Yizhou Zou, MD

Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

yizhou.zou@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Graduate SchoolHunan Medical School - China, Medicine (1996)
Graduate SchoolHunan Medical School - China, None

Research Interests

Histocompatibility antigens
Immunology of allograft rejection
Molecular methods for histocompatibility testing

Publications

Contact inhibition causes strong down-regulation of expression of MICA and decreased NK cell killing of human fibroblasts

Yizhou Zou, Fariba Mirbaha and Peter Stastny , Human Immunology , 2006; (67(3)):183-7

Detection of anti-MICA antibodies in patients awaiting kidney transplantation, during the post-transplant course and in eluates from rejected kidney allografts by Luminex flow cytometry

Yizhou Zou, Falko Heinemann, Hans Grosse-Wilde, Guido Sireci, Zhengnan Wang, Bhavna Lavingia and Peter Stastny , Human Immunology , 2006; (67(3)):230-7

MICA allele-level typing by SBT with computerized assignment of polymorphic sites and short tanden repeats (STRS) within the transmembrane region

Yizhou Zou, Mei Han, Zhengnan Wang and Peter Stastny , Human Immunology , 2006; (67(3)):145-51

Effect of human cytomegalovirus on expression of MHC class I-related chain A

Yizhou Zou, Wade Bresnahan, R.Travis Taylor and Peter Stastny , The Journal of Immunology , 2005; (174(5)):3098-104

Alternatively spliced forms of MICA and MICB lacking exon 3 in a human cell line and evidence of presence of similar RNA in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells

Yizhou Zou and Peter Stastny , Immunogenetics , 2002; (54):671-4

Honors/Awards

ASHI Scholar Award

American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (2002)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Association of Immunologists

American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics