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Bin Gao is a researcher affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong focus on liver disease and related metabolic and immunological processes.

The main areas of study in Bin Gao's research include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, their subfields of expertise encompass epidemiology, molecular biology, pathology and forensic medicine, immunology, and hepatology.

  • Epidemiology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine
  • Immunology
  • Hepatology

Their work focuses on major topics such as liver disease diagnosis and treatment, alcohol consumption and its health effects, diabetes and associated disorders, liver disease and transplantation, diet and metabolism related diseases, liver physiology and pathology, and the role of immune cells in cancer.

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Liver physiology and pathology
  • Immune cells in cancer

Bin Gao has published extensively in well-known journals. Their frequent publication venues include the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology, Cellular and Molecular Immunology, and Gastroenterology.

  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Hepatology
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Cellular and Molecular Immunology
  • Gastroenterology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Dechun Feng, Bryan Mackowiak, Yaojie Fu, Yukun Guan, and Seonghwan Hwang.

  • Dechun Feng
  • Bryan Mackowiak
  • Yaojie Fu
  • Yukun Guan
  • Seonghwan Hwang

Some of Bin Gao's recent papers are:

  • MicroRNAs as regulators, biomarkers and therapeutic targets in liver diseases, 2020, Gut
  • Alcohol-associated liver disease, 2024, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Myeloid-Cell-Specific IL-6 Signaling Promotes MicroRNA-223-Enriched Exosome Production to Attenuate NAFLD-Associated Fibrosis, 2020, Hepatology
  • TXNIP/VDUP1 attenuates steatohepatitis via autophagy and fatty acid oxidation, 2020, Autophagy
  • Neutrophil-to-hepatocyte communication via LDLR-dependent miR-223-enriched extracellular vesicle transfer ameliorates nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Best Publications

  • Alcoholic Liver Disease: Pathogenesis and New Therapeutic Targets

    Bin Gao;Ramon Bataller

  • AMPK phosphorylates and inhibits SREBP activity to attenuate hepatic steatosis and atherosclerosis in diet-induced insulin-resistant mice.

    Yu Li;Shanqin Xu;Maria M. Mihaylova;Bin Zheng

  • The global burden of liver disease: The major impact of China

    Fu‐Sheng Wang;Jian‐Gao Fan;Zheng Zhang;Bin Gao

  • Liver : An Organ with Predominant Innate Immunity

    Bin Gao;Won-Il Jeong;Zhigang Tian

  • Mouse model of chronic and binge ethanol feeding (the NIAAA model)

    Adeline Bertola;Stephanie Mathews;Sung Hwan Ki;Hua Wang

  • Natural killer cells ameliorate liver fibrosis by killing activated stellate cells in NKG2D-dependent and tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand-dependent manners

    Svetlana Radaeva;Rui Sun;Barbara Jaruga;Van T. Nguyen

  • Interleukin 22 (IL-22) plays a protective role in T cell-mediated murine hepatitis: IL-22 is a survival factor for hepatocytes via STAT3 activation.

    Svetlana Radaeva;Rui Sun;Hong-na Pan;Feng Hong

  • Mammalian Mst1 and Mst2 kinases play essential roles in organ size control and tumor suppression

    Hai Song;Kinglun Kingston Mak;Lilia Topol;Kangsun Yun

  • Hepatic-Specific Disruption of SIRT6 in Mice Results in Fatty Liver Formation Due to Enhanced Glycolysis and Triglyceride Synthesis

    Hyun Seok Kim;Cuiying Xiao;Rui Hong Wang;Tyler Lahusen

  • Interleukin-22 induces hepatic stellate cell senescence and restricts liver fibrosis in mice.

    Xiaoni Kong;Dechun Feng;Hua Wang;Feng Hong

  • Interleukin-22 treatment ameliorates alcoholic liver injury in a murine model of chronic-binge ethanol feeding: role of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3.

    Sung Hwan Ki;Sung Hwan Ki;Oygi Park;Mingquan Zheng;Oriol Morales-Ibanez

  • Liver natural killer and natural killer T cells: immunobiology and emerging roles in liver diseases

    Bin Gao;Svetlana Radaeva;Ogyi Park

  • Global liver disease burdens and research trends: Analysis from a Chinese perspective.

    Jia Xiao;Fei Wang;Nai-Kei Wong;Jinhan He

  • Hepatocytes: a key cell type for innate immunity

    Zhou Zhou;Ming-Jiang Xu;Bin Gao

  • Functional CB1 cannabinoid receptors in human vascular endothelial cells.

    Jie Liu;Bin Gao;Faridoddin Mirshahi;Arun J. Sanyal

  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Causes Liver Cancer Cells to Release Exosomal miR-23a-3p and Up-regulate Programmed Death Ligand 1 Expression in Macrophages.

    Jiatao Liu;Lulu Fan;Hanqing Yu;Ju Zhang

  • Molecular mechanisms of alcoholic fatty liver.

    Vishnudutt Purohit;Bin Gao;Byoung-Joon Song

  • Impaired natural killer (NK) cell activity in leptin receptor deficient mice: leptin as a critical regulator in NK cell development and activation.

    Zhigang Tian;Rui Sun;Rui Sun;Rui Sun;Haiming Wei;Haiming Wei;Bin Gao

  • Paracrine Activation of Hepatic CB1 Receptors by Stellate Cell-Derived Endocannabinoids Mediates Alcoholic Fatty Liver

    Won il Jeong;Douglas Osei-Hyiaman;Ogyi Park;Jie Liu

  • Natural killer cells in liver disease

    Zhigang Tian;Yongyan Chen;Bin Gao

Frequent Co-Authors

George Kunos
George Kunos National Institutes of Health
Pal Pacher
Pal Pacher National Institutes of Health
Won Ho Kim
Won Ho Kim Yonsei University
Zhigang Tian
Zhigang Tian University of Science and Technology of China
Ramon Bataller
Ramon Bataller University of Pittsburgh
Hidekazu Tsukamoto
Hidekazu Tsukamoto University of Southern California
Sandor Batkai
Sandor Batkai Cardior Pharmaceuticals
György Haskó
György Haskó Columbia University
Fu-Sheng Wang
Fu-Sheng Wang Chinese PLA General Hospital
M. Eric Gershwin
M. Eric Gershwin University of California, Davis

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