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Author:   Lijuan Zhang (Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Weight:   0.970kg
ISBN:  

9780128177402

ISBN 10:   0128177403
Pages:   551
Publication Date:   26 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. An Overview of Fugal Glycan-based Therapeutics Dandan Yang 2. Heparin: An Essential Drug for Modern Medicine Cui Hao 3. Low Molecular Weight Heparins and Their Clinical Applications Cui Hao 4. The Clinical Use of Fondaparinux: A Synthetic Heparin Pentasaccharide Yiran Zhang 5. Heparinoids as Clinically Used Drugs Huaiqian Dou 6. Marine Glycan-Derived Therapeutics in China Yanyun Gao 7. Efficacy of Heparinoid PSS in Treating Cardiovascular and other Diseases--30 Years Clinical Applications in China Ming Shan 8. Ganoderma Sinense Polysaccharide--An Adjunctive Drug Used for Cancer Treatment Meng Zhang 9. Fucoidan Used for Treating Renal Diseases: A Review of 15 Years Clinical Studies Jing Wang 10. Ganoderma Lucidum Polysaccharide Used for Treating Physical Frailty in China Pengjiao Zeng 11. The Biological Activities of the Antitumor Drug Grifola Frondosa Polysaccharide Yanli He 12. Molecular Basis for Poria cocos Mushroom Polysaccharide Used as an Antitumor Drug in China Xiulian Li 13. Biological Mechanisms of Glycan- and Glycosaminoglycan-based Nutraceuticals Yang Tang 14. Mushroom Polysaccharide Lentinan for Treating Different Types of Cancers—A Review of 12 Years of Clinical Studies in China Yiran Zhang 15. Polyporus Umbellatus Polysaccharide in Treating Hepatitis B in China Zhihua Guo 16. Coriolus Versicolor Polysaccharopeptide as an Immunotherapeutic in China Huaiqian Dou 17. Tremella Polysaccharide: The molecular Mechanisms of its Drug Action Dandan Yang 18. The Structures and Biological Functions of Polysaccharides from Traditional Chinese Herbs Pengjiao Zeng

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Lijuan Zhang is a Professor of Translational Medicine at Ocean University of China. She completed her doctorates of biochemistry and molecular genetics at University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1995. Before then, she was a Fogarty International Fellow at NIH for three years studying glycan-based cancer biomarkers. She worked as post-doctorate fellow and research associate at both MIT and Harvard Medical School from 1995-2002. She joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 as a tenure-tracked Assistant Professor. Her research had been focused on the biosynthesis, structures, and biological functions of glycans since 1985. Now her work is on translational aspects of glycans as biomarkers and therapeutics. She has over 60 peer reviewed publications. She edited and published a book entitled “Glycosaminoglycans in Development, Health, and Diseases” with the contributions of top scientists worldwide in 2010 by Elsevier.

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