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Zhongfang Du
Researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Publications - 5
Citations - 87
Zhongfang Du is an academic researcher from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lung & Asthma. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 5 publications receiving 82 citations.
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Infectious Chlamydia pneumoniae is associated with elevated interleukin-8 and airway neutrophilia in children with refractory asthma.
Katir K. Patel,Alfin G. Vicencio,Zhongfang Du,Kalliope Tsirilakis,Paul S. Salva,Wilmore C. Webley +5 more
TL;DR: Children with asthma who were PCR-positive for C. pneumoniae demonstrated elevated concentrations of IL-8 and neutrophils in BAL fluid compared with similar patients who were positive forC.
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Pulmonary cryptococcosis induces chitinase in the rat.
Alfin G. Vicencio,Swati Narain,Zhongfang Du,Wang Yong Zeng,James Ritch,Arturo Casadevall,David L. Goldman +6 more
TL;DR: A possible link between respiratory fungal infections, including C. neoformans, and asthma through the induction of AMCase is indicated through the induced chitinase activity within the lung and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of infected rats.
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Effects of chronic hypercapnia in the neonatal mouse lung and brain.
TL;DR: Permissive hypercapnia is increasingly utilized in the care of premature infants to prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasia and it is unknown whether chronichypercapnia increases alveolar formation, nor if it has detrimental effects in other developing organs such as the brain.