Yi-ren Hong
Professor
Medicine
Kaohsiung Medical University
China
Biography
Dr. Yi-Ren Hong received his PhD from University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA. Currently, he is working as Professor in Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University. Recently, Dr. Hong’s lab tries to establish a PKA-GSKIP-GSK3-Tau axis for Alzheimer's disease and also claims to propose PKA, GSK3 and BcL2L12 as promising therapeutic targets of brain tumors.
Research Interest
Molecular biology, Cell biology, Microbial genetics
Publications
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Hong YR, Luo ZY, Mo GQ, Wang P, Ye Q, Huang PT. Role of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in the Pre-operative Diagnosis of Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. 2017 Aug;S0301-5629(17)30329-30330.
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Hong YR, Black LW. Protein folding studies in vivo with a bacteriophage T4 expression-packaging-processing vector that delivers encapsidated fusion proteins into bacteria. Virology. 1993 Jun;194(2):481-490.
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Howng SL, Hwang CC, Hsu CY, Hsu MY, Teng CY, Chou CH, Lee MF, Wu CH, Chiou SJ, Lieu AS, Loh JK, Yang CN, Lin CS, Hong YR. Involvement of the residues of GSKIP, AxinGID, and FRATtide in their binding with GSK3beta to unravel a novel C-terminal scaffold-binding region. Molecular and cellular biochemistry. 2010 Jun;339(1-2):23-33.
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Shih HC, Lin CL, Wu SC, Kwan AL, Hong YR, Howng SL. Upregulation of estrogen receptor alpha and mediation of 17beta-estradiol vasoprotective effects via estrogen receptor alpha in basilar arteries in rats after experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage. Journal of neurosurgery. 2008 Jul;109(1):92-99.
