Xuefei Wu, M.D., Ph.D

• Xuefei acupuncture clinic is running from May 2009 in Helsinki, Finland.

• May.2005-Apr.2009......Postdoctoral research fellow at Neuroscience center, uiversity of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
• Aug.2002-Apr.2005......Postdoctoral research fellow at Shanghai institute of neuroscience, Chinese academy of science, Shanghai.
• Sep.1999-Jul.2002.......Studied and worked at Shanghai institute of acupuncture and meridian, Shanghai university of traditional Chinese medicine (received medical doctoral degree in July, 2002).
• Sep.1996-Jul.1999......Studied and worked at the first affiliated hospital of Gansu university of traditional Chinese medicine (received medical master degree in July, 1999).

• Aug.1994-Aug.1996......Worked at section of acupuncture & massage, Jingtai hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, Jingtai, Gansu.

List of scientific publications, both individual and joint:

• 1. Xuefei wu and Eero castren. Co-treatment with diazepam prevents the effects of fluoxetine on proliferation and survival of hippocampal dentate granule cells. Biological psychiatry. 2009, 66(1):5-8.
• 2. Xuefei Wu, Yongming Guo, Junjiang Zheng, Zhe Liu and Kuishan Zheng. Expertmental study of warming-dredging needling method on preventing lesion of of gastric mucosa in rats induced by stress. China Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibuxtion (in Chinese). 2001; 21(10): 609-611.
• 3. Xuefei Wu, Zheng Junjiang, Guo Yongming, Zheng KuiShan.Protective effective of waming-dredging needling method on lesion of gastric in rats induced by stress. China Journal of Acupuncture and Mosibustion(in Chinese). 2001, 20(4):40-42.
• 4. Xuefei Wu. Progress on regulation of gene-expression induced by acupuncture. Shanghai Journal of Acupcnture and Moxibuxtion(in Chinese)2002;20(2):45-51.
• 5. Shiqiong Liu, Wenyu Luo, Tong Ji and xuefei Wu. Observation on Therapeutic Effects of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Treatment in 42 Cases of Sequela of Cuillain-Barre Syndrome. China Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibuxtion(in Chinese). 2000; 20(1): 43-45.
• 6. Yu Fan, Xuefei Wu,Jili Yan and Shuming Yang and Ming Wan. Clinical study on the time of treating chemotherapy-induced toxic and side effects in malignant tumor patients by acupoint-injection of astragalus root injection. World Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. 2001, 11(1): 20-26.
• 7. Yongming GUO, Xianru Liang, Xuefei WU Junjiang Zheng, Zhe Liu and Kuishan Zheng. Effects of warming-reinforcing needling method on ultra-structure of the gastric antrum mucous cell in rat of gastric ulcer. China Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibuxtion (in Chinese). 2002; 22(12): 753-756.
• 8. Jiansong Sheng, Shuo yang, Lei XU, Chunhua Wu, Xuefei Wu Aiqun Li, Yi Yu, Hengjin Ni, Michiko Flukudo and Jiawei Zhou. Bystin as a novel marker for reative astrocytes in the adult rat brain following injury.European Journal of Neuroscience. 2004, 20(4):873-884.
• 9. Zhihua Li, Bingwei Wang, Xuefei Wu, Shiyuan Cheng, Luminita Paraoan and jiawei Zhou. Identification, expression and functional characterization of the GRAL gene. Journal of Neurochemistry. 2005, 95(2):361-376.
• 10. Lei Xu, Jiansong Sheng, Zhongshu Tang, Xuefei Wu, Yi Yu, Hong Guo, Yan Shen, Changfu Zhou, Luminita Paraoan, Jiawei Zhou. Cystatin C prevents degeneration of rat nigral dopaminergic neurons:in vitro and in vivo studies. Neurobiology of Disease. 2005, 18:152-165.
• 11. Shujing Zhang, Xuefei Wu, Siyou Wang and Weirong Xu. Effect of ectro-acupuncture on Bladder Hyperactivity and Its Relation with the Activity of the Spinal Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide and Pontine Tyrosine Hydroxylase in the Rat. Acupuncture research (in Chinese). 2006, 31(6):342-346.
• 12. Liping Ma, Min Yin, Xuefei Wu, Chunhua Wu, Shuo Yang, Jiansong Sheng, Ni, Hengjian, Fukuda, Michiko N, and Jiawei Zhou. Expression of trophinin and bystin identifies distinct cell types in the germinal zones of adult rat brain. European Journal of Neuroscience. 2006, 23(9): 2265-2276.
• 13. Olivia F. O'Leary, Xuefei Wu and Eero Castren. Chronic fluoxetine treatment increases expression of synaptic proteins in the hippocampus of a model of reduced hippocampal synapse density. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2009, 34(3): 367-381.
• 14. Min Yin, Shuxi Liu, Yanqing Yin, Sen Li, Zhihua Li, Xuefei Wu, Bo Zhang, Siew-Lan Ang, Yuqiang Ding, and Jiawei Zhou. Ventral Mesencephalon-Enriched Genes That Regulate the Development of Dopaminergic Neurons In Vivo.The Journal of Neuroscience. 2009, 29(16):5170-5182.