Dr. Ernest Adankwah

Senior Lecturer


Dept: Medical Diagnostics
Department of Medical Laboratory Technology.
Faculty of Allied Health Sciences
UPO
KNUST-Kumasi

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Research Areas/Interests

Cellular immunology, Cancer research, immunohistochemistry,T-cell biology, Cytokines signalling and pathways, Biomarkers for diagnostic and predictive...~more

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    Publications

    1. Adankwah E, Nausch N, Minadzi D, Abass MK, Franken KL, Ottenhoff TH, Mayatepek E, Phillips RO, Jacobsen M. Interleukin-6 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis dormancy antigens improve diagnosis of tuberculosis. JOURNAL OF INFECTION. 2020.
    2. Adankwah E, Güler A, Mayatepek E, Phillips RO, Nausch N, Jacobsen M. CD27 expression of T-cells discriminates IGRA-negative TB patients from healthy contacts in Ghana. MICROBES AND INFECTION.20(1):65-68
    3. Adankwah E, Lundtoft C, Güler A, Franken KLMC, Ottenhoff THM, Mayatepek E, Owusu-Dabo E, Phillips RO, Nausch N,Jacobsen M. Two-Hit in vitro T-Cell Stimulation Detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in QuantiFERON Negative Tuberculosis Patients and Healthy Contacts From Ghana. FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY. 2019 Jul 3;10:1518
    4. Güler A, Lopez Venegas M, Adankwah E, Mayatepek E, Nausch N, Jacobsen M. Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling 3 is crucial for Interleukin-7 receptor re-expression after T-cell activation and Interleukin-7 dependent proliferation. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY. 2019 50(2): 234-244
    5. Harling K, Adankwah E, Güler A, Afum-Adjei Awuah A, Adu-Amoah L, Mayatepek E, Owusu-Dabo E, Nausch N, Jacobsen M. Constitutive STAT3 phosphorylation and IL-6/IL-10 co-expression characterize impaired T-cell functions in tuberculosis patients. CELLULAR & MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY. 2018 Mar;16(3):275-287
    6. Lundtoft C, Afum-Adjei Awuah A, Rimpler J, Harling K, Nausch N, Kohns M, Adankwah E, Lang F, Olbrich L, Mayatepek E, Owusu-Dabo E, Jacobsen M. Aberrant plasma IL-7 and soluble IL-7 receptor levels indicate impaired T-cell response to IL-7 in human tuberculosis. PLOS PATHOGENS. 2017 Jun 5;13(6).
    7. Binger  T,  Annan A,  Drexler F, Müller  M, Kallies  R, Adankwah  E, et al . A novel rhabdovirus isolated from the straw-colored fruit bat Eidolon helvum, with signs of antibodies in swine and humans  AMERICAN  SOCIETY OF MICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY  2015.89:9
    8. Corman V, Grundhoff A,  Baechlein C,  Fischer N,   Gmyl  A,  Wollny R,  Adankwah E, et al. Highly divergent hepaciviruses from African cattle. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY 2015 89:9
    9. Danquah K.O, Adjei E, Quayson S, Adankwah E, Gyamfi D, Ossei P.P.S, Dzikunu G, Mensah P. and Lepkor C. Mucin expression patterns in histological grades of colonic cancers in Ghanaian population. PAN AFRICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, 2017. 28(1).
    10. Gyamfi D, Wiafe YA, Danquah KO, Adankwah E, Amissah GA, Odame A. Urinary iodine concentration and thyroid volume of pregnant women attending antenatal care in two selected hospitals in Ashanti Region, Ghana: a comparative cross-sectional study. BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH. 2018 1;18(1):166.
    11. Darkwah WK, Aidoo G, Ao Y, Danquah KO, Adjei E, Adankwah E, Kadri A. Assessment of proliferative index in different grades of breast cancers using AgNOR (Agyrophilic Nuclear Organizer Region) expression. BENI-SUEF UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF BASIC AND APPLIED SCIENCES. 2018 7(4):587-92.
    12. Adankwah E, Danquah KO, Gyamfi D, Sampene Ossei PP, Asiamah E. Nuclear Localisation of Autophagic p62 and Associated Cytoplasmic Beclin-1 and Bcl-2 Expressions in Adenomas and Adenocarcinomas of the Colorectal Regions. J CARCINOG MUTAGEN. 2018;9(314):2.
    13. Duduyemi BM, Andoh D, Adankwah E, Nyarko H, Agyemang D. The use of special stains in the detection of vascular invasion in cases of colon cancer in resource-limited settings in Africa. ANNALS OF TROPICAL PATHOLOGY. 2020 Jan 1;11(1):2

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     


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