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Tang Huifang graduated from Zhejiang University School of Medicine in 2005, and received a Ph.D degree, then stayed in department of pharmacology for teaching and respiratory and anti-inflammatory immunopharmacological research work so far. In 2007, she was appointed as associated professor and Master tutor of Zhejiang University, currently she does her research as visiting scholar in Harvard medical school.
Publications
1.Xie QM, Tang HF, Chen JQ, Bian RL. Pharmacological actions of tetrandrine in inflammatory pulmonary diseases. Acta Pharmacol Sin. 2002 Dec;23(12):1107-13. Review.
2.Tang HF, Song YH, Chen JC, Chen JQ, Wang P. Upregulation of phosphodiesterase-4 in the lung of allergic rats. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2005 Apr 15;171(8):823-8.
3.Tang HF, Chen JQ, Xie QM, Adcock Ian. The role of PDE4 in pulmonary inflammation and goblet cell hyperplasia in allergic rats. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease. 2006, May;1762(5):525-32.
4.Tang HF, Chen JQ, Xie QM. Upregulation of PDE4 activity and expression in lung of asthmatic rats. Acta Pharmacol Sin. 2006.7(suppl 1): 384
5.Li ZG, Zhou L, Tang HF. Effects of levobupivacaine and bupivacaine on rat myometrium. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2006 Sep;7(9):757-62.
6.Deng YM, Xie QM, Tang HF, Sun JG, Deng JF, Chen JQ, Yang SY. Effects of ciclamilast, a new PDE 4 PDE4 inhibitor, on airway hyperresponsiveness, PDE4D expression and airway inflammation in a murine model of asthma. Eur J Pharmacol. 2006 Oct 10;547(1-3):125-35.
7.Sun JG, Deng YM, Wu X, Tang HF, Deng JF, Chen JQ, Yang SY, Xie QM. Inhibition of phosphodiesterase activity, airway inflammation and hyperresponsiveness by PDE4 inhibitor and glucocorticoid in a murine model of allergic asthma. Life Sci. 2006 Oct 26;79(22):2077-85.
8.Tang HF, Chen JQ, Wang P. The potential role of phosphodiesterases in the development of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Journal of Organ Dysfunction. 2007, 3(1):18-30
9.Zheng YY, Lan YP, Tang HF, Zhu SM. Propofol pretreatment attenuates aquaporin-4 over-expression and alleviates cerebral edema after transient focal brain ischemia reperfusion in rats. Anesth Analg. 2008 Dec;107(6):2009-16.
10.Wang YJ, Jiang YL, Tang HF, Zhao CZ, Chen JQ. Zl-n-91, a selective phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor, suppresses inflammatory response in a COPD-like rat model. Int Immunopharmacol. Feb;10(2):252-8
11.Tang HF, Lu JJ, Tang JF, Zheng X, Liang YQ, Wang XF, Wang YJ, Mao LG, Chen JQ. Action of a Novel PDE4 inhibitor ZL-n-91 on lipopolysaccharide -induced acute lung injury. Int Immunopharmacol. 2010 Apr;10(4):406-11
12.Tang H, Yan C, Cao J, Sarma JV, Haura EB, Wu M, Gao H. An essential role for Stat3 in regulating IgG immune complex-induced pulmonary inflammation. FASEB J. 2011 Dec;25(12):4292-300.