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Juan Lai

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Liping WangiD· 3 shared Fuqiang XuiD· 2 shared Liming TaniD· 2 shared Pengfei WeiiD· 2 shared Xuemei LiuiD· 2 shared Yuanming LiuiD· 2 shared Bo FengiD· 1 shared Chen CheniD· 1 shared

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Neural Circuit Underlying Individual differences in Visual Escape Habituation

Xuemei Liu, Juan Lai, Chuanliang Han, Hao Zhong, Kang Huang, Yuanming Liu, Xutao Zhu, Pengfei Wei, Liming Tan, Fuqiang Xu, Liping Wang

The paper identifies two distinct visual escape behaviors and their neural pathways, revealing how the mediodorsal thalamus modulates arousal and defensive responses to repeated threats.

Neuron · May 9, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

A bone-derived protein primes rapid visual escape via GPR37 receptor in a subpopulation of VTA GABAergic neurons

Xuemei Liu, Juan Lai, Xiang Gao, Lina Wang, Yali Hu, Guoyang Liao, Shaohua Ma, Bo Feng, Liang Yang, Zhengjiang Qian, Liming Tan, Xiang Li, Liping Wang

This paper shows that osteocalcin primes rapid visual escape via GPR37 in VTA GABAergic neurons by reducing K+ currents through cAMP and THIK-1 suppression.

bioRxiv · Aug 12, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience

A VTA GABAergic neural circuit mediates visually evoked innate defensive responses

Zheng Zhou, Xuemei Liu, Shanping Chen, Zhijian Zhang, Yuanming Liu, Quentin Montardy, Yongqiang Tang, Pengfei Wei, Nan Liu, Lei Li, Ru Song, Juan Lai, Xiaobin He, Chen Chen, Guo‐Qiang Bi, , Liping Wang

This study identifies VTA GABAergic neurons as critical for visually evoked innate defensive behaviors in mice.

Neuron · Jun 12, 2019Peer-reviewedNeuroscience