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Overview

Nguan Soon Tan is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, primarily focusing on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these fields, their work covers key subfields such as molecular biology, epidemiology, materials chemistry, genetics, and surgery.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Lipid Metabolism and Disorders
  • Wound Healing and Treatments
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Pancreatic Function and Diabetes
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection

Nguan Soon Tan has published frequently in several scientific venues. Notable publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Nature Communications
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Advanced Science

Their recent published papers include:

  • Hydrogel dressings with intrinsic antibiofilm and antioxidative dual functionalities accelerate infected diabetic wound healing, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Noninvasive and Point-of-Care Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)-Based Breathalyzer for Mass Screening of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) under 5 min, 2022, ACS Nano
  • Multiplex Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Identification and Quantification of Urine Metabolites in Patient Samples within 30 min, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Mechano-Activated Cell Therapy for Accelerated Diabetic Wound Healing, 2023, Advanced Materials
  • Microbial Dysregulation of the Gut-Lung Axis in Bronchiectasis, 2022, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Hong Sheng Cheng
  • Yun Sheng Yip
  • Jeannie Xue Ting Lee
  • Wei Tan
  • Marcus Ivan Gerard Vos

Best Publications

  • Characterization of the Fasting-induced Adipose Factor FIAF, a Novel Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor Target Gene

    Sander Kersten;Stéphane Mandard;Nguan Soon Tan;Pascal Escher

  • Selective Cooperation between Fatty Acid Binding Proteins and Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors in Regulating Transcription

    Nguan Soon Tan;Natacha S. Shaw;Natacha S. Shaw;Nicolas Vinckenbosch;Nicolas Vinckenbosch;Peng Liu;Peng Liu

  • Critical roles of PPARβ/δ in keratinocyte response to inflammation

    Nguan Soon Tan;Liliane Michalik;Noa Noy;Noa Noy;Rubina Yasmin

  • Impaired skin wound healing in peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor (PPAR)α and PPARβ mutant mice

    Liliane Michalik;Béatrice Desvergne;Nguan Soon Tan;Sharmila Basu-Modak

  • Titanium dioxide nanomaterials cause endothelial cell leakiness by disrupting the homophilic interaction of VE–cadherin

    M I Setyawati;C Y Tay;S L Chia;S L Goh

  • Reciprocal Regulation of Brain and Muscle Arnt-Like Protein 1 and Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor α Defines a Novel Positive Feedback Loop in the Rodent Liver Circadian Clock

    Laurence Canaple;Juliette Rambaud;Ouria Dkhissi-Benyahya;Béatrice Rayet

  • Antiapoptotic role of PPARbeta in keratinocytes via transcriptional control of the Akt1 signaling pathway.

    Nicolas Di-Poı̈;Nguan Soon Tan;Liliane Michalik;Walter Wahli

  • Hyaluronan Receptor LYVE-1-Expressing Macrophages Maintain Arterial Tone through Hyaluronan-Mediated Regulation of Smooth Muscle Cell Collagen.

    Hwee Ying Lim;Sheau Yng Lim;Chek Kun Tan;Chung Hwee Thiam

  • PPARα governs glycerol metabolism

    David Patsouris;Stéphane Mandard;Peter J. Voshol;Pascal Escher

  • Biocompatible, Uniform, and Redispersible Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Cancer‐Targeted Drug Delivery In Vivo

    Quan Zhang;Quan Zhang;Xiaoling Wang;Pei-Zhou Li;Kim Truc Nguyen

  • ANGPTL4 modulates vascular junction integrity by integrin signaling and disruption of intercellular VE-cadherin and claudin-5 clusters.

    Royston-Luke Huang;Ziqiang Teo;Han Chung Chong;Pengcheng Zhu

  • Angiopoietin-like 4 Protein Elevates the Prosurvival Intracellular O2-:H2O2 Ratio and Confers Anoikis Resistance to Tumors

    Pengcheng Zhu;Ming Jie Tan;Royston Luke Huang;Chek Kun Tan

  • Respiratory protein-generated reactive oxygen species as an antimicrobial strategy.

    Naxin Jiang;Nguan Soon Tan;Bow Ho;Jeak Ling Ding

  • Angiopoietin-like 4: a decade of research

    Pengcheng Zhu;Yan Yih Goh;Hwee Fang Alison Chin;Sander Kersten

  • Cancer-associated fibroblasts in tumor microenvironment - Accomplices in tumor malignancy.

    Zehuan Liao;Zhen Wei Tan;Pengcheng Zhu;Nguan Soon Tan

  • Angptl4 Protects against Severe Proinflammatory Effects of Saturated Fat by Inhibiting Fatty Acid Uptake into Mesenteric Lymph Node Macrophages

    Laeticia Lichtenstein;Frits Mattijssen;Nicole J. de Wit;Anastasia Georgiadi

  • The G0/G1 switch gene 2 is a novel PPAR target gene

    Fokko Zandbergen;Stéphane Mandard;Pascal Escher;Pascal Escher;Nguan Soon Tan

  • Differentiation of Trophoblast Giant Cells and Their Metabolic Functions Are Dependent on Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor β/δ

    Karim Nadra;Silvia I. Anghel;Elisabeth Joye;Nguan Soon Tan

  • Reactive oxygen species: a volatile driver of field cancerization and metastasis

    Zehuan Liao;Zehuan Liao;Damien Chua;Nguan Soon Tan

  • The Direct Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor Target Fasting-induced Adipose Factor (FIAF/PGAR/ANGPTL4) Is Present in Blood Plasma as a Truncated Protein That Is Increased by Fenofibrate Treatment

    Stéphane Mandard;Fokko Zandbergen;Nguan Soon Tan;Pascal Escher

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Wahli
Walter Wahli University of Lausanne
Jeak Ling Ding
Jeak Ling Ding National University of Singapore
Béatrice Desvergne
Béatrice Desvergne University of Lausanne
Sander Kersten
Sander Kersten Wageningen University & Research
Liliane Michalik
Liliane Michalik University of Lausanne
Chor Yong Tay
Chor Yong Tay Nanyang Technological University
Lay Poh Tan
Lay Poh Tan Nanyang Technological University
Michael Müller
Michael Müller University of East Anglia
Say Chye Joachim Loo
Say Chye Joachim Loo Nanyang Technological University
David Tai Leong
David Tai Leong National University of Singapore

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