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Ah-Ng Tony Kong is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Within these, they focus extensively on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Infectious Diseases, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology.

Their scholarly output includes a significant number of publications addressing various topics, notably:

  • Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
  • Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Glutathione Transferases and Polymorphisms
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Ah-Ng Tony Kong include:

  • "An Update on Current Therapeutic Drugs Treating COVID-19" (2020), published in Current Pharmacology Reports
  • "Epigenetics/epigenomics of triterpenoids in cancer prevention and in health" (2020), published in Biochemical Pharmacology
  • "Butyrate Drives Metabolic Rewiring and Epigenetic Reprogramming in Human Colon Cancer Cells" (2022), published in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
  • "Redox signaling, mitochondrial metabolism, epigenetics and redox active phytochemicals" (2020), published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • "Triterpenoid ursolic acid drives metabolic rewiring and epigenetic reprogramming in treatment/prevention of human prostate cancer" (2021), published in Molecular Carcinogenesis

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Current Pharmacology Reports
  • Cancer Prevention Research
  • Heat Transfer
  • Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
  • Molecular Carcinogenesis

Ah-Ng Tony Kong has collaborated with various researchers, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Renyi Wu
  • Md Shahid Sarwar
  • Hsiao-Chen Dina Kuo
  • Rebecca Mary Peter
  • Lujing Wang

Best Publications

  • Induction of phase I, II and III drug metabolism/transport by xenobiotics

    Changjiang Xu;Christina Yong-Tao Li;Ah-Ng Tony Kong

  • Activation of Nrf2-antioxidant signaling attenuates NFκB-inflammatory response and elicits apoptosis

    Wenge Li;Tin Oo Khor;Changjiang Xu;Guoxiang Shen

  • An Update on Current Therapeutic Drugs Treating COVID-19.

    Renyi Wu;Lujing Wang;Hsiao Chen Dina Kuo;Ahmad Shannar

  • Plants vs. cancer: a review on natural phytochemicals in preventing and treating cancers and their druggability.

    Hu Wang;Tin Oo Khor;Limin Shu;Zheng-Yuan Su

  • Nrf2-Deficient Mice Have an Increased Susceptibility to Dextran Sulfate Sodium–Induced Colitis

    Tin Oo Khor;Mou-Tuan Huang;Ki Han Kwon;Jefferson Y. Chan

  • Antioxidants and oxidants regulated signal transduction pathways.

    Edward D. Owuor;Ah-Ng Tony Kong

  • Mechanisms of tamoxifen-induced apoptosis.

    S. Mandlekar;A.-N. T. Kong

  • Inhibition of 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene-induced skin tumorigenesis in C57BL/6 mice by sulforaphane is mediated by nuclear factor E2-related factor 2.

    Changjiang Xu;Mou-Tuan Huang;Guoxiang Shen;Xiaoling Yuan

  • Nrf2: a potential molecular target for cancer chemoprevention by natural compounds.

    Woo-Sik Jeong;Mira Jun;Ah-Ng Tony Kong

  • Molecular Targets of Dietary Phenethyl Isothiocyanate and Sulforaphane for Cancer Chemoprevention

    Ka Lung Cheung;Ah-Ng Kong

  • Induction of xenobiotic enzymes by the MAP kinase pathway and the antioxidant or electrophile response element (ARE/EpRE).

    Ah-Ng Kong;Edward Owuor;Rong Yu;Vidya Hebbar

  • Sulforaphane suppressed LPS-induced inflammation in mouse peritoneal macrophages through Nrf2 dependent pathway

    Wen Lin;Rachel T Wu;Tienyuan Wu;Tin-Oo Khor

  • The complexity of the Nrf2 pathway: Beyond the antioxidant response

    Ying Huang;Wenji Li;Zheng-yuan Su;Ah-Ng Tony Kong

  • Suppression of NF-kappaB and NF-kappaB-regulated gene expression by sulforaphane and PEITC through IkappaBalpha, IKK pathway in human prostate cancer PC-3 cells.

    Changjiang Xu;Guoxiang Shen;Chi Chen;Céline Gélinas;Céline Gélinas

  • Mechanism of Action of Sulforaphane: Inhibition of p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Isoforms Contributing to the Induction of Antioxidant Response Element–Mediated Heme Oxygenase-1 in Human Hepatoma HepG2 Cells

    Young-Sam Keum;Siwang Yu;Peter Pil-Jae Chang;Xiaoling Yuan

  • Antioxidants in foods: state of the science important to the food industry.

    John W. Finley;Ah Ng Kong;Korry J. Hintze;Elizabeth H. Jeffery

  • Dietary cancer-chemopreventive compounds: from signaling and gene expression to pharmacological effects.

    Chi Chen;Ah-Ng Tony Kong

  • Increased Susceptibility of Nrf2 Knockout Mice to Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer

    Tin Oo Khor;Mou-Tuan Huang;Auemduan Prawan;Yue Liu

  • Modulatory Properties of Various Natural Chemopreventive Agents on the Activation of NF-κB Signaling Pathway

    Woo-Sik Jeong;In-Wha Kim;Rong Hu;Ah-Ng Tony Kong

  • Mechanism of action of isothiocyanates: the induction of ARE-regulated genes is associated with activation of ERK and JNK and the phosphorylation and nuclear translocation of Nrf2.

    Changjiang Xu;Xiaoling Yuan;Zui Pan;Guoxiang Shen

Frequent Co-Authors

Chi Chen
Chi Chen University of Minnesota
Allan H. Conney
Allan H. Conney Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Bandaru S. Reddy
Bandaru S. Reddy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Chung S. Yang
Chung S. Yang Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jefferson Y. Chan
Jefferson Y. Chan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mohit Jain
Mohit Jain University of California, San Diego
Tse-Hua Tan
Tse-Hua Tan National Health Research Institutes
Ronald P. Hart
Ronald P. Hart Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jianjie Ma
Jianjie Ma The Ohio State University
Arnold B. Rabson
Arnold B. Rabson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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