Dong Xu, MD, MS

Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Language: English

Education & Training

Education: Shandong Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China, 1984

Postgraduate Training: MS: Peking University, Peking, China, Physiology, 1989 Postdoctoral Fellowship: University of Connecticut, Farmingham, CT, Pharmacology, 1992

Research

Research Interests: Cardiovascular diseases; lung injury; pediatric rheumatology; vascular biology

Publications

Peripherally derived T regulatory and gammadelta T cells have opposing roles in the pathogenesis of intractable pediatric epilepsy
J Exp Med215 (4): 1169-1186
Monitoring change in volume of calcifications in juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathy: a pilot study using low dose computed tomography
Pediatr Rheumatol Online J14 (1): 64
A postnatal peak in microglial development in the mouse hippocampus is correlated with heightened sensitivity to seizure triggers
Brain Behav5 (12): e00403
MicroRNA-10a Regulation of Proinflammatory Mediators: An Important Component of Untreated Juvenile Dermatomyositis
J Rheumatol43 (1): 161-8