DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH: 1963; Bishan, Chongqing, China
CURRENT APPOINTMENT & ADDRESS
Director & Professor (1998-)
Morphometric Research Laboratory
North Sichuan Medical College
234 Fujiang Road
Nanchong City, Sichuan Province
Post Code: 637007
China
Telephone: +86-817-2242781
Fax: +86-817-2242600
E-mail: zwyang@nsmc.edu.cn
INTEREST OF RESEARCH:
Spermatogenesis, Morphometry, Stereology
EDUCATION & WORK EXPERIENCES
1979-1983: Bachelor of Medicine, Luzhou Medical College, Sichuan
1983-1985: Surgeon, the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical
College
1985-2001: Teacher, Department of Histology and Embryology, North
Sichuan Medical College
1987.12-1988.12: Visiting Scholar, Department of Anatomy, Monash
University, Australia
1995.4-1997.4: Rockefeller Research Fellow, Prince Henry's Institute of
Medical Research, Australia
1999-2001: (Concurrently) Director, Editorial Office, Journal of North
Sichuan Medical College
2001-2004: (Concurrently) Head, Department of Foreign Languages Teaching
and Research
SOCIETIES
Member, International Society for Stereology
Corresponding Editor, Asian Journal of Andrology
Board Member, Chinese Society for Stereology
Board Member, Sichuan Society of Anatomy
TRAINING COURSES: Key lecturer of 7 nation-wide stereology courses
DOMESTIC ACADEMIC CONFERENCES: 16 times (invited or keynote presentation
13 times)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
1999.11.1-4: Oral presentation & chair, the Tenth International
Congress for Stereology, Melbourne University, Australia
2001.09.4-7: Oral presentation, the Eighth European Congress for
Stereology and Image Analysis, University Bordeaux 1, France
2002.10.17-21: Oral presentation, the First Asia-Pacific Forum on
Andrology (Shanghai)
2003.11.4-8: Oral presentation, the Eleventh International Congress for
Stereology Satellite Meeting (Beijing)
BOOKS
Yang ZW. Practical Biomedical Stereology. Sichuan Society of Anatomy,
1991, pp 1-150. (Lecturing materials.)
Yang ZW. Some quantitative methods for testicular histological
structures and their use. In: Clinical Reproduction and Endocrinology: Female
and Male. Ed. Ge QS. Beijing: Scientific and Technical Documents Publishing
House. 2001, pp 1010-1022.
Yang ZW. Stereological quantitative study of cell numbers. In:
Contemporary Practical Experimental Techniques for Cell and Molecular Biology.
Ed. Cai WQ. Beijing: People’s Military Medical Publisher. 2003, pp 285-296.
Yang ZW. Morphometry. In: Contemporary Histology. Ed. Cheng LZ.
Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technical Documents Publishing House. 3rd
edi. 2003, pp 34-39.
KEY HONOURS & AWARDS
1992.9: Best Ten Young Teachers, Sichuan Provincial Institutions of
Higher Learning.
1999.2: Excellent Young Researchers Grant, Chinese Ministry of
Education.
2001.10: Sichuan Youth Foundation of Science and Technology.
2002.10: Excellent Paper of the First Asia-Pacific Forum on Andrology
(Shanghai).
2003.12: First winner of a First Prize, The Advancement of Science &
Technology Prize of Sichuan Province.
NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS IN CHINESE (not including those in proceedings): 52
ORIGINAL PAPERS PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS IN ENGLISH
(not including those in proceedings):
1. Nigel Glen Wreford, Yang Zhengwei. The use of volume weighted mean
volume in the estimation of Sertoli cell nuclear volume and numbers in the
developing rat testis. Acta Stereologica 1989; 8: 351-353.
2. Yang Zhengwei, Nigel G. Wreford, David M. de Kretser. A quantitative
study of spermatogenesis in the developing rat testis. Biology of Reproduction
1990; 43(4): 629-635.
3. Yang Zhengwei, Robert I. McLachlan, William J. Bremner, Nigel G.
Wreford. Quantitative (stereological) study of normal spermatogenesis in the
adult monkey (Macaca fascicularis). Journal of Andrology 1997; 18(6): 681-687.
4. Yang Zhengwei, Nigel G. Wreford, William J. Bremner, Alvin M.
Matsumoto, Bradley A. Anawalt, Robert I. McLachlan. Immature spermatids are not
prevalent in semen from men who are receiving androgen-based contraceptive
regimens. Fertility and Sterility 1998; 69(1): 89-95.
5. Y. Zhengwei, N. G. Wreford, S. Schlatt, G. F. Weinbauer, E.
Nieschlag, R. I. McLachlan. Acute and specific impairment of spermatogonial
development by GnRH antagonist-induced gonadotrophin withdrawal in the adult
macaque (Macaca fascicularis). Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 1998;
112(1): 139-147.
6. Yang Zhengwei, Nigel G. Wreford, Peter Royce, David M. de Kretser,
Robert I. McLachlan. Stereological evaluation of human spermatogenesis after
suppression by testosterone treatment: heterogeneous pattern of spermatogenic
impairment. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 1998; 83(4):
1284-1291.
7. Yang Zhengwei (corresponding author), Liu Guoquan, Nigel G. Wreford.
A new distance method for the quantitative analysis of point patterns in space.
Acta Stereologica 1998; 17(2): 265-272.
8. Stefan Schlatt, Yang Zhengwei, Terri Meehan, David M. de Kretser,
Kate Lakoski Loveland. Application of morphometric techniques to postnatal rat
testes in organ culture: insights into testis growth. Cell and Tissue Research
1999; 298(2): 335-43.
9. Xiao-Hong Wen, Zheng-Wei Yang (corresponding author). Quantitative
(stereological) study on the spermatozoal storage capacity of epididymis in
rats and monkeys. Asian Journal of Andrology 2000; 2(1): 73-7.
10. Zhengwei Yang (corresponding author), Rendong Zhang, Xiaohong Wen,
Anpei Huang. Caveat on the error analysis for stereological estimates. Image
Analysis and Stereology 2000; 19 (1): 9-13.
11. Xiao-Hong Wen, Xing-Hai Wang, Jian-Sun Tong, Zheng-Wei Yang
(corresponding author), Gui-Yuan Zhang. Reversible effect of testosterone
undecanoate injection on spermatogenesis in rats. Asian Journal of Andrology
2000; 2(3): 207-211.
12. Z.-W Yang (corresponding author), S.-H Yang, L. Chen, J. Qu, J. Zhu,
Z. Tang. Comparison of blood counts in venous, fingertip and arterial blood and
their measurement variation. Clinical and Laboratory Haematology 2001; 23(3):
155-159.
13. Anpei Huang, Rendong Zhang, Zhengwei Yang (corresponding author).
Quantitative (stereological) study of placental structures in women with
pregnancy iron-deficiency anemia. European Journal of Obstetrics &
Gynecology and Reproductive Biology 2001; 97(1): 59-64.
14. Zheng-Wei Yang (corresponding author), Yan-Hong Qin, Shu-Rong Su.
Use of star volume to measure the size of the alveolar space in the asthmatic
guinea pig lung. Respirology 2002; 7(2): 117-21.
15. R. D. Zhang, X. H. Wen, L. S. Kong, X. Z. Deng, B. Peng, A. P.
Huang, Y. Wan and Z. W. Yang (corresponding author). A quantitative
(stereological) study of the effects of experimental unilateral cryptorchidism
and subsequent orchiopexy on spermatogenesis in adult rabbit testis.
Reproduction 2002; 124(1): 95-105.
16. B. Peng, R.D. Zhang, X.S Dai, X.Z. Deng, Y. Wan, Z.W. Yang
(corresponding author). Quantitative (stereological) study of the effects of
vasectomy on spermatogenesis in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Reproduction
2002; 124(6): 847-856.
17. Zheng-Wei Yang (corresponding author), Gui-Wu Wei. Comparison of
point-, line- and boundary-sampled intercepts inside a circle or sphere.
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 2003;
17(2): 319-330.
18. R.D. Zhang, B. Peng, X.Z. Deng, Y. Wan, Z.W. Yang (corresponding
author). A stereological study of the effects of experimental inguinal
cryptorchidism and subsequent orchiopexy on spermatogenesis in adult monkeys.
International Journal of Andrology 2003; 26(3): 180-186.
19. Xiao-Hong Wen, Xin-Min Xiao, Peng Huang, Xian-Yong Xie, Zheng-Wei
Yang (corresponding author). Histological study of vas deferens following
intravasal laser irradiation. Asian J Androl 2003; 5(4): 287-294.
20. Ling-Shu Kong, An-Pei Huang, Xian-Zhong Deng, Zheng-Wei Yang
(corresponding author). Quantitative (stereological) study of the effects of
vasectomy on spermatogenesis in rabbits. Journal of Anatomy 2004; 205(2):
147-156.
21. Li-Yan Li, Jian-Hui Guo, Zheng-Wei Yang (corresponding author). A
quantitative stereological study of the area of cortical surface in the monkey,
pig and cat cerebrum. European Journal of Morphology 2004; 42 (In press)
22. Zheng-Wei Yang (corresponding author), Yang Guo, Li Lin, Xing-Hai
Wang, Jian-Sun Tong, Gui-Yuan Zhang. Quantitative (stereological) study of
incomplete spermatogenic suppression induced by injection of testosterone
undecanoate in rats. Asian Journal of Andrology 2004; 6 (In press)