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Biology and Biochemistry
Germany
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

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101
Citations
31826
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1471
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Medicine

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award

Overview

William W. Chin is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, notably biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and medicine. Within these broad areas, their work focuses on subfields such as molecular biology, infectious diseases, food science, pharmacology, and physiology.

The scientist's research addresses topics including gut microbiota and health, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, probiotics and fermented foods, histone deacetylase inhibitors research, cholinesterase and neurodegenerative diseases, pain mechanisms and treatments, and health and medical research impacts.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Food Research International
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • PAIN Reports
  • Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by William W. Chin are:

  • The Human Touch - Addressing Health Care's Workforce Problem amid the Pandemic, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Small intestine-residing probiotics suppress neurotoxic bile acid production via extracellular vesicle-mediated inhibition of Clostridium scindens, 2025, Food Research International
  • A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of histone deacetylase type 6 inhibition for the treatment of painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy, 2023, PAIN Reports
  • The NCATS Assay Guidance Manual programme: advancing the practice and rigour of preclinical translation, 2022, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • Mutation of a stromal C-terminal threonine residue of Photosystem II subunit S slows down NPQ induction and speeds up relaxation, 2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

William W. Chin has collaborated with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including Bao-Hong Lee, Q.-S. Hsu, Chih-Yao Hou, M. Ramachandra Pai, and Chi-Wei Lin.

Best Publications

  • Interaction of oestrogen receptor with the regulatory subunit of phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase

    Tommaso Simoncini;Ali Hafezi-Moghadam;Derek P. Brazil;Klaus Ley

  • Molecular biology of the pituitary gonadotropins.

    Soheyla D. Gharib;Margaret E. Wierman;Margaret A. Shupnik;William W. Chin

  • TRAM-1, A Novel 160-kDa Thyroid Hormone Receptor Activator Molecule, Exhibits Distinct Properties from Steroid Receptor Coactivator-1 *

    Akira Takeshita;Guemalli R. Cardona;Noriyuki Koibuchi;Chen-Shian Suen

  • Identification of a thyroid hormone receptor that is pituitary-specific.

    RA Hodin;MA Lazar;BI Wintman;DS Darling

  • Escape from the acute Wolff-Chaikoff effect is associated with a decrease in thyroid sodium/iodide symporter messenger ribonucleic acid and protein.

    Peter H. K. Eng;Guemalli R. Cardona;Shih-Lieh Fang;Michael Previti

  • Direct effects of leptin on brown and white adipose tissue.

    C A Siegrist-Kaiser;V Pauli;C E Juge-Aubry;O Boss

  • Thyroid Hormone Action and Brain Development

    Noriyuki Koibuchi;William W Chin

  • Inhibition of thyroid hormone action by a non-hormone binding c-erbA protein generated by alternative mRNA splicing.

    Koenig Rj;Lazar Ma;Hodin Ra;Brent Ga

  • Molecular Identification of a Major Retinoic-Acid-Synthesizing Enzyme, a Retinaldehyde-Specific Dehydrogenase

    Dayao Zhao;Dayao Zhao;Peter McCaffery;Kathryn J. Ivins;Kathryn J. Ivins;Rachael L. Neve

  • Abnormal spermatogenesis in RXR beta mutant mice.

    P Kastner;M Mark;M Leid;A Gansmuller

  • A novel member of the thyroid/steroid hormone receptor family is encoded by the opposite strand of the rat c-erbA alpha transcriptional unit.

    M A Lazar;R A Hodin;D S Darling;W W Chin

  • Evidence for an autocrine role of activin B within rat anterior pituitary cultures.

    Anne Z. Corrigan;Louise M. Bilezikjian;Rona S. Carroll;Laura N. Bald

  • A Naturally Acquired Quotidian-Type Malaria in Man Transferable to Monkeys

    William Chin;Peter G. Contacos;G. Robert Coatney;Harry R. Kimball

  • Gastrin-releasing peptide (mammalian bombesin) gene expression in health and disease

    Mary E. Sunday;Lee M. Kaplan;Etsuro Motoyama;William W. Chin

  • Differential and tissue-specific regulation of the multiple rat c-erbA messenger RNA species by thyroid hormone.

    R A Hodin;M A Lazar;W W Chin

  • Studies of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) action using GnRH receptor-expressing pituitary cell lines.

    Ursula B. Kaiser;P. Michael Conn;William W. Chin

  • Inhibin, Activin, and Follistatin: Regulation of Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Levels

    Rona S. Carroll;Anne Z. Corrigan;Soheyla D. Gharib;Wylie Vale

  • Galanin is an estrogen-inducible, secretory product of the rat anterior pituitary.

    Lee M. Kaplan;Steven M. Gabriel;James I. Koenig;Mary E. Sunday

  • Transcriptional regulation of the thyrotropin subunit genes by thyroid hormone.

    M A Shupnik;W W Chin;J F Habener;E C Ridgway

  • Cloning and characterization of cDNAs encoding human gastrin-releasing peptide.

    Eliot R. Spindel;William W. Chin;Janet Price;Lesley H. Rees

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul M. Yen
Paul M. Yen Duke University
Noriyuki Koibuchi
Noriyuki Koibuchi Gunma University
Joel F. Habener
Joel F. Habener Harvard University
Ursula B. Kaiser
Ursula B. Kaiser Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mitchell A. Lazar
Mitchell A. Lazar University of Pennsylvania
Paul Wan Sia Heng
Paul Wan Sia Heng National University of Singapore
Donald W. Pfaff
Donald W. Pfaff Rockefeller University
Samuel Refetoff
Samuel Refetoff University of Chicago
Thomas P. Burris
Thomas P. Burris Washington University in St. Louis
Richard H. Goodman
Richard H. Goodman Oregon Health & Science University

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