Runhua Hou
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
United States of America
Biography
Runhua Hou, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She went to medical school at Xian Medical University and completed her residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital (Saint Raphael Campus), with a fellowship at Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium.
Research Interest
Thyroid cancer; Thyroid nodules; Parathyroid disease; Pancreas nodules; Adrenal nodules; Primary hyperparathyroidism; Hypothyroidism; Hyperthyroidism; Endocrinology-General
Publications
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Thomas SY, Hou R, Boyson JE, Means TK, Hess C, Olson DP, Strominger JL, Brenner MB, Gumperz JE, Wilson SB, Luster AD. CD1d-restricted NKT cells express a chemokine receptor profile indicative of Th1-type inflammatory homing cells. The Journal of Immunology. 2003 Sep 1;171(5):2571-80.
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Hou R, Goloubeva O, Neuberg DS, Strominger JL, Wilson SB. Interleukinâ€12 and interleukinâ€2â€induced invariant natural killer Tâ€cell cytokine secretion and perforin expression independent of Tâ€cell receptor activation. Immunology. 2003 Sep 1;110(1):30-7.
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Exley MA, Hou R, Shaulov A, Tonti E, Dellabona P, Casorati G, Akbari O, Akman HO, Greenfield EA, Gumperz JE, Boyson JE. Selective activation, expansion, and monitoring of human iNKT cells with a monoclonal antibody specific for the TCR αâ€chain CDR3 loop. European journal of immunology. 2008 Jun 1;38(6):1756-66.
