Wilson Cui, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
• Fellowship Cardiothoracic Anesthesia University of California, Los Angeles 2013
• Residency Anesthesiology University of California, San Francisco 2012
• Internship Evanston Hospital, Northwestern 2009
• M.D., Ph.D. University of Michigan Medical School 2008
• B.S. Chemistry/Biochemistry University of California, San Diego 1999

Interests

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• heart transplant
• echocardiography
• lung transplant

Publications (14)

Top publication keywords:
Aortic DiseasesExtracorporeal Membrane OxygenationGlycine Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsHeart DiseasesZebrafishZebrafish ProteinsTouchMotor NeuronsCardiopulmonary BypassFistulaVasoconstrictor AgentsCentral Nervous SystemCardiotonic AgentsSwimmingGlycine

• Pharmacologic approaches to weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
  Best practice & research. Clinical anaesthesiology 2015 Cui WW, Ramsay JG
• Aorta-right atrial tunnel in an elderly patient.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2013 Salehi A, Cui WW
• Stac3 is a component of the excitation-contraction coupling machinery and mutated in Native American myopathy.
  Nature communications 2013 Horstick EJ, Linsley JW, Dowling JJ, Hauser MA, McDonald KK, Ashley-Koch A, Saint-Amant L, Satish A, Cui WW, Zhou W, Sprague SM, Stamm DS, Powell CM, Speer MC, Franzini-Armstrong C, Hirata H, Kuwada …
• Connexin 39.9 protein is necessary for coordinated activation of slow-twitch muscle and normal behavior in zebrafish.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2011 Hirata H, Wen H, Kawakami Y, Naganawa Y, Ogino K, Yamada K, Saint-Amant L, Low SE, Cui WW, Zhou W, Sprague SM, Asakawa K, Muto A, Kawakami K, Kuwada JY
• TRPM7 is required within zebrafish sensory neurons for the activation of touch-evoked escape behaviors.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2011 Low SE, Amburgey K, Horstick E, Linsley J, Sprague SM, Cui WW, Zhou W, Hirata H, Saint-Amant L, Hume RI, Kuwada JY

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• touché Is required for touch-evoked generator potentials within vertebrate sensory neurons.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010 Low SE, Ryan J, Sprague SM, Hirata H, Cui WW, Zhou W, Hume RI, Kuwada JY, Saint-Amant L
• Na(v)1.6a is required for normal activation of motor circuits normally excited by tactile stimulation.
  Developmental neurobiology 2010 Low SE, Zhou W, Choong I, Saint-Amant L, Sprague SM, Hirata H, Cui WW, Hume RI, Kuwada JY
• The zebrafish ennui behavioral mutation disrupts acetylcholine receptor localization and motor axon stability.
  Developmental neurobiology 2008 Saint-Amant L, Sprague SM, Hirata H, Li Q, Cui WW, Zhou W, Poudou O, Hume RI, Kuwada JY
• Zebrafish relatively relaxed mutants have a ryanodine receptor defect, show slow swimming and provide a model of multi-minicore disease.
  Development (Cambridge, England) 2007 Hirata H, Watanabe T, Hatakeyama J, Sprague SM, Saint-Amant L, Nagashima A, Cui WW, Zhou W, Kuwada JY
• Non-sense mutations in the dihydropyridine receptor beta1 gene, CACNB1, paralyze zebrafish relaxed mutants.
  Cell calcium 2005 Zhou W, Saint-Amant L, Hirata H, Cui WW, Sprague SM, Kuwada JY
• The zebrafish shocked gene encodes a glycine transporter and is essential for the function of early neural circuits in the CNS.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005 Cui WW, Low SE, Hirata H, Saint-Amant L, Geisler R, Hume RI, Kuwada JY
• Zebrafish bandoneon mutants display behavioral defects due to a mutation in the glycine receptor beta-subunit.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005 Hirata H, Saint-Amant L, Downes GB, Cui WW, Zhou W, Granato M, Kuwada JY
• accordion, a zebrafish behavioral mutant, has a muscle relaxation defect due to a mutation in the ATPase Ca2+ pump SERCA1.
  Development (Cambridge, England) 2004 Hirata H, Saint-Amant L, Waterbury J, Cui W, Zhou W, Li Q, Goldman D, Granato M, Kuwada JY
• shocked Gene is required for the function of a premotor network in the zebrafish CNS.
  Journal of neurophysiology 2004 Cui WW, Saint-Amant L, Kuwada JY