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MR YUAN ZHANG



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Organization: Medicine - St Vincent's Hospital
Position: RESEARCH ASSISTANT
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Homepage: www.medstv.unimelb.edu.au
Work: 9288 2601
Fax: 9288 2581
Room: 313
Level: 03
Building: Clinical Sciences Block
Campus: St Vincents Hospital

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery Shanghai Jiaotong University 20-Aug-1985
Graduate Diploma in Immunology Monash University 08-Nov-1999
Graduate Diploma in Surgery Yokohama City University 31-Dec-1997

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australia and New Zealand Society of Nephrology Member 31-Dec-1999

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Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • High glucose induced endothelial cell growth inhibition is associated with an increase in TGFbeta1 secretion and inhibition of Ras prenylation via suppression of the mevalonate pathway
    Year: 2009
    Journal: International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 561-569
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Relaxin ameliorates fibrosis in experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Endocrinology
    Volume: 149
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 3286-93
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  • Role of Kruppel-like factor 6 in transforming growth factor-beta1-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition of proximal tubule cells


    Year: 2008
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology: Renal Physiology
    Volume: 295
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: F1388-96
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  • In vivo visualization of albumin degradation in the proximal tubule
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Kidney International
    Volume: 74
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1480-6
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  • Increased renal gene transcription of protein kinase C-beta in human diabetic nephropathy: relationship to long-term glycaemic control
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Diabetologia
    Volume: 51
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 668-74
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  • Perindopril attenuates tubular hypoxia and inflammation in an experimental model of diabetic nephropathy in transgenic Ren-2 rats
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Nephrology
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 721-729
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  • Tranilast ameliorates experimental mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Nephron Experimental Nephrology
    Volume: 109
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: e1-7
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Aliskiren, a novel renin inhibitor, is renoprotective in a model of advanced diabetic nephropathy in rats.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Diabetologia
    Volume: 50
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 2398-404
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  • Effects on protein kinase C-β inhibition on glomerular vascular endothelial growth factor expression and endothelial cells in advanced experimental diabetic nephropathy
    Year: 2007
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology: Renal Physiology
    Volume: 293
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: F565-74
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  • Functional, structural and molecular aspects of diastolic heart failure in the diabetic (mRen-2)27 rat
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cardiovascular Research
    Volume: 76
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 280-91
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  • High glucose induces macrophage inflammatory protein-3α in renal proximal tubule cells via a transforming growth factor-β1 dependent mechanism
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 3147-3153
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  • High glucose-induced Thioredoxin-interacting protein in renal proximal tubule cells is independent of transforming growth factor-β1
    Year: 2007
    Journal: American Journal of Pathology
    Volume: 171
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 744-754
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  • Macrophage infiltration and cellular proliferation in the non-ischemic kidney and heart following prolonged unilateral renal ischemia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Nephron Physiology
    Volume: 106
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 54-62
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  • Role of VEGF in maintaining renal structure and function under normotensive and hypertensive conditions
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 104
    Issue: 36
    Page numbers: 14448-14453
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  • The differential regulation of Smad7 in kidney tubule cells by connective tissue growth factor and transforming growth factor-beta1
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Nephrology
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 267-274
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  • Tranilast attenuates diastolic dysfunction and structural injury in experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy
    Year: 2007
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
    Volume: 293
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: H2860-9
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  • Widespread vascular production of C-reactive protein (CRP) and a relationship between serum CRP, plaque CRP and intimal hypertrophy
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Atherosclerosis
    Volume: 191
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 175-81
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Combination therapy with tranilast and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition provides additional renoprotection in the remnant kidney model
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Kidney International
    Volume: 69
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1954-60
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  • Renal expression and localization of the facilitative glucose transporters GLUT1 and GLUT12 in animal models of hypertension and diabetic nephropathy
    Year: 2006
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology: Renal Physiology
    Volume: 290
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: F205-13
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  • Transforming growth factor-β in human diabetic nephropathy: effects of ACE inhibition
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Diabetes Care
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2670-5
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Cells expressing the stem cell factor receptor, c-kit, contribute to neoangiogenesis in diabetes
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 76-80
    Publisher: MediNews (Diabetes)
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  • Inhibition of protein kinase C reduces left ventricular fibrosis and dysfunction following myocardial infarction
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
    Volume: 39
    Issue: (2)
    Page numbers: 213-221
    Publisher: Academic Press(London)
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  • Protein Kinase CΒ Inhibition Attenuates Osteopontin Expression, Macrophage Recruitment, and Tubulointerstitial Injury in Advanced Experimental Diabetic Nephropathy
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 1654-1660
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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  • Tranilast attenuates cardiac matrix deposition in experimental diabetes: role of transforming growth factor-B
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cardiovascular Research
    Volume: 65
    Page numbers: 694-701
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Fas-induced apoptosis is a feature of progressive diabetic nephropathy in transgenic (mRen-2)27 rats: attentuation with renin-angiotensin blockade
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Nephrology
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 7-13
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Increased expression of urotensin II and urotensin II receptor in human diabetic nephropathy
    Year: 2004
    Journal: American Journal of Kidney Diseases
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 826-831
    Publisher: WB Saunders Co(Pennsylvania)
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  • Platelet-derived growth factor receptor transactivation mediates the trophic effects of angiotensin II in vivo
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Hypertension
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 195-202
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Tranilast attenuates structural and functional aspects of renal injury in the remnant kidney model
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 2619-2629
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Intervention with tranilast attenuates renal pathology and albuminuria in advanced experimental diabetic nephropathy
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Nephron Physiology
    Volume: 95
    Page numbers: 83-91
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  • Mast cell infiltration and chemokine expression in progressive renal disease
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Kidney International
    Volume: 64
    Page numbers: 906-913
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • Protein kinase C β inhibition attenuates the progression of experimental diabetic nephropathy in the presence of continued hypertension
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Diabetes
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 512-518
    Publisher: American Diabetes Association(Virginia)
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