Ava Wu, DDS
Professor
Orofacial Sciences
School of Dentistry

Education & Training

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• Certificate Oral Medicine/Clinical Research National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
• Immunology Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University
• D.D.S. Dentistry University of California, San Francisco

Grants and Projects

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• Regulation of Autoimmunity in the Nod Mouse, NIH, 1998-1900

Publications (12)

Top publication keywords:
Salivary GlandsInterferon-gammaDental CariesTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaSaliva, ArtificialCollagenasesSjogren's SyndromeCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1MetalloendopeptidasesXerostomiaSalivationParotid GlandGelatinasesT-Lymphocyte Subsets

• Clinical practice guidelines for oral management of Sjögren disease: Dental caries prevention.
  Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2016 Zero DT, Brennan MT, Daniels TE, Papas A, Stewart C, Pinto A, Al-Hashimi I, Navazesh M, Rhodus N, Sciubba J, Singh M, Wu AJ, Frantsve-Hawley J, Tracy S, Fox PC, Ford TL, Cohen S, Vivino FB, Hammitt KM…
• American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for Sjögren's syndrome: a data-driven, expert consensus approach in the Sjögren's International Collaborative Clinical Alliance cohort.
  Arthritis care & research 2012 Shiboski SC, Shiboski CH, Criswell L, Baer A, Challacombe S, Lanfranchi H, Schiødt M, Umehara H, Vivino F, Zhao Y, Dong Y, Greenspan D, Heidenreich AM, Helin P, Kirkham B, Kitagawa K, Larkin G, Li M, …
• Associations between salivary gland histopathologic diagnoses and phenotypic features of Sjögren's syndrome among 1,726 registry participants.
  Arthritis and rheumatism 2011 Daniels TE, Cox D, Shiboski CH, Schiødt M, Wu A, Lanfranchi H, Umehara H, Zhao Y, Challacombe S, Lam MY, De Souza Y, Schiødt J, Holm H, Bisio PA, Gandolfo MS, Sawaki T, Li M, Zhang W, Varghese-Jacob B…
• Optimizing dry mouth treatment for individuals with Sjögren's syndrome.
  Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America 2008 Wu AJ
• Small proline-rich protein 1B (SPRR1B) is a biomarker for squamous metaplasia in dry eye disease.
  Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 2008 Li S, Nikulina K, DeVoss J, Wu AJ, Strauss EC, Anderson MS, McNamara NA

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• Lamivudine is not effective in primary Sjögren's syndrome.
  Annals of the rheumatic diseases 2005 Gescuk B, Wu AJ, Whitcher JP, Daniels TE, Lund S, Fye K, Davis JC
• The oral component of Sjögren's syndrome: pass the scalpel and check the water.
  Current rheumatology reports 2003 Wu AJ
• Tumor necrosis factor-alpha regulation of CD4+CD25+ T cell levels in NOD mice.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2002 Wu AJ, Hua H, Munson SH, McDevitt HO
• Polyreactive antigen-binding B cells are the predominant cell type in the newborn B cell repertoire.
  European journal of immunology 1998 Chen ZJ, Wheeler CJ, Shi W, Wu AJ, Yarboro CH, Gallagher M, Notkins AL
• Modulation of MMP-2 (gelatinase A) and MMP-9 (gelatinase B) by interferon-gamma in a human salivary gland cell line.
  Journal of cellular physiology 1997 Wu AJ, Lafrenie RM, Park C, Apinhasmit W, Chen ZJ, Birkedal-Hansen H, Yamada KM, Stetler-Stevenson WG, Baum BJ
• Interferon-gamma induced cell death in a cultured human salivary gland cell line.
  Journal of cellular physiology 1996 Wu AJ, Chen ZJ, Tsokos M, O'Connell BC, Ambudkar IS, Baum BJ
• Sjögren's syndrome.
  Seminars in dermatology 1994 Wu AJ, Fox PC