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Ying-Yong Zhao

Ying-Yong Zhao

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
14181
World Ranking
6461
National Ranking
205

Overview

Ying-Yong Zhao is affiliated with Northwest University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Nephrology, Pharmacology, Cancer Research, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's research focuses on a range of topics with particular emphasis on chronic kidney disease and diabetes, renal diseases and glomerulopathies, gut microbiota and health, tryptophan and brain disorders, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, diet and metabolism studies, and metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies.

Key recent publications by Ying-Yong Zhao include:

  • Wnt signaling pathway in aging-related tissue fibrosis and therapies, 2020, Ageing Research Reviews
  • AGE/RAGE in diabetic kidney disease and ageing kidney, 2021, Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • Gut microbiota-derived tryptophan metabolism mediates renal fibrosis by aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling activation, 2020, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  • Transforming growth factor-β signaling: From tissue fibrosis to therapeutic opportunities, 2022, Chemico-Biological Interactions
  • Lactobacillus species ameliorate membranous nephropathy through inhibiting the aryl hydrocarbon receptor pathway via tryptophan-produced indole metabolites, 2023, British Journal of Pharmacology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Zhao include Hua Miao, Yanni Wang, Liang Zou, Yan Guo, and Xiao-Yong Yu.

Ying-Yong Zhao has published regularly in several scientific journals. The most common publication venues are Frontiers in Pharmacology, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Chemico-Biological Interactions, Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, and Ageing Research Reviews.

In addition to research articles, Zhao has contributed to book publications. One such book is titled Applications of Herbal, published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

Best Publications

  • New insights into TGF-β/Smad signaling in tissue fibrosis.

    He-He Hu;Dan-Qian Chen;Yan-Ni Wang;Ya-Long Feng

  • Altered intestinal microbial flora and impaired epithelial barrier structure and function in CKD: the nature, mechanisms, consequences and potential treatment

    Nosratola D. Vaziri;Ying-Yong Zhao;Madeleine V. Pahl

  • Microbiome–metabolome reveals the contribution of gut–kidney axis on kidney disease

    Yuan-Yuan Chen;Dan-Qian Chen;Lin Chen;Jing-Ru Liu

  • Central role of dysregulation of TGF-β/Smad in CKD progression and potential targets of its treatment

    Lin Chen;Tian Yang;De-Wen Lu;Hui Zhao

  • Metabolomics in chronic kidney disease

    Ying-Yong Zhao

  • Metabolomics analysis reveals the association between lipid abnormalities and oxidative stress, inflammation, fibrosis, and Nrf2 dysfunction in aristolochic acid-induced nephropathy

    Ying-Yong Zhao;Hui-Ling Wang;Xian-Long Cheng;Feng Wei

  • Identification of serum metabolites associating with chronic kidney disease progression and anti-fibrotic effect of 5-methoxytryptophan

    Dan-Qian Chen;Gang Cao;Hua Chen;Christos P. Argyopoulos

  • Metabolomics highlights pharmacological bioactivity and biochemical mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine.

    Ming Wang;Lin Chen;Dan Liu;Hua Chen

  • Natural Products as a Source for Antifibrosis Therapy

    Dan-Qian Chen;Ya-Long Feng;Gang Cao;Ying-Yong Zhao

  • Microbiome–metabolomics reveals gut microbiota associated with glycine-conjugated metabolites and polyamine metabolism in chronic kidney disease

    Ya-Long Feng;Gang Cao;Dan-Qian Chen;Nosratola D Vaziri

  • Novel inhibitors of the cellular renin-angiotensin system components, poricoic acids, target Smad3 phosphorylation and Wnt/β-catenin pathway against renal fibrosis.

    Ming Wang;Dan-Qian Chen;Lin Chen;Gang Cao

  • Gene and protein expressions and metabolomics exhibit activated redox signaling and wnt/β-catenin pathway are associated with metabolite dysfunction in patients with chronic kidney disease.

    Dan-Qian Chen;Gang Cao;Hua Chen;Dan Liu

  • Urinary metabonomics study on biochemical changes in an experimental model of chronic renal failure by adenine based on UPLC Q-TOF/MS.

    Ying-Yong Zhao;Jing Liu;Xian-Long Cheng;Xu Bai

  • Ultra performance liquid chromatography-based metabonomic study of therapeutic effect of the surface layer of Poria cocos on adenine-induced chronic kidney disease provides new insight into anti-fibrosis mechanism.

    Ying-Yong Zhao;Ya-Long Feng;Xu Bai;Xiao-Jie Tan

  • Metabolomics insights into chronic kidney disease and modulatory effect of rhubarb against tubulointerstitial fibrosis

    Zhi-Hao Zhang;Feng Wei;Nosratola D. Vaziri;Xian-Long Cheng

  • Ultra-performance liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry as a sensitive and powerful technology in lipidomic applications

    Ying-Yong Zhao;Ying-Yong Zhao;Shao-Ping Wu;Shuman Liu;Yongmin Zhang

  • UPLC–MSE application in disease biomarker discovery: The discoveries in proteomics to metabolomics

    Ying-Yong Zhao;Rui-Chao Lin

  • Intrarenal Metabolomic Investigation of Chronic Kidney Disease and its TGF-β1 Mechanism in Induced-adenine Rats using UPLC Q-TOF/HSMS/MSE

    Ying-Yong Zhao;Xian-Long Cheng;Feng Wei;Xu Bai

  • Traditional uses, phytochemistry, pharmacology, toxicology and quality control of Alisma orientale (Sam.) Juzep: a review.

    Ting Tian;Hua Chen;Ying-Yong Zhao

  • Metabolomics insights into activated redox signaling and lipid metabolism dysfunction in chronic kidney disease progression.

    Hua Chen;Gang Cao;Dan-Qian Chen;Ming Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Nosratola D. Vaziri
Nosratola D. Vaziri University of California, Irvine
David C. Samuels
David C. Samuels Vanderbilt University
Jun Fan
Jun Fan Northwest University
Jijun Tang
Jijun Tang University of South Carolina
Karl Wah Keung Tsim
Karl Wah Keung Tsim Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Gong Ju
Gong Ju Air Force Medical University
Yu Shyr
Yu Shyr Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jeremy Chien
Jeremy Chien University of California, Davis
Caiyun Wang
Caiyun Wang University of Wollongong
Yong Yang
Yong Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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