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Xiaokai Wang

University of MichiganORCID 0000-0002-9915-4792Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 5 Organism:rat· 5 Assay:imaging· 4 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 1

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Zhongming LiuiD· 4 shared Jiayue CaoiD· 3 shared Ulrich M. ScheveniD· 2 shared Ashley M. CornettiD· 1 shared David BrangiD· 1 shared Fatimah Alkaabi· 1 shared Jiande CheniD· 1 shared John B. FurnessiD· 1 shared

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The Intrinsic Manifold of Spontaneous Activity Constrains Cortical Responses to Naturalistic Stimuli

Jung-Hoon Kim, Yizhen Z. Zhang, Owen Mackenzie, Xiaokai Wang, David Brang, Scott Peltier, Zhongming Liu

This paper shows that the low-dimensional manifold of spontaneous brain activity can represent responses to naturalistic stimuli, using a deep variational autoencoder trained on resting-state fMRI data.

bioRxiv · Feb 23, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Whole-Stomach Motility in Rats

Xiaokai Wang, Ulrich M. Scheven, Zhongming Liu

This paper develops a non-invasive MRI protocol to capture whole-stomach dynamics in anesthetized rats with high spatiotemporal resolution.

NMR in Biomedicine · Sep 9, 2025Peer-reviewedBioengineering

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Gastric Motility in Conscious Rats

Xiaokai Wang, Fatimah Alkaabi, Ashley M. Cornett, Minkyu Choi, Ulrich M. Scheven, Madeleine R. Di Natale, John B. Furness, Zhongming Liu

This paper demonstrates GI MRI in conscious rats, showing faster gastric emptying and stronger peristalsis compared to anesthetized rats.

Neurogastroenterology & Motility · Dec 31, 2024Peer-reviewedBioengineering

In vivo Tracing of the Ascending Vagal Projections to the Brain with Manganese Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Steven Oleson, Jiayue Cao, Xiaokai Wang, Zhongming Liu

This study uses MEMRI to trace vagal afferent projections to the brainstem and assess their functional dependence on VNS in rats.

Frontiers in Neuroscience · Sep 15, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

The vagus nerve mediates the stomach-brain coherence in rats

Jiayue Cao, Xiaokai Wang, Jiande Chen, Nanyin Zhang, Zhongming Liu

This study investigates stomach-brain coherence in rats using fMRI and gastric slow wave recordings, finding that vagus nerve activity mediates this coherence, which varies between fasting and fed states.

NeuroImage · Sep 13, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Gastric Neurons in the Nucleus Tractus Solitarius are Selective to the Orientation of Gastric Electrical Stimulation

Jiayue Cao, Xiaokai Wang, Terry L. Powley, Zhongming Liu

The paper investigates how gastric electrical stimulation (GES) orientation affects neural responses in the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) in rats, finding orientation-specific activation of gastric neurons.

Journal of Neural Engineering · Oct 1, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience