Dinghong Zhang

Dinghong Zhang, a postdoc at UCSD, is currently working on mechanisms of microRNA in diet induce obesity by multiple methods, including in vivo tail vein virus injection to overexpress or knockdown some candidate genes, GTT, ITT, body weight and food intake behavior, brain or liver RNAscope and in vitro siRNA to knockdown genes in cultured hepatocytes after liver perfusion, ROS measurement, qPCR, western blotting and exosome isolation.