Zhong-Dong Shi

Biological responses of suspension cultures of Taxus chinensis var. mairei to shear stresses in the short term.

Rat aortic smooth muscle cells contract in response to serum and its components in a calcium independent manner.

Effects of fluid shear stress on adventitial fibroblast migration: implications for flow-mediated mechanisms of arterialization and intimal hyperplasia.

Interstitial flow promotes vascular fibroblast, myofibroblast, and smooth muscle cell motility in 3-D collagen I via upregulation of MMP-1.

Interstitial flow induces MMP-1 expression and vascular SMC migration in collagen I gels via an ERK1/2-dependent and c-Jun-mediated mechanism.

Permeability of endothelial and astrocyte cocultures: in vitro blood-brain barrier models for drug delivery studies.

Shear stress modulation of smooth muscle cell marker genes in 2-D and 3-D depends on mechanotransduction by heparan sulfate proteoglycans and ERK1/2.

Heparan sulfate proteoglycans mediate interstitial flow mechanotransduction regulating MMP-13 expression and cell motility via FAK-ERK in 3D collagen.

Fluid flow mechanotransduction in vascular smooth muscle cells and fibroblasts.

Fluid shear stress regulates the invasive potential of glioma cells via modulation of migratory activity and matrix metalloproteinase expression.

Heparan sulfate proteoglycan mediates shear stress-induced endothelial gene expression in mouse embryonic stem cell-derived endothelial cells.

Effect of the glycocalyx layer on transmission of interstitial flow shear stress to embedded cells.

Enhanced osteogenesis of human mesenchymal stem cells by periodic heat shock in self-assembling peptide hydrogel.

Homologous recombination DNA repair genes play a critical role in reprogramming to a pluripotent state.

Cancer cell glycocalyx mediates mechanotransduction and flow-regulated invasion.

An iCRISPR platform for rapid, multiplexable, and inducible genome editing in human pluripotent stem cells.

Fluid Mechanics, Arterial Disease, and Gene Expression.

A CRISPR/Cas-Mediated Selection-free Knockin Strategy in Human Embryonic Stem Cells.

Heparan sulfate proteoglycans mediate renal carcinoma metastasis.

Genome Editing in hPSCs Reveals GATA6 Haploinsufficiency and a Genetic Interaction with GATA4 in Human Pancreatic Development.