发表学术论文20多篇，其中SCI收录论文8篇。主持药典委员会项目1项，参与国家自然科学基金2项和国家新药重大专项2项。
1. Xu QM, Shu Z, He WenJ, Chen LY, Yang SL, Yang Gang, Liu YL*, Li XR. Antitumor activity of Pulsatilla chinensis (Bunge) Regel saponins in human liver tumor 7402 cells in vitro and in vivo. Phytomedicine, 2011,
2. Liu YL, LH Tang, ZQ Liang, BG You, SL Yang. Growth inhibitory and apoptosis inducing by effects of total flavonoids from Lysimachia clethroides Duby in human chronic myeloid leukemia K562 cells. The Journal of Ethnopharmacology， 2010，131：1-9.
3. Liu YL, Yan LD, Zhou PL, Wu CF, Gong ZH. Levo-tetrahydropalmatine attenuates oxycodone-induced conditioned place preference in rats. European Journal of Pharmacology. 2009, 602: 321-327.
4. Liu YL, Lin HaM, Zou R, Wu JC, Han R, Raymond LN, Reid PF, Qin ZH. Suppression of complete Freund’s adjuvant -induced adjuvant arthritis by cobratoxin. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica，2009, 30(2): 219-227.
5. Liu YL, Ling JH, Yan LD, Su RB, Wu CF, Gong ZH. Effects of l-tetrahydropalmatine on locomotor sensitization to oxycodone in mice. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2005, 26(5):533-538.
6.Yan LD, Liu YL, Zhang L, Dong HJ, Zhou PL, S RB, Gong ZH, Huang PT. Spinal antinociception of synthetic omega-conotoxin SO-3, a selective N-type neuronal voltage-sensitive calcium channel blocker, and its effects on morphine analgesia in chemical stimulus tests in rodent European Journal of Pharmacology, 2011, 636: 73-81.
7. Shi J, Liu YL, Fang YX, Xu GZ, Zhai HF, Lu L. Traditional Chinese medicine in treatment of opiate addiction. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2006, 27:1303-1308.
8．Xu QM, Liu YL, Zou ZM, Yang SL, Xu LZ. Two new polyoxygenated cyclohexenes from Uvaria kweichowensis. J Asian Nat Prod Res. 2009, 11(1):24-8.
