Liping Feng
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Liping Feng
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Liping Feng's lab employs physiological, molecular, and translational approaches to study environmental health, placental biology, fetal programming, and reproductive and maternal health. Dr. Feng has a primary appointment in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Duke University School of Medicine and her lab utilizes a wide variety of model systems including primary human trophoblast cells, stem cells, human placental tissue, mice, rats, and rabbits to support this focus. Current projects include 1) studies of the impact of perinatal PFAS exposure on placental function and early programming of fetal development, identifying mechanistic links between altered placental function, fetal growth, and adult health, placental-fetal signaling in modulating fetal immune and brain development; 2) studies of the roles of placental molecular signals in reproduction and neurobehavioral development in offspring using placental specific knockout mouse models.
Projects
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Perinatal PFAS exposure and immunotoxicity in early life
United States
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Drinking Water Contamination in NC: Water Use, Human Health and Going Beyond GenX
United States
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Maternal exposure to e-waste in Guiyu, China and birth outcomes
China
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Effects of perfluorobutane sulfonate (PFBS) exposure on adverse pregnancy outcomes and fetal development
China, United States
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The development of a platform mimicking the human placental barrier
United States
Publications
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Yokouchi-Konishi T, Liu Y, Feng L. Progesterone receptor membrane component 2 is critical for human placental extravillous trophoblast invasion. Biol Reprod. 2023 Nov 15;109(5):759–71.Liu Y, Yu G, Zhang R, Feng L, Zhang J. Early life exposure to low-dose perfluorooctane sulfonate disturbs gut barrier homeostasis and increases the risk of intestinal inflammation in offspring. Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987). 2023 Jul;329:121708.Li S, Liu B, Liu Y, Ding Y-Q, Zhang J, Feng L. Effects of maternal urban particulate matter SRM 1648a exposure on birth outcomes and offspring growth in mice. Environ Geochem Health. 2023 May;45(5):2387–400.Liu B, Liu Y, Li S, Chen P, Zhang J, Feng L. BDNF promotes mouse follicular development and reverses ovarian aging by promoting cell proliferation. J Ovarian Res. 2023 Apr 27;16(1):83.
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