Nan Gao

PALette: Connecting Kids through Tangible Color-Mixing (2008)

Nan Gao, Ben Ilegbodu, Nundu Janakiram

We introduce PALette, a tangible color-mixing and drawing interface that enables the mixing of digital paint through physical actions. We sought to create a system that will allow children to express...

Expansion of adult beta-cell mass in response to increased metabolic demand is dependent on HNF-4{alpha} (2007)

Gupta, Rana K., Gao, Nan, Gorski, Regina K., White, Peter, Hardy, Olga T., Rafiq, Kiran, ...

The failure to expand functional pancreatic β-cell mass in response to increased metabolic demand is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes. Lineage tracing studies indicate that replication of existing...

Offset attaching planar jets with and without a co-flowing jet (2006)

Gao, Nan

An experimental study of turbulent planar offset attaching jets with and without a co-flowing jet was performed for jets with offset distances less than approximately 1.0 jet height and Reynolds...

FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REGULATES PROSTATE-SPECIFIC GENE EXPRESSION AND PROSTATIC MORPHOGENESIS: A FUNCTIONAL INTERACTION WITH ANDROGEN SIGNALING (2004)

Gao, Nan

Comparative genome analysis implied that a progressively more elaborate regulation of gene expression rather than invention of new genes is responsible for the organismal complexity, and that a...

FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REGULATES PROSTATE-SPECIFIC GENE EXPRESSION AND PROSTATIC MORPHOGENESIS: A FUNCTIONAL INTERACTION WITH ANDROGEN SIGNALING (2004)

Gao, Nan

Comparative genome analysis implied that a progressively more elaborate regulation of gene expression rather than invention of new genes is responsible for the organismal complexity, and that a...

Heat transfer enhancement in impinging round jets / (2000)

Gao, Nan.

Thesis (M Eng.) -- McMaster University, 2001.

Mice Deficient in the Fused Homolog Do Not Exhibit Phenotypes Indicative of Perturbed Hedgehog Signaling during Embryonic Development

Chen, Miao-Hsueh, Gao, Nan, Kawakami, Takatoshi, Chuang, Pao-Tien

Hedgehog (Hh) signaling plays a major role in multiple aspects of embryonic development. To understand how a single Hh signal is capable of generating distinct readouts in Hh-responsive cells...

Mice Deficient in the Fused Homolog Do Not Exhibit Phenotypes Indicative of Perturbed Hedgehog Signaling during Embryonic Development

Chen, Miao-Hsueh, Gao, Nan, Kawakami, Takatoshi, Chuang, Pao-Tien

Hedgehog (Hh) signaling plays a major role in multiple aspects of embryonic development. To understand how a single Hh signal is capable of generating distinct readouts in Hh-responsive cells...

Expansion of adult β-cell mass in response to increased metabolic demand is dependent on HNF-4α

Gupta, Rana K., Gao, Nan, Gorski, Regina K., White, Peter, Hardy, Olga T., Rafiq, Kiran, ...

The failure to expand functional pancreatic β-cell mass in response to increased metabolic demand is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes. Lineage tracing studies indicate that replication of existing...

Dynamic regulation of Pdx1 enhancers by Foxa1 and Foxa2 is essential for pancreas development

Gao, Nan, LeLay, John, Vatamaniuk, Marko Z., Rieck, Sebastian, Friedman, Joshua R., Kaestner, Klaus H.

The onset of pancreas development in the foregut endoderm is marked by activation of the homeobox gene Pdx1 (IPF1). Pdx1 is essential for the expansion of the pancreatic primordium and the...

The sympathetic tone mediates leptin's inhibition of insulin secretion by modulating osteocalcin bioactivity

Hinoi, Eiichi, Gao, Nan, Jung, Dae Young, Yadav, Vijay, Yoshizawa, Tatsuya, Myers, Martin G., ...

The osteoblast-secreted molecule osteocalcin favors insulin secretion, but how this function is regulated in vivo by extracellular signals is for now unknown. In this study, we show that leptin,...