Expertise at Chang Gung System

Yang, Ya-Chin ,Ph.D.
Institution: Chang Gung university
Position: Associate professor
Department: Department of Biomedical Sciences
Address: 259 Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan
Tel: +886-3-2118800 ext 3394
E-mail: ycyang@mail.cgu.edu.tw

Focus of Interest:
  • Neurosciences
  • Pharmacology & Pharmacy
  • Physiology

Fulltime Employment:
  • 2008~ Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chang-Gung University
  • 2006~2007 Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences/Assistant Research Fellow, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University
  • 2004~2006 Postdoctoral fellow, Division of Neuroscience, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
  • 2003~2004 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Physiology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine

Education:
  • 1999~2003 Ph.D. Department of Physiology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine
  • 1995~1998 M.Sc. Department of Pharmacology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine
  • 1991~1995 B.Sc. School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University
  • 1988~1991 Taipei First Girls High School

Selected Main Publications:
  1. Y.-C. Yang*, C.-C. Hu and Y.-C. Lai (2015) Non-additive modulation of synaptic transmission by serotonin, adenosine,and cholinergic modulators in the sensory thalamus. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 9:60.(*Corresponding Author)
  2. Y.-C. Yang*, C.-C. Hu, C.-S. Huang, and P.-Y. Chou (2014) Thalamic synaptic transmission of sensory information modulated by synergistic interaction of adenosine and serotonin. Journal of Neurochemistry 128:852-863(*Corresponding Author)
  3. C.-H. Tai, M.-K. Pan, J. J. Lin, C.-S. Huang, Y.-C. Yang* and C.-C. Kuo* (2012) Subthalamic discharges as a causal determinant of parkinsonian motor deficits. Annals of Neurology 72(3):464-76. (*Corresponding Author)
  4. C.-H. Tai, Y.-C. Yang (co-first author), M.-K. Pan, C.-S. Huang, and C.-C. Kuo (2011) Modulation of subthalamic T-type Ca2+ channels remedies locomotor deficits in a rat model of Parkinson disease. Journal of Clinical Investigation 121(8):3289-3305.
  5. Y.-C. Yang and C.-C. Kuo (2003) The position of the fourth segment of domain 4 determines status of the inactivation gate in Na+ channels.Journal of Neuroscience 23:4922-4930.

 

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Board Certification:
  • Board-Certified Pharmacist