Wei Tang

Publication List Details

Period

1986 - 2009

Number

109

Co-Authors

No relationship between 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase and schizophrenia in the Chinese Han population: an expression study and meta-analysis (2009)

Che, Ronglin, Tang, Wei, Zhang, Jing, Wei, Zhiyun, Zhang, Zhao, Huang, Ke, ...

Abstract Background 2',3'-Cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase ( CNP ), one of the promising candidate genes for schizophrenia, plays a key part in the oligodendrocyte function and in myelination....

An object-based classification approach for high-spatial resolution Imagery (2008)

Xinliang Li, Shuhe Zhao, Yikang Rui, Wei Tang

With the recent availability of commercial high resolution remote sensing multispectral imagery from sensors such as IKONOS and QuickBird, we can’t get the accuracy of land-cover classification...

Abstract Ensembling Neural Networks: Many Could Be Better Than All (2008)

Zhi-hua Zhou, Jianxin Wu, Wei Tang

Neural network ensemble is a learning paradigm where many neural networks are jointly used to solve a problem. In this paper, the relationship between the ensemble and its component neural networks...

RNAi-directed downregulation of OsBADH2results in aroma (2-acetyl-1-pyrroline) production in rice (Oryza sativa L.) (2008)

Niu, Xiangli, Tang, Wei, Huang, Weizao, Ren, Guangjun, Wang, Qilin, Luo, Di, ...

Abstract Background Aromatic rice is popular worldwide because of its characteristic fragrance. Genetic studies and physical fine mapping reveal that a candidate gene ( fgr / OsBADH2 ) homologous to...

The Role of Neighborhood Characteristics in the Adoption and Frequency of Working at Home: Empirical Evidence from Northern California (2008)

Tang, Wei, Mokhtarian, Patricia, Handy, Susan

Working at home is widely viewed as a useful travel-reduction strategy, and partly for that reason, considerable research related to telecommuting and home-based work has been conducted in the last...

Encapsulation of methylene blue in polyacrylamide nanoparticle platforms protects its photodynamic effectiveness (2008)

Tang, Wei, Xu, Hao, Park, Edwin J., Philbert, Martin A., Kopelman, Raoul

The ability to prevent methylene blue (MB), a photosensitizer, from being reduced by plasma reductases will greatly improve its efficacy in photodynamic therapy (PDT) applications. We have developed...

Abstract Clusterer Ensemble (2008)

Zhi-hua Zhou, Wei Tang

Ensemble methods that train multiple learners and then combine their predictions have been shown to be very effective in supervised learning. This paper explores ensemble methods for unsupervised...

an extensible Wrapper Generation System (2007)

Wei Tang

To be a good researcher and developer on cutting edge Web applications, middleware systems, and database systems. Looking for a full-time position in a research and development team that strives to...

Artvan(or Signal Piecessing for Cemmunicalioas INFORMATION RATE MAXIMIZING FIR TRANSCEIVERS: FILTERBANK PRECEDERS AND DECISION-FEEDBACK EQUALIZERS FOR BLOCK TRANSMISSIONS OVER DISPERSIVE CHANNELS (2007)

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Abstract Ensembling Neural Networks: Many Could Be Better Than All (2007)

Zhi-hua Zhou, Jianxin Wu, Wei Tang

Neural network ensemble is a learning paradigm where many neural networks are jointly used to solve a problem. In this paper, the relationship between the ensemble and its component neural networks...

Abstract Ensembling Neural Networks: Many Could Be Better Than All (2007)

Zhi-hua Zhou, Jianxin Wu, Wei Tang

Neural network ensemble is a learning paradigm where many neural networks are jointly used to solve a problem. In this paper, the relationship between the ensemble and its component neural networks...

International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications c ○ World Scientific Publishing Company COMBINING REGRESSION ESTIMATORS: GA-BASED SELECTIVE NEURAL NETWORK ENSEMBLE (2007)

Zhi-hua Zhou, Jian-xin Wu, Wei Tang, Zhao-qian Chen

Neural network ensemble is a learning paradigm where a collection of neural networks is trained for the same task. In this paper, the relationship between the generalization ability of the neural...

Binding Specificities of Lectins to Immobilized Glycoproteins and Oligosaccharides Differ from Those of Immobilized Lectins to Oligosaccharides (2007)

Tang, Wei, Miura, Takehiko, Nakata, Munehiro, Kojima, Naoya, Mizuochi, Tsuguo

The carbohydrate-binding specificities of lectins in solution to glycoproteins and neoglycolipids immobilized on a solid phase were analyzed in order to establish a simple, rapid method for...

Genetic transformation and gene silencing mediated by multiple copies of a transgene in eastern white pine (2007)

Tang, Wei, Newton, Ronald J., Weidner, Douglas A.

An efficient transgenic eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) plant regeneration system has been established using Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain GV3850-mediated transformation and the green...

Molecular epidemiology of measles viruses in China, 1995–2003 (2007)

Zhang, Yan, Zhu, Zhen, Rota, Paul A, Jiang, Xiaohong, Hu, Jiayu, Wang, Jianguo, ...

Abstract This report describes the genetic characterization of 297 wild-type measles viruses that were isolated in 24 provinces of China between 1995 and 2003. Phylogenetic analysis of the N gene...

Disruption of Actin Filaments by Latrunculin B Affects Cell Wall Construction in Picea meyeri Pollen Tube by Disturbing Vesicle Trafficking (2007)

Chen, Tong, Teng, Nianjun, Wu, Xiaoqin, Wang, Yuhua, Tang, Wei, Samaj, Jozef, ...

The involvement of actin filaments (AFs) in vesicle trafficking, cell wall construction and tip growth was investigated during pollen tube development of Picea meyeri. Pollen germination and tube...

Positive association between POU1F1 and mental retardation in young females in the Chinese Han population (2006)

Sun, Yun, Zhang, Fuchang, Gao, Jianjun, Gao, Xiaocai, Guo, Tingwei, Zhang, Kejin, ...

Genetic defects attributable to the genes involved in the hypothalamus–pituitary–thyroid (HPT) gland axis can cause abnormal thyroid hormone function and mental retardation (MR). Pit-1, encoded...

Genetic transformation and gene silencing mediated by multiple copies of a transgene in eastern white pine (2006)

Tang, Wei, Newton, Ronald J., Weidner, Douglas A.

An efficient transgenic eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) plant regeneration system has been established using Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain GV3850-mediated transformation and the green...

Differential expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase and IL-12 between peritoneal and splenic macrophages stimulated with LPS plus IFN-{gamma} is associated with the activation of extracellular signal-related kinase (2006)

Zhu, Yi-Na, Yang, Yi-Fu, Ono, Shiro, Zhong, Xiang-Gen, Feng, Yong-Hong, Ren, Yong-Xin, ...

Resident peritoneal macrophages (pMϕ) are found deficient in T cell-stimulating capacity compared with the competent splenic macrophages (sMϕ). Macrophages (Mϕ)-derived nitric oxide...

Differential expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase and IL-12 between peritoneal and splenic macrophages stimulated with LPS plus IFN-{gamma} is associated with the activation of extracellular signal-related kinase (2006)

Zhu, Yi-Na, Yang, Yi-Fu, Ono, Shiro, Zhong, Xiang-Gen, Feng, Yong-Hong, Ren, Yong-Xin, ...

Resident peritoneal macrophages (pMφ) are found deficient in T cell-stimulating capacity compared with the competent splenic macrophages (sMφ). Macrophages (Mφ)-derived nitric oxide (NO) and IL-12...

Positive Association Between POU1F1 and Mental Retardation in Young Females in the Chinese Han Population (2006)

Sun, Yun, Zhang, Fuchang, Gao, Jianjun, Gao, Xiaocai, Guo, Tingwei, Zhang, Kejin, ...

Genetic defects attributable to the genes involved in the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid gland (HPT) axis can cause abnormal thyroid hormone function and mental retardation (MR). Pit-1, encoded by...

Genetic transformation and gene silencing mediated by multiple copies of a transgene in eastern white pine (2006)

Tang, Wei, Newton, Ronald J., Weidner, Douglas A.

An efficient transgenic eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) plant regeneration system has been established using Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain GV3850-mediated transformation and the green...

Reconfigurable Hardware-Based Simulation Modeling of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (2005)

Tang, Wei

This dissertation research explores a reconfigurable hardware-based parallel simulation mechanism that can dramatically improve the speed of simulating the operations of flexible manufacturing...

Reconfigurable Hardware-Based Simulation Modeling of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (2005)

Tang, Wei

This dissertation research explores a reconfigurable hardware-based parallel simulation mechanism that can dramatically improve the speed of simulating the operations of flexible manufacturing...

Studies of transients from a series of enones by time-resolved photoacoustic calorimetry (2005)

Tang, Wei

Pulsed, time-resolved photoacoustic calorimetry (PAC) has been applied to determine the transient energies and lifetimes of a series of enones in different solutions. Up to three decays could be...

Studies of transients from a series of enones by time-resolved photoacoustic calorimetry (2005)

Tang, Wei

Pulsed, time-resolved photoacoustic calorimetry (PAC) has been applied to determine the transient energies and lifetimes of a series of enones in different solutions. Up to three decays could be...

Photodynamic Characterization and In Vitro Application of Methylene Blue-containing Nanoparticle Platforms¶ (2005)

Wei Tang, Hao Xu, Raoul Kopelman, Martin A. Philbert

This article presents the development and characterization of nanoparticles loaded with methylene blue (MB), which are designed to be administered to tumor cells externally and deliver singlet oxygen...

Inducible Antisense-Mediated Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing in Transgenic Pine Cells Using Green Fluorescence Protein as a Visual Marker (2005)

Tang, Wei, Kinken, Katherine, Newton, Ronald J.

An inducible post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) system was established in Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana Mill.) cells. This system is based on the activation of an anti-sense gfp gene...

Inducible Antisense-Mediated Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing in Transgenic Pine Cells Using Green Fluorescence Protein as a Visual Marker (2005)

Tang, Wei, Kinken, Katherine, Newton, Ronald J.

An inducible post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) system was established in Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana Mill.) cells. This system is based on the activation of an anti-sense gfp gene...

On Potassium Deficiency in Cotton– Disorder, Cause and Tissue Diagnosis (2004)

Hezhong Dong, Wei Tang, Zhenhuai Li, Dongmei Zhang

As modern cotton varieties including Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) transgenic cotton are adopted and yield per unit area continues to increase, potassium deficiency is occurring with rising frequency...

On Potassium Deficiency in Cotton– Disorder, Cause and Tissue Diagnosis (2004)

Hezhong Dong, Wei Tang, Zhenhuai Li, Dongmei Zhang

As modern cotton varieties including Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) transgenic cotton are adopted and yield per unit area continues to increase, potassium deficiency is occurring with rising frequency...

Regulated gene expression by glucocorticoids in cultured Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana Mill.) cells (2004)

Tang, Wei, Newton, Ronald J.

The effects of six glucocorticoids (dexamethasone, hydrocortisone, 6-methylprednisolone, prednisolone, prednisone, and triamcinolone) on inducible gene expression, based on the chimaeric...

Regulated gene expression by glucocorticoids in cultured Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana Mill.) cells (2004)

Tang, Wei, Newton, Ronald J.

The effects of six glucocorticoids (dexamethasone, hydrocortisone, 6-methylprednisolone, prednisolone, prednisone, and triamcinolone) on inducible gene expression, based on the chimaeric...

Internet-Scale Information Monitoring: A Continual Query Approach (2003)

Tang, Wei

Information monitoring systems are publish-subscribe systems that continuously track information changes and notify users (or programs acting on behalf of humans) of relevant updates according to...

Internet-Scale Information Monitoring: A Continual Query Approach (2003)

Tang, Wei

Information monitoring systems are publish-subscribe systems that continuously track information changes and notify users (or programs acting on behalf of humans) of relevant updates according to...

Internet-Scale Information Monitoring: A Continual Query Approach (2003)

Tang, Wei

Information monitoring systems are publish-subscribe systems that continuously track information changes and notify users (or programs acting on behalf of humans) of relevant updates according to...

Internet-Scale Information Monitoring: A Continual Query Approach (2003)

Tang, Wei

Information monitoring systems are publish-subscribe systems that continuously track information changes and notify users (or programs acting on behalf of humans) of relevant updates according to...

Internet-scale information monitoring a continual query approach / (2003)

Tang, Wei.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.

Analysis of FKBP12 function in skeletal muscle / (2003)

Tang, Wei.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Baylor College of Medicine. Dept. of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, 2003.

Internet-scale information monitoring a continual query approach / (2003)

Tang, Wei.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.

Bizcq: Using continual queries to cope with changes in business information exchange.” Submitted to WWW2004 Conference (2003)

Wei Tang

In this poster, we propose the framework of BizCQ, a system to apply Continual Queries [7][8] on Web-based content to manage information exchanges between two business partners. In this poster, we...

Selective ensemble of decision trees (2003)

Zhi-hua Zhou, Wei Tang

Abstract. An ensemble is generated by training multiple component learners for a same task and then combining their predictions. In most ensemble algorithms, all the trained component learners are...

Trigger grouping: a scalable approach to large scale information monitoring (2003)

Wei Tang

Information change monitoring services are becoming increasingly useful as more and more information is published on the Web. A major research challenge is how to make the service scalable to serve...

Transgenic loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plants expressing a modified {delta}-endotoxin gene of Bacillus thuringiensis with enhanced resistance to Dendrolimus punctatus Walker and Crypyothelea formosicola Staud (2003)

Tang, Wei, Tian, Yingchuan

A synthetic version of the CRY1Ac gene of Bacillus thuringiensis has been used for the transformation of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) using particle bombardment. Mature zygotic embryos were used to...

Permanent-Magnet Properties of Thermally Processed FePt and FePt-Fe Multilayer Films (2002)

Zhou, Jian, Skomski, Ralph, Li, Xingzhong, Tang, Wei, Hadjipanayis, George C., Sellmyer, David J.

FePt single-layer and FePt-Fe multilayer thin films are prepared by magnetron sputtering. By varying the Pt content, FePt, Fe3Pt, or a mixture of FePt and Fe3Pt can be obtained in Fe-Pt single...

Effect of Iron Substitution on the High-Temperature Properties of Sm(Co,Cu,Ti)z Permanent Magnets (2002)

Zhou, Jian, Skomski, Ralph, Sellmyer, David J., Tang, Wei, Hadjipanayis, George C.

Recently, Ti-substituted Sm-Co permanent magnets have attracted renewed attention due to their interesting high-temperature coercivity. Our presentation deals with the effect of iron substitutions on...

Information monitoring on the web: a scalable solution (2002)

Ling Liu, Wei Tang, David Buttler, Calton Pu

This paper presents WebCQ, a continual query system for large-scale Web information monitoring. WebCQ is designed to discover and detect changes to Web pages efficiently, and to notify users of...

Selectively ensembling neural classifiers (2002)

Zhi-hua Zhou, Jianxin Wu, Wei Tang, Zhao-qian Chen

Abstract- Ensembling neural classifiers can significantly improve the generalization ability of classification systems. In this paper, GASEN, a genetic algorithm based selective ensemble method that...

Finite-state Markov models for correlated fading channels in wireless communications (2001)

Tang, Wei

Various types of diversity systems are used as countermeasures for fading in wireless communications. In most previous work, performance analyses for diversity systems assumes independent fading...

WebCQ: Detecting and delivering information changes on the web (2000)

Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang

WebCQ is a prototype system for large-scale Web information monitoring and delivery. It makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext and the concept of continual queries. In this paper we...

WebCQ: Detecting and Delivering Information Changes on the Web (2000)

Wei Tang, Ling Liu, Calton Pu

This paper presents WebCQ, a prototype of a large-scale Web information monitoring system, WebCQ is designed to discover and detect changes to the World Wide Web (the Web) pages efficiently, and to...

Prepared extended abstract (2000)

Wei Tang, Hui Xiong

Semi-supervised clustering employs limited supervision in the form of labeled instances or pairwise instance constraints to aid unsupervised clustering and often significantly improves the clustering...

Prepared extended abstract (2000)

Wei Tang, Hui Xiong

Semi-supervised clustering employs limited supervision in the form of labeled instances or pairwise instance constraints to aid unsupervised clustering and often significantly improves the clustering...

Fast Evaluation of Differential Capacity and Surface Charge in Electrical Double Layers with A.C. Oscillopolarography (2000)

Bi, Shuping, Gao, Hong, Tang, Wei, Yang, Zhiguo, Du, Sidan, You, Xiang, ...

The application of a.c. oscillopolarography for a fast evaluation of differential capacity and surface charge in electrical double layers on the mercury electrode is described. The Cd = f(E), Q =...

Supporting Internet Applications Beyond Browsing: Trigger Processing and Change Notification (1999)

Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang

Abstract. This paper presents the design and implementation methodology of the JCQ system, a Java-based Continual Query system for update monitoring over Web information sources. A continual query is...

Scalable Trigger Processing and Change Notification in the Continual Query System (1999)

Wei Tang

Over the past years, the World Wide Web (the Web) has grown into a huge global information source, at an astounding pace. While we are enjoying the rich and fresh information on the Web, the rapid...

An XML-based Wrapper Generator for Web Information Extraction (1999)

Ling Liu, Wei Han, David Buttler, Calton Pu, Wei Tang

Introduction There has been tremendous interest in information integration systems that automatically gather, manipulate, and integrate data from multiple information sources on a user's behalf....

Building an Extensible Wrapper Repository System: A Metadata Approach (1999)

Ling Liu Calton, Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Han, David Buttler, Wei Tang

this paper we first summarize our experience with wrapper construction in the Continual Queries project (http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/CQ/). Then we discuss the mechanisms for constructing and...

CONQUER: A Continual Query System for Update Monitoring in the WWW (1999)

Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang, Wei Han

The World Wide Web (the Web) has made an enormous amount of data freely accessible over the Internet. However, finding the right information in the midst of this mountain of data has been likened to...

CONQUER: A Continual Query System for Update Monitoring in the WWW (1999)

Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang, Wei Han

The World Wide Web (the Web) has made an enormous amount of data freely accessible over the Internet. However, finding the right information in the midst of this mountain of data has been likened to...

Continual Queries for Internet Scale Event-Driven Information Delivery (1999)

Ling Liu Calton, Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang

In this paper we introduce the concept of continual queries, describe the design of a distributed event-driven continual query system \Gamma OpenCQ, and outline the initial implementation of OpenCQ...

Continual Queries for Internet Scale Event-Driven Information Delivery (1999)

Ling Liu Calton, Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang

In this paper we introduce the concept of continual queries, describe the design of a distributed event-driven continual query system \Gamma OpenCQ, and outline the initial implementation of OpenCQ...

Supporting Internet Applications Beyond Browsing: Trigger Processing and Change Notification (1999)

Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang

This paper presents the design and implementation methodology of the JCQ system, a Java-based Continual Query system for update monitoring over Web information sources. A continual query is a...

Personalized Update Monitoring Toolkit Using Continual Queries: System Design and Implementation (1999)

Wei Tang, Wei Tang, Randy Goebel, Francis Y. Lau

In rapidly growing open environments such as the Internet, users experience information starvation in the midst of data overload, due to difficulties similar to finding a needle in a haystack. Update...

Continual Queries for Internet Scale Event-Driven Information Delivery (1999)

Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang

In this paper we introduce the concept of continual queries, describe the design of a distributed event-driven continual query system \Gamma OpenCQ, and outline the initial implementation of OpenCQ...

Continual queries for Internet scale event-driven information delivery (1999)

Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang

In this paper we introduce the concept of continual queries, describe the design of a distributed event-driven continual query system, OpenCQ, and outline the initial implementation of OpenCQ on top...

CONQUER: A continual query system for update monitoring (1999)

Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang, Wei Han

The World Wide Web (the Web) has made an enormous amount of data freely accessible over the Internet. However, nding the right information in the midst of this mountain of data has been likened to...

Apoptosis and Growth Inhibition in Malignant Lymphocytes After Treatment With Arsenic Trioxide at Clinically Achievable Concentrations (1999)

Zhu, Xin-Hua, Shen, Yu-Lei, Jing, Yong-kui, Cai, Xun, Jia, Pei-Ming, Huang, Ying, ...

BACKGROUND: Arsenic trioxide (As2O3) can induce clinical remission in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia via induction of differentiation and programmed cell death (apoptosis). We...

CQ: A Personalized Update Monitoring Toolkit (1998)

Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang, David Buttler, John Biggs, Tong Zhou, ...

Introduction The World Wide Web (WWW) made an unprecedented amount and variety of data accessible to all Internet users. However, users suffer from information starvation under this data overload,...

CQ: A Personalized Update Monitoring Toolkit (1998)

Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang, David Buttler, John Biggs, Tong Zhou, ...

The CQ project at OGI, funded by DARPA, aims at developing a scalable toolkit and techniques for update monitoring and event-driven information delivery on the net. The main feature of the CQ project...

CONQUER: An Architecture for a Distributed Push-enabled Data Management System (1998)

Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang

Conquer is an extensible architecture designed for transforming a pull-based data management system (e.g., conventional DBMSs, web search engines and query systems) into a push-enabled data...

Exofacial epitope-tagged glucose transporter chimeras reveal COOH-terminal sequences governing cellular localization (1993)

Czech, Michael P., Chawla, Anil, Woon, Chee-Wai, Buxton, Joanne M., Armoni, Michal, Tang, Wei, ...

The insulin-regulated adipocyte/skeletal muscle glucose transporter (GLUT4) displays a characteristic steady-state intracellular localization under basal conditions, whereas the erythrocyte/brain...

All-trans retinoic acid/As2O3 combination yields a high quality remission and survival in newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia

Shen, Zhi-Xiang, Shi, Zhan-Zhong, Fang, Jing, Gu, Bai-Wei, Li, Jun-Min, Zhu, Yong-Mei, ...

Both all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and arsenic trioxide (As2O3) have proven to be very effective in obtaining high clinical complete remission (CR) rates in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), but...

Inactivation of Stat5 in Mouse Mammary Epithelium during Pregnancy Reveals Distinct Functions in Cell Proliferation, Survival, and Differentiation

Cui, Yongzhi, Riedlinger, Greg, Miyoshi, Keiko, Tang, Wei, Li, Cuiling, Deng, Chu-Xia, ...

This study explored the functions of the signal transducers and activators of transcription 5a and 5b (referred to as Stat5 here) during different stages of mouse mammary gland development by using...

Links between CD147 Function, Glycosylation, and Caveolin-1

Tang, Wei, Chang, Sharon B., Hemler, Martin E.

Cell surface CD147 shows remarkable variations in size (31-65 kDa) because of heterogeneous N-glycosylation, with the most highly glycosylated forms functioning to induce matrix metalloproteinase...

Apocalmodulin and Ca2+Calmodulin-Binding Sites on the CaV1.2 Channel

Tang, Wei, Halling, D. Brent, Black, D. J., Pate, Patricia, Zhang, Jia-Zheng, Pedersen, Steen, ...

The cardiac L-type voltage-dependent calcium channel is responsible for initiating excitation-contraction coupling. Three sequences (amino acids 1609–1628, 1627–1652, and 1665–1685, designated...

All-trans retinoic acid/As2O3 combination yields a high quality remission and survival in newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia

Shen, Zhi-Xiang, Shi, Zhan-Zhong, Fang, Jing, Gu, Bai-Wei, Li, Jun-Min, Zhu, Yong-Mei, ...

Both all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and arsenic trioxide (As2O3) have proven to be very effective in obtaining high clinical complete remission (CR) rates in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), but...

Inactivation of Stat5 in Mouse Mammary Epithelium during Pregnancy Reveals Distinct Functions in Cell Proliferation, Survival, and Differentiation

Cui, Yongzhi, Riedlinger, Greg, Miyoshi, Keiko, Tang, Wei, Li, Cuiling, Deng, Chu-Xia, ...

This study explored the functions of the signal transducers and activators of transcription 5a and 5b (referred to as Stat5 here) during different stages of mouse mammary gland development by using...

Links between CD147 Function, Glycosylation, and Caveolin-1

Tang, Wei, Chang, Sharon B., Hemler, Martin E.

Cell surface CD147 shows remarkable variations in size (31-65 kDa) because of heterogeneous N-glycosylation, with the most highly glycosylated forms functioning to induce matrix metalloproteinase...

Apocalmodulin and Ca2+Calmodulin-Binding Sites on the CaV1.2 Channel

Tang, Wei, Halling, D. Brent, Black, D. J., Pate, Patricia, Zhang, Jia-Zheng, Pedersen, Steen, ...

The cardiac L-type voltage-dependent calcium channel is responsible for initiating excitation-contraction coupling. Three sequences (amino acids 1609–1628, 1627–1652, and 1665–1685, designated...

Molecular epidemiology of measles viruses in China, 1995–2003

Zhang, Yan, Zhu, Zhen, Rota, Paul A, Jiang, Xiaohong, Hu, Jiayu, Wang, Jianguo, ...

This report describes the genetic characterization of 297 wild-type measles viruses that were isolated in 24 provinces of China between 1995 and 2003. Phylogenetic analysis of the N gene sequences...

Diminishing catalyst concentration in atom transfer radical polymerization with reducing agents

Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof, Jakubowski, Wojciech, Min, Ke, Tang, Wei, Huang, Jinyu, Braunecker, Wade A., ...

The concept of initiators for continuous activator regeneration (ICAR) in atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is introduced, whereby a constant source of organic free radicals works to...

Palmitoylation supports assembly and function of integrin–tetraspanin complexes

Yang, Xiuwei, Kovalenko, Oleg V., Tang, Wei, Claas, Christoph, Stipp, Christopher S., Hemler, Martin E.

As observed previously, tetraspanin palmitoylation promotes tetraspanin microdomain assembly. Here, we show that palmitoylated integrins (α3, α6, and β4 subunits) and tetraspanins (CD9, CD81, and...

Coordinate Regulation of G Protein Signaling via Dynamic Interactions of Receptor and GAP

Turcotte, Marc, Tang, Wei, Ross, Elliott M.

Signal output from receptor–G-protein–effector modules is a dynamic function of the nucleotide exchange activity of the receptor, the GTPase-accelerating activity of GTPase-activating proteins...

Impaired Delta Np63 Expression is Associated with Poor Tumor Development in Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder

He, Yunfeng, Wu, Xiaohou, Tang, Wei, Tian, Daiyin, Luo, Chunli, Yin, Zhikang, ...

The oncogenic isoform of the p63 protein, delta Np63 (ΔNp63), plays an important role in the pathogenesis of many epithelial carcinomas, and emerging evidences suggest that ΔNp63 is a promising...

A genome-wide RNAi screen for Wnt/β-catenin pathway components identifies unexpected roles for TCF transcription factors in cancer

Tang, Wei, Dodge, Michael, Gundapaneni, Deepika, Michnoff, Carolyn, Roth, Michael, Lum, Lawrence

The Wnt family of secreted proteins coordinate cell fate decision-making in a broad range of developmental and homeostatic contexts. Corruption of Wnt signal transduction pathways frequently results...

Transcription Factor SP4 Is a Susceptibility Gene for Bipolar Disorder

Zhou, Xianjin, Tang, Wei, Greenwood, Tiffany A., Guo, Shengzhen, He, Lin, Geyer, Mark A., ...

The Sp4 transcription factor plays a critical role for both development and function of mouse hippocampus. Reduced expression of the mouse Sp4 gene results in a variety of behavioral abnormalities...

Long-term efficacy and safety of all-trans retinoic acid/arsenic trioxide-based therapy in newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia

Hu, Jiong, Liu, Yuan-Fang, Wu, Chuan-Feng, Xu, Fang, Shen, Zhi-Xiang, Zhu, Yong-Mei, ...

All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)/arsenic trioxide (ATO) combination-based therapy has benefitted newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) in short-term studies, but the long-term efficacy and...

Scutellaria barbate extract induces apoptosis of hepatoma H22 cells via the mitochondrial pathway involving caspase-3

Dai, Zhi-Jun, Wang, Xi-Jing, Li, Zong-Fang, Ji, Zong-Zheng, Ren, Hong-Tao, Tang, Wei, ...

AIM: To study the growth inhibitory and apoptotic effects of Scutellaria barbata D.Don (S. barbata) and to determine the underlying mechanism of its antitumor activity in mouse liver cancer cell line...