14 Result(s)

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Common dietary emulsifiers promote metabolic disorders and intestinal microbiota dysbiosis in mice

Dietary emulsifiers are linked to various diseases. The recent discovery of the role of gut microbiota–host interactions on health and disease warrants the safety reassessment of dietary emulsifiers through th...

Suraphan Panyod, Wei-Kai Wu, Chih-Ting Chang, Naohisa Wada… in Communications Biology (2024)

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Ginger essential oil and citral ameliorates atherosclerosis in ApoE^−/− mice by modulating trimethylamine-N-oxide and gut microbiota

Recently, the role of the gut microbiota in diseases, including cardiovascular disease (CVD), has gained considerable research attention. Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO), which is formed during ʟ-carnitine metab...

Suraphan Panyod, Wei-Kai Wu, Sin-Yi Peng, Yea-**g Tseng… in npj Science of Food (2023)

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Correction: Comparing Predictability of Non‑invasive Tools for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Treated Chronic Hepatitis C Patients

Yen-Chun Liu, Ya-Ting Cheng, Yi-Cheng Chen… in Digestive Diseases and Sciences (2023)

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Impact of chronic hepatitis on cardiovascular events among type 2 diabetes patients in Taiwan pay-for-performance program

To investigate the impact of chronic hepatitis on cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This nationwide retrospective cohort study included 152,709 adult patients (> 20 years)...

Yi-**g Sheen, Chih-Cheng Hsu, Pei-Tseng Kung, Li-Ting Chiu… in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Risk factors of recurrence and distant metastasis in primary cutaneous melanoma in Taiwan

Risk factors of recurrence and distant metastasis of acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) are of great interest for the high percentage of ALM in cutaneous melanoma in Asian populations. This single-center retrosp...

Tung-Lin Lee, Yi-Hua Liao, Jau-Yu Liau, Yi-Shuan Sheen in Scientific Reports (2021)

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Characterization of TMAO productivity from carnitine challenge facilitates personalized nutrition and microbiome signatures discovery

The capability of gut microbiota in degrading foods and drugs administered orally can result in diversified efficacies and toxicity interpersonally and cause significant impact on human health. Production of a...

Wei-Kai Wu, Suraphan Panyod, Po-Yu Liu, Chieh-Chang Chen, Hsien-Li Kao… in Microbiome (2020)

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Impact of Liver Cirrhosis on Incidence of Dialysis Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Renal injury is a common complication of liver cirrhosis and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The aim of this study was to analyze the association between cirrhosis and dialysis in patients with T2DM.

Yi-**g Sheen, Pei-Tseng Kung, Wayne H.-H. Sheu, Wei-Yin Kuo… in Diabetes Therapy (2020)

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A Smartphone-based Diffusometric Immunoassay for Detecting C-Reactive Protein

In this study, we developed a portable smartphone-based diffusometry for analyzing the C-reactive protein (CRP) concentration. An optimized fluorescence microscopic add-on system for a smartphone was used to i...

Chih-Shen Chuang, Chih-Zong Deng, Yi-Fan Fang, Hong-Ren Jiang… in Scientific Reports (2019)

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CCL4 is the only predictor for non-responder in GT-1 CHC patients with favorable IL28B genotype when treated with PegIFN/RBV

Chemokines/cytokines play important roles in the pathogenesis of chronic hepatitis C (CHC). However, their clinical characteristics and implications in treatment responses to pegylated interferon plus ribaviri...

Chia-Chen Lin, Shih-Huan Su, Wen-Juei Jeng, Chien-Hao Huang… in BMC Gastroenterology (2017)

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Memory Regulatory T cells Increase Only In Inflammatory Phase of Chronic Hepatitis B Infection and Related to Galectin-9/Tim-3 interaction

CD4⁺Foxp3⁺ regulatory T cells (Tregs) are the main immune suppressors with subpopulation of inflamed-tissue related memory Tregs (mTregs) and non-related resting Treg (rTregs). Previously, Treg was proposed to be...

Ching-Chih Hu, Wen-Juei Jeng, Yi-Cheng Chen, Jian-He Fang… in Scientific Reports (2017)

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A clinicopathological analysis of 153 acral melanomas and the relevance of mechanical stress

The pathogenesis of melanomas emerging in plantar surfaces remains unclear; however, mechanical stress has been reported to increase the formation of melanomas. In this study, we conducted a multicenter retros...

Yi-Shuan Sheen, Yi-Hua Liao, Ming-Hsien Lin, Jau-Shiuh Chen… in Scientific Reports (2017)

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Increased EMR2 expression on neutrophils correlates with disease severity and predicts overall mortality in cirrhotic patients

Patients with liver cirrhosis are susceptible to infections with high short-term mortalities. One CD97-related EGF-TM7 molecule, EMR2 (EGF-like molecule containing mucin-like hormone receptor 2), had been show...

Chien-Hao Huang, Wen-Juei Jeng, Yu-Pin Ho, Wei- Teng, Yi-Chung Hsieh… in Scientific Reports (2016)

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7th drug hypersensitivity meeting: part one

Oral Abstracts

Daniel F. Carr, Wen-Hung Chung, Rosalind E. Jenkiins… in Clinical and Translational Allergy (2016)

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AGROBEST: an efficient Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression method for versatile gene function analyses in Arabidopsis seedlings

Transient gene expression via Agrobacterium-mediated DNA transfer offers a simple and fast method to analyze transgene functions. Although Arabidopsis is the most-studied model plant with powerful genetic and gen...

Hung-Yi Wu, Kun-Hsiang Liu, Yi-Chieh Wang, **g-Fen Wu, Wan-Ling Chiu… in Plant Methods (2014)