Dr Qun Li - Researcher Profile

Biography

Qun works in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Monash University as a Research Fellow.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: The University of Sydney

Year awarded: 2002

MASTER OF MEDICINE

Institution: Shanghai Medical University

Year awarded: 1993

Publications

Journal Articles

de Bond, J.P., Li, Q., Millar, R.P., Clarke, I.J., Smith, J.T., 2013, Kisspeptin Signaling Is Required for the Luteinizing Hormone Response in Anestrous Ewes following the Introduction of Males, PLoS ONE [P], vol 8, issue 2, Public Library of Science, USA, pp. 1-11.

Spirovski, D., Li, Q., Pilowsky, P.M., 2012, Brainstem galanin-synthesizing neurons are differentially activated by chemoreceptor stimuli and represent a subpopulation of respiratory neurons, Journal of Comparative Neurology [P], vol 520, issue 1, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, USA, pp. 154-173.

Iqbal, J., Tonta, M.A., Mitsui, R., Li, Q., Kett, M.M., Li, J., Parkington, H.C., Hashitani, H., Lang, R.J., 2012, Potassium and ANO1/ TMEM16A chloride channel profiles distinguish atypical and typical smooth muscle cells from interstitial cells in the mouse renal pelvis, British Journal of Pharmacology [P], vol 165, issue 7, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, UK, pp. 2389-2408.

Li, Q., Rao, A., Clarke, I.J., Smith, J.T., 2012, Seasonal variation in the gonadotropin-releasing hormone response to kisspeptin in sheep: Possible kisspeptin regulation of the kisspeptin receptor, Neuroendocrinology [P], vol 96, issue 3, S. Karger AG, Switzerland, pp. 212-221.

Li, Q., Rao, A., Pereira, A., Clarke, I., Smith, J., 2011, Kisspeptin cells in the ovine arcuate nucleus express prolactin receptor but not melatonin receptor, Journal of Neuroendocrinology [P], vol 23, issue 10, Wiley-Blackwell, USA, pp. 871-882.

Smith, J.T., Li, Q., Yap, K.S., Shahab, M., Roseweir, A.K., Millar, R.P., Clarke, I.J., 2011, Kisspeptin is essential for the full preovulatory LH surge and stimulates GnRH release from the isolated ovine median eminence, Endocrinology [P], vol 152, issue 3, The Endocrine Society, USA, pp. 1001-1012.

Backholer, K., Smith, J.T., Rao, A., Pereira, A., Iqbal, J., Ogawa, S., Li, Q., Clarke, I.J., 2010, Kisspeptin cells in the ewe brain respond to leptin and communicate with neuropeptide Y and proopiomelanocortin cells, Endocrinology [P], vol 151, issue 5, The Endocrine Society, USA, pp. 2233-2243.

Smith, J.T., Li, Q., Pereira, A., Clarke, I.J., 2009, Kisspeptin neurons in the ovine arcuate nucleus and preoptic area are involved in the preovulatory luteinizing hormone surge, Endocrinology [P], vol 150, issue 12, The Endocrine Society, USA, pp. 5530-5538.

Pilowsky, P., Abbott, S., Burke, P., Farnham, M., Hildreth, C., Kumar, N., Li, Q., Lonergan, T., McMullan, S., Spirovski, D., Goodchild, A., 2008, Metabotropic neurotransmission and integration of sympathetic nerve activity by the rostral ventrolateral medulla in the rat, Clinical And Experimental Pharmacology And Physiology [P], vol 35, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell, USA, pp. 508-511.

Farnham, M., Li, Q., Goodchild, A., Pilowsky, P., 2008, PACAP is expressed in sympathoexcitatory bulbospinal C1 neurons of the brain stem and increases sympathetic nerve activity in vivo, American Journal Of Physiology-Regulatory Integrative And Comparative Physiology [P], vol 294, issue 4, American Physiological Society, USA, pp. R1304-R1311.

Clarke, I.J., Puspita Sari, I., Qi, Y., Smith, J.T., Parkington, H.C., Ubuka, T., Iqbal, J., Li, Q., Tilbrook, A.J., Morgan, K., Pawson, A.J., Tsutsui, K., Millar, R., Bentley, G.E., 2008, Potent action of RFamide-related peptide-3 on pituitary gonadotropes indicative of a hypophysiotropic role in the negative regulation of gonadotropin secretion, Endocrinology, vol 149, issue 11, The Endocrine Society, United States, pp. 5811-5821.

Burke, P., Li, Q., Costin, M., McMullan, S., Pilowsky, P., Goodchild, A., 2008, Somatostatin 2A receptor-expressing presympathetic neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla maintain blood pressure, Hypertension [P], vol 52, issue 6, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, USA, pp. 1127-1133.

Padley, J., Kumar, N., Li, Q., Nguyen, T., Goodchild, A., 2007, Central command regulation of circulatory function mediated by descending pontine cholinergic inputs to sympathoexcitatory rostral ventrolateral medulla neurons, Circulation Research [P], vol 100, issue 2, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, USA, pp. 284-291.

Seyedabadi, M., Li, Q., Padley, J.R., Pilowsky, P.M., Goodchild, A.K., 2006, A novel pressor area at the medullo-cervical junction that is not dependent on the RVLM: efferent pathways and chemical mediators, Journal Of Neuroscience [P], vol 26, issue 20, Society for Neuroscience, USA, pp. 5420-5427.

Kumar, N.N., Goodchild, A.K., Li, Q., Pilowsky, P.M., 2006, An aldosterone-related system in the ventrolateral medulla oblongata of spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar-Kyoto rats, Clinical And Experimental Pharmacology And Physiology [P], vol 33, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 71-75.

Li, Q., Goodchild, A.K., Seyedabadi, M., Pilowsky, P.M., 2005, Preprotachykinin A mRNA is colocalized with tyrosine hydroxylase- immunoreactivity in bulbospinal neurons, Neuroscience [P], vol 136, issue 1, Pergamon, UK, pp. 205-216.