Dongmei Cui

Dongmei Cui, M.S.

Instructor of Anatomy
Department of Anatomy
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
2500 North State Street
Jackson, Mississippi 39216-4505

Office Telephone: 601-984-1659
Department FAX:   601-984-1655
      : dcui@anatomy.umsmed.edu

Education

M.S., University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2004

 

Research and Teaching Interests

The study of eye movements is a source of valuable information to both clinicians and basic scientists. My research interests focus on the neural control of voluntary eye movements (saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements). Recent research from this laboratory has described the neural connections of the Frontal Eye Field (FEF) with the basal ganglia, cerebellum, and other subcortical nuclei. We have proposed that the FEF is involved in cortical-basal ganglia-cortical and cortical-cerebellar-cortical feedback loops that are important for the control of saccadic and pursuit eye movements. I am also interested in collaboration with other faculty in clinical and basic sciences research.

My educational responsibilities involve teaching Medical Histology and Medical Neurobiology to first year medical students and teaching Dental Histology to first year dental students. I very much enjoy working with students.

 

Computer Graphic and 3D Model

Frontal eye field and basal ganglia. Image of basal ganglia and labeled axon terminals.
Frontal eye field and basal ganglia. 3D view of basal ganglia and distribution of labeled axon terminals from FEFsem (green) and FEFsac (red).

Selected Publications

  1. Cui, Dongmei. and Zhou, Zhiyin. Foreign Body Removal from the Cornea, Report of 200 cases. Journal of No.57 Kunming Hospital. January 1992, pp. 56-57.
  2. Zhu, Guanzhi. and Cui, Dongmei. Symptomatic Analysis of Auditory Injuries of Artillery Soldiers Caused by Impulse Noise in the Laoshan Zone. Southwestern State Defense Medicine, 3(3): 140-42, 1993.
  3. Jones M, Zhang F, Blain B, Guo M, Cui D, Dorsett-Martin W, Lineaweaver WC. Influence of Recipient-bed Isolation on Survival Rates of Skin-flap Transfer in Rats. J Reconstr Microsurg. 17(8):653-8, 2001.
  4. Yan, Y.-J., Cui, D.-M., and Lynch, J.C. Overlap of Saccadic and Pursuit Eye Movement Systems in the Brainstem Reticular Formation. J. Neurophysiol., 86: 3056-3060, 2001.
  5. Zhang F., Fischer K., Komorowska-Timek E., Guo M., Cui, D, Dorsett-Martin W., Buncke H.J., Lineaweaver W.C.: Improvement of Skin Paddle Survival by Application of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in a rat TRAM flap model. Annals of Plastic Surgery, 46: 314-319, 2001.
  6. Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J.C. The Pursuit Subregion of the Frontal Eye Field Projects to the Caudate Nucleus in Monkey. J. Neurophysiol. 89: 2678 - 2684, 2003.
  7. Lineaweaver WC., Lei, MP., Mustain,W., Oswald TM., Cui D., Zhang, F. Vascular Endothelium Growth Factor, Surgical Delay, and Skin Flap Survival. Annals of Plastic Surgery 239(6): 866-73, 2004.
  8. Yan, Y.-J., Cui, D.-M., and Lynch, J.C. Direct Pontine Projections from the Functionally Defined Smooth Pursuit and Saccadic Subregions of the FEF in Cebus Monkeys. In progress.
  9. Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J.C. The Projection from the Pursuit Subregion of the Frontal Eye Field to the Putamen in Cebus Monkey. In progress.

Selected Abstracts

  1. Yan, Y.-J., Cui, D.-M., and Lynch, J.C. Efferent Targets of the Pursuit Subregion of the Frontal Eye Field in Cebus Monkey Include the Superior Colliculus, Pontine Nuclei, and Caudate Nucleus. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 25: 1397, 1999.
  2. Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J.C. The Caudate Nucleus is a Major Target of Visual Pursuit Signals from the Frontal Eye Field in Monkeys. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. (ARVO) 41: S307, 2000.
  3. Yan, Y.-J., Cui, D.-M., and Lynch, J.C. Pursuit Subregion of the Frontal Eye Field projects Directly to Brainstem Premotor Areas in Cebus Monkey. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 26: 1717, 2000.
  4. Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J.C. Basal Ganglia Circuits Related to Visual Pursuit in Monkey. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 26: 1717, 2000.
  5. Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J.C. Organization of Projections from the Frontal Pursuit area to the Putamen in Cebus monkeys. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., Vol, 27, Program No. 404.1, 2001.
  6. Yan, Y.-J., Cui, D.-M., and Lynch, J.C. Distribution of Pontine Terminals from Saccade and Smooth Pursuit Subregions of Frontal Fye Field in Cebus Monkeys. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., Vol, 27, Program No. 404.2, 2001.
  7. Yan, Y.-J., Cui, D.-M., and Lynch, J.C. Direct Projections from the Saccade and Pursuit Subregions of the Frontal Eye Field to the Brainstem Oculomotor Related Reticular Formation. The FASEB Journal Abstracts 15: A1076, 2001.
  8. Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J.C. Three-dimensional Dynamic Virtual Models Depict the Relationship between Pursuit and Saccade Projections from the Frontal Eye Field to the Striatum. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. Vol, 28, Program No. 364.12. 2002.
  9. Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J.C. Three-dimensional Model of the Terminal Fields in the Caudate and Putamen that are Labeled by BDA. Invest. Ophthal.Vis. Sci. (ARVO) 43:B647, 2002.
  10. Cui, D.-M., Lynch, J.C. Dynamic Virtual Three-Dimensional Model Depicts the Relationship between the Terminal Fields of Projections from the Pursuit and Saccade Subregions of the frontal Eye Field to the Caudate and Putamen. Abstracst, NCM Annual Meeting, Vol.9, H-06, Spain. 2004.
  11. Cui, D.-M., Lynch, J.C. Independent Oculomotor Feedback Loop Circuits from Frontal Eye Field through the Basal Ganglia. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. Vol, 30, Program No.186.7, 2004.
  12. Cui, D.-M., Lynch, J.C. Neural Connections of Subregions of the Frontal Eye Field with the Intralaminar Thalamic Nuclei in Monkeys. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. Vol, 31, Program No. 166.4, 2005.
  13. Cui, D.-M., Lynch, J.C. Contributions of the Anterior Intralaminar Nuclei of the Thalamus to Cortico-Subcortical Oculomotor Loops. Abstracts, NCM Annual Meeting, Vol.11, B-05. 2006.

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