Lusha Xiang

Lusha Xiang

Affiliate Faculty

Department:
SOM-Physiology & Biophysics

Education

Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, China, MD, Medicine1997

Current Positions

Instructor, School of , Department of Physiology And Biophysics07/2005 - Present
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi 39216

Sponsored Program Funding

Extramural, Impact of orthopedic trauma on the pulmonary microcirculation in obesity and Type II diabetics, AHA07/2012 - 06/2016
Extramural, The Microcirculation in Health and Disease, NIH01/2009 - 12/2014
Extramural, Impaired Functional Vasodilation in obesity: role of TNF-alpha and IL-6., American Heart Association07/2007 - 06/2009
Extramural, Impaired Functional Hyperemia in Type 2 Diabetes, American Heart Association07/2005 - 06/2007

Publications

Journal Article

Xiang L, Lu S, Fuller W, Aneja A, Russell GV, Jones LB, Hester RL Impaired blood pressure recovery to hemorrhage in obese Zucker rats with orthopedic trauma. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2012 Jan;302 (1):H340-8.2012
Sebai M, Lu S, Xiang L (co-first author), Hester RL Improved Functional Vasodilation in Obese Zucker Rats following Exercise Training Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. ;301(3):H1090-62011
Xiang L, Hester RL, Fuller WL, Sebai ME, Mittwede PN, Jones EK, Aneja A, Russell GV Orthopedic trauma-induced pulmonary edema in the obese Zucker rats. Microcirculation. 2010 Nov; 17(8):650-9.doi: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2010.00061.x.2010
Xiang L, Hester RL. Adipocyte-derived factor reduces vasodilatory capability in ob-/ob- mice. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. ;297(2):H689-95.2009
Hodnett BL, Xiang L, Dearman JA, Carter CB, Hester RL. K(ATP)-mediated vasodilation is impaired in obese Zucker rats. Microcirculation. ;15(6):485-94.2008
Naik JS, Xiang L, Hodnett BL, Hester RL. Alpha-adrenoceptor-mediated vasoconstriction is not involved in impaired functional vasodilation in the obese Zucker rat. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. ;35(5-6):611-6.2008
Xiang L, Naik JS, Hester RL. Functional vasodilation in the rat spinotrapezius muscle: role of nitric oxide, prostanoids and epoxyeicosatrienoic acids. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. ;35(5-6):617-24.2008
Xiang L, Dearman J, Abram SR, Carter C, Hester RL. Insulin resistance and impaired functional vasodilation in obese Zucker rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. ;294(4):H1658-66.2008
5. Xiang L, Naik JS, Abram SR, Hester RL Chronic hyperglycemia impairs functional vasodilation via increasing thromboxane receptor-mediated vasoconstriction2007
Xiang L, Naik JS, Abram SR, Hester RL. Chronic hyperglycemia impairs functional vasodilation via increasing thromboxane-receptor-mediated vasoconstriction. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol.;292(1):H231-6.2007
Naik JS, Xiang L and Hester RL Enhanced role for RhoA-associated kinase in adrenergic-mediated vasoconstriction in gracilis arteries from obese Zucker rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol.;290(1):R154-61. 2006. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol.;290(1):R154-61.2006
Naik JS, Xiang L, Hodnett BL and Hester RL α-Adrenergic-Mediated Vasoconstriction is not Involved in the Impaired Functional Vasodilation in the Obese Zucker Rat2006
Xiang L, Naik JS, Hodnett BL, Hester RL. Altered arachidonic acid metabolism impairs functional vasodilation in metabolic syndrome. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. ;290(1):R134-8.2006
Naik JS, Xiang L, Hester RL. Enhanced role for RhoA-associated kinase in adrenergic-mediated vasoconstriction in gracilis arteries from obese Zucker rats. m J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. ;290(1):R154-61.2006
Xiang L, Naik JS and Hester RL Exercise-induced increase in skeletal muscle vasodilatory responses in Obese Zucker rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol.;288(4):R987-91.2005

Abstracts

Xiang L, Clenner J, Lu S Blunted Adrenergic Vasoconstriction Impairs Blood Pressure Recovery Following Severe Hemorrhage in Obese Zucker Rats 2012 APS Conference—Autonomic Regulation of Cardiovascular Function in Health and Disease2012
Mohamad E Sebai, Lusha Xiang, Elizabeth K Jones, and Robert L Hester Exercise training improves insulin resistance and the functional vasodilatation in non-exercising muscle in obese Zucker rats FASEB J25:814.32011
Xiang L, Lu S, Hester RL Impaired blood pressure compensation to hemorrhage in obese Zucker rats with orthopedic trauma. Gulf Coast Physiology Meeting. Jackson, 2011.2011
Mechanical ventilator-induced pulmonary injury in the obese Zucker rats FASEB J 25:638.22011
14. Xiang L, Hester RL, Fuller WL, Sebai ME, Mittwede PN, Jones EK, Aneja A, and Russell GV Orthopedic trauma-induced pulmonary edema in the obese Zucker rats Global Obeisty Summit2011
Silu Lu, Lusha Xiang, Mohamad E. Sebai, Elizabeth K. Jones, and Robert L The local and global effects from exercise training on the vascular responses to muscle contraction Gulf Coast Physiology Meeting2011
Louis Jones, William Fuller, Lusha Xiang, and Robert Hester Exercise training improves oxygen consumption and exercise performance in Obese Zucker rats2010
Xiang, William L Fuller, and Louis B Jones. Impaired arteriolar constriction to hemorrhage in obese Zucker rats with orthopedic trauma. FASEB J2010
Xiang L. Orthopedic trauma-induced pulmonary dysfunction in obese Zucker rats. FASEB J2010
Xiang L, Fuller W and Hester RL. Adipocyte derived factor(s) is suppressed in the visceral fat in MC4R-/- mice. FASEB J. 23:594.3.2009
Imapired functional vasodilation in ob-/ob- mice and obese Zucker rats: role of adipocyte released factors and KATP channels Abstract #29; JACKSON CARDIOVASCULAR-RENAL MEETING2008
Xiang L. Impaired functional vasodilation in obese Zucker rats: role of insulin resistance and inflammation. FASEB J2008
Xiang L and Hester RL. Local adipocyte derived factors-induced Activation of KATP in smooth muscle cells reduces functional vasodilatory capability in Ob-/ob- mice. Hypertension. 52:E55.2008
Xiang L., Hodnett BL.and Hester RL Rosiglitazone treatment improves the functional vasodilation in obese Zucker rats by increasing KATP function 8th world congress for microcirculation2007
Xiang L., Hodnett BL.and Hester RL. Rosiglitazone treatment improves the functional vasodilation in obese Zucker rats by increasing KATP function. 8th world congress for microcirculation2007
Xiang L and Abram SR. Up-regulated COX-2 and impaired functional vasodilation in obese Zucker rats. FASEB J.2007
Xiang L, Abram SR and Hester RL. Decreased functional vasodilation and increased thromboxane receptor-mediated vasoconstriction in diabetic rats. FASEB J 20:A11502006
Xiang L, Naik JS, Abram SR and Hester RL. Hyperglycemia impairs functional vasodilation via increasing thromboxane receptor-mediated vasoconstriction in obese Zucker rats. Hypertension vol. 48, No4, page E69 P1242006
Xiang L, Naik JS and Hester RL. Prostacyclin and Thromboxane Receptors Mediate the Impaired Functional Vasodilation in Metabolic Syndrome. Hypertension vol 46, No. 10, page 17, P89.2005
Xiang L, Naik JS and Hester RL. Exercise-induced Increase in Skeletal Muscle Vasodilatory Responses in Obese Zucker Rats. FASEB J2005
Xiang L, Clemmer J, Lu S, Lee LS, Hester RL Impaired Blood Pressure Compensation after Hemorrhage in Obesity. FASEB abstract #6924, 2012.

Book Chapter

Xiang L, Hester RL Cardiovascular responses to exercise. Colloquium Series on Integrated Systems Physiology: From Molecule to Function to Disease. Sept. 2011, Vol. 3, No. 7 , Pages 1-124. Morgan & Claypool Life Sciences.2011

Book

Xiang L, Li F and Xiang J. Nitric Oxide Molecular Ecology as a Neuromuscular Transmitter. Molecular Ecology. Chapter 52, #771252001

Presentations

Scientific Presentations, Impaired blood pressure compensation to hemorrhage in obese Zucker rats with orthopedic trauma, Gulf Coast Physiology Meeting 2011, Jackson2011
Scientific Presentations, Obesity and orthopedic trauma, AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology Podcast, http://ajpheart.podbean.com/2012/01/18/obesity-and-orthopedic-trauma/2011
Scientific Presentations, Imapired functional vasodilation in ob-/ob- mice and obese Zucker rats: role of adipocyte released factors and KATP channels., JACKSON CARDIOVASCULAR-RENAL MEETING, JACKSON, MS2008
Scientific Presentations, Local adipocyte derived factors-induced Activation of KATP in smooth muscle cells reduces functional vasodilatory capability in Ob-/ob- mice., 62rd High Blood Pressure Research Conference, Atlanta, GA2008

Honors, Awards, and Recognition

Scientist Development Grant, AHA2012
Merck New Investigator Award, American Heart Association2008
Beginning grant in aid “Impaired Functional Vasodilation in obesity: role of TNF-alpha and IL-6”., American Heart Association2007
August Krogh Young Investigator Travel Awards, American Microcirculatory Society2006
Postdoctoral Training Grant “Impaired Functional Hyperemia in Type 2 Diabetes”, American Heart Association2005