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Place of Birth: Mengcheng County, Anhui, China
About Duan Shumin
- Duan Shumin is a Chinese neuroscientist.
- He completed his undergraduate and master's degrees at Bengbu Medical College, and his Ph.D from Kyushu University.
- Then he did his postdoctoral research at University of Hawaii and University of California, San Francisco.
- From 2000 to 2009 he served as a principal investigator in Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- He was elected a member of CAS in 2007, and of TWAS in 2008. Duan's research interests mainly focuses on synapses and neuron-glia interactions.
- His group found that when activated by ATP astrocytes can release glutamate through pores formed from P2X7 receptors; neuronal activities can be heterosynaptically suppressed by glia-released ATP and these ATP are released through exocytosis of lysosomes.
- They also clarified the mechanisms of LTP induced in neuron-glia synapses.
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