Publications by authors named "Celine Wang"

Importance: Opioids can cause severe respiratory depression by suppressing feedback mechanisms that increase ventilation in response to hypercapnia. Following the addition of boxed warnings to benzodiazepine and opioid products about increased respiratory depression risk with simultaneous use, the US Food and Drug Administration evaluated whether other drugs that might be used in place of benzodiazepines may cause similar effects.

Objective: To study whether combining paroxetine or quetiapine with oxycodone, compared with oxycodone alone, decreases the ventilatory response to hypercapnia.

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The evident genetic, pathological, and clinical heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease (AD) poses challenges for traditional drug development. We conducted a computational drug repurposing screen for drugs to treat apolipoprotein (apo) E4-related AD. We first established apoE-genotype-dependent transcriptomic signatures of AD by analyzing publicly-available human brain database.

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The risk of infant exposure to dextromethorphan (DM) and its active metabolite, dextrorphan (DX), through breast milk has not been evaluated. In this study, bound and unbound DM and DX concentrations in breast milk and plasma at 2 hours post-dose were measured in 20 lactating women (n = 20) following a single 30 mg oral dose of DM. The DM and DX concentrations in breast milk were positively correlated with their respective plasma concentrations.

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Information on age-based taeniasis prevalence is crucial for control of cysticercosis. taeniasis prevalence was determined for a village in Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China that was co-endemic for , and . Individuals who were egg-positive by stool microscopy and/or expelled tapeworms or proglottids post-treatment were diagnosed as having taeniasis.

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Defective protein quality control (PQC) systems are implicated in multiple diseases. Molecular chaperones and co-chaperones play a central role in functioning PQC. Constant mechanical and metabolic stress in cardiomyocytes places great demand on the PQC system.

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