Education and Outreach

Xiao-Juan Wang, M.D., Ph.D.

Division of Biological Sciences

Education

M.D., Qinghai Medical College, Xining, People's Republic of China, 1983.
M.S., pathology, School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China, 1990.
Ph.D., pathology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan, 2004.
Postdoctoral training, Department of Pathology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan, 2004.
Postdoctoral training, Division of Biological Sciences, CIIT Centers for Health Research, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 2004-present.

Research

I am evaluating the effects of phytoestrogens on responses to endocrine-active chemicals. The focus of my research is on the mechanisms by which chemicals disrupt pubertal development.

Publications

Wang, X., Nakamura, M., Mori, I., Takeda, K., Nakamura, Y., Utsunomiya, H., Yoshimura, G., Sakurai, T., and Kakudo, K. (2004). Calcitonin receptor gene and breast cancer: quantitative analysis with laser capture microdissection. Breast Cancer Res. Treat. 83, 109-117.

Tang, W., Nakamura, Y., Zuo, H., Yasuoka, H., Yang, Q., Wang, X., Nakamura, M., Mori, I., Miyauchi, A., and Kakudo, K. (2003). Differentiation, proliferation and retinoid receptor status of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. Pathol. Int. 53, 204-213.

Wang, X. J., Nakamura, M., Mori, I., Takeda, K., Suzuma, T., Yoshimura, G., Sakurai, T., and Kakudo, K. (2003). Comparison of gene expression in breast cancer using laser capture microdissection and quantitative RT-PCR. Acta Histochem. Cytochem. 36, 421-425.

Wang, X., Mori, I., Tang, W., Nakamura, M., Nakamura, Y., Sato, M., Sakurai, T., and Kakudo, K. (2002). p63 expression in normal, hyperplastic and malignant breast tissues. Breast Cancer 9, 216-219.

Wang, X., Mori, I., Tang, W., Utsunomiya, H., Nakamura, M., Nakamura, Y., Zhou, G., and Kakudo, K. (2002). Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: Are they of cajal cell origin? Exp. Mol. Pathol. 72, 172-177.

Wang, X., Mori, I., Tang, W., Utsunomiya, H., Nakamura, M., Nakamura, Y., Zhou, G., and Kennichi, K. (2002). Helpful parameter for malignant potential of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST). Jpn. J. Clin. Oncol. 32, 347-351.

Tang, W., Nakamura, Y., Tsujimoto, M., Sato, M., Wang, X., Kurozumi, K., Nakahara, M., Nakao, K., Nakamura, M., Mori, I., and Kakudo, K. (2002). Heparanase: a key enzyme in invasion and metastasis of gastric carcinoma. Mod. Pathol. 15, 593-598.

Tang, W., Taniguchi, E., Wang, X., Mori, I., Kagiya, T., Yang, Q., Nakamura, Y., Nakamura, M., Yoshimura, G., Sakurai, T., and Kakudo, K. (2002). Loss of cell cohesion in breast cytology as a characteristic of neuroendocrine carcinoma. Acta Cytol. 46, 835-840.

Wang, X., Mori, I., Tang, W., Utsunomiya, H., Nakamura, M., Nakamura, Y., Zhou, G., and Kakudo, K. (2001). Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: clinicopathological study of Chinese cases. Pathol. Int. 51, 701-706.

Wang, X., Mori, I., Tang, W., Yang, Q., Nakamura, M., Nakamura, Y., Sato, M., Sakurai, T., and Kennichi, K. (2001). Metaplastic carcinoma of the breast: p53 analysis identified the same point mutation in the three histologic components. Mod. Pathol. 14, 1183-1186.

Yang, Q., Yoshimura, G., Suzuma, T., Tamaki, T., Umemura, T., Nakamura, M., Nakamura, Y., Wang, X., Mori, I., Sakurai, T., and Kakudo, K. (2001). Clinicopathological significance of fragile histidine triad transcription protein expression in breast carcinoma. Clin. Cancer Res. 7, 3869-3873.

Tang, W., Wang, X., Utsunomiya, H., Nakamura, Y., Yang, Q., Zhang, Q., Zhou, G., Tsubota, Y., Mabuchi, Y., Li, L., and Kakudo, K. (2000). Thymidine phosphorylase expression in tumor stroma of uterine cervical carcinomas: histological features and microvessel density. Cancer Lett. 148, 153-159.