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Overview

Yayi Hou is affiliated with Nanjing University in China and specializes primarily in immunology and microbiology, with additional expertise in medicine as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research portfolio comprises substantial contributions to immunology, molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, oncology, and cancer research.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics in immune cells in cancer, reproductive system and pregnancy, systemic lupus erythematosus research, immune response and inflammation, endometriosis research and treatment, immune cell function and interaction, and cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

Yayi Hou has published recent papers including:

  • Fungal-induced glycolysis in macrophages promotes colon cancer by enhancing innate lymphoid cell secretion of IL-22 (2021, The EMBO Journal)
  • Inflammation and cancer: paradoxical roles in tumorigenesis and implications in immunotherapies (2021, Genes & Diseases)
  • Characteristics and regulation of mesenchymal stem cell plasticity by the microenvironment - specific factors involved in the regulation of MSC plasticity (2020, Genes & Diseases)
  • Gut fungi enhances immunosuppressive function of myeloid-derived suppressor cells by activating PKM2-dependent glycolysis to promote colorectal tumorigenesis (2022, Experimental Hematology and Oncology)
  • β-glucan-coupled superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles induce trained immunity to protect mice against sepsis (2021, Theranostics)

Their frequent coauthors include Huan Dou, Yuchen Pan, Jingman Li, Sunan Shen, and Xinghan Liu.

Yayi Hou has contributed multiple publications to journals such as Cell Death and Disease, International Immunopharmacology, Stem Cell Research & Therapy, Frontiers in Immunology, and the International Journal of Biological Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Mesenchymal stem cell transplantation reverses multiorgan dysfunction in systemic lupus erythematosus mice and humans.

    Lingyun Sun;Kentaro Akiyama;Huayong Zhang;Takayoshi Yamaza

  • Carcinoma-associated fibroblasts promote the stemness and chemoresistance of colorectal cancer by transferring exosomal lncRNA H19

    Jing Ren;Liang Ding;Dongya Zhang;Guoping Shi

  • Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in severe and refractory systemic lupus erythematosus

    Lingyun Sun;Dandan Wang;Jun Liang;Huayong Zhang

  • Allogenic mesenchymal stem cells transplantation in refractory systemic lupus erythematosus: a pilot clinical study

    Jun Liang;Huayong Zhang;Bingzhu Hua;Hong Wang

  • Exosomal miR‐146a Contributes to the Enhanced Therapeutic Efficacy of Interleukin‐1β‐Primed Mesenchymal Stem Cells Against Sepsis

    Yuxian Song;Huan Dou;Xiujun Li;Xiaoyin Zhao

  • Differential expression of microRNAs in the placentae of Chinese patients with severe pre-eclampsia

    Yali Hu;Pengfei Li;Sha Hao;Liu Liu

  • Transplantation of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell ameliorates the autoimmune pathogenesis in MRL/lpr mice.

    Kangxing Zhou;Huayong Zhang;Ouyang Jin;Xuebing Feng

  • Pre-treatment with IL-1β enhances the efficacy of MSC transplantation in DSS-induced colitis.

    Hongye Fan;Guangfeng Zhao;Liu Liu;Fei Liu

  • microRNA-29b contributes to pre-eclampsia through its effects on apoptosis, invasion and angiogenesis of trophoblast cells

    Pengfei Li;Wei Guo;Leilei Du;Junli Zhao

  • The Adaptor Protein CARD9 Protects against Colon Cancer by Restricting Mycobiota-Mediated Expansion of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells

    Tingting Wang;Tingting Wang;Chaogang Fan;Anran Yao;Xingwei Xu

  • The Toll-like Receptor 3 Ligand, Poly(I:C), Improves Immunosuppressive Function and Therapeutic Effect of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Sepsis via Inhibiting MiR-143

    Xiaoyin Zhao;Dan Liu;Wei Gong;Guangfeng Zhao

  • A novel stromal lncRNA signature reprograms fibroblasts to promote the growth of oral squamous cell carcinoma via LncRNA-CAF/interleukin-33.

    Liang Ding;Jing Ren;Dongya Zhang;Yi Li

  • Transplantation of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells alleviates lupus nephritis in MRL/lpr mice

    Z. Gu;K. Akiyama;X. Ma;H. Zhang

  • miR‐16 inhibits the proliferation and angiogenesis‐regulating potential of mesenchymal stem cells in severe pre‐eclampsia

    Yaping Wang;Hongye Fan;Guangfeng Zhao;Dan Liu

  • Anti-inflammatory effects of curcumin are associated with down regulating microRNA-155 in LPS-treated macrophages and mice.

    Feiya Ma;Fei Liu;Liang Ding;Ming You

  • Modulation of 17β-estradiol on the number and cytotoxicity of NK cells in vivo related to MCM and activating receptors

    Sha Hao;Junli Zhao;Jianjun Zhou;Shuli Zhao

  • Apigenin inhibits enterovirus-71 infection by disrupting viral RNA association with trans-acting factors.

    Wei Zhang;Haishi Qiao;Yuanzi Lv;Jingjing Wang

  • Bifidobacterium longum as an oral delivery system of endostatin for gene therapy on solid liver cancer

    Geng-Feng Fu;Xi Li;Ya-Yi Hou;Yan-Rong Fan

  • Anti-tumor macrophages activated by ferumoxytol combined or surface-functionalized with the TLR3 agonist poly (I : C) promote melanoma regression

    Jiaojiao zhao;Zhengkui Zhang;Yaxian Xue;Guoqun Wang

  • Long Non-Coding RNA MALAT1 Promotes Proliferation, Angiogenesis, and Immunosuppressive Properties of Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Inducing VEGF and IDO.

    Xiujun Li;Yuxian Song;Fei Liu;Dan Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Liwei Lu
Liwei Lu University of Hong Kong
Songtao Shi
Songtao Shi University of Pennsylvania
Gary S. Gilkeson
Gary S. Gilkeson Medical University of South Carolina
Zi-Chun Hua
Zi-Chun Hua Nanjing University
Renxiang Tan
Renxiang Tan Nanjing University
Xizhang Wang
Xizhang Wang Nanjing University
Richard M. Silver
Richard M. Silver Medical University of South Carolina
Wenrong Xu
Wenrong Xu Jiangsu University
Chunhai Fan
Chunhai Fan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hui-Tian Wang
Hui-Tian Wang Nanjing University

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