Preliminary molecular characterization of the human pathogen Angiostrongylus cantonensis (2009)
He, Hualiang, Cheng, Mei, Yang, Xiao, Meng, Jinxiu, He, Ai, Zheng, Xiaoying, ...
Abstract Background Human angiostrongyliasis is an emerging food-borne public health problem, with the number of cases increasing worldwide, especially in mainland China. Angiostrongylus cantonensis...
Wang, Yan, Yan, Jiangwei, Shi, Yuling, Li, Ping, Liu, Chuanxuan, Ma, Qingjun, ...
Abstract Background The pathogenesis of severe acute respiratory disease syndrome (SARS) is not fully understood. One case-control study has reported an association between susceptibility to SARS and...
PARALLEL–TCOFFEE: A PARALLEL MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNER (2008)
Jaroslaw Zola, Xiao Yang, Adrian Rospondek, Srinivas Aluru
In this paper we present a parallel implementation of T–Coffee — a widely used multiple sequence alignment package. Our software supports a majority of options provided by the sequential program,...
Robust Algorithm for Finding Weak Motifs (2008)
Xiao Yang, Student Member, Jagath C. Rajapakse, Senior Member
Abstract — The Challenge Problem posed by Pevzner et al. showed that especial algorithms are necessity to detect weak motifs in bio-sequences, where the the classical approaches, such as MEME and...
Xiao Yang, Shamik K. Valia, Michael J. Schulte, Ruby B. Lee
Abstract—PLX FP is a floating-point instruction set architecture (ISA) extension to PLX that is designed for fast and efficient 3D graphics processing. In this paper, we explore the implementation...
Transforming growth factor-{beta}-regulated miR-24 promotes skeletal muscle differentiation (2008)
Sun, Qiang, Zhang, Yan, Yang, Guang, Chen, Xiaoping, Zhang, Yingai, Cao, Guojun, ...
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have recently been proposed as a versatile class of molecules involved in regulation of a variety of biological processes. However, the role of miRNAs in TGF-β-regulated...
Ruby B. Lee, Zhijie Shi, Xiao Yang, Permutations Four, New Instructions, Each Offer, ...
Pervasive secure information processing over the public wired and wireless Internet could benefit from rapid and convenient cryptographic transformations. But the performance of software-implemented...
Investigation of HIFU-induced anti-tumor immunity in a murine tumor model (2007)
Hu, Zhenlin, Yang, Xiao, Liu, Yunbo, Sankin, Georgy N, Pua, Eric C, Morse, Michael A, ...
Abstract Background High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is an emerging non-invasive treatment modality for localized treatment of cancers. While current clinical strategies employ HIFU...
Wu, Zhuang, Yang, Leilei, Cai, Lin, Zhang, Min, Cheng, Xuan, Yang, Xiao, ...
Abstract Background Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) in alveolar epithelial cells (AECs) has been widely observed in patients suffering interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. In vitro studies...
Synthesis and Characterization of Spherical Hollow Assembly Composed of Cu Nanoparticles (2007)
Hollow spheres of Cu nanoparticles with an average diameter of 300-500 nm have been prepared by a simple reaction of CuCl and hydrazine in suspension in the presence of gelatin at 60 °C. Gelatin...
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Han, Juqiang, Ding, Lihua, Yuan, Bin, Yang, Xiao, Wang, Xiaohui, Li, Jiezhi, ...
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) X protein (HBx) is considered to play a role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) during HBV infection. HCC was shown to be more prevalent in men than in...
Potentiation of Smad-mediated transcriptional activation by the RNA-binding protein RBPMS (2006)
Sun, Yan, Ding, Lihua, Zhang, Hao, Han, Juqiang, Yang, Xiao, Yan, Jinghua, ...
Smad2, Smad3 and Smad4 proteins are considered to be key mediators of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling. However, the identities of the Smad partners mediating TGF-β signaling are not...
Martha Pfister-Genskow, Cena Myers, Lynette A. Childs, Jenine C. Lacson, Thomas Patterson, Jeffery M. Betthauser, ...
Using an interwoven-loop experimental design in conjunction with highly conservative linear mixed model methodology using estimated variance components, 18 genes differentially expressed between...
Ferromagnetism of Weakly-Interacting Electrons in Disordered Systems (2005)
It was realized two decades ago that the two-dimensional diffusive Fermi liquid phase is unstable against arbitrarily weak electron-electron interactions. Recently, using the nonlinear sigma model...
Dibley, Stephen J., Gear, Michael L., Yang, Xiao, Rosche, Elke G., Offler, Christina E., McCurdy, David W., ...
Correlative physiological evidence suggests that membrane transport into storage parenchyma cells is a key step in determining hexose levels accumulated in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.)...
Non-local space-time supersymmetry on the lattice (2004)
We show that several well-known one-dimensional quantum systems possess a hidden nonlocal supersymmetry. The simplest example is the open XXZ spin chain with \Delta=-1/2. We use the supersymmetry to...
PLX FP: An Efficient Floating-Point Instruction Set for 3D Graphics (2004)
3D graphics is an important component in the workload of today’s computing platforms. Many ISA extensions for 3D graphics have been proposed and implemented. We describe PLX FP, a new...
Graphical Approach to Weak Motif Recognition (2004)
Xiao Yang, Jagath C. Rajapakse
We address the weak motif recognition problem in DNA sequences, which extends the general motif recognition to more di#cult cases, allowing more degenerations in motif instances. Several algorithms...
CD40 is expressed on rat peritoneal mesothelial cells and upregulates ICAM-1 production (2004)
Yang, Xiao, Ye, Rengao, Kong, Qingyu, Yang, Qiongqiong, Dong, Xiuqing, Yu, Xueqing
Background. CD40 has been identified on a variety of cell types, and it plays an important role in adaptive immunity and inflammation. Peritoneal mesothelial cells (PMCs) are the main cell layer that...
CD40 is expressed on rat peritoneal mesothelial cells and upregulates ICAM-1 production (2004)
Yang, Xiao, Ye, Rengao, Kong, Qingyu, Yang, Qiongqiong, Dong, Xiuqing, Yu, Xueqing
Background. CD40 has been identified on a variety of cell types, and it plays an important role in adaptive immunity and inflammation. Peritoneal mesothelial cells (PMCs) are the main cell layer that...
Microarray experiments are used to perform gene expression profiling on a large scale. E- and A-optimality of mixed designs was established for experiments with up to 26 different varieties and with...
Microarray experiments are used to perform gene expression profiling on a large scale. E- and A-optimality of mixed designs was established for experiments with up to 26 different varieties and with...
On the Ordering Instability of Weakly-Interacting Electrons in a Dirty Metal (2003)
In a dirty metal, electron-electron interactions in the spin-triplet channel lead to singular corrections to a variety of physical quantities. We show that these singularities herald the emergence of...
Xiao Yang, Samantha Bates, Eric P. Smith, George Terrell, Xiao Yang
Microarray experiments are used to perform gene expression profiling on a large scale. Eand A-optimality of mixed design was established for experiments with up to 26 different varieties and with the...
Arbitrary bit permutations in one or two cycles (2003)
Zhijie Shi, Xiao Yang, Ruby B. Lee
Symmetric-key block ciphers encrypt data, providing data confidentiality over the public Internet. For inter-operability reasons, it is desirable to support a variety of symmetric-key ciphers...
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Sharp signature of DDW quantum critical point in the Hall coefficient of the cuprates (2002)
Chakravarty, Sudip, Nayak, Chetan, Tewari, Sumanta, Yang, Xiao
We study the behavior of the Hall coefficient, $R_H$, in a system exhibiting $d_{{x^2}-{y^2}}$ density-wave (DDW) order in a regime in which the carrier concentration, $x$, is tuned to approach a...
Refining Instruction Set Architecture for High-Performance Multimedia Processing (2002)
Ruby B. Lee, A. Murat Fiskiran, Zhijie Shi, Xiao Yang
Multimedia processing in software has been significantly accelerated by the addition of subword-parallel instructions to the instruction set architectures (ISAs) of modern microprocessors. While some...
Refining Instruction Set Architecture for High-Performance Multimedia Processing (2002)
Ruby B. Lee, A. Murat Fiskiran, Zhijie Shi, Xiao Yang
Multimedia processing in software has been significantly accelerated by the addition of subword-parallel instructions to the instruction set architectures (ISAs) of modern microprocessors. While some...
Refining Instruction Set Architecture for High-Performance Multimedia Processing (2002)
Ruby B. Lee, A. Murat Fiskiran, Zhijie Shi, Xiao Yang
Multimedia processing in software has been significantly accelerated by the addition of subword-parallel instructions to the instruction set architectures (ISAs) of modern microprocessors. While some...
Refining Instruction Set Architecture for High-Performance Multimedia Processing (2002)
Ruby B. Lee, A. Murat Fiskiran, Zhijie Shi, Xiao Yang
Multimedia processing in software has been significantly accelerated by the addition of subword-parallel instructions to the instruction set architectures (ISAs) of modern microprocessors. While some...
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Electrical and Thermal Transport by Nodal Quasiparticles in the DDW State (2001)
We compute the electrical and thermal conductivities and Hall conductivities of the $d$-density wave (DDW) state in the low-temperature impurity-scattering-dominated regime for low-dopings, at which...
Fast Subword Permutation Instructions Based on Butterfly networks (2000)
Xiao Yang, Manish Vachharajani, Ruby B. Lee
Many contemporary microprocessor architectures incorporate multimedia extensions to accelerate media-rich applications using subword arithmetic. While these extensions significantly improve the...
Fast subword permutation instructions using omega and flip network stages (2000)
This paper proposes a new way of efficiently doing arbitrary n-bit permutations in programmable processors modeled on the theory of omega and flip networks. The new omflip instruction we introduce...
Fast Subword Permutation Instructions Based on Butterfly Networks (2000)
Xiao Yang, Manish Vachharajani, Ruby B. Lee
Many contemporary microprocessor architectures incorporate multimedia extensions to accelerate media-rich applications using subword arithmetic. While these extensions signicantly improve the...
Yang, Xiao, Li, Cuiling, Xu, Xiaoling, Deng, Chuxia
Members of the transforming growth factor (TGF)-β superfamily have been shown to play a variety of important roles in embryogenesis, including dorsal and ventral mesoderm induction. The tumor...
Weinstein, Michael, Yang, Xiao, Li, Cuiling, Xu, Xiaoling, Gotay, Jessica, Deng, Chu-Xia
smad genes constitute a family of nine members whose products serve as intracellular mediators of transforming growth factor β signals. SMAD2, which is a tumor suppressor involved in colorectal and...
Lanzotti, David J., Kaygun, Handan, Yang, Xiao, Duronio, Robert J., Marzluff, William F.
In metazoans, the 3′ end of histone mRNA is not polyadenylated but instead ends with a stem-loop structure that is required for cell cycle-regulated expression. The sequence of the stem-loop in the...
Chen, Lin, Adar, Rivka, Yang, Xiao, Monsonego, Efrat O., Li, Cuiling, Hauschka, Peter V., ...
Missense mutations in fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) result in several human skeletal dysplasias, including the most common form of dwarfism, achondroplasia. Here we show that a...
Han, Juqiang, Ding, Lihua, Yuan, Bin, Yang, Xiao, Wang, Xiaohui, Li, Jiezhi, ...
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) X protein (HBx) is considered to play a role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) during HBV infection. HCC was shown to be more prevalent in men than in...
Yang, Xiao, Li, Cuiling, Xu, Xiaoling, Deng, Chuxia
Members of the transforming growth factor (TGF)-β superfamily have been shown to play a variety of important roles in embryogenesis, including dorsal and ventral mesoderm induction. The tumor...
Weinstein, Michael, Yang, Xiao, Li, Cuiling, Xu, Xiaoling, Gotay, Jessica, Deng, Chu-Xia
smad genes constitute a family of nine members whose products serve as intracellular mediators of transforming growth factor β signals. SMAD2, which is a tumor suppressor involved in colorectal and...
Lanzotti, David J., Kaygun, Handan, Yang, Xiao, Duronio, Robert J., Marzluff, William F.
In metazoans, the 3′ end of histone mRNA is not polyadenylated but instead ends with a stem-loop structure that is required for cell cycle-regulated expression. The sequence of the stem-loop in the...
Chen, Lin, Adar, Rivka, Yang, Xiao, Monsonego, Efrat O., Li, Cuiling, Hauschka, Peter V., ...
Missense mutations in fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) result in several human skeletal dysplasias, including the most common form of dwarfism, achondroplasia. Here we show that a...
Han, Juqiang, Ding, Lihua, Yuan, Bin, Yang, Xiao, Wang, Xiaohui, Li, Jiezhi, ...
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) X protein (HBx) is considered to play a role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) during HBV infection. HCC was shown to be more prevalent in men than in...
Potentiation of Smad-mediated transcriptional activation by the RNA-binding protein RBPMS
Sun, Yan, Ding, Lihua, Zhang, Hao, Han, Juqiang, Yang, Xiao, Yan, Jinghua, ...
Smad2, Smad3 and Smad4 proteins are considered to be key mediators of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling. However, the identities of the Smad partners mediating TGF-β signaling are not...
Vector-Virus Mutualism Accelerates Population Increase of an Invasive Whitefly
Jiu, Min, Zhou, Xue-Ping, Tong, Lin, Xu, Jing, Yang, Xiao, Wan, Fang-Hao, ...
The relationships between plant viruses, their herbivore vectors and host plants can be beneficial, neutral, or antagonistic, depending on the species involved. This variation in relationships may...
PACT is a negative regulator of p53 and essential for cell growth and embryonic development
Li, Li, Deng, Binwei, Xing, Guichun, Teng, Yan, Tian, Chunyan, Cheng, Xuan, ...
The tumor suppressor p53 regulates cell cycle progression and apoptosis in response to various types of stress, whereas excess p53 activity creates unwanted effects. Tight regulation of p53 is...
Essential Role of Endothelial Smad4 in Vascular Remodeling and Integrity▿ †
Lan, Yu, Liu, Bing, Yao, Huiyu, Li, Fangfei, Weng, Tujun, Yang, Guan, ...
New blood vessels are formed through the assembly or sprouting of endothelial cells (ECs) and become stabilized by the formation of perivascular matrix and the association with supporting mural...
Distribution of adenosine receptors in human sclera fibroblasts
Cui, Dongmei, Trier, Klaus, Chen, Xiang, Zeng, Junwen, Yang, Xiao, Hu, Jianmin, ...
Yang, Xiao, Chen, Lin, Xu, Xiaoling, Li, Cuiling, Huang, Cuifen, Deng, Chu-Xia
Endochondral ossification begins from the condensation and differentiation of mesenchymal cells into cartilage. The cartilage then goes through a program of cell proliferation, hypertrophic...
Transforming growth factor-β-regulated miR-24 promotes skeletal muscle differentiation
Sun, Qiang, Zhang, Yan, Yang, Guang, Chen, Xiaoping, Zhang, Yingai, Cao, Guojun, ...
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have recently been proposed as a versatile class of molecules involved in regulation of a variety of biological processes. However, the role of miRNAs in TGF-β-regulated...
Characterization of Unique Small RNA Populations from Rice Grain
Heisel, Sara E., Zhang, Yuanji, Allen, Edwards, Guo, Liang, Reynolds, Tracey L., Yang, Xiao, ...
Small RNAs (∼20 to 24 nucleotides) function as naturally occurring molecules critical in developmental pathways in plants and animals [1], [2]. Here we analyze small RNA populations from mature...
Yang, Xiao, Bosch, Darrell J., Nordberg, Tone, Wolfe, Mary Leigh
The effects of phosphorus (P)-based nutrient management plans on economic and environmental risks of dairy and dairy-poultry farms in Virginia were evaluated. Phosphorus-based nutrient management...
Bone morphogenetic protein-2: a potential regulator in scleral remodeling
Hu, Jianmin, Cui, Dongmei, Yang, Xiao, Wang, Shaowei, Hu, Shoulong, Li, Chuanxu, ...
Ding, Lihua, Wang, Zhaoyun, Yan, Jinghua, Yang, Xiao, Liu, Aijun, Qiu, Weiyi, ...
The four-and-a-half LIM (FHL) proteins belong to a family of LIM-only proteins that regulate cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. The exact functions of each FHL protein in cancer...
Disruption of Smad4 in Mouse Epidermis Leads to Depletion of Follicle Stem Cells
Yang, Leilei, Wang, Lijuan, Yang, Xiao
Follicle stem cells (SCs) residing in the bulge region of a hair follicle (HF) can give rise to multiple lineages during the hair cycle and wound healing. The activation and self-renewal of follicle...