Tan Zhang, MD, PhD

Research Interests

Education: MD, Qingdao University, 1998; PhD, Peking University Health Science Center (PUHSC) (Beijing Medical University), 2004
Fellowship: Musculoskeletal, National Institutes of Health, 2009; Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2013
Memberships: American Heart Association; Gerontological Society of America
Positions: Assistant Professor, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Departments and Affiliations: Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine; Center for Precision Medicine; Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention

The sympathetic nervous system regulates skeletal muscle motor innervation and acetylcholine receptor stability. Rodrigues ACZ, Messi ML, Wang ZM, Abba MC, Pereyra A, Birbrair A, Zhang T, O'Meara M, Kwan P, Lopez EIS, Willis MS, Mintz A, Files DC, Furdui C, Oppenheim RW, Delbono O. Acta Physiol (Oxf). 2019 03; 225(3):e13195.
BDA-410 Treatment Reduces Body Weight and Fat Content by Enhancing Lipolysis in Sedentary Senescent Mice. Pereyra AS, Wang ZM, Messi ML, Zhang T, Wu H, Register TC, Forbes E, Devarie-Baez NO, Files DC, Abba MC, Furdui C, Delbono O. J. Gerontol. A Biol. Sci. Med. Sci. 2017 Aug; 72(8):1045-1053.
MicroRNA Profiling and Target Genes Related to Metastasis of Salivary Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma. Feng X, Matsuo K, Zhang T, Hu Y, Mays AC, Browne JD, Zhou X, Sullivan CA. Anticancer Res. 2017 07; 37(7):3473-3481.
Cardiac troponin T and fast skeletal muscle denervation in ageing. Xu Z, Feng X, Dong J, Wang ZM, Lee J, Furdui C, Files DC, Beavers KM, Kritchevsky S, Milligan C, Jin JP, Delbono O, Zhang T. J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle. 2017 Oct; 8(5):808-823.
Circulating MiRNAs as biomarkers of gait speed responses to aerobic exercise training in obese older adults. Zhang T, Brinkley TE, Liu K, Feng X, Marsh AP, Kritchevsky S, Zhou X, Nicklas BJ. Aging (Albany NY). 2017 03; 9(3):900-913.

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