Browsing Scholarly Articles by Duke-affiliated Author "Chen, Jun"

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Growth Hormone Mitigates against Lethal Irradiation and Enhances Hematologic and Immune Recovery in Mice and Nonhuman Primates

Chen, Benny; Deoliveira, Divino; Spasojevic, Ivan; Sempowski, Gregory; Wang, Xiaojuan; Gesty-Palmer, Diane; Meadows, Sarah K.; Daher, Pamela; Muramoto, Garrett; Chute, Dr John; Chao, Nelson (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Medications that can mitigate against radiation injury are limited. In this study, we investigated the ability of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) to mitigate against radiation injury in mice and nonhuman primates. ...
Selective Enhancement of Donor Hematopoietic Cell Engraftment by the CXCR4 Antagonist AMD3100 in a Mouse Transplantation Model

Kang, Yubin; Chen, Benny; Deoliveira, Divino; Mito, Jeffrey; Chao, Nelson Jen An (PLoS ONE, 2010-06)

The interaction between stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1) with CXCR4 chemokine receptors plays an important role in hematopoiesis following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. We examined the efficacy of post ...