Zhong Chen

An Economical Model for the Risk Evaluation of DoS Vulnerabilities in Cryptography Protocols (2008)

Zhen Cao, Zhi Guan, Zhong Chen, Jianbin Hu, Liyong Tang

Abstract. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are a virulent type of attack on the availability of networks ’ intended services and resources. Defense against DoS attacks has been built into the...

J. PERVASIVE COMPUT. & COMM. 1 (1). c○TROUBADOR PUBLISHING LTD 1 FBSR: Feedback based Secure Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (2008)

Zhen Cao, Jianbin Hu, Zhong Chen, Maoxing Xu, Xia Zhou

Abstract — Wireless sensor networks, due to their potentially wide application perspectives, may proliferate in future. Two major stumbling blocks are the dynamic variance of the network caused by...

Systems biology-defined NF-κB regulons, interacting signal pathways and networks are implicated in the malignant phenotype of head and neck cancer cell lines differing in p53 status (2008)

Yan, Bin, Chen, Guang, Saigal, Kunal, Yang, Xinping, Jensen, Shane T, Van Waes, Carter, ...

Abstract Background Aberrant activation of the nuclear factor kappaB (NF- κ B) pathway has been previously implicated as a crucial signal promoting tumorigenesis. However, how NF- κ B acts as a key...

Genome-wide identification of novel expression signatures reveal distinct patterns and prevalence of binding motifs for p53, nuclear factor-κB and other signal transcription factors in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (2007)

Yan, Bin, Yang, Xinping, Lee, Tin-Lap, Friedman, Jay, Tang, Jun, Van Waes, Carter, ...

Abstract Background Differentially expressed gene profiles have previously been observed among pathologically defined cancers by microarray technologies, including head and neck squamous cell...

Investigation on the complex of diperoxovanadate with 2-(20-pyridyl)-imidazole (2005)

Zhong Chen

A novel diperoxovanadate complex NH4[OV(O2)2{2-(2′-pyridyl)-imidazole}] · 4H2O was synthesized in aqueous solution under physiological conditions. The solution structure of the complex was...

Long-Term Benefits to the Growth of Ponderosa Pines from Controlling Southwestern Pine Tip Moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and Weeds (2004)

Michael R. Wagner, Zhong Chen

The southwestern pine tip moth, Rhyacionia neomexicana (Dyar) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), is a native forest pest that attacks seedlings and saplings of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex...

Performance of a generalist grasshopper on a C 3 and a C 4 grass: compensation for the effects of elevated CO 2 on plant nutritional quality (2004)

Barbehenn, Raymond V., Chen, Zhong, Karowe, David N.

The increasing CO 2 concentration in Earth’s atmosphere is expected to cause a greater decline in the nutritional quality of C 3 than C 4 plants. As a compensatory response, herbivorous insects may...

Preparation of nano-NiO by ammonia precipitation and reaction in solution and competitive balance (2004)

Deng, XiangYi, Chen, Zhong

Nano-NiO particles have been synthesized at room temperature via single-phase precipitation, using NiCl2·6H2O and NH3·H2O as the raw materials and H2O as solvent. It has been indicated by X-ray...

Variation in Budburst Phenology of Douglas-fir Related to Western Spruce Budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Fitness (2003)

Zhong Chen, Karen M. Clancy, Thomas E. Kolb

Variation in budburst phenology among individual trees of interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca [Beissn.] Franco) may influence their susceptibility to western spruce budworm...

Pilot — A Platform-Based HW/SW Synthesis System for FPSoC,” Workshop on Software Support for Reconfigurable Systems (2003)

Zhong Chen, Jason Cong, Yiping Fan, Xun Yang, Zhiru Zhang

This paper presents Pilot, a platform-based HW/SW synthesis system for field programmable System-on-a-Chip (FPSoC). It starts from a system-level design specification and targets at FPSoC platforms....

Effects of Artificial and Western Spruce Budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Defoliation on Growth and Biomass Allocation of Douglas-Fir Seedlings (2002)

Zhong Chen, Thomas E. Kolb, Karen M. Clancy

Artificial defoliation has been used commonly to simulate defoliation by insect herbivores in experiments, in spite of the fact that obvious differences exist between clipping foliage and natural...

Synthesis, Kinetics, and Photochemistry of the Chromium(III) DicyanoaquoEDTA Complex. (2002)

Chen,Zhong, Cimolino,Marc, Adamson,Arthur W.

The complex Cr(Y)(CN)2(H2O)(3-) resembles the various cyano-aquo and cyano-amine complexes of Cr(III) in that the thermal reaction is one of cyanide aquation, the rate increasing with decreasing pH....

The Effects of Adrenomedullin Overexpression in Breast Tumor Cells (2002)

Martínez, Alfredo, Vos, Michele, Guédez, Liliana, Kaur, Gurmeet, Chen, Zhong, Garayoa, Mercedes, ...

Background: Adrenomedullin is a secreted peptide hormone with multiple activities. Several reports have indicated that adrenomedullin may be involved in tumor survival, but this has not been directly...

Model-Based Reconfiguration of Schema-Based Reactive Control Architectures (1997)

Ashok Goel, Eleni Stroulia, Zhong Chen, Paul Rowland

Reactive methods of control get caught in local minima. Fortunately schema-based reactive control systems have built-in redundancy that enables multiple configurations with different modes. We...

Model-Based Reconfiguration of Schema-Based Reactive Control Architectures (1997)

Chen, Zhong, Goel, Ashok K., Rowland, Paul, Stroulia, Eleni

Reactive methods of control get caught in local minima. Fortunately schema-based reactive control systems have built-in redundancy that enables multiple configurations with different modes. We...

A survey of Chinese piano music /--by Zhong Chen. (1992)

Chen, Zhong.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Hartford, Hartt School of Music, 1992.

Increasing vitamin C content of plants through enhanced ascorbate recycling

Chen, Zhong, Young, Todd E., Ling, Jun, Chang, Su-Chih, Gallie, Daniel R.

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is essential to prevent disease associated with connective tissue (e.g., scurvy), improves cardiovascular and immune cell functions, and is used to regenerate α-tocopherol...

Estrogen receptor α mediates the nongenomic activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase by estrogen

Chen, Zhong, Yuhanna, Ivan S., Galcheva-Gargova, Zoya, Karas, Richard H., Mendelsohn, Michael E., Shaul, Philip W.

Estrogen is an important vasoprotective molecule that causes the rapid dilation of blood vessels by activating endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) through an unknown mechanism. In studies of...

The Ascorbic Acid Redox State Controls Guard Cell Signaling and Stomatal Movement

Chen, Zhong, Gallie, Daniel R.

H2O2 serves an important stress signaling function and promotes stomatal closure, whereas ascorbic acid (Asc) is the major antioxidant that scavenges H2O2. Dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR) catalyzes...

Functional identity of Drosophila melanogaster Indy as a cation-independent, electroneutral transporter for tricarboxylic acid-cycle intermediates.

Inoue, Katsuhisa, Fei, You-Jun, Huang, Wei, Zhuang, Lina, Chen, Zhong, Ganapathy, Vadivel

Indy is a gene in Drosophila melanogaster which, when made dysfunctional, leads to an extension of the average adult life span of the organism. The present study was undertaken to clone the Indy...

Increased expression of aquaporin-4 in human traumatic brain injury and brain tumors*

Hu, Hua, Yao, Hong-tian, Zhang, Wei-ping, Zhang, Lei, Ding, Wei, Zhang, Shi-hong, ...

Objective: To characterize the expression of aquaporin-4 (AQP4), one of the aquaporins (AQPs), in human brain specimens from patients with traumatic brain injury or brain tumors. Methods: Nineteen...

Increasing Tolerance to Ozone by Elevating Foliar Ascorbic Acid Confers Greater Protection against Ozone Than Increasing Avoidance1

Chen, Zhong, Gallie, Daniel R.

Ascorbic acid (Asc) is the most abundant antioxidant in plants and serves as a major contributor to the cell redox state. Exposure to environmental ozone can cause significant damage to plants by...

Increasing vitamin C content of plants through enhanced ascorbate recycling

Chen, Zhong, Young, Todd E., Ling, Jun, Chang, Su-Chih, Gallie, Daniel R.

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is essential to prevent disease associated with connective tissue (e.g., scurvy), improves cardiovascular and immune cell functions, and is used to regenerate α-tocopherol...

Estrogen receptor α mediates the nongenomic activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase by estrogen

Chen, Zhong, Yuhanna, Ivan S., Galcheva-Gargova, Zoya, Karas, Richard H., Mendelsohn, Michael E., Shaul, Philip W.

Estrogen is an important vasoprotective molecule that causes the rapid dilation of blood vessels by activating endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) through an unknown mechanism. In studies of...

The Ascorbic Acid Redox State Controls Guard Cell Signaling and Stomatal Movement

Chen, Zhong, Gallie, Daniel R.

H2O2 serves an important stress signaling function and promotes stomatal closure, whereas ascorbic acid (Asc) is the major antioxidant that scavenges H2O2. Dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR) catalyzes...

Increasing Tolerance to Ozone by Elevating Foliar Ascorbic Acid Confers Greater Protection against Ozone Than Increasing Avoidance1

Chen, Zhong, Gallie, Daniel R.

Ascorbic acid (Asc) is the most abundant antioxidant in plants and serves as a major contributor to the cell redox state. Exposure to environmental ozone can cause significant damage to plants by...

Functional identity of Drosophila melanogaster Indy as a cation-independent, electroneutral transporter for tricarboxylic acid-cycle intermediates.

Inoue, Katsuhisa, Fei, You-Jun, Huang, Wei, Zhuang, Lina, Chen, Zhong, Ganapathy, Vadivel

Indy is a gene in Drosophila melanogaster which, when made dysfunctional, leads to an extension of the average adult life span of the organism. The present study was undertaken to clone the Indy...

Increased expression of aquaporin-4 in human traumatic brain injury and brain tumors*

Hu, Hua, Yao, Hong-tian, Zhang, Wei-ping, Zhang, Lei, Ding, Wei, Zhang, Shi-hong, ...

Objective: To characterize the expression of aquaporin-4 (AQP4), one of the aquaporins (AQPs), in human brain specimens from patients with traumatic brain injury or brain tumors. Methods: Nineteen...

A Practical Approach to the Detection of Prognostically Significant Genomic Aberrations in Multiple Myeloma

Chen, Zhong, Issa, Bonnie, Huang, Shiang, Aston, Emily, Xu, Jia, Yu, Margaret, ...

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a malignancy of differentiated B lymphocytes and has remained an incurable disease. Chromosomal abnormalities are among the most important prognostic parameters for MM....

Evidence by Spectral Karyotyping that 8q11.2 Is Nonrandomly Involved in Lipoblastoma

Chen, Zhong, Coffin, Cheryl M., Scott, Steven, Meloni-Ehrig, Aurelia, Shepard, Rebecca, Issa, Bonnie, ...

We report two cases of lipoblastoma with chromosome 8-related aberrations, ie, a 92,XXYY,t(7;8)(p22;q11.2)x2 [8]/46,XY[16] in Case 1 and a 46,XY,−8,−13,add(16)(q22),+mar, +r [cp13]/46,XY[7] in...

Genome-wide identification of novel expression signatures reveal distinct patterns and prevalence of binding motifs for p53, nuclear factor-κB and other signal transcription factors in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Yan, Bin, Yang, Xinping, Lee, Tin-Lap, Friedman, Jay, Tang, Jun, Van Waes, Carter, ...

Microarray profiling of ten head and neck cancer lines revealed novel p53 and NF-κB transcriptional gene expression signatures which distinguished tumor cell subsets in association with their p53...

Dehydroascorbate Reductase Affects Leaf Growth, Development, and Function1

Chen, Zhong, Gallie, Daniel R.

Ascorbic acid (Asc) is a major antioxidant in plants that detoxifies reactive oxygen species (ROS) and maintains photosynthetic function. Expression of dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR), responsible...

Pharmacological effects of carcinine on histaminergic neurons in the brain

Chen, Zhong, Sakurai, Eiko, Hu, Weiwei, Jin, Chunlei, Kiso, Yoshinobu, Kato, Motohisa, ...

Carcinine (β-alanyl histamine) is an imidazole dipeptide. The present study was designed to characterize the pharmacological effects of carcinine on histaminergic activity in the brain and on...

Molecular basis of clonal expansion of hematopoiesis in 2 patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)

Inoue, Norimitsu, Izui-Sarumaru, Tomohisa, Murakami, Yoshiko, Endo, Yuichi, Nishimura, Jun-Ichi, Kurokawa, Ken, ...

Somatic mutation of PIGA in hematopoietic stem cells causes deficiency of glycosyl phosphatidylinositol–anchored proteins in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) that underlies the...

Structure, function and immunolocalization of a proton-coupled amino acid transporter (hPAT1) in the human intestinal cell line Caco-2

Chen, Zhong, Fei, You-Jun, Anderson, Catriona M H, Wake, Katherine A, Miyauchi, Seiji, Huang, Wei, ...

The human orthologue of the H+-coupled amino acid transporter (hPAT1) was cloned from the human intestinal cell line Caco-2 and its functional characteristics evaluated in a mammalian cell...

Systems biology-defined NF-κB regulons, interacting signal pathways and networks are implicated in the malignant phenotype of head and neck cancer cell lines differing in p53 status

Yan, Bin, Chen, Guang, Saigal, Kunal, Yang, Xinping, Jensen, Shane T, Van Waes, Carter, ...

Detailed analysis of NFκB regulons in 1,265 genes differentially expressed in head and neck cancer cell lines differing in p53 status revealed a cross talk between NFkB and specific signaling...

Overexpression of Cell Surface Cytokeratin 8 in Multidrug-Resistant MCF-7/MX Cells Enhances Cell Adhesion to the Extracellular Matrix1

Liu, Fang, Chen, Zhong, Wang, Jinhong, Shao, Xiaofeng, Cui, Ziyou, Yang, Chunzheng, ...

Accumulating evidence suggests that multiple complex mechanisms may be involved, simultaneously or complementarily, in the emergence and development of multidrug resistance (MDR) in various cancers....

Primary gastric teratoma on the cardiac orifice in an adult

Liu, Liu, Zhuang, Wen, Chen, Zhong, Zhou, Yong, Huang, Xiao-Ran

Gastric teratoma (GT) is a seldom seen congenital abnormality. GT always occurs in children. The greater curvature and posterior wall of the stomach are the most common sites involving GT. We...

Karyology of eight species of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Hainan Island, China

Wu, Yi, Motokawa, Masaharu, Li, Yu-Chun, Harada, Masashi, Chen, Zhong, Lin, Liang-Kong

Karyotypes and chromosomal data are presented for eight bat species representing two families (Rhinolophidae and Vespertilionidae) from Hainan Island, China. The species investigated were Rhinolophus...

Proliferation and cell fate establishment during Arabidopsis male gametogenesis depends on the Retinoblastoma protein

Chen, Zhong, Hafidh, Said, Poh, Shi Hui, Twell, David, Berger, Frederic

The Retinoblastoma (Rb) protein is a conserved repressor of cell proliferation. In animals and plants, deregulation of Rb protein causes hyperproliferation and perturbs cell differentiation to...