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List of works by Kok-Onn Lee

A sensitive thyrotropin (TSH) bioassay based on iodide uptake in rat FRTL-5 thyroid cells: comparison with the adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate response to human serum TSH and enzymatically deglycosylated bovine and human TSH

scientific article published on 01 October 1987

Altered serum levels of insulin-like growth-factor binding proteins in breast cancer patients.

scientific article published in March 1998

An Intensive Diabetes Screening and Treatment Program Improves Diagnosis, Treatment and Outcomes of Diabetes in Patients Admitted with Cardiac Diseases

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

An imprinted PEG1/MEST antisense expressed predominantly in human testis and in mature spermatozoa

scientific article (publication date: 19 April 2002)

Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma with destructive thyrotoxicosis in a patient with preexisting multinodular goiter

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Anti-Cancer Drug HMBA Acts as an Adjuvant during Intracellular Bacterial Infections by Inducing Type I IFN through STING.

scientific article published on 21 August 2017

Author's Reply to Srinivas: "A Single Dose-Escalation Study to Evaluate the Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Orally Administered Des-Aspartate Angiotensin I in Healthy Subjects".

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

Autocrine human growth hormone (hGH) regulation of human mammary carcinoma cell gene expression. Identification of CHOP as a mediator of hGH-stimulated human mammary carcinoma cell survival.

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Autocrine human growth hormone enhancement of human mammary carcinoma cell spreading is Jak2 dependent

scientific article published on April 2000

Bilateral adrenal masses due to histoplasmosis

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Blood glucose fluctuations in hemodialysis patients with end stage diabetic nephropathy

scientific article published on 31 December 2014

Characterization of human umbilical cord lining-derived epithelial cells and transplantation potential

scientific article published on 24 March 2011

Comparison of monthly intramuscular injections of Sandostatin LAR with multiple subcutaneous injections of octreotide in the treatment of acromegaly; effects on growth hormone and other markers of growth hormone secretion

scientific article published in February 1999

Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Patients Reveals a Potential Risk of Hypoglycemia in Older Men.

scientific article published on 08 February 2017

Defining the expression hierarchy of latent T-cell epitopes in Epstein-Barr virus infection with TCR-like antibodies.

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Des-aspartate-angiotensin I causes specific release of PGE2 and PGI2 in HUVEC via the angiotensin AT1 receptor and biased agonism.

scientific article published on 31 October 2015

Des-aspartate-angiotensin I exerts hypoglycemic action via glucose transporter-4 translocation in type 2 diabetic KKAy mice and GK rats

scientific article published on 06 September 2007

Des-aspartate-angiotensin-I and angiotensin IV improve glucose tolerance and insulin signalling in diet-induced hyperglycaemic mice.

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Diabetic dyslipidaemia in Asian populations in the Western Pacific Region: what we know and don't know

scientific article published on 13 July 2011

Does a positive oestrogen feedback on the hypothalamic-pituitary axis exist concurrently with a defective testosterone feedback in Klinefelter's syndrome?

scientific article published in September 1998

Does growth hormone prevent aging in the healthy elderly with low serum insulin-like growth factor-I ?

scientific article published on April 2004

Dual blockade of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is safe and effective in reducing albuminuria in Asian type 2 diabetic patients with nephropathy.

scientific article published in February 2010

EMLA-Induced Skin Wrinkling for the Detection of Diabetic Neuropathy.

scientific article published on 02 September 2013

Effect of exenatide on inflammatory and oxidative stress markers in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Effect of insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and IGF-binding proteins on in vitro sperm motility

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Effect of oral N-acetyl cysteine supplementation in type 2 diabetic patients on intracellular glutathione content and innate immune responses to Burkholderia pseudomallei

scientific article published on August 2014

Endocrine emergencies in pregnancy

scientific article published on 7 September 2013

Enzymatic deglycosylation of thyroid-stimulating hormone with peptide N-glycosidase F and endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase F

scientific article published on 01 July 1986

Ethanol feeding impairs insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in isolated rat skeletal muscle: role of Gs alpha and cAMP.

scientific article published in August 2005

Fasting Plasma Insulin at 5 Years of Age Predicted Subsequent Weight Increase in Early Childhood over a 5-Year Period-The Da Qing Children Cohort Study

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Fulminant type 1 diabetes mellitus: a study of nine cases

scientific article published on 19 December 2011

Gene and stem cell therapy for diabetes

scientific article published in January 2013

Glutathione deficiency in type 2 diabetes impairs cytokine responses and control of intracellular bacteria

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Growth hormone treatment in infertility: A short review

scientific article published on September 1, 1991

HOXA1 is required for E-cadherin-dependent anchorage-independent survival of human mammary carcinoma cells

scientific article published on 22 December 2005

Hyperinsulinaemia in thyrotoxic hypokalaemic periodic paralysis

scientific article published on May 4, 1991

Identification of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) fragments and IGFBP-5 proteolytic activity in human seminal plasma: a comparison of normal and vasectomized patients

scientific article published in November 1994

Induction of spermatogenesis in isolated hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism with gonadotrophins and early intervention with intracytoplasmic sperm injection

scientific article published on 01 June 1997

Insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 is independently affected by ethnicity, insulin sensitivity, and leptin in healthy, glucose-tolerant young men.

scientific article published on 14 December 2004

Lean, nondiabetic Asian Indians have decreased insulin sensitivity and insulin clearance, and raised leptin compared to Caucasians and Chinese subjects

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Liraglutide treatment causes upregulation of adiponectin and downregulation of resistin in Chinese type 2 diabetes.

scientific article published on 6 June 2015

Living, dying, death and advance directives

scientific article published on 01 April 1997

Long-term ethanol exposure inhibits glucose transporter 4 expression via an AMPK-dependent pathway in adipocytes.

scientific article published on 22 February 2010

Minimisation of immunosuppression in transplantation

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1--presenting with impotence.

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Nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphisms and nephropathy in Asians with Type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Oral hypoglycaemic agents for diabetes in pregnancy - an appraisal of the current evidence for oral anti-diabetic drug use in pregnancy.

scientific article published on August 2007

PGE1 improves diabetic peripheral neuropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Parathyroid carcinoma: a case series.

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Proceedings: Comparison of in vitro conduction velocities in rabbit ear nerves from heat- and cold-exposed animals

scientific article published on 01 March 1976

Reply to 'Letter to Editor' by V. Rosival: Endocrine emergencies in pregnancy

scientific article published on 23 January 2014

Reversible parkinsonism and asymptomatic hypocalcemia with basal ganglia calcification from hypoparathyroidism 26 years after thyroid surgery.

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Serum IGF-binding protein-6 and prostate specific antigen in breast cancer

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

Skeletal myoblast transplantation for attenuation of hyperglycaemia, hyperinsulinaemia and glucose intolerance in a mouse model of type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 12 July 2009

Skeletal myoblast transplantation on gene expression profiles of insulin signaling pathway and mitochondrial biogenesis and function in skeletal muscle

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Stem cell and gene therapies for diabetes mellitus.

scientific article published in March 2010

Stem cell therapy for diabetes.

scientific article published on December 2012

Streptococcus infection and splenectomy

scientific article published in April 2001

Streptococcus suis infection complicated by purpura fulminans and rhabdomyolysis: case report and review.

scientific article published on April 1997

Tamoxifen alters levels of serum insulin-like growth factors and binding proteins in postmenopausal breast cancer patients: a prospective paired cohort study

scientific article published in June 1998

Tests of activity in pulmonary tuberculosis in elderly patients: serum angiotensin converting enzyme and serum albumin

scientific article published on 01 November 1986

The combined Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine

scientific article published on May 1, 1997

Thymosin beta 4 ameliorates hyperglycemia and improves insulin resistance of KK Cg-Ay/J mouse

scientific article published on 03 January 2012

Thymosin β4 attenuates early diabetic nephropathy in a mouse model of type 2 diabetes mellitus

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Thyroid eye disease: a Southeast Asian experience

scientific article published on 31 October 2014

Transplantation of neonatal porcine islets and sertoli cells into nonimmunosuppressed nonhuman primates

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Treatment of male infertility with growth hormone.

scientific article published on September 1996

Type 2 diabetic patients with resistant hypertension should be screened for primary aldosteronism

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Use of cabergoline for the management of persistent Cushing's disease in pregnancy

scientific article published on 14 July 2017

Xenotransplantation of neonatal porcine islets and Sertoli cells into nonimmunosuppressed streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

[Distribution of polymorphism in endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene in Singapore Chinese and its association with diabetic nephropathy]

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

p44/42 MAP kinase-dependent regulation of catalase by autocrine human growth hormone protects human mammary carcinoma cells from oxidative stress-induced apoptosis

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