User profiles for S. W. Chan

Siu-Wai Chan

- Verified email at columbia.edu - Cited by 7802

Shun-Wan Chan

- Verified email at vtc.edu.hk - Cited by 5991

Siew Wee Chan

- Verified email at imcb.a-star.edu.sg - Cited by 3553

A review of the pharmacological effects of Arctium lappa (burdock)

YS Chan, LN Cheng, JH Wu, E Chan, YW Kwan… - …, 2011 - Springer
Arctium lappa, commonly known as burdock, is being promoted/recommended as a healthy
and nutritive food in Chinese societies. Burdock has been used therapeutically in Europe, …

Global perspective of burden of family caregivers for persons with schizophrenia

SW Chan - Archives of psychiatric nursing, 2011 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia is a severe form of mental illness that affects about 7 per 1,000 of the adult
population. It is estimated that globally about 29 million people have schizophrenia. With the …

A review of the cardiovascular benefits and antioxidant properties of allicin

…, ACY Yuen, RYK Chan, SW Chan - Phytotherapy …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a category of chronic noncommunicable diseases causing
high global mortality and has been a heavy social burden in many countries. In the search …

Classification of hepatitis C virus into six major genotypes and a series of subtypes by phylogenetic analysis of the NS-5 region

…, EC Holmes, TA Cha, SW Chan… - Journal of general …, 1993 - microbiologyresearch.org
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) shows substantial nucleotide sequence diversity distributed throughout
the viral genome, with many variants showing only 68 to 79% overall sequence similarity …

A proposed system for the nomenclature of hepatitis C viral genotypes

…, DW Bradley, C Brechot, JT Brouwer, SW Chan… - Hepatology, 1994 - journals.lww.com
… (11) on the basis of sequence comparisons of the NS-5 region (PT [la], K1 [lbl, K2a [2al and
K2b [2bl) and by Chan et al. (121, who provided evidence for another HCV type (subtype 3a) …

Size-dependent properties of nanoparticles as studied by Raman scattering

JE Spanier, RD Robinson, F Zhang, SW Chan… - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
The combined effects of strain and phonon confinement are seen to explain why the Raman
peak near 464 cm− 1 in CeO 2− y nanoparticles shifts to progressively lower energies and …

Cell surface trafficking of Fas: a rapid mechanism of p53-mediated apoptosis

M Bennett, K Macdonald, SW Chan, JP Luzio, R Simari… - Science, 1998 - science.org
p53 acts as a tumor suppressor by inducing both growth arrest and apoptosis. p53-induced
apoptosis can occur without new RNA synthesis through an unknown mechanism. In human …

Cerium and yttrium oxide nanoparticles are neuroprotective

…, R Dargusch, J Raitano, SW Chan - … and biophysical research …, 2006 - Elsevier
The responses of cells exposed to nanoparticles have been studied with regard to toxicity,
but very little attention has been paid to the possibility that some types of particles can protect …

Cerium oxide nanoparticles: Size-selective formation and structure analysis

F Zhang, SW Chan, JE Spanier, E Apak, Q Jin… - Applied physics …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
Nanoparticles of cerium oxide with a narrow size distribution (±15%) are prepared by mixing
cerium nitrate solution with an ammonium reagent. High-resolution transmission electron …

Cerium oxidation state in ceria nanoparticles studied with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and absorption near edge spectroscopy

F Zhang, P Wang, J Koberstein, S Khalid, SW Chan - Surface Science, 2004 - Elsevier
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy experiments
are used to investigate the oxidation state of cerium ions in ceria nanoparticles. A …