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Overview

Emily Ho is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States and has a research focus largely situated within the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their scientific output includes work spanning molecular biology, nutrition and dietetics, health toxicology and mutagenesis, epidemiology, and genetics.

The scientist has contributed to multiple research topics related to health and nutrition, including trace elements in health, genomics in relation to phytochemicals and oxidative stress, gut microbiota and health, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, HIV-related health complications and treatments, child nutrition and water access, and the interplay of nutrition, genetics, and disease.

Frequent collaborators of Emily Ho include Carmen P. Wong, Laura M. Beaver, Thomas J. Sharpton, John A. Bouranis, and Jaewoo Choi. Their research has often been published in venues such as Current Developments in Nutrition, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Advances in Nutrition, Frontiers in Nutrition, and Nutrients.

Key publications by Emily Ho include:

  • Impact of zinc on DNA integrity and age-related inflammation, 2021, Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Other notable recent papers related to their field of study and frequently coauthored with other researchers are:

  • Research gaps and opportunities in precision nutrition: an NIH workshop report, 2022, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Effects of zinc status on age-related T cell dysfunction and chronic inflammation, 2021, BioMetals
  • Metabolic Fate of Dietary Glucosinolates and Their Metabolites: A Role for the Microbiome, 2021, Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Interplay between Cruciferous Vegetables and the Gut Microbiome: A Multi-Omic Approach, 2022, Nutrients

The breadth of Emily Ho's research reflects interdisciplinary expertise, combining molecular biology techniques with nutrition and epidemiological insights to explore how trace elements and dietary components influence human health and disease mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • Multi-targeted prevention of cancer by sulforaphane.

    John D. Clarke;Roderick H. Dashwood;Emily Ho

  • Zinc deficiency, DNA damage and cancer risk.

    Emily Ho

  • Low intracellular zinc induces oxidative DNA damage, disrupts p53, NFκB, and AP1 DNA binding, and affects DNA repair in a rat glioma cell line

    Emily Ho;Bruce N. Ames

  • Sulforaphane inhibits histone deacetylase in vivo and suppresses tumorigenesis in Apcmin mice

    Melinda C. Myzak;W. Mohaiza Dashwood;Gayle A. Orner;Emily Ho

  • Sulforaphane Retards the Growth of Human PC-3 Xenografts and Inhibits HDAC Activity in Human Subjects

    Melinda C. Myzak;Philip Tong;Wan-Mohaiza Dashwood;Roderick H. Dashwood

  • Sulforaphane inhibits histone deacetylase activity in BPH-1, LnCaP and PC-3 prostate epithelial cells

    Melinda C. Myzak;Karin Hardin;Rong Wang;Roderick H. Dashwood

  • Dietary histone deacetylase inhibitors: from cells to mice to man.

    Roderick H. Dashwood;Emily Ho

  • Zinc Deficiency Induces Oxidative DNA Damage and Increases P53 Expression in Human Lung Fibroblasts

    Emily Ho;Chantal Courtemanche;Chantal Courtemanche;Bruce N. Ames;Bruce N. Ames

  • Dietary Sulforaphane, a Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor for Cancer Prevention

    Emily Ho;John D. Clarke;Roderick H. Dashwood

  • Antioxidants, NFkappaB activation, and diabetogenesis.

    Emily Ho;Tammy M. Bray

  • Zinc Deficiency Affects DNA Damage, Oxidative Stress, Antioxidant Defenses, and DNA Repair in Rats

    Yang Song;Scott W. Leonard;Maret G. Traber;Emily Ho

  • Rapamycin inhibits the secretory phenotype of senescent cells by a Nrf2-independent mechanism.

    Rong Wang;Zhen Yu;Bharath Sunchu;James Shoaf

  • Dietary HDAC inhibitors: time to rethink weak ligands in cancer chemoprevention?

    Roderick H. Dashwood;Melinda C. Myzak;Emily Ho

  • Xanthohumol, a prenylflavonoid derived from hops induces apoptosis and inhibits NF-kappaB activation in prostate epithelial cells.

    Emily C. Colgate;Cristobal L. Miranda;Jan F. Stevens;Tammy M. Bray

  • Dietary Phytochemicals, HDAC Inhibition, and DNA Damage/Repair Defects in Cancer Cells

    Praveen Rajendran;Emily Ho;David E Williams;Roderick H Dashwood

  • Bioavailability and inter-conversion of sulforaphane and erucin in human subjects consuming broccoli sprouts or broccoli supplement in a cross-over study design

    John D. Clarke;Anna Hsu;Ken Riedl;Deborah Bella

  • Modulation of histone deacetylase activity by dietary isothiocyanates and allyl sulfides: Studies with sulforaphane and garlic organosulfur compounds

    Hui Nian;Barbara Delage;Emily Ho;Roderick H. Dashwood

  • Supplementation of N-acetylcysteine inhibits NFκB activation and protects against alloxan-induced diabetes in CD-1 mice

    Emily Ho;Gouman Chen;Tammy M. Bray

  • Differential effects of sulforaphane on histone deacetylases, cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in normal prostate cells versus hyperplastic and cancerous prostate cells.

    John D. Clarke;Anna Hsu;Zhen Yu;Roderick H. Dashwood

  • Zinc deficiency enhanced inflammatory response by increasing immune cell activation and inducing IL6 promoter demethylation.

    Carmen P. Wong;Nicole A. Rinaldi;Emily Ho

Frequent Co-Authors

Roderick H. Dashwood
Roderick H. Dashwood Texas A&M University
David E. Williams
David E. Williams Oregon State University
Jan F. Stevens
Jan F. Stevens Oregon State University
Maret G. Traber
Maret G. Traber Oregon State University
Jeff H. Chang
Jeff H. Chang Oregon State University
Bruce N. Ames
Bruce N. Ames University of California, Berkeley
Robert L. Tanguay
Robert L. Tanguay Oregon State University
Rashmi Sinha
Rashmi Sinha National Institutes of Health
Penny M. Kris-Etherton
Penny M. Kris-Etherton Pennsylvania State University
Meredith Yeager
Meredith Yeager Hood College

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