Nan Li

ESCAPE FROM X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION IS AN INTRINSIC PROPERTY OF THE MOUSE JARID1C LOCUS (2009)

Li, Nan

Although most genes on one X chromosome in mammalian females are silenced by X chromosome inactivation, some genes escape X inactivation and are expressed from both active and inactive Xs. How these...

Learning Conceptual Predicates for Teleoreactive Logic Programs (2009)

Nan Li, David J. Stracuzzi, Pat Langley

Abstract. Teleoreactive logic programs provide a formalism for describing conceptual and skill knowledge that is organized hierarchically. However, manual construction of the conceptual clauses is...

Discovery of novel inhibitors of Streptococcus pneumoniaebased on the virtual screening with the homology-modeled structure of histidine kinase (VicK) (2009)

Li, Nan, Wang, Fei, Niu, Siqiang, Cao, Ju, Wu, Kaifeng, Li, Youqiang, ...

Abstract Background Due to the widespread abusage of antibiotics, antibiotic-resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae ( S. pneumoniae ) has been increasing quickly in recent years, and it is obviously...

A study on the functions of ubiquitin metabolic system related gene FBG2 in gastric cancer cell line (2009)

Zhang, Lin, Hou, Yanhong, Wang, Mengwei, Wu, Benyan, Li, Nan

Abstract Background FBG2 (F-BOX6) gene is an important member in ubiquitin metabolic system F-BOX family, and forms E3 complex with the other members in the family. But its role in gastric cancer is...

Cusp-core problem and strong gravitational lensing (2009)

Li, Nan, Chen, Da-Ming

Cosmological numerical simulations of galaxy formation have led to the cuspy density profile of pure cold dark matter halo toward the center, which is in sharp contradiction with the observations of...

The design and protocol of acupuncture for migraine prophylaxis: A multicenter randomized controlled trial (2009)

Zhang, Yan, Wang, Linpeng, Liu, Huilin, Li, Nan, Li, Jingdao, Yi, Jinghong

Abstract Background Many studies have already reported encouraging results in the prophylactic therapy of migraine by acupuncture, but there seems to be a lack of high quality randomized controlled...

Inhibitory Effects of Morinda officinalis Extract on Bone Loss in Ovariectomized Rats (2009)

Nan Li, Lu-Ping Qin, Ting Han, Yan-Bin Wu, Qiao-Yan Zhang, Hong Zhang

The present study was undertaken to investigate the protective effects of ethanol extract from the root of Morinda Officinalis (RMO) on ovariectomy-induced bone loss. Administration of RMO extract...

Anti-Hepatitis B Virus X Protein in Sera Is One of the Markers of Development of Liver Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer Mediated by HBV (2009)

Hang Zhang, Lian-Ying Wu, Shuai Zhang, Li-Yan Qiu, Nan Li, Xuan Zhang, ...

Hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx) plays a crucial role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the significance of circulating antibody to hepatitis B virus X antigen...

Anti-Hepatitis B Virus X Protein in Sera Is One of the Markers of Development of Liver Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer Mediated by HBV (2009)

Hang Zhang, Lian-Ying Wu, Shuai Zhang, Li-Yan Qiu, Nan Li, Xuan Zhang, ...

Hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx) plays a crucial role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the significance of circulating antibody to hepatitis B virus X antigen...

9-[4-Hydroxy-3-(hydroxymethyl)butyl]guanine monohydrate (2009)

Huang Tang, Feng-Jie Cheng, Nan Li, Yan-Cheng Liu, Zhen-Feng Chen

In the molecular structure of the title compound, also named penciclovir monohydrate, C10H15N5O3·H2O, the 4-hydroxy-3-hydroxymethylbut-1-yl group is connected to guanine through an N atom of the...

(3R*)-Methyl 3-[(2S*)-4,6-dimethoxy-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)-3-oxo-2,3-dihydro-1-benzofuran-2-yl]-2-methoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropionate (2009)

Xian-You Wang, Nan Li, Yong-Qiang Ma, Zhao-Hai Qin

The title compound, C29H28O9, was isolated from the reaction of 4,6-dimethoxy-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)-3-benzofuran and α-methoxycarbonylcinnaminate. The two aromatic rings form a dihedral angle of...

Prediction of protein-protein binding site by using core interface residue and support vector machine (2008)

Li, Nan, Sun, Zhonghua, Jiang, Fan

Abstract Background The prediction of protein-protein binding site can provide structural annotation to the protein interaction data from proteomics studies. This is very important for the biological...

Cortical Vascular Blood Flow Pattern By Laser Speckle Imaging (2008)

Nan Li, Shanbao Tong, Deliang Ye, Hyunchool Shin, Nitish V. Thakor

Abstract-The cortical vascular blood flow pattern is associated with the functional response in cerebral cortex. The pattern of the vascular blood flow can be used to study the spatiotemporal...

Recruitment of Transplanted Dermal Multipotent Stem Cells to Sites of Injury in Rats with Combined Radiation and Wound Injury by Interaction of SDF-1 and CXCR4 (2008)

Zhao-Wen Zong, Tian-Min Cheng, Yong-Ping Su, Xin-Ze Ran, Yue Shen, Nan Li, ...

Zong, Z-W., Cheng, T-M., Su, Y-P., Ran, X-Z., Shen, Y., Li, N., Ai, G-P., Dong, S-W. and Xu, H. Recruitment of Transplanted Dermal Multipotent stem Cells to the Sites of Injury in Rats with Combined...

Cloning and Characterization of Siglec-10, a Novel Sialic Acid Binding Member of the Ig Superfamily, from Human (2008)

Dendritic Cells, Nan Li, Weiping Zhang, Tao Wan, Jia Zhang, Taoyong Chen, ...

subfamily of I-type lectins, which specifically recognize sialic acids. Nine members of the family have been identified thus far. We have obtained a novel cDNA clone from a human dendritic cell cDNA...

Adding Goal Priorities to Teleoreactive Logic Programs (2008)

Nan Li, Dongkyu Choi, Pat Langley

When people have more than a single goal, they usually start with the most important one and continue on to the next. Artificial agents can use the same scheme, letting them work on multiple goals in...

Is dark energy an effect of averaging? (2008)

Li, Nan, Seikel, Marina, Schwarz, Dominik J.

The present standard model of cosmology states that the known particles carry only a tiny fraction of total mass and energy of the Universe. Rather, unknown dark matter and dark energy are the...

The synthesis of carbon nanocomposites as fuel cell catalyst support and the characterization of fuel cell catalysts by spatially resolved scanning mass spectrometry (2008)

Li, Nan

Zur Herstellung von Brennstoffzellensubstraten wurde ein hocheffizienter Syntheseweg für Kohlenstoffmaterialien aus Nanopartikeln entwickelt, der auf elektrochemischer Abscheidung und...

Cosmological backreaction : from the local Hubble expansion rate to dark energy (2008)

Li, Nan

Despite the glorious successes of modern cosmology, our understanding of the cosmic substitution is still limited to a tiny fraction (a few per cents only). Accelerated expansion of the Universe,...

Cosmological backreaction ; from the local Hubble expansion rate to dark energy (2008)

Li, Nan

Despite the glorious successes of modern cosmology, our understanding of the cosmic substitution is still limited to a tiny fraction (a few per cents only). Accelerated expansion of the Universe,...

Dispatched Homolog 2 is targeted by miR-214 through a combination of three weak microRNA recognition sites (2008)

Li, Nan, Flynt, Alex S., Kim, H. Rosemary, Solnica-Krezel, Lilianna, Patton, James G.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression by inhibiting translation of target mRNAs through pairing with miRNA recognition elements (MREs), usually in 3′ UTRs. Because pairing is imperfect,...

Scale dependence of cosmological backreaction (2007)

Li, Nan, Schwarz, Dominik J.

Due to the non-commutation of spatial averaging and temporal evolution, inhomogeneities and anisotropies (cosmic structures) influence the evolution of the averaged Universe via the cosmological...

On a Conjecture about the Number of Solutions to Linear Diophantine Equations with a Positive Integer Parameter (2007)

Chen, Sheng, Li, Nan

Let A(n) be a $k\times s$ matrix and $m(n)$ be a $k$ dimensional vector, where all entries of A(n) and $m(n)$ are integer-valued polynomials in $n$. Suppose that...

On Popoviciu type tormulas for generalized restricted partition function (2007)

Li, Nan, Chen, Sheng

Suppose that $a_1(n),a_2(n),...,a_s(n),m(n)$ are integer-valued polynomials in $n$ with positive leading coefficients. This paper presents Popoviciu type formulas for the generalized restricted...

On the Ring of Integer-valued Quasi-polynomials (2007)

Li, Nan, Chen, Sheng

The paper studies some properties of the ring of integer-valued quasi-polynomials. On this ring, theory of generalized Euclidean division and generalized GCD are presented. Applications to finite...

On the onset of cosmological backreaction (2007)

Li, Nan, Schwarz, Dominik J.

Cosmological backreaction has been suggested as an explanation of dark energy and is heavily disputed since. We combine cosmological perturbation theory with Buchert's non-perturbative framework,...

Media Politics : How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the state, market, and civil society? (2007)

Li, Nan

How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the three institutional powers, the state, market and civil society? How do formal and informal institutions of the state, market and civil...

Media Politics : How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the state, market, and civil society? (2007)

Li, Nan

How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the three institutional powers, the state, market and civil society? How do formal and informal institutions of the state, market and civil...

Media Politics : How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the state, market, and civil society? (2007)

Li, Nan

How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the three institutional powers, the state, market and civil society? How do formal and informal institutions of the state, market and civil...

Media Politics : How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the state, market, and civil society? (2007)

Li, Nan

How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the three institutional powers, the state, market and civil society? How do formal and informal institutions of the state, market and civil...

Media Politics : How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the state, market, and civil society? (2007)

Li, Nan

How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the three institutional powers, the state, market and civil society? How do formal and informal institutions of the state, market and civil...

Media Politics : How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the state, market, and civil society? (2007)

Li, Nan

How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the three institutional powers, the state, market and civil society? How do formal and informal institutions of the state, market and civil...

Media Politics : How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the state, market, and civil society? (2007)

Li, Nan

How is the media agenda of Chinese television set by the three institutional powers, the state, market and civil society? How do formal and informal institutions of the state, market and civil...

Analysis of computational approaches for motif discovery (2006)

Li, Nan, Tompa, Martin

Abstract Recently, we performed an assessment of 13 popular computational tools for discovery of transcription factor binding sites (M. Tompa, N. Li, et al., "Assessing Computational Tools for the...

Energy scale independence of Koide's relation for quark and lepton masses (2006)

Li, Nan, Ma, Bo-Qiang

Koide's mass relation of charged leptons has been extended to quarks and neutrinos, and we prove here that this relation is independent of energy scale in a huge energy range from $1 {GeV}$ to...

SEN 1: Lab-on-a-Chip Aquatic Microorganism Analysis System (2006)

Mike Liu, Siyang Zheng, Charlott Kwong, Nan Li, Yu-Chong Tai, Chi Ming Ho, ...

Lab-on-Chip aquatic microorganism analysis system is a new initiative that aims to expedite research in marine biology using chip-based technology. The miniaturized device reduces the total sample...

Crystal structure of AmyA lacks acidic surface and provide insights into protein stability at poly-extreme condition (2006)

Sivakumar, Neelamegam, Li, Nan, Tang, Julian W., Patel, Bharat Kumar, Swaminathan, Kunchithapadam

Here we report the first crystal structure of a protein, AmyA, a secretory α-amylase isolated from Halothermothrix orenii, which is both halophilic and thermophilic. The crystal structure was...

Crystal structure of AmyA lacks acidic surface and provide insights into protein stability at poly-extreme condition (2006)

Sivakumar, Neelamegam, Li, Nan, Tang, Julian W., Patel, Bharat Kumar, Swaminathan, Kunchithapadam

Here we report the first crystal structure of a protein, AmyA, a secretory α-amylase isolated from Halothermothrix orenii, which is both halophilic and thermophilic. The crystal structure was...

Crystal structure of AmyA lacks acidic surface and provide insights into protein stability at poly-extreme condition (2006)

Sivakumar, Neelamegam, Li, Nan, Tang, Julian W., Patel, Bharat Kumar, Swaminathan, Kunchithapadam

Here we report the first crystal structure of a protein, AmyA, a secretory α-amylase isolated from Halothermothrix orenii, which is both halophilic and thermophilic. The crystal structure was...

Estimate of neutrino masses from Koide's relation (2005)

Li, Nan, Ma, Bo-Qiang

We apply Koide's mass relation of charged leptons to neutrinos and quarks, with both the normal and inverted mass schemes of neutrinos discussed. We introduce the parameters $k_{\nu}$, $k_u$ and...

Relations between quark and lepton mixing angles and matrices (2005)

Li, Nan, Ma, Bo-Qiang

We discuss the relations between the mixing angles and the mixing matrices of quarks and leptons. With Raidal's numerical relations, we parametrize the lepton mixing (PMNS) matrix with the parameters...

Unified Parametrization of Quark and Lepton Mixing Matrices (2005)

Li, Nan, Ma, Bo-Qiang

We present a unified parametrization of quark and lepton mixing matrices. By using some simple relations between the mixing angles of quarks and leptons, i.e., the quark-lepton complementarity, we...

Influences of composition of starting powders and sintering temperature on the pore size distribution of porous corundum-mullite ceramics (2005)

Shujing Li, Nan Li

Porous corundum-mullite ceramics were prepared by an in-situ decomposition pore-forming technique. Starting powders were mixtures of milled Al(OH)3 and microsilica and were formed into oblong samples...

Design and realization of maximally-decimated filterbanks with high computational efficiency / (2005)

Li, Nan.

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,...

Intangible capital and stock market / (2005)

Li, Nan.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Economics, March 2005.

Essays on the credit default swap market of sovereign bonds / (2005)

Li, Nan.

"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Economics ..."

A H2O2 Biosensor Based on Immobilization of HorseradishPeroxidase in a Gelatine Network Matrix (2005)

Hui Yao, Nan Li, Yan-Li Wei, Jun-Jie Zhu

A simple and promising H2O2 biosensor has been developed by successfulentrapment of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in a gelatine matrix which was cross-linkedwith formaldehyde. The large microscopic...

Experimental Free-Space Distribution of Entangled Photon Pairs over a Noisy Ground Atmosphere of 13km (2004)

Peng, Cheng-Zhi, Yang, Tao, Bao, Xiao-Hui, Jin, Xian-Min, Feng, Fa-Yong, ...

We report free-space distribution of entangled photon pairs over a noisy ground atmosphere of 13km. It is shown that the desired entanglement can still survive after the two entangled photons have...

Parametrization of Neutrino Mixing Matrix in Tri-bimaximal Mixing Pattern (2004)

Li, Nan, Ma, Bo-Qiang

The neutrino mixing matrix is expanded in powers of a small parameter $\lambda$ in tri-bimaximal mixing pattern. We also present some applications of this parametrization, such as to the expression...

A New Parametrization of the Neutrino Mixing Matrix (2004)

Li, Nan, Ma, Bo-Qiang

The neutrino mixing matrix is expanded in powers of a small parameter $\lambda$, which approximately equals to 0.1. The meaning of every order of the expansion is discussed respectively, and the...

[Preliminary study on the relationship between loads of human papillomavirus in cervical carcinoma and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia] (2004)

Zhang, Wen-hua, Wu, Ling-ying, Zhao, Fang-hui, Huang, Man-ni, Li, Nan, ...

OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between loads of human papillomavirus in cervical carcinoma and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. METHODS: From December 2001 to May 2002, 9075 married women...

Using the Lee--Carter Method to Forecast Mortality for Populations with Limited Data (2004)

Li, Nan, Lee, Ronald, Tuljapurkar, Shripad

The Lee-Carter method for modeling and forecasting mortality has been shown to work quite well given long time series of data. Here we consider how it can be used when there are few observations at...

Influence of mechanical activation of AL2O3 on synthesis of magnesium aluminate spinel (2004)

Zhihui Zhang, Nan LI.

Magnesium aluminate (MA) spinel is synthesized by reaction sintering from alumina and magnesia. The effects of mechanical activation of Al2O3 on reaction sintering were investigated. Non-milled a -...

The Implied Benchmark Rate in the Credit Default Swap Market of Sovereign Bonds (2004)

Li, Nan

Credit default swap(CDS) is a new developed derivative to insure the credit risk of an underlying entity. This paper investigates the correlation relationship of the CDS market of sovereign borrowers...

Crystallization of an α-amylase, AmyA, from the thermophilic halophile Halothermothrix orenii (2002)

Li, Nan, Patel, Bharat Kumar, Mijts, Benjamin, Swaminathan, Kunchithapadam

This report is the first crystallographic study of an amylase from an organism that is both thermophilic and halophilic. -Amylase from the thermophilic halophile Halothermothrix orenii (AmyA) is a...

Reconceptualizing the PLA Navy in post - Mao China : functions, warfare, arms, and organization. (2002)

Li, Nan.

This paper examines the major changes regarding the Chinese Navy (PLAN, or the People’s Liberation Army Navy) between the pre-1985 period and the post-1985 period. It shows that major conceptual...

11 September and China : opportunities, challenges, and warfighting. (2002)

Li, Nan.

This essay examines the Chinese perspectives on the implications of 11 September for US-China relations, and for fututre warfighting. On US-China relations, the essay shows two major Chinese views:...

11 September and China : opportunities, challenges, and warfighting. (2002)

Li, Nan.

This essay examines the Chinese perspectives on the implications of 11 September for US-China relations, and for fututre warfighting. On US-China relations, the essay shows two major Chinese views:...

Reconceptualizing the PLA Navy in post - Mao China : functions, warfare, arms, and organization. (2002)

Li, Nan.

This paper examines the major changes regarding the Chinese Navy (PLAN, or the People’s Liberation Army Navy) between the pre-1985 period and the post-1985 period. It shows that major conceptual...

Applications of capillary electrophoresis in biological and clinical research / (2001)

Li, Nan.

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Alberta.

Li et al. Isomaltulose synthase Acta Cryst. (2003). D59, 150151 (2000)

Acta Crystallographica Section, Nan Li, A Daohai Zhang

Introduction Isomaltulose synthase (PalI) catalyzes the isomerization of sucrose to produce isomaltulose (-d-glucosylpyranosyl-1,6-d-fructofranose), trehalulose...

Jean Rhys :--a feminist and modernist writer deserving attention /--by Nan Li. (1999)

Li, Nan.

Thesis (M.A.)--Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, 1999.

Development of a new non-invasive ventilation system / (1998)

Li, Nan.

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, 1998.

Visually Recognizing Speech Using Eigensequences (1997)

Nan Li, Shawn Dettmer, Mubarak Shah

this paper we use the spatiotemporal eigen decomposition, in which the set of eigenvectors span the space of all possible sequences.

Energy-optimal control of a bilinear multizone cooling system / (1995)

Li, Nan.

Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Department of Electrical Engineering.

Lipreading using eigensequences (1995)

Nan Li, Shawn Dettmer, Mubarak Shah

To enable computer systems to recognize meaningful lip movements is a potential means to let computers interact naturally with people. We consider the problem of recognizing spoken English alphabet,...

Coherent mortality forecasts for a group of populations: An extension of the Lee-Carter method

Li, Nan, Lee, Ronald

Mortality patterns and trajectories in closely related populations are likely to be similar in some respects, and differences are unlikely to increase in the long run. It should therefore be possible...

Brain natriuretic peptide and optimal management of heart failure

Li, Nan, Wang, Jian-an

Aside from the important role of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) in diagnosis, and differential diagnosis of heart failure, this biological peptide has proved to be an independent surrogate marker of...

Analysis of computational approaches for motif discovery

Li, Nan, Tompa, Martin

Recently, we performed an assessment of 13 popular computational tools for discovery of transcription factor binding sites (M. Tompa, N. Li, et al., "Assessing Computational Tools for the Discovery...

Smaller and Faster: Using a Hand Held Computer to Support a Bedside Vascular Access Team

Scharnhorst, Anne, Johnson, L. Clark, Li, Nan

An application for a handheld computer was developed to support the Vascular Access team in an academic medical center. The development involved workflow analysis and usability testing centered on...

Brain natriuretic peptide: A potential indicator of cardiomyogenesis after autologous mesenchymal stem cell transplantation?

Li, Nan, Wang, Jian-an

We observed in a pilot study that there was a transient elevation of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) level shortly after the transplantation in the patient with ischemic heart failure, which is...

Brain natriuretic peptide and optimal management of heart failure

Li, Nan, Wang, Jian-an

Aside from the important role of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) in diagnosis, and differential diagnosis of heart failure, this biological peptide has proved to be an independent surrogate marker of...

Smaller and Faster: Using a Hand Held Computer to Support a Bedside Vascular Access Team

Scharnhorst, Anne, Johnson, L. Clark, Li, Nan

An application for a handheld computer was developed to support the Vascular Access team in an academic medical center. The development involved workflow analysis and usability testing centered on...

Analysis of computational approaches for motif discovery

Li, Nan, Tompa, Martin

Recently, we performed an assessment of 13 popular computational tools for discovery of transcription factor binding sites (M. Tompa, N. Li, et al., "Assessing Computational Tools for the Discovery...

Brain natriuretic peptide: A potential indicator of cardiomyogenesis after autologous mesenchymal stem cell transplantation?

Li, Nan, Wang, Jian-an

We observed in a pilot study that there was a transient elevation of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) level shortly after the transplantation in the patient with ischemic heart failure, which is...

Dispatched Homolog 2 is targeted by miR-214 through a combination of three weak microRNA recognition sites

Li, Nan, Flynt, Alex S., Kim, H. Rosemary, Solnica-Krezel, Lilianna, Patton, James G.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression by inhibiting translation of target mRNAs through pairing with miRNA recognition elements (MREs), usually in 3′ UTRs. Because pairing is imperfect,...

The Implied Benchmark Rate in the Credit Default Swap Market of Sovereign Bonds

Li, Nan

Credit default swap(CDS) is a new developed derivative to insure the credit risk of an underlying entity. This paper investigates the correlation relationship of the CDS market of sovereign borrowers...

Consumption Strikes Back?: Measuring Long-Run Risk

Lars Peter Hansen, John Heaton, Nan Li

We characterize and measure a long-run risk return tradeoff for the valuation of financial cash flows that are exposed to fluctuations in macroeconomic growth. This tradeoff features components of...

Consumption Strikes Back? Measuring Long-Run Risk

Lars Peter Hansen, John C. Heaton, Nan Li

We characterize and measure a long-term risk-return trade-off for the valuation of cash flows exposed to fluctuations in macroeconomic growth. This trade-off features risk prices of cash flows that...

The Price Discovery Process in Credit Derivative Markets: Evidence from Sovereign CDS Market

Li, Nan

The U.S. subprime loan crisis in 2007 has caused astonishing domestic and international financial turmoil, both directly and indirectly. Being a main factor in facilitating mortgage securitization,...

A Novel Endogenous Human CaMKII Inhibitory Protein Suppresses Tumor Growth by Inducing Cell Cycle Arrest via p27 Stabilization*S⃞

Wang, Chunmei, Li, Nan, Liu, Xingguang, Zheng, Yuanyuan, Cao, Xuetao

Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) regulates numerous physiological functions. Inhibition of CaMKII activity, mostly by synthetic reagents, has been proved to suppress cell...

Escape from X chromosome inactivation is an intrinsic property of the Jarid1c locus

Li, Nan, Carrel, Laura

Although most genes on one X chromosome in mammalian females are silenced by X inactivation, some “escape” X inactivation and are expressed from both active and inactive Xs. How these escape...

Soluble epoxide hydrolase plays an essential role in angiotensin II-induced cardiac hypertrophy

Ai, Ding, Pang, Wei, Li, Nan, Xu, Ming, Jones, Paul D., Yang, Jun, ...

Pathophysiological cardiac hypertrophy is one of the most common causes of heart failure. Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids, hydrolyzed and degraded by soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), can function as...

Anti-Hepatitis B Virus X Protein in Sera Is One of the Markers of Development of Liver Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer Mediated by HBV

Zhang, Hang, Wu, Lian-Ying, Zhang, Shuai, Qiu, Li-Yan, Li, Nan, Zhang, Xuan, ...

Hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx) plays a crucial role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the significance of circulating antibody to hepatitis B virus X antigen...

miR-8 microRNAs regulate the response to osmotic stress in zebrafish embryos

Flynt, Alex S., Thatcher, Elizabeth J., Burkewitz, Kristopher, Li, Nan, Liu, Yinzi, Patton, James G.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are highly conserved small RNAs that act as translational regulators of gene expression, exerting their influence by selectively targeting mRNAs bearing complementary sequence...

Study of glue extrusion after endoscopic N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate injection on gastric variceal bleeding

Wang, Yan-Mei, Cheng, Liu-Fang, Li, Nan, Wu, Kai, Zhai, Jun-Shan, Wang, Ya-Wen

AIM: To investigate glue extrusion after endoscopic N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate injection on gastric variceal bleeding and to evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of this therapy.