Liu, Tao, Wang, Bin-Quan, Zheng, Peng-Yuan, He, Shao-Heng, Yang, Ping-Chang
Abstract Background Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) is a potent immunomodulator and implicated with pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases mediated by Th1 or Th2 dominant immune responses. The...
Yang, Ping-Chang, Liu, Tao, Wang, Bin-Quan, Zhang, Tao-Yuan, An, Zi-Yuan, Zheng, Peng-Yuan, ...
Abstract Background During clinical practice, we noticed that some patients with both ulcerative colitis (UC) and chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) showed amelioration of UC after treatment of CRS. This...
Monteiro, Mario A., Zheng, Peng-yuan, Ho, Bow, Yokota, Shin-ichi, Amano, Ken-ichi, Pan, Zhi-jun, ...
Past studies have shown that the cell surface lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) of the ubiquitous human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori (a type 1 carcinogen) isolated from people residing in Europe and...
Mast Cells Play a Crucial Role in Staphylococcus aureus Peptidoglycan-Induced Diarrhea
Feng, Bai-Sui, He, Shao-Heng, Zheng, Peng-Yuan, Wu, Linda, Yang, Ping-Chang
Bacterium-induced diarrhea results in 2 to 2.5 million deaths in the world each year. The mechanism needs to be further understood. Staphylococcus aureus infection has a close relation with diarrhea;...
Chen, Xiao, Feng, Bai-Sui, Zheng, Peng-Yuan, Liao, Xue-Qing, Chong, Jasmine, Tang, Shang-Guo, ...
Microbes and microbial products are closely associated with the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); however, the mechanisms behind this connection remain unclear. It has been previously...
Entecavir up-regulates dendritic cell function in patients with chronic hepatitis B
Lu, Gao-Feng, Tang, Fu-Ai, Zheng, Peng-Yuan, Yang, Ping-Chang, Qi, Yuan-Ming
AIM: To investigate the in vitro effect of entecavir (ETV) on the function of dendritic cells (DCs) derived from chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients.
Efflux pump gene hefA of Helicobacter pylori plays an important role in multidrug resistance
Liu, Zhi-Qiang, Zheng, Peng-Yuan, Yang, Ping-Chang
AIM: To determine whether efflux systems contribute to multidrug resistance of H pylori.