohistochemistryAstrocytes
DopamineNaphthyridines
NeostriatumNerve Endings
Publication author name
  Pu C
Pu CF
Select publications
  Cappon GD. Pu C. Vorhees CV. Time-course of methamphetamine-induced neurotoxicity in rat caudate-putamen after single-dose treatment. 2000 Apr 28. Brain Res. 863(1-2):106-11.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Fukumura M. Cappon GD. Pu C. Broening HW. Vorhees CV. A single dose model of methamphetamine-induced neurotoxicity in rats: effects on neostriatal monoamines and glial fibrillary acidic protein. 1998 Sep 21. Brain Res. 806(1):1-7.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Pu C. Broening HW. Vorhees CV. Effect of methamphetamine on glutamate-positive neurons in the adult and developing rat somatosensory cortex. 1996 Aug. Synapse. 23(4):328-34.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Pu C. Vorhees CV. Protective effects of MK-801 on methamphetamine-induced depletion of dopaminergic and serotonergic terminals and striatal astrocytic response: an immunohistochemical study. 1995 Feb. Synapse. 19(2):97-104.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Pu C. Fisher JE. Cappon GD. Vorhees CV. The effects of amfonelic acid, a dopamine uptake inhibitor, on methamphetamine-induced dopaminergic terminal degeneration and astrocytic response in rat striatum. 1994 Jun 27. Brain Res. 649(1-2):217-24.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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