[HTML][HTML] Association of serum interleukin-17 and interleukin-23 levels with disease activity in Chinese patients with ankylosing spondylitis

WS Chen, YS Chang, KC Lin, CC Lai, SH Wang… - Journal of the Chinese …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic arthritis with a pathogenesis which
is not fully understood. A third subset of IL-17-producing T helper cells, called Th17 cells …

Clinical features and outcomes of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

CC Lai, WS Chen, YS Chang, SH Wang… - Arthritis care & …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To analyze the clinical features and outcomes of patients with posterior reversible
encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), the risk factors of PRES‐related intracranial hemorrhage …

[PDF][PDF] Dynamic adoption of anergy by antigen-exhausted CD4+ T cells

A Trefzer, P Kadam, SH Wang, S Pennavaria, B Lober… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Exhausted immune responses to chronic diseases represent a major challenge to global
health. We study CD4+ T cells in a mouse model with regulatable antigen presentation …

An exhausted phenotype of TH2 cells is primed by allergen exposure, but not reinforced by allergen‐specific immunotherapy

SH Wang, UM Zissler, M Buettner, S Heine, A Heldner… - Allergy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Studies show that proallergic TH2 cells decrease after successful allergen‐
specific immunotherapy (AIT). It is likely that iatrogenic administration of allergens drives …

Increased risk of osteoporotic fractures in patients with systemic sclerosis: a nationwide population-based study

CC Lai, SH Wang, WS Chen, CJ Liu, TJ Chen… - Annals of the …, 2015 - ard.bmj.com
Objectives To identify the incidence rate (IR) and risk factors of osteoporotic fractures (OFs)
among systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients. Methods A cohort study was conducted using the …

Increased risk of subarachnoid hemorrhage in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a nationwide population‐based study

YS Chang, CJ Liu, WS Chen, CC Lai… - Arthritis care & …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective A relatively common occurrence of spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)
in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has been noted; however, the …

Association of systemic lupus erythematosus with a higher risk of cervical but not trochanteric hip fracture: a nationwide population‐based study

SH Wang, YS Chang, CJ Liu, CC Lai… - Arthritis Care & …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To determine the incidence rates and risk factors of cervical and trochanteric hip
fractures (HFs) among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) based on a …

[HTML][HTML] Continuous single cell imaging reveals sequential steps of plasmacytoid dendritic cell development from common dendritic cell progenitors

E Dursun, M Endele, A Musumeci, H Failmezger… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Functionally distinct plasmacytoid and conventional dendritic cells (pDC and cDC) shape
innate and adaptive immunity. They are derived from common dendritic cell progenitors …

Primary Sjogren's syndrome and the risk of acute pancreatitis: a nationwide cohort study

CC Chang, YS Chang, SH Wang, SY Lin, YH Chen… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective Studies on the risk of acute pancreatitis in patients with primary Sjogren's
syndrome (pSS) are limited. We evaluated the effects of pSS on the risk of acute pancreatitis …

[PDF][PDF] Design study of the Beijing 200 MeV proton linac

SH Wang, TH Lo, YJ Chang… - 1979 Linac Accelerator …, 1979 - accelconf.web.cern.ch
Design Study of the Beijing 200 MeV Proton Linac Page 1 DESIGN STUDY OF THE BEIJING
200 MeV PROTON LINAC Shu-Hung Wang, Tzu-Hua Lo, Yi-Jin Chang and Ying-Hsong Lo …