MICA polymorphism in a northern Chinese Han population: The identification of a new MICA allele, MICA*059Wei Tian
Department of Immunology, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People s Republic of China
Hum Immunol 71:423-7. 2010
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[Polymorphisms of four microsatellite DNA markers from telomeric HLA I region (D6S1624, D6S258, M6S211 and D6S510) and their linkage disequilibrium with HLA-A in a southern Chinese Han population]Wei Tian
Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410013 P R China
Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi 25:240-3. 2008
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Gender-specific associations between MICA-STR and nasopharyngeal carcinoma in a southern Chinese Han populationWei Tian
Department of Immunology, Xiang Ya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410078, People s Republic of China
Immunogenetics 58:113-21. 2006
..The potential interaction between MICA and other non-HLA host factors and environmental exposures remains to be further studied...
MICA genetic polymorphism and HLA-A,C,B,MICA and DRB1 haplotypic variation in a southern Chinese Han population: identification of two new MICA alleles, MICA*060 and MICA*062Wei Tian
Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P R China
Hum Immunol 72:510-5. 2011
..The findings reported here are of importance for future studies on the potential role of MICA in allogeneic organ transplantation and disease association in populations of Chinese ancestry...
MICA-STR, HLA-B haplotypic diversity and linkage disequilibrium in the Hunan Han population of southern ChinaW Tian
Department of Immunology, Central South University Xiang Ya School of Medicine, Changsha, Hunan, China
Int J Immunogenet 33:241-5. 2006
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HLA-G*0105N and HLA-G 14 bp dimorphisms in exon 8 in four distinct populations in mainland ChinaW Tian
Immunogenetics Research Group, Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Tissue Antigens 75:227-34. 2010
..The LD patterns uncovered will facilitate the understanding of HLA-G role in associations previously described between HLA-A subregion and diseases...
[Polymorphism of short tandem repeat of exon 5 of MHC class-I chain related gene A and association with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in a southern Chinese population]Wei Tian
Department of Immunology, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410078, PR China
Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi 22:309-12. 2005
..To explore the association between the short tandem repeat polymorphism of exon 5 of MICA gene (MICA-STR) and nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in a southern Chinese population...
Characterization of the major histocompatibility complex class I chain-related gene B (MICB) polymorphism in a northern Chinese Han population: the identification of a new MICB allele, MICB*023Xuexiang Liu
Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Hum Immunol 72:727-32. 2011
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Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) genes in 4 distinct populations and 51 families in mainland ChinaJinhong Cai
Immunogenetics Research Group, Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People s Republic of China
Hum Immunol 73:1023-30. 2012
..The findings shown here are valuable for future studies of the potential role of KIR genes as well as KIR-HLA interaction in disease susceptibility in related ethnic groups...
MICB polymorphism in a southern Chinese Han population: the identification of two new MICB alleles, MICB*005:06 and MICB*026Xuexiang Liu
Immunogenetics Research Group, Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People s Republic of China
Hum Immunol 73:818-23. 2012
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[Analysis of HLA-Cw, KIR2D genetic variations in 2 Chinese populations]Jin hong Cai
Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410013 People s Republic of China
Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi 25:343-7. 2008
..To explore the genetic variations of HLA-Cw and 5 KIR2D loci in 2 Chinese Han populations residing at Southern and Northern mainland China, respectively, and to investigate the HLA-Cw polymorphism of a Mongolian Chinese population...
[Construction of FAS-targeted RNAi-retroviral vector and its identification for biological activity]Su Hu Liu
Department of Hematology, The Second Hospital, Xi an Jiaotong University, Xi an 710004, China
Zhongguo Shi Yan Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi 13:827-31. 2005
..It is concluded that the successful construction of this retroviral vector would greatly facilitate the application of RNA interference and lay the foundation for therapeutic study of Fas inhibition in the treatment of aplastic anemia...
Correlation between expression of cyclooxygenase-2 and the presence of CD4+ infiltrating T-lymphocyte in human primary hepatocellular carcinomaYa Wei Gao
Department of Immunology, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, PR China
Hepatogastroenterology 55:345-50. 2008
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Functional effects of nonsynonymous polymorphisms in the human TRPV1 geneHongshi Xu
Oregon Health and Science University, 3314 S W US Veterans Hospital Rd, Portland, OR 97201, USA
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 293:F1865-76. 2007
..In aggregate, these data underscore expression-level and functional differences among naturally occurring TRPV1 variants; the implications with respect to human physiology are considered...
Construction and identification of Fas-targeting siRNA-expressing plasmidSu-Hu Liu
Key Laboratory of Environment and Genes Related to Diseases of Ministry of Education, Department of Clinical Hematology, Second Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
J Zhejiang Univ Sci B 6:673-7. 2005
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An efficient co-expression and purification system for the complex of Stx4 and C-terminal domain of SynipWei Tian
College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 371:366-70. 2008
..We also demonstrate that the 1-28 residues of Stx4 are dispensable for interaction with Synip using this co-expression system...
[Responses of Chinese pine tree ring in Shenyang suburb (Fu Mausoleum) to global temperature fluctuation]Zhen ju Chen
Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 18:1945-52. 2007
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Fc gamma R-stimulated activation of the NADPH oxidase: phosphoinositide-binding protein p40phox regulates NADPH oxidase activity after enzyme assembly on the phagosomeWei Tian
Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Pediatrics Hematology Oncology, Riley Hospital for Children, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Blood 112:3867-77. 2008
..We conclude that p40(phox) functions primarily to regulate FcgammaR-induced NADPH oxidase activity rather than assembly, and stimulates superoxide production via a PI3P signal that increases after phagosome internalization...
Expression, purification and characterization of critical domains of Munc13-1Cong Ma
Joint Laboratory of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Institute of Biophysics, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai) 39:617-23. 2007
..In addition, these purified recombinant proteins provide ideal starting materials for further biochemical, biophysical, and structural studies on mammalian Munc13 proteins...
[Radiosensitivity of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in relation to cell cycle synchronization effect of tumor necrosis factor alpha]Jian Yuan
Department of Pathology, Guangdong Pharmacy College, Guangzhou 510224, China
Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao 27:374-6. 2007
..To investigate the effect of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) on radiosensitivity of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in relation to TNFalpha-induced cell cycle synchronization...
Urea stress is more akin to EGF exposure than to hypertonic stress in renal medullary cellsWei Tian
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon 97201, USA
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 283:F388-98. 2002
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Renal expression of osmotically responsive cation channel TRPV4 is restricted to water-impermeant nephron segmentsWei Tian
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, OR 97239, USA
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 287:F17-24. 2004
..e., PT and DTL). These data, although circumstantial, are consistent with a role for TRPV4 in the response to anisotonicity in the mammalian kidney...
Association of alpha2-HS glycoprotein (AHSG, fetuin-A) polymorphism with AHSG and phosphate serum levelsMotoki Osawa
Department of Experimental and Forensic Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, 2 2 2 Iida nishi, Yamagata, 990 9585, Japan
Hum Genet 116:146-51. 2005
..The AHSG polymorphism is attributable to the hereditary variation of AHSG and phosphate serum levels, which may affect skeletal development and chronic disorders such as vascular calcification...
A genome sequence of novel SARS-CoV isolates: the genotype, GD-Ins29, leads to a hypothesis of viral transmission in South ChinaXionglei He
Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing 100071, China
Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 1:101-7. 2003
..It provides a new avenue for the exploration of the virus-host interaction in viral evolution, host pathogenesis, and vaccine development...
Regulation of TRPV1 by a novel renally expressed rat TRPV1 splice variantWei Tian
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, OR 97239, USA
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 290:F117-26. 2006
..We conclude that TRPV1(VAR) is one of perhaps several TRPV1 splice variants expressed in rat kidney and that it may serve to modulate TRPV1 responsiveness in some tissues...
Glycosylation of the osmoresponsive transient receptor potential channel TRPV4 on Asn-651 influences membrane traffickingHongshi Xu
Mailcode PP262, Oregon Health and Science Univ, 3314 S W US Veterans Hospital Rd, Portland, OR 97239, USA
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 290:F1103-9. 2006
..These data point to a potentially conserved structural and functional feature influencing membrane trafficking across diverse members of the voltage-gated-like ion channel superfamily...
[Immunological screening for multiple myeloma-associated antigens and their bioinformatics analysis]Fu-Ling Zhou
Department of Hematology and Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710004, China
Zhongguo Shi Yan Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi 14:252-7. 2006
..It is concluded that tumor antigens screened by this study can be used for early immunological diagnosis, surveillance of minor residual foci, assessment of prognosis, and preparation of tumor vaccine and so on...
Two universal primer sets for species identification among vertebratesTakashi Kitano
Department of Experimental and Forensic Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan
Int J Legal Med 121:423-7. 2007
..A case example of the identification of a piece of buried bone of unknown species is presented, and the species was identified as a pig by this method...
4'-Alkoxyl substitution enhancing the anti-mitotic effect of 5-(3',4',5'-substituted)anilino-4-hydroxy-8-nitroquinazolines as a novel class of anti-microtubule agentsYi Jin
State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 555 Zuchongzhi Road, Shanghai 201203, China
Bioorg Med Chem Lett 16:5864-9. 2006
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[Tree-ring width chronology of ancient Chinese pine in Shenyang City]Zhenju Chen
Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 17:2241-7. 2006
..There were 11 yr, 23 yr and 50 yr common periodical band between solar activity and Chinese pine chronologies, and 10. 5 yr, 20 yr and 45 yr common periodical band between geomagnetic sudden commencement and Chinese pine chronologies...
Tempo and mode of evolution of the Rh blood group genes before and after gene duplicationTakashi Kitano
Department of Experimental and Forensic Pathology, Yamagata University School of Medicine, 2 2 2 Iidanishi, Yamagata, 990 9585, Japan
Immunogenetics 59:427-31. 2007
..Although the evolutionary rate of exon 7 was accelerated after the gene duplication, our results suggest that exon 7 had the potential for change even before the gene duplication...
A draft sequence of the rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica)Jun Yu
Beijing Genomics Institute/Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101300, China
Science 296:79-92. 2002
..4% of predicted rice genes had a homolog in A. thaliana. The large proportion of rice genes with no recognizable homologs is due to a gradient in the GC content of rice coding sequences...