Yi Shen, Huaping Qin, Juan Chen, Lingyan Mou, Yang He, Yixiu Yan, Hang Zhou, Ya Lv, Zhong Chen, Junlu Wang, Yu-Dong Zhou (2016). Postnatal activation of TLR4 in astrocytes promotes excitatory synaptogenesis in hippocampal neurons, Journal of Cell Biology, 215(5):719-734.

Chunlu Li, Yixiu Yan, Jingjing Cheng, Gang Xiao, Jueqing Gu, Luqi Zhang, Siyu Yuan4, Junlu Wang, Yi Shen,Yu-Dong Zhou (2016) Toll-Like Receptor 4 Deficiency Causes Reduced Exploratory Behavior in Mice Under Approach-Avoidance Conflict. Neuroscience Bulletin, 32(2):127-136.

Zhou YD, Zhang D, Ozkaynak E, Wang X, Kasper EM, Leguern E, Baulac S, Anderson MP (2012) Epilepsy gene LGI1 regulates postnatal developmental remodeling of retinogeniculate synapses.  Journal of Neuroscience, 32: 903-910.

Smith SEP, Zhou YD, Zhang G, Jin Z, Stoppel DC, Anderson MP (2011) Increased Gene Dosage of Ube3a Results in Autism Traits and Decreased Glutamate Synaptic Transmission in Mice. Science Translational Medicine, 3: 103ra97.

Czupryn A, Zhou YD, Chen X, McNay D, Anderson MP, Flier JS, Macklis JD (2011) Transplanted Hypothalamic Neurons Restore Leptin Signaling and Ameliorate Obesity in db/db Mice. Science, 334: 1133-1137 (*: equal contribution).

Zhou YD, Lee S, Jin Z, Wright M, Smith SEP, Anderson MP (2009) Arrested maturation of excitatory synapses in autosomal dominant lateral temporal lobe epilepsy. Nature Medicine, 15: 1208–1214 .

Keck T, Lillis KP, Zhou YD, White JA (2008) Frequency-dependent Glycinergic inhibition modulates plasticity in hippocampus. Journal of Neuroscience, 28: 7359–7369.

Zhou YD, Acker CD, Netoff TI, Sen K, White JA (2005) Increasing Ca2+ transients by broadening postsynaptic action potentials enhances timing-dependent synaptic depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102: 19121-19125.

 Zhou YD, Turner TJ and Dunlap K (2003) Enhanced G protein-dependent modulation of excitatory synaptic transmission in cerebellum of the Ca2+ channel mutant mouse, tottering. Journal of Physiology, 547: 497-507.

Tsen G, Williams B, Allaire P, Zhou YD, Ikonomov O, Kondova I and Jacob MH (2000) Receptor with opposing functions are in postsynaptic microdomains under one presynaptic terminal. Nature Neuroscience, 3: 126-132.