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Division of Nephrology

Baoxue Yang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Division of Nephrology

University of California, San Francisco
513 Parnassus Avenue
HSE 1246, Box 0521
San Francisco, CA. 94143-0521

Phone: 415.514.3796
Fax: 415.665.3847
E-mail: baoxue.yang@ucsf.edu

Medical School: Norman Bethune U. of Med. Sci., China (M.D.)
Graduate School: Norman Bethune U. of Med. Sci., China (M.D.)
Postdoctoral Training: University of California, San Francisco


Interests

Research: Biology of water and urea transport; aquaporins; urea transporters; urine concentrating mechanism; transgenic mouse model; drug discovery

Scholarly and Creative Activities (selected)

Zhao D, Sonawane ND, Levin MH, Yang B. Comparative transport efficiencies of urea analogues through urea transporter UT-B. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2007 Jul;1768(7):1815-21.

Yang B, Zhao D, Verkman AS. Evidence against functionally significant aquaporin expression in mitochondria. J Biol Chem. 2006 Jun 16;281(24):16202-6.

Zhao D, Bankir L, Qian L, Yang D, Yang B. Urea and urine concentrating ability in mice lacking AQP1 and AQP3. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2006 Aug;291(2):F429-38.

Yang B, Bankir L. Urea and urine concentrating ability: new insights from studies in mice. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2005 May;288(5):F881-96. Review.

Klein JD, Sands JM, Qian L, Wang X, Yang B. Upregulation of urea transporter UT-A2 and water channels AQP2 and AQP3 in mice lacking urea transporter UT-B. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2004 May;15(5):1161-7.

For more publications (since 2002): PubMed for Yang, Baoxue

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