Life Sciences

Nicholas Baidoo, Gareth J. Sanger and Abi Belai 2023. Histochemical and biochemical analysis of collagen content in formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded colonic samples. MethodsX. 11 102416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2023.102416

Nicholas Baidoo, Gareth J. Sanger and Abi Belai 2023. Effect of old age on the subpopulations of enteric glial cells in human descending colon. GLIA. 71 (2), pp. 305-316. https://doi.org/10.1002/glia.24272

Nazila V. Jafari and Jennifer L. Rohn 2023. An immunoresponsive three-dimensional urine-tolerant human urothelial (3D-UHU) model to study urinary tract infection. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 13 1128132. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2023.1128132

Safi, A., Deb, D.S., Kelly, A., Cole, M., Walker, N. and Zariwala, M. 2023. Incentivized physical activity intervention promoting daily steps amongst university employees in the workplace through a team-based competition. Frontiers in Public Health. 11 1121936. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1121936

Elisabetta Schiano, Ettore Novellino, Marta María Gámez Fernández, Helena Tiekou Lorinczova, Gian Carlo Tenore, Fortuna Iannuzzo, Vinood B. Patel, Satyanarayana Somavarapu and Mohammed Gulrez Zariwala 2023. Antioxidant and Antidiabetic Properties of a Thinned-Nectarine-Based Nanoformulation in a Pancreatic β-Cell Line. Antioxidants. 13 (1) 63. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox13010063

Cooper, Isabella D., Sanchez-Pizarro, Claudio, Norwitz, Nicholas G., Feldman, David, Kyriakidou, Yvoni, Edwards, Kurtis, Petagine, Lucy, Elliot, Bradley T. and Soto-Mota, Adrian 2023. Thyroid markers and body composition predict LDL-cholesterol change in lean healthy women on a ketogenic diet: experimental support for the lipid energy model. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14, p. 1326768. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1326768

Das, Jodie 2023. Building Better Relationships: Developing critically reflective practice when working preventively with domestic violence and abuse. Prof Doc Thesis University of Westminster Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/w7810

Sum, K. 2023. Collaboration in Higher Education: A New Ecology of Practice. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice. 11 (3), pp. 176-177. https://doi.org/10.56433/jpaap.v11i3.576

Ravindar, L., Hasbullah, S.A., Rakesh, K.P., Raheem, S., Agustar, H.K., Ismail, N., Ling, L.Y. and Hassan, N.I. 2023. Exploring diverse frontiers: Advancements of bioactive 4-aminoquinoline-based molecular hybrids in targeted therapeutics and beyond. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 264 116043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2023.116043

Ahmaditabatabaei, Seyedehazita 2023. Strategies for Improving the Bacterial Biodegradation of PET. PhD thesis University of Westminster Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/w74wy

Lian, M., Mortoglou, M. and Uysal Onganer, P. 2023. Impact of Hypoxia-Induced miR-210 on Pancreatic Cancer. Current Issues in Molecular Biology. 45 (12), pp. 9778-9792. https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb45120611

Thanaj, M., Basty, N., Cule, M., Sorokin, E., Whitcher, B., Srinivasan, R., Lennon, R., Bell, J.D. and Thomas, E.L. 2023. Kidney Shape Statistical Analysis: Associations with Disease and Anthropometric Factors. BMC Nephrology. 24 362. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-023-03407-8

Gaze, D.C. (ed.) 2023. Novel Pathogenesis and Treatments for Cardiovascular Disease. London, United Kingdom IntechOpen.

Gaze, D.C. 2023. Use of Cardiac Troponin for the Diagnosis of Cardiac Pathology in Postmortem Samples Taken at Autopsy. in: Gaze, D.C. (ed.) Novel Pathogenesis and Treatments for Cardiovascular Disease London, United Kingdom IntechOpen. pp. 421-435

El Badaoui, L. and Barr, A.J. 2023. Preprint: Analysis of Receptor-type Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Extracellular Regions with Insights from AlphaFold. Preprints.org. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1503.v1

Heymsfield, S., Bell, J.D. and Heber, D. 2023. Chapter 7: Phenotyping, Body Composition, and Precision Nutrition. in: Heber, D., Li, Z. and Ordovas, J. (ed.) Precision Nutrition: The Science and Promise of Personalized Nutrition and Health Academic Press. pp. 143-151

Mohammed, M. 2023. Air pollution linked with global rise in antibiotic resistance. The Conversation.

Coates, C., Rowley, A. and Lange, S. 2023. Immunopathology of Hematodinium sp. infection of decapod crustaceans. Developmental and Comparative Immunology. 148 104936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dci.2023.104936

Edward S. Wickstead, Bradley T. Elliott, Sarah Pokorny, Christopher Biggs, Stephen J. Getting and Simon McArthur 2023. Stimulation of the Pro-Resolving Receptor Fpr2 Reverses Inflammatory Microglial Activity by Suppressing NFκB Activity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24 (21). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms242115996

Skantharajah, Neerjah, Baichoo, Shakuntala, Boughtwood, Tiffany F., Casas-Silva, Esmeralda, Chandrasekharan, Subhashini, Dave, Sanjay M., Fakhro, Khalid A., Falcon de Vargas, Aida B, Gayle, Sylvia S., Gupta, Vivek K., Hendricks-Sturrup, Rachele, Hobb, Ashley E., Li, Stephanie, Llamas, Bastien, Lopez-Correa, Catalina, Machirori, Mavis, Melendez-Zajgla, Jorge, Millner, Mareike A., Page, Angela J.H., Paglione, Laura D., Raven-Adams, Maili C., Smith, Lindsay, Thomas, Ericka M., Kumuthini, Judit and Corpas, Manuel 2023. Equity, diversity, and inclusion at the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. Cell genomics. 3 (10) 100386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100386

Isabella D. Cooper, Yvoni Kyriakidou, Kurtis Edwards, Lucy Petagine, Thomas N. Seyfried, Tomas Duraj, Adrian Soto-Mota, Andrew Scarborough, Sandra L. Jacome, Kenneth Brookler, Valentina Borgognoni, Vanusa Novaes, Rima Al-Faour and Bradley T. Elliott 2023. Ketosis Suppression and Ageing (KetoSAge): The Effects of Suppressing Ketosis in Long Term Keto-Adapted Non-Athletic Females. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24 (21) 15621. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms242115621

Sarah Slates, Alison Cook-Sather, Sima Aghakhani, Ali Al-Humuzi, Dulce Alonso, Karin Borgström, Fiona Boyle, Chris Cachia, Elisabeth Carlson, Jonathan Cole, Tadhg Dennehy, Marie Väfors Fritz, Marlene Gadzirayi, Loretta Goff, Petri Gudmundsson, Yang Han, Peter Hellman, Kal Holder, Sixun Hou, Julie Hughes, Jimmy Jennings, Wiki Jegliska, Amrita Kaur, Lu Kehan, Andrew Kelly, Carrie Lee, Constance Leonard, Rachael A. Lewitzky, Asia Majeed, Matthea Marquart, Joshua Marsden, Lia Marshall, Florina Matu, Tsholo Molefe, Yoko Mori, Nicola Morrell-Scott, Elizabeth Mullenger, Monica Obregon, Matt Pearce, Claire Pike, Hurshal Pol, Elena Riva, Caitlin Sands, Rachel Sinanan, Kelsey Smart, Sandra Smeltzer, Abi Spence, Teresa Stephens, Maria Magdalena Stollenwerk, Kiu Sum and Josephine Van-Ess 2023. How can students-as-partners work address challenges to student, faculty, and staff mental health and well-being? International Journal for Students as Partners. 7 (2), pp. 221-240. https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v7i2.5597

Audu, D., Patel, V.B., Idowu, O.A., Mshelbwala, F.M. and Idowu, A.B. 2023. Baseline and recurrent exposure to the standard dose of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) induces oxidative stress and liver damage in mice (BALB/c). Egyptian Liver Journal. 13 53. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43066-023-00291-7

Kehinde S. Okunade, Sarah O. John-Olabode, Adaiah P. Soibi-Harry, Austin C. Okoro, Adebola A. Adejimi, Iyabo Y. Ademuyiwa, Benedetto Osunwusi, Hameed Adelabu and Omolola Salako 2023. Prognostic performance of pretreatment systemic immune-inflammation index in women with epithelial ovarian cancer. Future Science OA. 9 (10) FSO897. https://doi.org/10.2144/fsoa-2023-0108

Mohammed, M. 2023. Investigating the Dynamics of Host-Phage interaction: Towards Effective Phage Therapy! 5th International Conference on Applied Microbiology and Beneficial Microbes. London 09 - 10 Oct 2023

Funduluka, Priscilla, Hachibamba, Twambo, Mukuma, Mercy, Bwembya, Phoebe, Keith, Regina, Kumwenda, Chiza and Mwila, Natasha Muchemwa 2023. Enhancing household soybean processing and utilization in the Eastern Province of Zambia, a concurrent triangulation study design. PLoS ONE. 18 (9) e0282762. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282762

Coghlan A., Partridge, F.A., Duque-Correa M.A., Rinaldi, G., Clare, S., Seymour, L., Brandt, C., Mkandawire, T.T., McCarthy, C., Holroyd, N., Nick, M., Brown, A.E. and Berriman, M. 2023. A drug repurposing screen for whipworms informed by comparative genomics. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 17 (9) e0011205. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011205

Blanche Aguida, Marie-Marthe Chabi, Soria Baouz, Rhys Mould, Jimmy D. Bell, Marootpong Pooam, Sebastien André, Dominique Archambault, Margaret Ahmad and Nathalie Jourdan 2023. Near-Infrared Light Exposure Triggers ROS to Downregulate Inflammatory Cytokines Induced by SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein in Human Cell Culture. Antioxidants. 12 (10). https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox12101824

Bener, Abdulbari, Tewfik, Ihab, Zughaier, Susu M. and Day, Andrew S. 2023. Editorial: Global excellence in children and health. Frontiers in Public Health. 11 1286481. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1286481

Halsey, L., Careau, V., Ainslie, Philip N., Alemán-Mateo, Heliodoro, Andersen, Lene F., Anderson, Liam J., Arab, Leonore, Baddou, Issad, Bandini, Linda, Bedu-Addo, Kweku, Blaak, E., Blanc, Stephane, Bonomi, Alberto G., Bouten, Carlijn V. C., Bovet, Pascal, Brage, Soren, Buchowski, Maciej S., Butte, Nancy, Camps, Stephan G., Casper, Regian, Close, Graeme L., Colbert, Lisa H., Cooper, Jamie A., Cooper, Richard, Dabare, Prasangi, Das, Sai Krupa, Davies, Peter S. W., Deb, Sanjoy, Nyström, Christine Delisle, Dietz, William, Dugas, Lara R., Eaton, Simon, Ekelund, Ulf, Hamdouchi, Asmaa El, Entringer, Sonja, Forrester, Terrence, Fudge, Barry W., Gillingham, Melanie, Goris, Annelies H., Gurven, Michael, Haisma, Hinke, Hambly, Catherine, Hoffman, Daniel, Hoos, Marije B., Hu, Sumei, Joonas, Noorjehan, Joosen, Annemiek, Katzmarzyk, Peter, Kempen, Kitty P., Kimura, Misaka, Kraus, William E., Kriengsinyos, Wantanee, Kuriyan, Rebecca, Kushner, Robert F., Lambert, Estelle V., Lanerolle, Pulani, Larsson, Christel L., Lessan, Nader, Löf, Marie, Martin, Corby, Matsiko, Eric, Meijer, Gerwin A., Morehen, James C., Morton, James P., Must, Aviva, Neuheuser, Marian, Nicklas, Theresa A., Ojiambo, Robert M., Pietilainen, Kirsi H., Pitsiladis, Yannis P., Plange-Rhule, Jacob, Plasqui, Guy, Prentice, Ross L., Rabinovich, Roberto, Racette, Susan B., Raichen, David A., Ravussin, Eric, Redman, Leanne, Reilly, John J., Reynolds, Rebecca, Roberts, Susan, Rood, Jennifer C., Samaranayake, Dulani, Sardinha, Luís B., Scuitt, Albertine J., Silva, Analiza M., Sinha, Srishti, Sjödin, Anders M., Stice, Eric, Stunkard, Albert, Urlacher, Samuel S., Valencia, Mauro Eduardo, Valenti, Giulio, van Etten, Ludo M., Van Mil, Edgar A., Verbunt, Jeanine A., Wells, Jonathan C. K., Wilson, George, Wood, Brian, Yoshida, Tsukasa, Zhang, Xueying, Murphy-Alford, Alexia, Loechl, Cornelia, Luke, Amy, Pontzer, Herman, Rood, Jennifer, Sagayama, Hiroyuki, Westerterp, Klaas R., Wong, William W., Yamada, Yosuke and Speakman, J. 2023. Greater male variability in daily energy expenditure develops through puberty. Biology Letters. 19 (9) 20230152. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0152

Fitzgerald, Martin 2023. Emergent quality issues in the supply of Chinese medicinal plants: A mixed methods investigation of their contemporary occurrence and historical persistence. PhD thesis University of Westminster Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/w6281

Petagine, Lucy, Zariwala, Mohammed Gulrez and Patel, Vinood B 2023. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Immunological mechanisms and current treatments. World Journal of Gastroenterology. 29 (32), pp. 4831-4850. https://doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v29.i32.4831

Zhang, Rui, Yang, Yuyan, He, Chao, Zhang, Xin, Torraca, Vincenzo, Wang, Shen, Liu, Nan, Yang, Jiaren, Liu, Shicheng, Yuan, Jinglei, Gou, Dongzhi, Li, Shi, Dong, Xueying, Xie, Yufei, He, Junling, Bai, Hua, Hu, Mengyu, Liao, Zhiquan, Huang, Yuan, Lyu, Hao, Xiao, Shuai, Guo, Dong, Ali, Declan William, Michalak, M., Ma, C., Chen, X., Tang, J. and Zhou, C. 2023. RUNDC1 inhibits autolysosome formation and survival of zebrafish via clasping ATG14-STX17-SNAP29 complex. Cell Death and Differentiation. 30, p. 2231–2248. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41418-023-01215-z

Basnett, P., Percy, L., Sengupta, D. and Smith, C.L. 2023. The Cavendish Living lab - a multidisciplinary, vertically integrated project focused on sustainability. Westminster Learning and Teaching Symposium 2023: Better Than the Real Thing? Exploring Education Futures at the University of Westminster. University of Westminster 04 Sep 2023

Smith, C.L. and Mohammed, M. 2023. Alternative forms of assessment - the oral tradition. Westminster Learning and Teaching Symposium 2023: Better Than the Real Thing? Exploring Education Futures at the University of Westminster. University of Westminster 04 Sep 2023

Patel, Hershna and Sengupta, Dipankar 2023. Antiviral Drug Target Identification and Ligand Discovery. in: Gore, M. and Jagtap, U.B. (ed.) Computational Drug Discovery and Design Springer.

Khounvisith, Vilaysone, Saysouligno, Sonephet, Souvanlasy, Bounpalisone, Billamay, Somxay, Mongkhoune, Sodaly, Vongphachanh, Bounta, Snoeck, Chantal J, Black, A., Muller, Claude P and Hübschen, Judith M 2023. Hepatitis B virus and other transfusion-transmissible infections in child blood recipients in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: a hospital-based study. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 108 (1), pp. 15-19. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2022-324629

Black, A., Wallace, Jack, Binka, Mawuena and Butt, Zahid Ahmad 2023. The challenges of viral hepatitis elimination: a global response to a global problem. BMC Public Health. 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15960-w

Vantava, Sonephet, Hefele, Lisa, Virachith, Siriphone, Vannachone, Souphaphone, Khounvisith, Vilaysone, Nouanthong, Phonethipsavanh, Hübschen, Judith M, Sayasone, Somphou and Black, A. 2023. Low seroprotection against diphtheria and tetanus in Lao adolescents. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 28 (6), pp. 501-506. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13882

Mould, R., Kalampouka, I., Thomas, E.L., Guy, G., Nunn, A. and Bell, J.D. 2023. Non-chemical Signalling Between Mitochondria. Frontiers in Physiology. 14 1268075. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2023.1268075