Life Sciences

Petagine, L., Everitt, H.E., Preedy, V.R., Sherwood, R. and Patel, V. 2021. Acute alcohol tissue damage: Protective properties of betaine. Journal of Renal and Hepatic Disorders. 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.15586/jrenhep.v5i1.96

Safi, A. 2021. TOLOnews: Dr Ayaz Safi for TOLOnews about the public health crisis in Afghanistan and potential solutions.

Safi, A. and Myers, T. 2021. Barriers to Physical Activity: A Comparison of Afghans Living in the UK and Afghanistan. Advances in Physical Education. 11 (1), pp. 103-107. https://doi.org/10.4236/ape.2021.111008

Grau, I., Sengupta, D. and Nowe, A. 2021. Interpretable semisupervised classifier for predicting cancer stages. in: Kumar, P., Kumar, Y. and Tawhid, M.A. (ed.) Machine Learning, Big Data, and IoT for Medical Informatics Academic Press. pp. 241-259

Sengupta, D. and Santoshi, S. 2021. Artificial Intelligence in Precision Medicine: A Perspective in Biomarker and Drug Discovery. in: Saxena, A. and Chandra, S. (ed.) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare Springer. pp. 71-88

Sengupta, D., Sharma, V.K., Hota, S.K., Srivastava, R.B. and Naik, P.K. 2021. An ensemble approach for evaluating the cognitive performance of human population at high altitude. in: Kumar, P., Kumar, Y. and Tawhid, M.A. (ed.) Machine Learning, Big Data, and IoT for Medical Informatics Academic Press. pp. 165-178

Sengupta, D. 2021. Machine learning in precision medicine. in: Kumar, P., Kumar, Y. and Tawhid, M.A. (ed.) Machine Learning, Big Data, and IoT for Medical Informatics Academic Press. pp. 405-419

Morra, Anna, Jung, Audrey Y., Behrens, S., Keeman, R., Ahearn, T., Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, V., Augustinsson, A., Auvinen, Päivi K., Beane Freeman, Laura E., Becher, Heiko, Beckmann, Matthias W., Blomqvist, Carl, Bojesen, Stig E., Bolla, Manjeet K., Brenner, H., Briceno, Ignacio, Brucker, Sara Y., Camp, N., Campa, Daniele, Canzian, F., Castelao, Jose E., Chanock, Stephen J., Choi, Ji-Yeob, Clarke, Christine L., Couch, Fergus J., Cox, A., Cross, Simon S., Czene, Kamila, Dörk, Thilo, Dunning, A., Dwek, Miriam, Easton, Douglas F., Eccles, Diana M., Egan, Kathleen M., Evans, D., Fasching, P., Flyger, Henrik, Gago-Dominguez, M., Gapstur, Susan M., Garcia-Saenz, J., Gaudet, M., Giles, G., Grip, Mervi, Guénel, P., Haiman, Christopher A., Håkansson, Niclas, Hall, P., Hamann, Ute, Han, Sileny N., Hart, S., Hartman, M., Heyworth, Jane S., Hoppe, Reiner, Hopper, John L., Hunter, David J., Ito, H., Jager, A., Jakimovska, Milena, Jakubowska, A., Janni, W., Kaaks, R., Kang, Daehee, Middha Kapoor, P., Kitahara, Cari M., Koutros, S., Kraft, Peter, Kristensen, Vessela N., Lacey, James V., Lambrechts, D., Le Marchand, Loic, Li, J., Lindblom, Annika, Lubiński, Jan, Lush, Michael, Mannermaa, Arto, Manoochehri, Mehdi, Margolin, Sara, Mariapun, Shivaani, Matsuo, K., Mavroudis, Dimitrios, Milne, R., Muranen, T., Newman, W., Noh, Dong-Young, Nordestgaard, Børge G., Obi, Nadia, Olshan, Andrew F., Olsson, Håkan, Park-Simon, T., Petridis, Christos, Pharoah, P., Plaseska-Karanfilska, Dijana, Presneau, Nadege, Rashid, Muhammad U., Rennert, G., Rennert, H., Rhenius, V., Romero, A., Saloustros, E., Sawyer, Elinor J., Schneeweiss, A., Schwentner, Lukas, Scott, C., Shah, Mitul, Shen, Chen-Yang, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Southey, M., Stram, D., Tamimi, R., Tapper, William, Tollenaar, Rob A.E.M., Tomlinson, I., Torres, D., Troester, Melissa A., Truong, Thérèse, Vachon, C., Wang, Qin, Wang, Sophia S., Williams, Justin A., Winqvist, Robert, Wolk, A., Wu, Anna H., Yoo, Keun-Young, Yu, Jyh-Cherng, Zheng, Wei, Ziogas, A., Yang, Xiaohong R., Eliassen, A. Heather, Holmes, M., Garcia-Closas, M., Teo, S., Schmidt, M. and Chang-Claude, J. 2021. Breast Cancer Risk Factors and Survival by Tumor Subtype: Pooled Analyses from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. 30 (4), pp. 623-642. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.epi-20-0924

Gaspar Quinonez, C. 2021. Novel Inhibitors for Isocitrate Lyase as a Potent Antitubercular Agent for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. PhD thesis University of Westminster https://doi.org/10.34737/vvw3q

Ali, N. 2021. Online blended learning using virtual microscopy for students: Seeing and naming patterns. Prof Doc Thesis University of Westminster School of Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/vvqy7

Green, A. 2021. Understanding Autonomic Control via Human Deep Brain Stimulation. PhD thesis University of Westminster School of Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/vvqy6

Edwards, K., Zaitseva, K., Sayed, U., Volpi, V.E., Nathwani, D.A., Gribben, J., Lydyard, P.M., Krysov, S. and Porakishvili, N. 2021. Expression patterns of CD180 in the lymph nodes of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. British Journal of Haematology. 195 (2), pp. e131-e134. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjh.17680

Soriano, V., Cordona, P. and Corpas, M. 2021. A Key Action Plan for Education in a Global Crisis. in: Burgos, D., Tlili, A. and Tabacco, A. (ed.) Radical Solutions for Education in a Crisis Context Springer. pp. 263-272

Corpas, M., Megy, K., Mistry, V., Metastasio, A. and Lehmann, E. 2021. Whole Genome Interpretation for a Family of Five. Frontiers in Genetics. 12 535123. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.535123

D'alessio, S., Buckley, K., Kraev, I., Hayes, P.M. and Lange, S. 2021. Extracellular Vesicle Signatures and Post-Translational Protein Deimination in Purple Sea Urchin ( Strongylocentrotus purpuratus ) Coelomic Fluid—Novel Insights into Echinodermata Biology. Biology. 10 (9) 866. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology10090866

Lewis, Adam M, Dean, Karl J, Hartnell, David M, Percy, Linda, Turner, Andrew D and Lewis, Jane M 2021. The value of toxin profiles in the chemotaxonomic analysis of paralytic shellfish toxins in determining the relationship between British Alexandrium spp. and experimentally contaminated Mytilus sp. Harmful Algae. 111, p. 102131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2021.102131

Essex, R., Weldon, S.M., Thompson, T., Kalocsanyiova, E., McCrone, E. and Deb, S. 2021. Impact of healthcare strikes on patient mortality: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies . BMJ Open. 11 e050826. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050826

Frida Sommer, Vincenzo Torraca, Yufei Xie, Aliede E. in ‘t Veld, Joost Willemse and Annemarie H. Meijer 2021. Disruption of Cxcr3 chemotactic signaling alters lysosomal function and renders macrophages more microbicidal. Cell Reports. 35 (2) 109000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109000

Nunn, A., Guy, G., Botchway, S.W. and Bell, J.D. 2021. SARS-CoV-2 and EBV; the cost of a second mitochondrial "whammy"? Immunity & Ageing. 18 (1), pp. 40-44. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12979-021-00252-x

Yao, Zhenqiang, Getting, Stephen J and Locke, Ian C 2021. Regulation of TNF-Induced Osteoclast Differentiation. Cells. 11 (1) e132. https://doi.org/cells11010132

Monnoyer, Roxane, Lautridou, Jacky, Deb, Sanjoy, Hjelde, Astrid and Eftedal, Ingrid 2021. Using Salivary Biomarkers for Stress Assessment in Offshore Saturation Diving: A Pilot Study. Frontiers in Physiology. 12, p. 791525 791525. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.791525

Fitzgerald, M., Heinrich, M. and Booker, A. 2021. Emergent quality issues in Chinese medicinal plants: Investigation of their contemporary occurrence and historical persistence through questionnaires and interviews of key informants. Planta Medica. 87 (15), pp. 1283-1284. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1736891

Gu, Jingyi, Reich, Eike, Kirchhof, Rainer, Scotti, Francesca, Booker, Anthony and Heinrich, Michael 2021. Quality differences of genus Chrysanthemum used as food and medicine from the global market. Planta Medica. 87 (15), pp. 1301-1302. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1736948

Jalil, Banaz, Prieto, Jose M., Booker, Anthony and Heinrich, Michael 2021. Simultaneous identification of common synthetic adulterants in slimming aids and sexual enhancers herbal supplements by High-performance Thin Layer Chromatography. Planta Medica. 87 (15) 1243. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1736759

Sidali, A., Teotia, Varsha, Solaiman, Nadeen Shaikh, Bashir, Nahida, Kanagaraj, Radhakrishnan, Murphy, J. and Surendranath, K. 2021. AU-Rich Element RNA Binding Proteins: At the Crossroads of Post-Transcriptional Regulation and Genome Integrity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23 (1) 96. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23010096

Sum, K., Dimitropoulos, L., Kurik, G. and Tewfik, I. 2021. Finding the right fit: Enhancing the academic-industry link in the sector for Nutrition undergraduates – a pilot study. Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal. 4 (1), pp. 45-69.

Mortoglou, M., Djordjevic, A.B., Djordjevic, V., Collins, H., York, L., Mani, K., Valle, E., Wallace, D. and Uysal Onganer, P. 2021. Role of microRNAs in response to cadmium chloride in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Archives of Toxicology. 96, p. 467–485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-021-03196-9

Bickle, E., Bishopp-Martin, S., Canton, U., Chin, P., Johnson, I., Kantcheva, R., Nodder, J., Rafferty, V., Sum, K. and Welton, K. 2021. Emerging from the third space chrysalis: Experiences in a non-hierarchical, collaborative research community of practice. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice. 18 (7), pp. 135-158. https://doi.org/10.53761/1.18.7.09

Fudge, T., Bulmer, I., Bowman, K., Pathmakanthan, S., Gambier, W., Dehouche, Z., Al-Salem, S.M. and Constantinou, A. 2021. Microbial Electrolysis Cells for Decentralised Wastewater Treatment: The Next Steps. Water. 13 (4) 445. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13040445

Ahmed, D., Puthussery, Hima, Basnett, Pooja, Knowles, J., Lange, S. and Roy, I. 2021. Controlled Delivery of Pan-PAD-Inhibitor Cl-Amidine Using Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) Microspheres. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22 (23) 12852. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms222312852

Asaturyan, H., Villarini, Barbara, Sarao, Karen, Chow, Jeanne S, Afacan, Onur and Kurugol, Sila 2021. Improving Automatic Renal Segmentation in Clinically Normal and Abnormal Paediatric DCE-MRI via Contrast Maximisation and Convolutional Networks for Computing Markers of Kidney Function. Sensors. 21 (23) 7942. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21237942

Ahmed, D., Puthussery, H., Basnett, P., Knowles, J., Lange, S. and Roy, I. 2021. Controlled Delivery of Pan-PAD-Inhibitor Cl-Amidine Using Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) Microspheres. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22 (23) e12852. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms222312852

Mursaleen, L. 2021. Nanotechnology based therapeutic approaches to iron‐induced oxidative stress in an in vitro model of Parkinson’s disease. PhD thesis University of Westminster School of Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/v9v45

Osimo, E.F., Sweeney, M., de Marvao, A., Berry, A., Statton, B., Perry, B.I., Pillinger, T., Whitehurst, T., Cook, S.A., O’Regan, D.P., Thomas, E.L. and Howes, O.D. 2021. Adipose tissue dysfunction, inflammation, and insulin resistance alternative pathways to cardiac remodelling in schizophrenia. A multimodal, case-control study. Translational Psychiatry. 11 614. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01741-9

Cook-Sather, A., Slates, S., Allen, M., Baskaran, R., Crombie, P., Derounian, J.G., Dianati, S., Dudson, M., Grayson, D., Haroon, M.A., Fraser, C., Jardine, H., Millmore, A., Milton, E., Mori, Y., Morgan, A., Pereira, J. V.-B., Salman, M., Scharff, L., Storey, J., Sum, K. and Tisdell, C.C. 2021. The many manifestations of successful partnership. International Journal for Students as Partners. 5 (2), p. 221–232. https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v5i2.4911

Kalgudi, R., Tamimi, Roya, Kyazze, Godfrey and Keshavarz, Tajalli 2021. Quorum quenchers affect the virulence regulation of non-mucoid, mucoid and heavily mucoid biofilms co-cultured on cell lines. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-021-11638-8

Sabir, D. 2021. Investigation of the role of monocytes/macrophages in allogeneic immune response. PhD thesis University of Westminster School of Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/v97v1

Ahmaditabatabaei, S., Kyazze, G., Iqbal, H. and Keshavarz, T. 2021. Fungal Enzymes as Catalytic Tools for Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Degradation. Journal of Fungi. 7 (11) 931. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7110931

Jiggens, E., Mortoglou, M., Grant, G.H. and Uysal-Onganer, P. 2021. The Role of CDK4 in the Pathogenesis of Pancreatic Cancer. Healthcare. 9 (11) 1478. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9111478

Keith, R. 2021. The UN Decade of Nutrition: WPHNA’s position at mid-term. World Nutrition. 12 (3), pp. 11-24. https://doi.org/10.26596/wn.202112311-24