Weiwei Liu

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
138 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Weiwei Liu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Weiwei Liu has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 40 papers in Immunology and 22 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Weiwei Liu's work include Inflammasome and immune disorders (14 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (13 papers) and interferon and immune responses (12 papers). Weiwei Liu is often cited by papers focused on Inflammasome and immune disorders (14 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (13 papers) and interferon and immune responses (12 papers). Weiwei Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Weiwei Liu's co-authors include Joan W. Berman, Sunhee C. Lee, Celia F. Brosnan, Dennis W. Dickson, Yalei Dai, Yanlin Yin, Takashi Ikejima, Toshihiko Hayashi, Satoshi Onodera and Shunji Hattori and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Weiwei Liu

131 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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Cytokine production by human fetal microglia and astrocytes. Differential induction by lipopolysaccharide and IL-1 beta

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Palmitoylation of TBK1 enhances the type I interferon signaling and strengthens anti-malarial immunity in mice 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Liying Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Weiwei Liu, Xiao Yu	1
2	Lactiplantibacillus plantarum FRT4 protects against fatty liver hemorrhage syndrome: regulating gut microbiota and FoxO/TLR-4/NF-κB signaling pathway in laying hens 2025 ·Microbiome ·(unknown), Kun Meng, Guohua Liu, Zhiguo Wen, Yunsheng Han, Weiwei Liu, Xin Xu, (unknown), Hongying Cai, Peilong Yang	5
3	Targeted inhibition of macrophage STING signaling alleviates inflammatory injury and ventricular remodeling in acute myocardial infarction 2025 ·Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B ·Huan Yao, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yuanyuan Luo, (unknown), Weiwei Liu, Chuan Zheng, Xueping Li, Yongxiang Gao	3
4	Quercetin alleviates rifampicin-induced hepatocyte injury by modulating the Hippo-YAP signaling pathway 2025 ·Frontiers in Medicine ·Weiwei Liu, Hui Li, (unknown)	0
5	Exploring Multi-Tissue Alternative Splicing and Skeletal Muscle Metabolism Regulation in Obese- and Lean-Type Pigs 2024 ·Genes ·Wei Wang, (unknown), Weiwei Liu, Zishuai Wang, (unknown), Xiaogan Yang, Zhonglin Tang	1
6	LncTUG1 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma immune evasion via upregulating PD-L1 expression 2023 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Weiwei Liu, Qingping Yang, Jingling Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Linquan Wu, Enliang Li	9
7	Increased mitochondrial fission induces NLRP3/cGAS-STING mediated pro-inflammatory pathways and apoptosis in UVB-irradiated immortalized human keratinocyte HaCaT cells 2023 ·Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics ·Can Li, Yuying Zhu, Weiwei Liu, Toshihiko Hayashi, (unknown), (unknown), Kazunori Mizuno, Shunji Hattori, Hitomi Fujisaki, (unknown)	16
8	Circ-ZEB1 promotes PIK3CA expression by silencing miR-199a-3p and affects the proliferation and apoptosis of hepatocellular carcinoma 2022 ·Molecular Cancer ·Weiwei Liu, Lu Zheng, (unknown), (unknown), Jiakun Wang, Linquan Wu, Jing Li	67
9	Panaxatriol saponin ameliorates myocardial infarction-induced cardiac fibrosis by targeting Keap1/Nrf2 to regulate oxidative stress and inhibit cardiac-fibroblast activation and proliferation 2022 ·Free Radical Biology and Medicine ·Huan Yao, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yuanyuan Gong, Xueping Li, Weiwei Liu, Zhiyi Xu, (unknown), Chuan Zheng, Yongxiang Gao	54
10	TH17 cells promote CNS inflammation by sensing danger signals via Mincle 2022 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Weiwei Liu, Han Wang, Hao Zhou, Katarzyna Bulek, Xing Chen, Cun‐Jin Zhang, Junjie Zhao, Renliang Zhang, Caini Liu, Zizhen Kang, Robert A Bermel, George Dubyak, Derek W. Abbott, Tsan Sam Xiao, Laura E. Nagy, Xiaoxia Li	17
11	IGF-1R/YAP signaling pathway is involved in collagen V-induced insulin biosynthesis and secretion in rat islet INS-1 cells 2022 ·Connective Tissue Research ·Yingying Zhu, (unknown), Weiwei Liu, Fanxing Xu, Jingyu Lu, Toshihiko Hayashi, Kazunori Mizuno, Shunji Hattori, Hitomi Fujisaki, Takashi Ikejima	3
12	Amino acids and RagD potentiate mTORC1 activation in CD8⁺ T cells to confer antitumor immunity 2021 ·Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer ·Yiwen Zhang, (unknown), Weiwei Liu, Shumei Yan, Yuzhuang Li, Likai Tan, Yingshi Chen, Jun Liu, Zhilin Peng, Yaochang Yuan, Wenjing Huang, Fei Yu, Xin He, Bo Li, Hui Zhang	19
13	Inhibition of hypertrophic scar formation with oral asiaticoside treatment in a rabbit ear scar model 2021 ·International Wound Journal ·Jia Huang, (unknown), Lingling Xia, Weiwei Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Jianhui Liu, (unknown), (unknown)	25
14	Taxonomy and phylogeny of two poorly studied genera of marine oligotrich ciliates including descriptions of two new species: Cyrtostrombidium paraboreale sp. n. and Apostrombidium orientale sp. n. (Ciliophora: Spirotrichea) 2019 ·European Journal of Protistology ·Wen Song, Dapeng Xu, Qianqian Zhang, Weiwei Liu, Alan Warren, Weibo Song	15
15	[Electroacupuncture and moxibustion pretreatments reduce cardiomyocyte apoptosis and autophagy in rats with myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury]. 2019 ·PubMed ·Lin Du, (unknown), Chao Wang, Wei Zhang, (unknown), Meilin Chen, Weiwei Liu, (unknown)	5
16	Nursing Methods for Improving Medication Compliance of Diabetic Patients with Tumor 2019 ·Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences ·Hui Yang, Weiwei Liu, (unknown), Xue Lin, Lu Wang	0
17	Profilin-1 contributes to cardiac injury induced by advanced glycation end-products in rats 2017 ·Molecular Medicine Reports ·Dafeng Yang, Weiwei Liu, Liping Ma, Ya Wang, Jing Ma, (unknown), Xu Deng, Fang Huang, Tianlun Yang, Meifang Chen	16
18	Studies on three diverse Frontonia species (Ciliophora, Peniculida), with brief notes on 14 marine or brackish congeners 2013 ·Acta Protozoologica ·Xuming Pan, Weiwei Liu, Zhenzhen Yi, Xinpeng Fan, Khaled A. S. Al‐Rasheid, Xiaofeng Lin	15
19	Reactive oxygen species H2O2 and OH, but not O2− promote oridonin-induced phagocytosis of apoptotic cells by human histocytic lymphoma U937 cells 2013 ·International Immunopharmacology ·Linghe Zang, Hao He, Qian Xu, Yang Yu, Nan Zheng, Weiwei Liu, Toshihiko Hayashi, Shin‐ichi Tashiro, Satoshi Onodera, Takashi Ikejima	30
20	Dual effects of silibinin treatment on autophagy-regulated dermal apoptosis retardation and epidermal apoptosis up-regulation in UVB-induced skin inflammation 2012 ·Journal of Asian Natural Products Research ·Qiong Wang, Yuanchao Ye, Weiwei Liu, Shan Jiang, Shin‐ichi Tashiro, Satoshi Onodera, Fengying Gu, Yonggang Wang, Takashi Ikejima	16

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