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Overview

Feng Chun Yang is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple areas in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a particular focus on molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, biomedical engineering, oncology, and surgery.

Their recent research is documented through several publications including:

  • MAPK4 promotes prostate cancer by concerted activation of androgen receptor and AKT (2021) in Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Porcine skeletal muscle tissue fabrication for cultured meat production using three-dimensional bioprinting technology (2021) in Journal of Future Foods
  • The prevalence and risk factors of work related musculoskeletal disorders among electronics manufacturing workers: a cross-sectional analytical study in China (2023) in BMC Public Health
  • MAPK4 promotes triple negative breast cancer growth and reduces tumor sensitivity to PI3K blockade (2022) in Nature Communications
  • Development of an ion pairing reversed-phase liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry method for characterization of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats guide ribonucleic acid (2022) in Journal of Chromatography A

Yang frequently publishes in high-impact venues such as PubMed, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physiology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Journal of Future Foods.

Their scientific collaborations include repeated co-authorship with researchers such as Tao Shen, Bingning Dong, Wei Wang, David D. Moore, and Wenxiong Li.

Main fields of study covered by Yang's work are:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Subfields of particular focus include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Oncology
  • Surgery

The primary research topics Yang addresses are:

  • PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
  • Effects of Vibration on Health
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Renal cell carcinoma treatment
  • Renal and related cancers

Best Publications

  • Deletion of Tet2 in mice leads to dysregulated hematopoietic stem cells and subsequent development of myeloid malignancies.

    Zhe Li;Xiaoqiang Cai;Chen Leng Cai;Jiapeng Wang

  • Nf1-Dependent Tumors Require a Microenvironment Containing Nf1+/−- and c-kit-Dependent Bone Marrow

    Feng Chun Yang;David A. Ingram;Shi Chen;Yuan Zhu

  • Collection, Cryopreservation, and Characterization of Human Dental Pulp–Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Banking and Clinical Use

    Brandon C. Perry;Dan Zhou;Xiaohua Wu;Feng Chun Yang

  • Rac and Cdc42 GTPases control hematopoietic stem cell shape, adhesion, migration, and mobilization

    Feng-Chun Yang;Simon J Atkinson;Ying Gu;Ying Gu;Jovencio B Borneo;Jovencio B Borneo

  • Neurofibromin-deficient Schwann cells secrete a potent migratory stimulus for Nf1+/– mast cells

    Feng Chun Yang;David A. Ingram;Shi Chen;Cynthia M. Hingtgen

  • Leptin stimulates the proliferation of murine myelocytic and primitive hematopoietic progenitor cells

    Yumi Umemoto;Kohichiro Tsuji;Kohichiro Tsuji;Feng Chun Yang;Feng Chun Yang;Yasuhiro Ebihara;Yasuhiro Ebihara

  • Rac2 stimulates Akt activation affecting BAD/Bcl-XL expression while mediating survival and actin function in primary mast cells.

    Feng Chun Yang;Reuben Kapur;Alastair J. King;Wen Tao

  • Imatinib mesylate for plexiform neurofibromas in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1: a phase 2 trial

    Kent A. Robertson;Grzegorz Nalepa;Feng Chun Yang;Daniel C. Bowers

  • TET1 plays an essential oncogenic role in MLL-rearranged leukemia

    Hao Huang;Xi Jiang;Zejuan Li;Yuanyuan Li

  • Genetic and Biochemical Evidence That Haploinsufficiency of the Nf1 Tumor Suppressor Gene Modulates Melanocyte and Mast Cell Fates in Vivo

    David A. Ingram;Feng Chun Yang;Jeffrey B. Travers;Mary Jo Wenning

  • Stimulation of Mouse and Human Primitive Hematopoiesis by Murine Embryonic Aorta-Gonad-Mesonephros–Derived Stromal Cell Lines

    Ming Jiang Xu;Kohichiro Tsuji;Kohichiro Tsuji;Takahiro Ueda;Takahiro Ueda;Yoh Suke Mukouyama;Yoh Suke Mukouyama

  • Nf1+/− mast cells induce neurofibroma like phenotypes through secreted TGF-β signaling

    Feng Chun Yang;Shi Chen;Travis Clegg;Xiaohong Li

  • Loss of Asxl1 leads to myelodysplastic syndrome-like disease in mice.

    Jiapeng Wang;Zhaomin Li;Yongzheng He;Feng Pan;Feng Pan

  • Hyperactivation of p21ras and PI3K cooperate to alter murine and human neurofibromatosis type 1–haploinsufficient osteoclast functions

    Feng Chun Yang;Shi Chen;Alexander G. Robling;Xijie Yu

  • Skeletal abnormalities in neurofibromatosis type 1 : approaches to therapeutic options

    Florent Elefteriou;Mateusz Kolanczyk;Aaron Schindeler;David H. Viskochil;David H. Viskochil

  • Erk1 Positively Regulates Osteoclast Differentiation and Bone Resorptive Activity

    Yongzheng He;Karl Staser;Steven D. Rhodes;Yaling Liu

  • The Rac2 guanosine triphosphatase regulates B lymphocyte antigen receptor responses and chemotaxis and is required for establishment of B-1a and marginal zone B lymphocytes.

    Ben A. Croker;David M. Tarlinton;Leonie A. Cluse;Alana J. Tuxen

  • Gain of function of ASXL1 truncating protein in the pathogenesis of myeloid malignancies.

    Hui Yang;Stefan Kurtenbach;Ying Guo;Ines Lohse

  • Mast cells and the neurofibroma microenvironment.

    Karl Staser;Feng Chun Yang;D. Wade Clapp

  • HOTTIP lncRNA Promotes Hematopoietic Stem Cell Self-Renewal Leading to AML-like Disease in Mice

    Huacheng Luo;Ganqian Zhu;Ganqian Zhu;Jianfeng Xu;Qian Lai;Qian Lai

Frequent Co-Authors

Mingjiang Xu
Mingjiang Xu National Institutes of Health
D. Wade Clapp
D. Wade Clapp Indiana University
Stephen D. Nimer
Stephen D. Nimer University of Miami
David A. Ingram
David A. Ingram Indiana University
Kohichiro Tsuji
Kohichiro Tsuji University of Tokyo
Tatsutoshi Nakahata
Tatsutoshi Nakahata Kyoto University
Reuben Kapur
Reuben Kapur Indiana University
David H. Viskochil
David H. Viskochil University of Utah
Luis F. Parada
Luis F. Parada Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Peng Jin
Peng Jin Emory University

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