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Ming Tien

Professor Emeritus, Penn State University
Verified email at psu.edu
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[PDF][PDF] Quantitative analysis of fetal DNA in maternal plasma and serum: implications for noninvasive prenatal diagnosis

YMD Lo, MSC Tein, TK Lau, CJ Haines… - The American Journal of …, 1998 - cell.com
We have developed a real-time quantitative PCR assay to measure the concentration of
fetal DNA in maternal plasma and serum. Our results show that fetal DNA is present in high …

Quantitative abnormalities of fetal DNA in maternal serum in preeclampsia

YMD Lo, TN Leung, MSC Tein, IL Sargent… - Clinical …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
… Mark SC Tein , Mark SC Tein … Emlen W, Mannik M. Effect of DNA size and
strandedness on the in vivo clearance and organ localization of DNA. …

Production of multiple ligninases by Phanerochaete chrysosporium: effect of selected growth conditions and use of a mutant strain

TK Kirk, S Croan, M Tien, KE Murtagh… - Enzyme and Microbial …, 1986 - Elsevier
… The mobile phase consisted of a gradient from 10 mM to 1 M sodium acetate, pH 6.0, and
was applied over a 40 min period at a flow rate of 2 ml rain -a with constant monitoring at 409 …

Ocular adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination

…, I Testi, SL Ho, M Tien, WK Ngo, M Zierhut… - Ocular immunology …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has galvanized the development of new vaccines at an
unprecedented pace. Since the widespread implementation of vaccination campaigns, …

Presence of donor-specific DNA in plasma of kidney and liver-transplant recipients

YMD Lo, MSC Tein, CCP Pang, CK Yeung, KL Tong… - The Lancet, 1998 - thelancet.com
A toxic factor for macroglial cells has been described in monocyte cultures in vitro and in
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, as reported in the first …

Quantitative Analysis of Aberrant p16 Methylation Using Real-Time Quantitative Methylation-specific Polymerase Chain Reaction

YMD Lo, IHN Wong, J Zhang, MSC Tein, MHL Ng… - Cancer research, 1999 - AACR
… corresponding fluorogenic probe; 200 μm each dATP, dCTP, and dGTP; 400 μm dUTP; and
… at 2 mm for the p16M real-time MSP, 1.75 mm for the p16U real-time MSP, and 2 mm for the …

Properties of Ligninase from Phanerochaete Chrysosporium and Their Possible Applications

M Tien - CRC Critical reviews in microbiology, 1987 - Taylor & Francis
… Veratraldehyde absorbs intensely at 310 nm (extinction coefficient at 310 nm = 9300 M-’ cm-I…
The standard reaction mixture contains 0.1 M sodium tartrate, 2 mM veratryl alcohol, 0.4 mM …

Polysaccharides of Ganoderma lucidum alter cell immunophenotypic expression and enhance CD56+ NK-cell cytotoxicity in cord blood

CM Chien, JL Cheng, WT Chang, MH Tien… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2004 - Elsevier
In our previous study, a fucose-containing glycoprotein fraction (F3), isolated from the water-soluble
extracts of Ganoderma lucidum, was shown to stimulate mice spleen cell …

Lignin peroxidase of Phanerochaete chrysosporium

M Tien, TK Kirk - Methods in enzymology, 1988 - Elsevier
… then eluted with a NaCI gradient (0- 0.14 M, total volume of 600 ml). All steps are performed
at 4 . … from 10 mMto 1 M sodium acetate, pH 6.0, over a 40-min period at 2 ml/min. We use …

Lignin-degrading enzyme from Phanerochaete chrysosporium: Purification, characterization, and catalytic properties of a unique H2O2-requiring oxygenase

M Tien, TK Kirk - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 1984 - National Acad Sciences
… The column was washed with 100 ml of buffer and a salt gradient was then applied (0-0.1 M
… From the C1 moiety we identified phenylacetaldehyde [m/z (relative intensity): 120 (M+, 22), …