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Wei Cao

Univ of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Verified email at uth.tmc.edu
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Plasmacytoid dendritic cells: sensing nucleic acids in viral infection and autoimmune diseases

M Gilliet, W Cao, YJ Liu - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2008 - nature.com
Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are important mediators of antiviral immunity through their
ability to produce large amounts of type I interferons (IFNs) on viral infection. This function …

Plasticity of mesenchymal stem cells in immunomodulation: pathological and therapeutic implications

Y Wang, X Chen, W Cao, Y Shi - Nature immunology, 2014 - nature.com
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent stromal cells that exist in many tissues and
are capable of differentiating into several different cell types. Exogenously administered …

Hypothesis for potential pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection–a review of immune changes in patients with viral pneumonia

L Lin, L Lu, W Cao, T Li - Emerging microbes & infections, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… Ling Lin and Lianfeng Lu drafted the manuscript; Wei Cao and Taisheng Li contributed to
hypothetical pathogenesis; all authors provided critical review of the manuscript and approved …

Changing profiles of cancer burden worldwide and in China: a secondary analysis of the global cancer statistics 2020

W Cao, HD Chen, YW Yu, N Li, WQ Chen - Chinese medical journal, 2021 - mednexus.org
Background: Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally, but its burden is not
uniform. GLOBOCAN 2020 has newly updated the estimates of cancer burden. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Coagulopathy and antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with Covid-19

…, M Xiao, S Zhang, P Xia, W Cao, W Jiang… - … England Journal of …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
Coagulopathy in Critical Illness with Covid-19 The authors describe a 69-year-old man with
Covid-19 diagnosed in January 2020 in Wuhan, China, along with two other critically ill …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins

…, GM Leung, EC Holmes, YL Hu, Y Guan, WC Cao - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The ongoing outbreak of viral pneumonia in China and across the world is associated with
a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 1. This outbreak has been tentatively associated with a …

The psychological impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on college students in China

W Cao, Z Fang, G Hou, M Han, X Xu, J Dong… - Psychiatry research, 2020 - Elsevier
A COVID-19 epidemic has been spreading in China and other parts of the world since
December 2019. The epidemic has brought not only the risk of death from infection but also …

[PDF][PDF] Reduced graphene oxides: light‐weight and high‐efficiency electromagnetic interference shielding at elevated temperatures

B Wen, M Cao, M Lu, W Cao, H Shi, J Liu… - Advanced …, 2014 - researchgate.net
High-efficiency electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and light weight are two key
factors that drive practical applications of EM wave attenuation materials.[1] More importantly, to …

Porphysome nanovesicles generated by porphyrin bilayers for use as multimodal biophotonic contrast agents

…, H Jin, C Kim, JL Rubinstein, WCW Chan, W Cao… - Nature materials, 2011 - nature.com
… A 658 nm laser outputting 750 mW (with a power density of 1.9 W cm −2 ) was used to irradiate
the KB tumours in xenograft-bearing mice following porphysome administration (Fig. 6a). …

KOBAS-i: intelligent prioritization and exploratory visualization of biological functions for gene enrichment analysis

…, Y Wu, L Zhao, J Liu, J Guo, S Fang, W Cao… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Gene set enrichment (GSE) analysis plays an essential role in extracting biological insight
from genome-scale experiments. ORA (overrepresentation analysis), FCS (functional class …