Dan Wen, MD (China)

Dan Wen has nearly 20-year experience in clinical and laboratory research on humans and animals in China and America in the use and integration of Chinese herbal and Western medicines, including a 3-year research fellowship in gastroenterology at Mayo Clinic. His research at Washington University School of Medicine on absorption of vitamin B₁₂ has been supported by a research grant from NIH. He has also published numerous research papers. Currently he is the President of Honso USA Inc., headquartered in Phoenix Arizona, where the pharmaceutical grade Japanese Kampo products are distributed.  

Publication

1.        Lian Z, Huang Z... Wen J et al. Observation of electrogastrography (EGG) on patients with gastroenterophathies. In Advances in Gastrointestinal Myoelectrical Activity. Edited by Zhang J. Lanzhou, China. 1988. pp 88-90.

2.        Lian Z, Wang J...Wen J et al. Method of electrocolonogram and its applications. In Electrical Activities of Digestive Tract and Its Applications In Clinical Practice. Edited by Zhang J and Wang J. Nanjing, China. 1990, pp 231-236.

3.        Wen J, et al. Gastrointestinal motility studies in the field of traditional Chinese medicine (Review). Journal of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. 1990;7(1):55-58.

4.        Wen J, Du FB, Lao SX and Wang JH. Effects of Chinese herbs on gastrointestinal propulsive movement in mice. Pharmacology and Clinics of Chinese Materia Medica. 1992;8(2):27-28.

5.        Lian Z, Wang J, and Wen J. Electrocolonogram of health adults on fasting condition and postprandial response. Journal of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. 1992; 9(1):55-61.

6.        Chen Y, Wang BX, Wen J, Wang RJ, Fu DZ, Shao TY and Wang JH. Effects of "Heat-clearing" and "Yin-nourishing" herbs on gastrointestinal motility. Pharmacology and Clinics of Chinese Materia Medica    1992;8(3):17-19.

7.        Chen Y, Wen J, Wang BX and Wang JH. Effects of Electroacupuncture of "Pi-su" on gastrointestinal propulsive movement in rat. Hubei Journal of Chinese Medicine. 1992;14(4):44-45.

8.        Wen J and Wang JH. Influence of Chinese herbs on small intestinal MMC in the rats with diarrhea. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine   1993;34:558-559.

9.        Wen J, Sarr MG, Phillips SF, Holst JJ. Peptide YY contribute to feedback inhibition from the distal bowel on duodenal motility in fasted dogs. American Journal of Physiology. 1995;269:G945-G952.

10.     Wen J, Gordon MM, and Alpers DH. A receptor binding site on intrinsic factor is located between amino acids 25-44, and interacts with other parts of the protein. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 1997;231(2):348-351.

11.     Wen J, Luquedeleon E, Kost LJ, Sarr MG, Phillips SF. Duodenal motility in fasting dogs-humoral and neural pathways mediating the colonic brake. American Journal of Physiology. 1998;275:G192-G195.

12.     Iwanaga Y, Wen J, Thollander MS, Kost L, Thomforde GM, Allen RG, Phillips SF. Scitigraphic measurement of regional gastrointestinal transit in the dog. American Journal of Physiology. 1998;275:G904-G910.

13.     Wen J, Kinnear MB, Richardson MA, Willetts NS, Russell-Jones GJ, Gordon MM, Alpers DH. Functional Expression in Pichia Pastoris of Human and Rat Intrinsic Factor (Biochemica et Biophysica Acta. 1490(1-2):43-53, 2000).

14.     Brada N, Gordon MM, Wen J, and Alpers DH. Transfer of cobalamin from intrinsic factor to transcobalamin II (Biochemistry and Biophysics Research Communication. 2000).

15.     Brada N, Gordon MM, Shao J-S, Wen J, and Alpers DH. Production of gastric intrinsic factor, transcobalamin, and haptocorrin in opossum kidney cells (American Journal of Physiology - Renal Fluid & Electrolyte Physiology. 279(6):F1006-13, 2000 Dec).