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Zicai Liang

Zicai Liang

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
58
Citations
12900
World Ranking
2080
National Ranking
58

Overview

Zicai Liang is affiliated with Peking University in China, focusing primarily on research intersecting medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work encompasses 22 publications in medicine and 14 in biochemistry and related fields.

Their research spans several subfields, including molecular biology, epidemiology, hematology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and immunology. The subfields with the highest publication counts are molecular biology with 12 and epidemiology, hematology, and endocrinology with 5 each.

Main topics of Zicai Liang's work include:

  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms
  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
  • Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery

Frequent publication venues where Liang's research has appeared include:

  • Journal of Hepatology (3 papers)
  • Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (2 papers)
  • Diabetes Therapy (2 papers)
  • Nano Letters
  • Bioactive Materials

Among notable recent papers are:

  • "Core Role of Hydrophobic Core of Polymeric Nanomicelle in Endosomal Escape of siRNA," 2021, Nano Letters
  • "Efficient hepatic delivery and protein expression enabled by optimized mRNA and ionizable lipid nanoparticle," 2020, Bioactive Materials
  • "Rolling microneedle electrode array (RoMEA) empowered nucleic acid delivery and cancer immunotherapy," 2020, Nano Today
  • "The development and characterization of a long acting anti-thrombotic von Willebrand factor (VWF) aptamer," 2020, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
  • "Ionizable liposomal siRNA therapeutics enables potent and persistent treatment of Hepatitis B," 2022, Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Frequent collaborators in Liang's research include Yuanyu Huang, Xing-Jie Liang, Chunhui Li, Tongren Yang, and Jun Zhang.

Best Publications

  • Antisense Transcription in the Mammalian Transcriptome

    S. Katayama;Y. Tomaru;T. Kasukawa;K. Waki

  • Locked nucleic acid (LNA) mediated improvements in siRNA stability and functionality

    Joacim Elmén;Håkan Thonberg;Karl Ljungberg;Miriam Frieden

  • Osteoclast-derived exosomal miR-214-3p inhibits osteoblastic bone formation

    Defang Li;Jin Liu;Baosheng Guo;Chao Liang

  • Enhanced Gene Delivery and siRNA Silencing by Gold Nanoparticles Coated with Charge-Reversal Polyelectrolyte

    Shutao Guo;Yuanyu Huang;Qiao Jiang;Yun Sun

  • Anticancer drug nanomicelles formed by self-assembling amphiphilic dendrimer to combat cancer drug resistance

    Tuo Wei;Chao Chen;Juan Liu;Cheng Liu

  • Hypoxia-independent angiogenesis in adipose tissues during cold acclimation.

    Yuan Xue;Natasa Petrovic;Renhai Cao;Ola Larsson

  • Aptamer-functionalized lipid nanoparticles targeting osteoblasts as a novel RNA interference-based bone anabolic strategy.

    Chao Liang;Baosheng Guo;Heng Wu;Ningsheng Shao

  • A systematic analysis of the silencing effects of an active siRNA at all single-nucleotide mismatched target sites

    Quan Du;Håkan Thonberg;Jue Wang;Claes Wahlestedt

  • Long non-coding RNA ANRIL regulates inflammatory responses as a novel component of NF-κB pathway.

    Xiao Zhou;Xiaorui Han;Ann Wittfeldt;Jingzhi Sun

  • Adaptive amphiphilic dendrimer-based nanoassemblies as robust and versatile siRNA delivery systems.

    Xiaoxuan Liu;Jiehua Zhou;Tianzhu Yu;Chao Chen

  • Multifunctional aptamer-based nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery to circumvent cancer resistance.

    Juan Liu;Tuo Wei;Jing Zhao;Yuanyu Huang

  • An estrogen receptor α suppressor, microRNA-22, is downregulated in estrogen receptor α-positive human breast cancer cell lines and clinical samples

    Jianhua Xiong;Dianke Yu;Na Wei;Hanjiang Fu

  • Functionalized nanoscale micelles improve drug delivery for cancer therapy in vitro and in vivo.

    Tuo Wei;Juan Liu;Huili Ma;Qiang Cheng

  • Structure and biological activity of a 1,3-beta-D-glucan-binding protein in crustacean blood.

    L. Cerenius;Zicai Liang;B. Duvic;P. Keyser

  • Systemic Administration of Combinatorial dsiRNAs via Nanoparticles Efficiently Suppresses HIV-1 Infection in Humanized Mice

    Jiehua Zhou;C Preston Neff;Xiaoxuan Liu;Xiaoxuan Liu;Jane Zhang

  • Pacifastin, a novel 155-kDa heterodimeric proteinase inhibitor containing a unique transferrin chain

    Zicai Liang;Lars Sottrup-Jensen;Anna Aspán;Martin Hall

  • Tumor-suppressive microRNA-22 inhibits the transcription of E-box-containing c-Myc target genes by silencing c-Myc binding protein.

    J Xiong;Q Du;Z Liang

  • Elimination Pathways of Systemically Delivered siRNA

    Yuanyu Huang;Junmei Hong;Shuquan Zheng;Yi Ding

  • MALAT-1 interacts with hnRNP C in cell cycle regulation

    Feng Yang;Fan Yi;Xiaorui Han;Quan Du

  • Silanized nucleic acids: a general platform for DNA immobilization.

    Anil Kumar;Ola Larsson;Daniela Parodi;Zicai Liang

Frequent Co-Authors

Claes Wahlestedt
Claes Wahlestedt University of Miami
Anjie Dong
Anjie Dong Tianjin University
Xing-Jie Liang
Xing-Jie Liang National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Liandong Deng
Liandong Deng Tianjin University
Zhen Xi
Zhen Xi Nankai University
Ola Larsson
Ola Larsson Science for Life Laboratory
Ling Peng
Ling Peng Aix-Marseille University
Ge Zhang
Ge Zhang Hong Kong Baptist University
Aiping Lu
Aiping Lu Hong Kong Baptist University
Kenneth Söderhäll
Kenneth Söderhäll Uppsala University

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