Ruan Sanbao, MD

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	Ruan Sanbao, MD Research Instructor Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine LSUHSC Department of Medicine Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 1901 Perdido Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70122 504.568.4550 Phone sruan@lsuhsc.edu
Degrees	MD – 1982 Tianjin University School of Medicine Tianjin, China
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Research Interests	Host defense mechanisms against pulmonary infection in normal and immunocompromised host.
Selected Publications	Ruan S, Mckinley L, Zheng M, Rudner X, D’Souza A, Kolls JK, Shellito JE. Interleukin-12 and host defense agains murine pneumocystis pneumonia. Infec Immun. 2008 May;76(5):2130-7. Ruan S, Young E, Luce MJ, Reiser J, Kolls JK, Shellito JE. Conditional expression of interferon-gamma to enhance host responses to pulmonary bacterial infection. Pulm Pharmacol Ther. 2006;19(4):251-7. McAllister F, Ruan S, Steele C, Zheng M, Mckinley L, Ulrich L, Marrero L, Shellito JE, Kolls JK. CXCR3 and IFN protein-10 in pneumocystis pneumonia. J Immunil. 2006 Aug 1;177(3):1846-54. Ruan S, Tate C, Lee JJ, Ritter T, Kolls JK, Shellito JE. Local delivery of the viral interleukin-10 gene supresses tissue inflammation in murine Pneumocystis carinii infection. Infect Human. 2002 Nov;70(11):6107-13. Shellito JE, Quan Zheng M, Ye P, Ruan S, Shean MK, Kolls J. Effects of alcohol consumption on host release of interleukin-1 during pulmonary infection with Klebsiella pneumoniae. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2001 Jun;25(6):872-81. Shellito JE, Tate C, Ruan S, Kolls J. Murine CD4+ T lymphocyte subsets and host defense against Pneumocystis carinii. J Infect Dis. 2000 Jum;181(6):2011-7. Epub 2000 May 31.

Research Instructor Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Research Instructor
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine