Publications by authors named "Yong-Mei Tan"

Patients taking atypical antipsychotics (AAPs), especially clozapine, are often associated with hyperglycaemia. Here, clozapine served as a representative agent for investigating how AAPs induce hyperglycaemia. In normal mice and mice fed a high fat diet (HFD), clozapine impaired glucose tolerance and glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) following intraperitoneal glucose administration and increased plasma 5-HT levels.

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Objective: To investigate the ability of Porphyromonas gingivalis to invade human periodontal ligament cells (hPDLCs) and the effect of intracellular P. gingivalis on cell proliferation and osteogenic differentiation in vitro.

Methods: The invasion ability of P.

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