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Kun Deng

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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[HTML][HTML] Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with COVID-19

QX Long, BZ Liu, HJ Deng, GC Wu, K Deng, YK Chen… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
We report acute antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in 285 patients with COVID-19. Within
19 days after symptom onset, 100% of patients tested positive for antiviral immunoglobulin-G …

Effectiveness of convalescent plasma therapy in severe COVID-19 patients

…, L Zhang, Y Wang, Z Zhang, K Deng… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Currently, there are no approved specific antiviral agents for novel coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19). In this study, 10 severe patients confirmed by real-time viral RNA test were …

Variation in NRT1.1B contributes to nitrate-use divergence between rice subspecies

…, Y Wang, C Liang, L Liu, Z Piao, Q Deng, K Deng… - Nature Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) consists of two main subspecies, indica and japonica.
Indica has higher nitrate-absorption activity than japonica, but the molecular mechanisms …

Os PT 2, a phosphate transporter, is involved in the active uptake of selenite in rice

L Zhang, B Hu, W Li, R Che, K Deng, H Li, F Yu… - New …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Selenite is a predominant form of selenium (Se) available to plants, especially in anaerobic
soils, but the molecular mechanism of selenite uptake by plants is not well understood. ltn1 , …

The feasibility of convalescent plasma therapy in severe COVID-19 patients: a pilot study

…, S Huang, Z Zhou, L Zhang, Y Wang, Z Zhang, K Deng… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Currently, there are no approved specific antiviral agents for 2019 novel coronavirus disease
(COVID-19). In this study, ten severe patients confirmed by real-time viral RNA test were …

Effect of extrusion on corrosion properties of Mg-2Ca-χAl (χ= 0, 2, 3, 5) alloys

P Wu, F Xu, K Deng, F Han, Z Zhang, R Gao - Corrosion Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Effect of extrusion on the microstructures and corrosion properties of Mg-2Ca-χAl (χ
= 0, 2, 3, 5 wt.%) alloys were investigated in present work. Results showed that the …

Building thermal model reduction via aggregation of states

K Deng, P Barooah, PG Mehta… - Proceedings of the 2010 …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an aggregation-based model reduction method for thermal models of
large buildings. Using an electric analogy, the baseline thermal model is represented as an …

[HTML][HTML] Twelve-month specific IgG response to SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain among COVID-19 convalescent plasma donors in Wuhan

…, Y He, D Zhou, T Du, K Duan, D Dong, K Deng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
To investigate the duration of humoral immune response in convalescent coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) patients, we conduct a 12-month longitudinal study through collecting a …

Microstructures and mechanical properties of Mg–Al–Ca alloys affected by Ca/Al ratio

L Zhang, K Deng, K Nie, F Xu, K Su, W Liang - Materials Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The Mg–Ca alloys with 2 wt%, 3 wt%, 5 wt% Al content were fabricated in this paper. After
be extruded at 673 K with the ratio of 16:1, the microstructures and mechanical properties of …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in the understanding of the mechanism of tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer

J Yao, K Deng, J Huang, R Zeng, J Zuo - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Tamoxifen is a drug commonly used in the treatment of breast cancer, especially for
postmenopausal patients. However, its efficacy is limited by the development of drug resistance. …