Li Sun

Publication List Details

Period

1992 - 2009

Number

70

Co-Authors

The effect of Lipoxin A4on the interaction between macrophage and osteoblast: possible role in the treatment of aseptic loosening (2009)

Li, Gang, Wu, Ping, Xu, Yao, Yu, Yan, Sun, Li, Zhu, Liang, ...

Abstract Background Aseptic loosening (AL) is the main problem of total joints replacement (TJR) by the implantation of permanently prosthetic components. In vitro and in vivo studies have clearly...

Celebrating Diversity, Welcoming the World: Developing Chinese Webpage at Rutgers University Libraries (2009)

Lo, Mei Ling, Sun, Li, Womack, Ryan, Wu, Connie, Yang, Tao

Growing out of a recent project to create multilingual online Welcome pages at Rutgers University Libraries, this paper describes the project, from its origin to the public release of the first group...

Existence and Location Results for Fully Nonlinear Boundary Value Problem of nth-Order Nonlinear System (2009)

Li Sun, Mingru Zhou, Guangwa Wang

By appropriate bounding function pair and modified functions, using the theory of differential inequalities, this paper presents the existence and location criteria of solutions for the system of...

Sequences near both termini of the C/EBP{beta} mRNA 3' untranslated region are important for its tumor suppression activity (2009)

Wang, Haizhen, Wang, Ying, Sun, Li, Liu, Dinggan

The 3′ untranslated region (3′ UTR) of eukaryotic mRNA is an important regulation element that affects not only mRNA translation, but also cell growth. We had found that the 3′ UTR of...

RAGE mediates oxidized LDL-induced pro-inflammatory effects and atherosclerosis in non-diabetic LDL receptor-deficient mice (2009)

Sun, Li, Ishida, Tatsuro, Yasuda, Tomoyuki, Kojima, Yoko, Honjo, Tomoyuki, Yamamoto, Yasuhiko, ...

Aims Receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) plays a pivotal role in the genesis of diabetic vascular diseases. To further explore the mechanisms underlying atherosclerosis under...

Existence and Location Results for Fully Nonlinear Boundary Value Problem of nth-Order Nonlinear System (2009)

Li Sun, Mingru Zhou, Guangwa Wang

By appropriate bounding function pair and modified functions, using the theory of differential inequalities, this paper presents the existence and location criteria of solutions for the system of...

Effect of anti-CD52 antibody alemtuzumab on ex-vivoculture of umbilical cord blood stem cells (2008)

Lim, Che K, Sun, Li, Feng, Qi, Law, Ping, Chua, Wei T, Lim, Shy N, ...

Abstract Background Excessive maturation of hematopoietic cells leads to a reduction of long-term proliferative capability during cord blood (CB) expansion. In this study, we report the effects of...

A Molecular Neuroanatomical Study of the Developing Human Neocortex from 8 to 17 Postconceptional Weeks Revealing the Early Differentiation of the Subplate and Subventricular Zone (2008)

Bayatti, Nadhim, Moss, Jennifer A., Sun, Li, Ambrose, Philip, Ward, Joseph F. H., Lindsay, Susan, ...

We have employed immunohistochemistry for multiple markers to investigate the structure and possible function of the different compartments of human cerebral wall from the formation of cortical plate...

Assessment of Self-Archiving in Institutional Repositories: Depositorship and Full-Text Availability (2007)

Xia, Jingfeng, Sun, Li

This research evaluates the success of open access self-archiving in several well-known institutional repositories. Two assessment factors have been applied to examine the current practice of...

Studies of Wilms’ Tumor (WT1) Gene Expression in Adult Acute Leukemias in Singapore (2007)

Che Kang Lim, Yeow Tee Goh, Liam Pock Ho, Li Sun

Biomarkers provide certain values for diagnosis, monitor treatment effi cacy, or for the development of novel therapeutic approach for particular diseases. Thus, the identifi cation of specifi c of...

Voluntary environmental programs and technical efficiency: Another examination of the Porter hypothesis (2006)

Sun, Li

Scope and method of study. The Porter Hypothesis argues that properly designed environmental regulation not only increases environmental quality, but also makes firms more technically efficient. The...

Differential inequalities method to nth-order boundary value problems (2006)

Guangwa Wang, Mingru Zhou, Li Sun

By the theory of differential inequality, bounding function method, and the theory of topological degree, this paper presents the existence criterions of solutions for the general nth-order...

Direct isolation of specific RNA-interacting proteins using a novel affinity medium (2005)

Liu, Ding-Gan, Sun, Li

Isolation of proteins that specifically interact with a given RNA or RNA regulation element is essential for studies on the molecular mechanisms of gene expression. Here, a novel method for direct...

The Race Concept in Six Regions: Variation Without Consensus (2004)

Lieberman, Leonard, Kaszycka, Katarzyna A., Martinez, Antonio J., Yablonsky, Fuentes Leonid, Kirk, Rodney C., Štrkalj, Goran, ...

Race, once the central concept in physical anthropology worldwide, now varies in the degree of support it receives in different regions. We present the currently available information on the status...

Dam inactivation in Neisseria meningitidis: prevalence among diverse hyperinvasive lineages (2004)

Jolley, Keith A, Sun, Li, Moxon, E Richard, Maiden, Martin CJ

Abstract Background DNA adenine methyltransferase (Dam) activity is absent in many, but not all, disease isolates of Neisseria meningitidis , as a consequence of the insertion of a restriction...

Dam inactivation in Neisseria meningitidis: prevalence among diverse hyperinvasive lineages (2004)

Jolley, Keith A, Sun, Li, Moxon, E Richard, Maiden, Martin C J

Background: DNA adenine methyltransferase (Dam) activity is absent in many, but not all, disease isolates of Neisseria meningitidis, as a consequence of the insertion of a restriction...

Ethanol and supercritical fluid extraction of Echinacea angustifolia roots / (2001)

Sun, Li.

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Food Science And Technology, Dept. of Agricultural,...

Hal^uk (2000)

Jim Zidek, Li Sun, Nhu Le

1 University of BC, 2

Direct Visualization of Defect Structures Contained Within Self-Assembled Organomercaptan Monolayers: Combined Use of Electrochemistry and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. (1998)

Sun, Li, Crooks, Richard M.

Adventitious defects within self-assembled monolayers of 1-octadecanethiol confined to Au substrate have been studied by a new method which takes advantage of the high spatial resolution of scanning...

Scanning Probe Lithography. 1. Scanning Tunneling Microscope-Induced Lithography of Self-Assembled n-Alkanethiol Monolayer Resists. (1998)

Ross, Claudia B., Sun, Li, Crooks, Richard M.

The tip of a scanning tunneling microscope was used to fabricate geometrically well structures within organized, self-assembled monolayer resist that have critical dimensions ranging from 60 nm to 5...

A state space model for multivariate longitudinal count data, Research report (1997)

Bent Jrgensen, Sren Lundbye-christensen, Xue-kun Song, Li Sun

A state space model for multivariate longitudinal count data driven by a latent gamma Markov process is proposed, the observed counts being conditionally independent and Poisson distributed given the...

Shrinkage estimation in the two-way multivariate normal model (1996)

Sun, Li

A two-way multivariate normal model is proposed and attention is focused on estimation of the mean values when the common variance of the observations is unknown. A class of empirical Bayes...

A study of the enzymic hydrolysis of solid forms of starch. (1993)

Sun, Li.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of East Anglia, 1993.

Power system network sensitivity analysis /--by Li Sun. (1992)

Sun, Li.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Minnesota, 1992.

Attenuation of virulence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis expressing a constitutively active iron repressor

Manabe, Yukari C., Saviola, Beatrice J., Sun, Li, Murphy, John R., Bishai, William R.

Iron is an essential nutrient for the survival of most organisms and has played a central role in the virulence of many infectious disease pathogens. Mycobacterial IdeR is an iron-dependent repressor...

Isolation and characterization of iron-independent positive dominant mutants of the diphtheria toxin repressor DtxR

Sun, Li, VanderSpek, Johanna, Murphy, John R.

It is well known that the functional activity of the diphtheria toxin repressor DtxR is controlled by iron, which serves as an essential cofactor necessary for activation of target DNA binding by...

SU6656, a Selective Src Family Kinase Inhibitor, Used To Probe Growth Factor Signaling

Blake, Robert A., Broome, Martin A., Liu, Xiangdong, Wu, Jianming, Gishizky, Mikhail, Sun, Li, ...

The use of small-molecule inhibitors to study molecular components of cellular signal transduction pathways provides a means of analysis complementary to currently used techniques, such as antisense,...

Direct isolation of specific RNA-interacting proteins using a novel affinity medium

Liu, Ding-Gan, Sun, Li

Isolation of proteins that specifically interact with a given RNA or RNA regulation element is essential for studies on the molecular mechanisms of gene expression. Here, a novel method for direct...

Calcineurin regulates bone formation by the osteoblast

Sun, Li, Blair, Harry C., Peng, Yuanzhen, Zaidi, Neeha, Adebanjo, Olugbenga A., Wu, Xue Bin, ...

Two of the most commonly used immunosuppressants, cyclosporine A and tacrolimus (FK506), inhibit the activity of a ubiquitously expressed Ca2+/calmodulin-sensitive phosphatase, calcineurin. Because...

Attenuation of virulence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis expressing a constitutively active iron repressor

Manabe, Yukari C., Saviola, Beatrice J., Sun, Li, Murphy, John R., Bishai, William R.

Iron is an essential nutrient for the survival of most organisms and has played a central role in the virulence of many infectious disease pathogens. Mycobacterial IdeR is an iron-dependent repressor...

Isolation and characterization of iron-independent positive dominant mutants of the diphtheria toxin repressor DtxR

Sun, Li, VanderSpek, Johanna, Murphy, John R.

It is well known that the functional activity of the diphtheria toxin repressor DtxR is controlled by iron, which serves as an essential cofactor necessary for activation of target DNA binding by...

SU6656, a Selective Src Family Kinase Inhibitor, Used To Probe Growth Factor Signaling

Blake, Robert A., Broome, Martin A., Liu, Xiangdong, Wu, Jianming, Gishizky, Mikhail, Sun, Li, ...

The use of small-molecule inhibitors to study molecular components of cellular signal transduction pathways provides a means of analysis complementary to currently used techniques, such as antisense,...

Direct isolation of specific RNA-interacting proteins using a novel affinity medium

Liu, Ding-Gan, Sun, Li

Isolation of proteins that specifically interact with a given RNA or RNA regulation element is essential for studies on the molecular mechanisms of gene expression. Here, a novel method for direct...

Calcineurin regulates bone formation by the osteoblast

Sun, Li, Blair, Harry C., Peng, Yuanzhen, Zaidi, Neeha, Adebanjo, Olugbenga A., Wu, Xue Bin, ...

Two of the most commonly used immunosuppressants, cyclosporine A and tacrolimus (FK506), inhibit the activity of a ubiquitously expressed Ca2+/calmodulin-sensitive phosphatase, calcineurin. Because...

TNFα mediates the skeletal effects of thyroid-stimulating hormone

Hase, Hidenori, Ando, Takao, Eldeiry, Leslie, Brebene, Alina, Peng, Yuanzhen, Liu, Lanying, ...

We have shown recently that by acting on the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor (TSHR), TSH negatively regulates osteoclast differentiation. Both heterozygotic and homozygotic TSHR null mice...

Follicle-stimulating hormone stimulates TNF production from immune cells to enhance osteoblast and osteoclast formation

Iqbal, Jameel, Sun, Li, Kumar, T. Rajendra, Blair, Harry C., Zaidi, Mone

Declining estrogen production after menopause causes osteoporosis in which the resorption of bone exceeds the increase in bone formation. We recently found that mice deficient in the β-subunit of...

p75 Neurotrophin Receptor Suppresses the Proliferation of Human Gastric Cancer Cells

Jin, Haifeng, Pan, Yanglin, Zhao, Lina, Zhai, Huihong, Li, Xiaohua, Sun, Li, ...

Identifying an effective therapeutic target is pivotal in the treatment of gastric cancer. In this study, we investigated the expression of p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) in gastric cancer and...

Cloning, Characterization, and Molecular Application of a Beta-Agarase Gene from Vibrio sp. Strain V134▿

Zhang, Wei-wei, Sun, Li

V134, a marine isolate of the Vibrio genus, was found to produce a new beta-agarase of the GH16 family. The relevant agarase gene agaV was cloned from V134 and conditionally expressed in Escherichia...

Mode of Action of Interleukin-6 on Mature Osteoclasts. Novel Interactions with Extracellular Ca2+ Sensing in the Regulation of Osteoclastic Bone Resorption

Adebanjo, Olugbenga A., Moonga, Baljit S., Yamate, Tomoo, Sun, Li, Minkin, Cedric, Abe, Etsuko, ...

We describe a physiologically significant mechanism through which interleukin-6 (IL-6) and a rising ambient Ca2+ interact to regulate osteoclastic bone resorption. VOXEL-based confocal microscopy of...

Cd38/Adp-Ribosyl Cyclase: A New Role in the Regulation of Osteoclastic Bone Resorption

Sun, Li, Adebanjo, Olugbenga A., Moonga, Baljit S., Corisdeo, Susanne, Anandatheerthavarada, Hindupur K., Biswas, Gopa, ...

The multifunctional ADP-ribosyl cyclase, CD38, catalyzes the cyclization of NAD+ to cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPr). The latter gates Ca2+ release through microsomal membrane-resident ryanodine receptors...

A Molecular Neuroanatomical Study of the Developing Human Neocortex from 8 to 17 Postconceptional Weeks Revealing the Early Differentiation of the Subplate and Subventricular Zone

Bayatti, Nadhim, Moss, Jennifer A., Sun, Li, Ambrose, Philip, Ward, Joseph F. H., Lindsay, Susan, ...

We have employed immunohistochemistry for multiple markers to investigate the structure and possible function of the different compartments of human cerebral wall from the formation of cortical plate...

Intermittent recombinant TSH injections prevent ovariectomy-induced bone loss

Sun, Li, Vukicevic, Slobodan, Baliram, Ramkumarie, Yang, Guozhe, Sendak, Rebecca, McPherson, John, ...

We recently described the direct effects of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) on bone and suggested that the bone loss in hyperthyroidism, hitherto attributed solely to elevated thyroid hormone...

Characterization of DegQVh, a Serine Protease and a Protective Immunogen from a Pathogenic Vibrio harveyi Strain▿ †

Zhang, Wei-wei, Sun, Kun, Cheng, Shuang, Sun, Li

Vibrio harveyi is an important marine pathogen that can infect a number of aquaculture species. V. harveyi degQ (degQVh), the gene encoding a DegQ homologue, was cloned from T4, a pathogenic V....

The Phloem-Delivered RNA Pool Contains Small Noncoding RNAs and Interferes with Translation1[W][OA]

Zhang, Shoudong, Sun, Li, Kragler, Friedrich

In plants, the vascular tissue contains the enucleated sieve tubes facilitating long-distance transport of nutrients, hormones, and proteins. In addition, several mRNAs and small interfering...

Studies of Wilms’ Tumor (WT1) Gene Expression in Adult Acute Leukemias in Singapore

Lim, Che Kang, Goh, Yeow Tee, Hwang, William Y. K., Ho, Liam Pock, Sun, Li

Biomarkers provide certain values for diagnosis, monitor treatment efficacy, or for the development of novel therapeutic approach for particular diseases. Thus, the identification of specific of...

Oxytocin is an anabolic bone hormone

Tamma, Roberto, Colaianni, Graziana, Zhu, Ling-ling, DiBenedetto, Adriana, Greco, Giovanni, Montemurro, Gabriella, ...

We report that oxytocin (OT), a primitive neurohypophyseal hormone, hitherto thought solely to modulate lactation and social bonding, is a direct regulator of bone mass. Deletion of OT or the OT...

Platelets Enhance Endothelial Adhesiveness in High Tidal Volume Ventilation

Yiming, Maimaiti T., Lederer, David J., Sun, Li, Huertas, Alice, Issekutz, Andrew C., Bhattacharya, Sunita

Although platelets induce lung inflammation, leading to acute lung injury (ALI), the extent of platelet–endothelial cell (EC) interactions remains poorly understood. Here, in a ventilation-stress...