Wern-Cherng Cheng

Age, sex and vitamin status affect plasma level of homocysteine, but hyperhomocysteinaemia is possibly not an important risk factor for venous thrombophilia in Taiwanese Chinese.

Effects of raloxifene, one of the selective estrogen receptor modulators, on pituitary-ovary axis and prolactin in postmenopausal women.

Lack of independent relationship between plasma adiponectin, leptin levels and bone density in nondiabetic female adolescents.

Increased high sensitivity C-reactive protein and neutrophil count are related to increased standard cardiovascular risk factors in healthy Chinese men.

Relation of improvement in endothelium-dependent flow-mediated vasodilation after rosiglitazone to changes in asymmetric dimethylarginine, endothelin-1, and C-reactive protein in nondiabetic patients with the metabolic syndrome.

Temporal changes in cytokine/chemokine profiles and pulmonary involvement in severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Effects of high-dose phytoestrogens on circulating cellular microparticles and coagulation function in postmenopausal women.

Tuberculosis mortality: patient characteristics and causes.

Cryptococcus neoformans in sputum and lung aspiration cytology smears.

Evaluation of the Bruker Biotyper matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry system for identification of blood isolates of Vibrio species.

Deoxyinosine repair in nuclear extracts of human cells.

Using Ion Torrent sequencing to study genetic mutation profiles of fatal thyroid cancers.

Application of single nucleotide extension and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry in proofreading and DNA repair assay.

DNA polymerase I proofreading exonuclease activity is required for endonuclease V repair pathway both in vitro and in vivo.

Proofreading of single nucleotide insertion/deletion replication errors analyzed by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry assay.

Measurement of uracil-DNA glycosylase activity by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry technique.