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    PM2.5 exposure and DLEC1 promoter methylation in Taiwan Biobank participants

    Particulate matter (PM) < 2.5 μm (PM2.5) or fine PM is a serious public health concern. It affects DNA methylation and heightens carcinogenesis. Deleted in lung and esophageal cancer 1 (DLEC1) is a tumor suppress...

    Ying-Hsiang Chou, Disline Manli Tantoh in Environmental Health and Preventive Medici… (2020)

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    AHRR cg05575921 methylation in relation to smoking and PM2.5 exposure among Taiwanese men and women

    Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-rich substances like cigarette smoke and PM2.5 induce aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR)-mediated aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor (AHRR) methylation. AHRR cg05575921 and coa...

    Disline Manli Tantoh, Ming-Chi Wu, Chun-Chao Chuang, Pei-Hsin Chen in Clinical Epigenetics (2020)

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    Automatic Contrast Enhancement of Brain MR Images Using Hierarchical Correlation Histogram Analysis

    Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that has a higher probability of occurrence in middle-aged and older adults than in the young. With the use of a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) s...

    Chiao-Min Chen, Chih-Cheng Chen, Ming-Chi Wu in Journal of Medical and Biological Engineer… (2015)

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    Production and characterization of antibodies against C-terminal peptide of protein F1: A novel phosphorylation at serine 209 of the peptide by protein kinase C

    Protein F1 (GAP-43, B-50, neuromodulin, P-57), a neural tissue-specific phosphoprotein enriched in the growth cones of elongating neurites, is suggested to be involved in synaptic plasticity, neuronal developm...

    Hassan M. E. Azzazy, Guenter W. Gross, Ming-Chi Wu in Neurochemical Research (1994)

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    ADP-Ribosylation of Leukemia Cell Membrane Proteins Correlates with Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor Dependent Differentiation

    Modulation of myelopoiesis is a receptor mediated process which requires colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) for differentiation and maturation (1). The genes for several of these factors have been cloned and th...

    Ming-Chi Wu, M. Rebecca Zaun, Nasreen Aboul-Ela in ADP-Ribose Transfer Reactions (1989)

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    Glutamine promotes colony formation in bone marrow and HL-60 cells; Accelerates myeloid differentiation in induced HL-60 cells

    Several studies indicate that glutamine is a critical requirement for growth of cultured cells. The present studies describe the effect of deprivation of glucose or glutamine on mouse bone marrow cell or HL-60...

    Proveen D. Dass, Fern E. Murdoch, Ming-Chi Wu in In Vitro (1984)

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    Sensitivity of cultured pancreatic carcinoma cells toAcinetobacter glutaminase-asparaginase

    Cultured human pancreatic carcinoma cells (MIA PaCa-2) have been shown previously to be very sensitive toE. coli l-asparaginase (EC II). The present studies have demonstrated that another enzyme,A...

    Ming-Chi Wu, Grace K. Arimura, John S. Holcenberg, Adel A. Yunis in In Vitro (1982)