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Overview

Sunwen Chou is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research spans fields including Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Neurology, Oncology, Genetics, and Immunology.

Their work frequently addresses topics related to extracellular vesicles in disease, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, S100 proteins and annexins, chemokine receptors and signaling, RNA regulation and disease, and mesenchymal stem cell research.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sunwen Chou include the following:

  • "Human platelet lysate biotherapy for traumatic brain injury: preclinical assessment", 2021, Brain
  • "CCL5 via GPX1 activation protects hippocampal memory function after mild traumatic brain injury", 2021, Redox Biology
  • "CCL5 promotion of bioenergy metabolism is crucial for hippocampal synapse complex and memory formation", 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Characterization and Chromatographic Isolation of Platelet Extracellular Vesicles from Human Platelet Lysates for Applications in Neuroregenerative Medicine", 2021, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
  • "Altered Insulin Receptor Substrate 1 Phosphorylation in Blood Neuron-Derived Extracellular Vesicles From Patients With Parkinson's Disease", 2020, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Frequent collaborators include Thierry Burnouf, Ouada Nebie, Liling Delila, Luc Buée, and David Devos.

The venues where Sunwen Chou's research has often been published include:

  • Journal of Biomedical Science
  • Brain
  • Redox Biology
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

Best Publications

  • The Third International Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Cytomegalovirus in Solid-organ Transplantation

    Camille N. Kotton;Deepali Kumar;Angela M. Caliendo;Shirish Huprikar

  • Antiviral drug resistance of human cytomegalovirus.

    Nell S. Lurain;Sunwen Chou

  • Progressive Disease Due to Ganciclovir-Resistant Cytomegalovirus in Immunocompromised Patients

    Alejo Erice;Sunwen Chou;Karen K. Biron;Sylvia C. Stanat;Sylvia C. Stanat

  • Analysis of Interstrain Variation in Cytomegalovirus Glycoprotein B Sequences Encoding Neutralization-Related Epitopes

    Sunwen Chou;Karen M. Dennison

  • Rapid detection and quantitation of human cytomegalovirus in urine through DNA hybridization.

    Sunwen Chou;Thomas C. Merigan

  • Frequency of UL97 Phosphotransferase Mutations Related to Ganciclovir Resistance in Clinical Cytomegalovirus Isolates

    Sunwen Chou;S. Guentzel;S. Guentzel;K. R. Michels;K. R. Michels;R. C. Miner;R. C. Miner

  • Mutation patterns and structural correlates in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease following different protease inhibitor treatments.

    Thomas D. Wu;Celia A. Schiffer;Matthew J. Gonzales;Jonathan Taylor

  • Antiviral Drug Resistance: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications

    Lynne Strasfeld;Sunwen Chou

  • Viral DNA Polymerase Mutations Associated with Drug Resistance in Human Cytomegalovirus

    Sunwen Chou;Nell S. Lurain;Kenneth D. Thompson;Richard C. Miner

  • Cytomegalovirus UL97 mutations in the era of ganciclovir and maribavir.

    Sunwen Chou

  • Cytomegalovirus UL97 Phosphotransferase Mutations That Affect Susceptibility to Ganciclovir

    Sunwen Chou;Sunwen Chou;Rachel H. Waldemer;Rachel H. Waldemer;Anne E. Senters;Anne E. Senters;Kevin S. Michels;Kevin S. Michels

  • Single amino acid changes in the DNA polymerase confer foscarnet resistance and slow-growth phenotype, while mutations in the UL97-encoded phosphotransferase confer ganciclovir resistance in three double-resistant human cytomegalovirus strains recovered from patients with AIDS.

    Fausto Baldanti;Mark R. Underwood;Sylvia C. Stanat;Karen K. Biron

  • Rapid in Vitro Evolution of Human Cytomegalovirus UL56 Mutations that Confer Letermovir Resistance

    Sunwen Chou

  • Definitions of Resistant and Refractory Cytomegalovirus Infection and Disease in Transplant Recipients for Use in Clinical Trials.

    Roy F. Chemaly;Sunwen Chou;Hermann Einsele;Paul Griffiths

  • Frequency Distribution of Cytomegalovirus Envelope Glycoprotein Genotypes in Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients

    Bettina C. Fries;Sunwen Chou;Michael Boeckh;Michael Boeckh;Beverly Torok-Storb

  • Antiviral Susceptibilities and Analysis of UL97 and DNA Polymerase Sequences of Clinical Cytomegalovirus Isolates from Immunocompromised Patients

    Alejo Erice;Cristina Gil-Roda;José Luis Pérez;Henry H. Balfour

  • Cytomegalovirus viremia: risk factor for allograft cirrhosis after liver transplantation for hepatitis C.

    Hugo R. Rosen;Sunwen Chou;Christopher L. Corless;David R. Gretch

  • A Standardized Plaque Reduction Assay for Determination of Drug Susceptibilities of Cytomegalovirus Clinical Isolates

    M Landry;S Stanat;K Biron;Donald Brambilla

  • Artesunate as a Potent Antiviral Agent in a Patient with Late Drug-Resistant Cytomegalovirus Infection after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

    Michael Y. Shapira;Igor B. Resnick;Sunwen Chou;Avidan U. Neumann

  • Association of multispecific CD4+ response to hepatitis C and severity of recurrence after liver transplantation

    Hugo R. Rosen;David J. Hinrichs;David R. Gretch;Margaret J. Koziel

  • Maribavir sensitivity of cytomegalovirus isolates resistant to ganciclovir, cidofovir or foscarnet

    W. Lawrence Drew;Richard C. Miner;Gail I. Marousek;Gail I. Marousek;Sunwen Chou;Sunwen Chou

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugo R. Rosen
Hugo R. Rosen University of Southern California
Christopher L. Corless
Christopher L. Corless Oregon Health & Science University
Adriana Weinberg
Adriana Weinberg University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Guy Boivin
Guy Boivin Université Laval
William D. Rawlinson
William D. Rawlinson University of New South Wales
Thomas Stamminger
Thomas Stamminger University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Robert W. Shafer
Robert W. Shafer Stanford University
Clyde S. Crumpacker
Clyde S. Crumpacker Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dana G. Wolf
Dana G. Wolf Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kent D. Taylor
Kent D. Taylor David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

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