Research Bio
Dr. Cao's research interest is in pancreatic and liver disease.
She was a research associate in the Department of Pathology at Northwestern University in Chicago from 1998 through 2003. She worked on several projects that included hepatocarcinogenesis, pancreas stem cells, and pancreatic carcinogenesis. Her specific focus was on mice and rat models of peroxisome proliferator-induced hepatocarcinogenesis and acyl-CoA oxidase deficient mice models of spontaneous hepatocarcinogenesis. From 2003 through 2005 she was a research associate in the Department of Medicine at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare where she studied the effect of ApoE on glia-mediated inflammation induced by oligometric verus fibrillar amyloid beta 1-42.
2013 Apr
Zakharov V, Ren B, Ryan C, Cao W. "Diagnostic value of HMGAs, p53 and ?-catenin in discriminating adenocarcinoma from adenoma or reactive atypia in ampulla and common bile duct biopsies." Histopathology. 2013 Apr 0; 62(5):778-87. Epub 2013 Feb 21. |
2013 Jan 3
Roy A, Gaylo A, Cao W, Saubermann LJ, Lawrence BP. "Neither direct nor developmental exposure to bisphenol A alters the severity of experimental inflammatory colitis in mice." Journal of immunotoxicology. 2013 Jan 3; Epub 2013 Jan 03. |
2011 Jan
"High levels of Crohn's disease-associated anti-microbial antibodies are present and independent of colitis in chronic granulomatous disease." Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.). 2011 Jan 0; 138(1):14-22. Epub 2010 Oct 16. |
2010 Apr
Cao W, Adley BP, Liao J, Lin X, Talamonti M, Bentrem DJ, Rao SM, Yang GY. "Mucinous nonneoplastic cyst of the pancreas: apomucin phenotype distinguishes this entity from intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm." Human pathology. 2010 Apr 0; 41(4):513-21. Epub 2009 Dec 01. |
2009 Mar
Kelemen K, Cao W, Peterson LC, Evens AM, Variakojis D. "Primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma in HIV: report of two cases." Journal of hematopathology. 2009 Mar 0; 2(1):45-9. Epub 2009 Feb 28. |
