Life Sciences

Chikadze, N., Tevzadze, M., Gachechiladze, N. and Porakishvili, N. 2020. Elevated levels of naturally occurring autoantibodies to human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) β core fragment in a female patient with thyroid follicular adenoma: Case report. Georgian Medical News. 299, pp. 106-110.

Machann, J., Stefan, N., Wagner, R., Fritsche, A., Bell, J.D., Whitcher, B., Häring, H.U., Birkenfeld, A., Nikolaou, K., Schick, F. and Thomas, E.L. 2020. Normalized indices derived from visceral adipose mass assessed by MRI and their correlation with markers for insulin resistance and prediabetes. Nutrients. 12 (7) 2064. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12072064

Gavinho, B., Sabatke, B., Rossi, I., Feijoli, V., Macedo, J., Evans-Osses, I., Palmisano, G., Lange, S. and Ramirez, M.I. 2020. Peptidylarginine Deiminase inhibition abolishes the production of large extracellular vesicles from Giardia intestinalis, affecting host-pathogen interactions by hindering adhesion to host cells. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 10 417. https://doi.org/10.1101/586438

Morgan, C.A., Mesquita, M., Ashioti, M., Beech, J.S., Williams, S.C.R., Irving, E. and Cash, D. 2020. Late changes in blood-brain barrier permeability in a rat tMCAO model of stroke detected by gadolinium-enhanced MRI. Neurological Research. 42 (10), pp. 844-852. https://doi.org/10.1080/01616412.2020.1786637

Schuhladen, K., Lukasiewicz, B., Basnett, P., Roy, I. and Boccaccini, A.R. 2020. Comparison of the Influence of 45S5 and Cu-Containing 45S5 Bioactive Glass (BG) on the Biological Properties of Novel Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA)/BG Composites. Materials. 13 (11) 2607. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13112607

Basnett, P., Marcello, E., Lukasiewicz, B., Nigmatullin, R., Paxinou, A., Ahmad, M.A., Gurumayum , B. and Roy, I. 2020. Antimicrobial Materials with Lime Oil and a Poly (3-hydroxyalkanoate) Produced via Valorisation of Sugar Cane Molasses. Journal of Functional Biomaterials. 11 (2) 24. https://doi.org/10.3390/jfb11020024

Tamimi, R. 2020. Effects of Quorum Quenchers on Aspergillus fumigatus Conidia Aggregation, Adhesion to Surfaces, and Biofilm Formation. PhD thesis University of Westminster Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/qzxy1

Arisan, E., Uysal Onganer, P. and Lange, S. 2020. Putative Roles for Peptidylarginine Deiminases in COVID-19. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21 (13) 4662. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21134662

Bowden, T.J., Kraev, I. and Lange, S. 2020. Extracellular Vesicles and Post-translational Protein Deimination Signatures in Haemolymph of the American Lobster (Homarus americanus) . Fish and Shellfish Immunology. 106, pp. 79-102 FSIM-D-20-00642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2020.06.053

Elliott, B., Hayes, L., Hughes, D. and Burtscher, M. 2020. Editorial: Exercise as a Countermeasure to Human Aging. Frontiers in Physiology. 11 883. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2020.00883

Arazi, H., Salek, L., Nikfal, E., Izadi, M., Tufano, J.J., Elliott, B. and Brughelli, M. 2020. Comparable endocrine and neuromuscular adaptations to variable vs. constant gravity-dependent resistance training among young women. Journal of translational medicine. 18 (239) 239. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-020-02411-y

Zubaidah, E., Ike Susanti, I., Yuwono, S.S., Rahayu, A.P., Srianta, I. and Tewfik, I. 2020. The combined impact of sauerkraut with Leuconostoc mesenteroides to enhance immunomodulatory activity in Escherichia coli-infected mice. European Food Research and Technology. 246 (8), pp. 1889-1893. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00217-020-03540-w

Atabaki-Pasdar, N., Ohlsson, M., Viñuela, A., Frau, F., Pomares-Millan, H., Haid, M., Jones, A., Thomas, E.L., Koivula, R., Kurbasic, A., Mutie, P., Fitipaldi, H., Fernandez, J., Dawed, A., Giordano, G., Forgie, I., McDonald, T., Rutters, F., Cederberg, H., Chabanova, E., Dale, M., Masi, F., Thomas, C., Allin, K., Hansen, T., Heggie, A., Hong, M., Elders, P., Kennedy, G., Kokkola, T., Pedersen, H., Mahajan, A., McEvoy, D., Pattou, F., Raverdy, V., Häussler, R., Sharma, S., Thomsen, H., Vangipurapu, J., Vestergaard, H., ‘t Hart, L., Adamski, J., Musholt, P., Brage, S., Brunak, S., Dermitzakis, E., Frost, G., Hansen, T., Laakso, M., Pedersen, O., Ridderstråle, M., Ruetten, H., Hattersley, A., Walker, M., Beulens, J., Mari, A., Schwenk, J., Gupta, R., McCarthy, M., Pearson, E., Bell, J.D., Pavo, I. and Franks, P. 2020. Predicting and elucidating the etiology of fatty liver disease: A machine learning modeling and validation study in the IMI DIRECT cohorts. PLoS Medicine. 17 (6) e1003149. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003149

Fixsen, Alison, Seers, H. and Polley, M.J. 2020. Applying critical systems thinking to social prescribing: a relational model of stakeholder “buy-in”. BMC Health Services Research. 20 (80) 580. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05443-8

Blesia, V. 2020. Excessive iron accumulation mediated oxidative stress and β-cell dysfunction via perturbations of insulin secretion in MIN6 cells. PhD thesis University of Westminster Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/qzvvw

Keith, R. 2020. A brief history of free school meals in the UK . theconversation.com.

Adegboye, A.R.A., Moore, A.P., Comegna, S., Tewfik, I., Draper, A. and Begum, G. 2020. Attitudinal Determinants of diet and lifestyle among African and Caribbean women living in the UK : study design and rationale - Diets of African and Caribbean women. World Nutrition. 11 (1), pp. 97-109. https://doi.org/10.26596/wn.202011197-109

Eriksen, R., Perez, I.G., Posma, J.M., Haid, M., Sharma, S., Thomas, E.L., Koivula, R.W., Bizzotto, R., Mari, A., Giordano, G.N., Pavo, I., Schwenk, J., De Masi, F., Tsirigos, K., Brunak, S., Vinuela, A., Mahajan, A., McDonald, T.J., Kokkola, T., Teare, H.J.A., Hansen, T.H., Fernandez, J., Jones, A., Jennison, C., Walker, M., McCarthy, M., Pedersen, O., Reutten, H., Forgie, I., Bell, J.D., Pearson, E., Franks, P.W., Adamski, J., Holmes, E. and Frost, G.S. 2020. Dietary metabolite profiling brings new insight into the relationship between nutrition and metabolic risk: An IMI Direct study. EBioMedicine. 58 102932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.102932

Alenaini, Wareed, Parkinson, J., McCarthy, John P., Goldstone, Anthony P., Wilman, Henry R., Banerjee, Rajarshi, Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Bell, Jimmy D. and Thomas, E.L. 2020. Ethnic Differences in Body Fat Deposition and Liver Fat Content in Two UK-Based Cohorts. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 28 (11), pp. 2142-2152. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.22948

Getting, S.J., McArthur, S., Wickstead, E. and Biggs, C.S. 2020. Reversal of beta-Amyloid-Induced Microglial Toxicity In Vitro by Activation of Fpr2/3. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2020 2139192. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/2139192

Aldraimli, M., Soria, D., Parkinson, J., Thomas, E.L., Bell, J.D., Dwek, M. and Chaussalet, T.J. 2020. Machine Learning Prediction of Susceptibility to Visceral Fat Associated Diseases. Health and Technology. 10, pp. 925-944. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-020-00446-1

Roen, A. 2020. Evaluating individuals with extreme phenotypes of HIV-1 contributes towards better healthcare management of all HIV-1 positive individuals. PhD thesis University of Westminster Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/qz989

Ecker, A., Romani, A., Sáray, S., Káli,S., Migliore, M., Falck, J., Lange, S., Mercer, A., Thomson, A.M., Muller, M., Reimann, M.W. and Ramaswamy, S. 2020. Data‐driven integration of hippocampal CA1 synaptic physiology in silico. Hippocampus. 30 (11), pp. 1129-1145. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23220

Wood, C., Flynn, M., Law, R., Naufahu, J. and Smyth, N. 2020. The effect of the visual exercise environment on the response to psychological stress: a pilot study. Anxiety, Stress and Coping. 33 (6), pp. 716-729. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2020.1770231

Littlejohns, T., Holliday, J., Gibson, L., Garratt, S., Oesingmann, N., Alfaro-Almagro, F., Bell, J.D., Boultwood, C., Collins, R., Conroy, M., Crabtree, N., Doherty, N., Frangi, A., Harvey, N., Leeson, P., Miller, K., Neubauer, S., Petersen, S., Sellors, J., Sheard, S., Smith, S., Sudlow, C., Matthews, P. and Allen, N. 2020. The UK Biobank imaging enhancement of 100,000 participants: rationale, data collection, management and future directions. Nature Communications . 11 2624. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15948-9

Arisan, E.D., Dart, A., Grant, G.H., Arisan, S., Cuhadaroglu, S., Lange, S. and Uysal Onganer, P. 2020. The Prediction of miRNAs in SARS-CoV-2 Genomes: hsa-miR Databases Identify 7 Key miRs Linked to Host Responses and Virus Pathogenicity-Related KEGG Pathways Significant for Comorbidities. MDPI Viruses. 12 (6) 614. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12060614

Rodriguez, K., Keith, R. and Chinamale, G. 2020. Malawi’s food security: two decades of agriculture’s trends and challenges, new perspectives. World Public Health Nutrition Congress Brisbane 2020. Meant to be in Brisbane but moved to virtual 30 Mar - 03 Apr 2020

Cressall, K., Woloshynowych, M. and Keith, R. 2020. Food sovereignty and agroecology as an alternate agricultural approach: lessons from Malawi . World Public Health Nutrition Congress Brisbane 2020. Meant to be in Brisbane but moved to virtual 30 Mar - 03 Apr 2020 Online.

Baker, C.R.L., Adegboye, A.R.A. and Keith, R. 2020. Exploration of parental perceptions and practices concerning sugar/oral health of children . World Public Health Nutrition Congress Brisbane 2020. Meant to be in Brisbane but moved to virtual 30 Mar - 03 Apr 2020 Online.

Zigah, F. and Keith, R. 2020. Perceived Pathways to Kwashiorkor or Marasmus in Ameya, Ethiopia. World Public Health Nutrition Congress Brisbane 2020. Meant to be in Brisbane but moved to virtual 30 Mar - 03 Apr 2020 Online.

Keith, R. 2020. Achieving Global Nutrition Targets, through an increased investment in voice and equity . World Public Health Nutrition Congress Brisbane 2020. Meant to be in Brisbane but moved to virtual 30 Mar - 03 Apr 2020

Keith, R. 2020. Symposium on Global Nutrition themes 1B – “Are we there yet?” Are Health systems supporting the achievement of the Global Nutrition Goals? World Public Health Nutrition Congress Brisbane 2020. Meant to be in Brisbane but moved to virtual 30 Mar - 03 Apr 2020

Leeds, J., Keith, R. and Woloshynowych, M. 2020. Food and Mood: Exploring the determinants of food choices and the effects of food consumption on mood among women in Inner London. World Nutrition. 11 (1), pp. 68-96. https://doi.org/10.26596/wn.202011168-96

Mohammed, M. and Thapa, S. 2020. Evaluation of WGS-subtyping methods for epidemiological surveillance of foodborne salmonellosis. One Health Outlook. 2 13 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42522-020-00016-5

Akhtar, Z., Dargan, J., Gaze, D.C., Firoozi, S., Collinson, P. and Shanmugam, N. 2020. False-positive troponin elevation due to an immunoglobulin-G-cardiac troponin T complex: a case report. European Heart Journal: Case Reports. 4 (3), p. 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytaa082

Sseguya, W., Matovu, N., Swann, J. and Draper, A. 2020. Contribution of street food to dietary intake of habitual urban consumers: a cross-sectional study in Kampala city, Uganda. Nutrition and Health. 26 (3), p. 187–195. https://doi.org/10.1177/0260106020919629

Criscitiello, M.F., Kraev, I. and Lange, S. 2020. Post-Translational Protein Deimination Signatures in Serum and Serum-Extracellular Vesicles of Bos taurus Reveal Immune, Anti-Pathogenic, Anti-Viral, Metabolic and Cancer-Related Pathways for Deimination. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21 (8) 2861. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21082861

Whyte, M.B, Shojaee-Moradie, F., Sharaf, S.E., Cuthbertson, D.J., Kemp, G.J., Barrett, M., Jackson, N.C., Herring, R.A, Wright, J., Thomas, E.L., Bell, J.D. and Umpleby, A.M. 2020. HDL-apoA-I kinetics in response to 16 weeks exercise training in men with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism. 318 (6), pp. E839-E847. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00019.2020

Dikariyanto, V., Smith, L., Francis, L., Robertson, M., Kusaslan, E., O’Callaghan-Latham, M., Palanche, C., D’Annibale, M., Christodoulou, D., Basty, N., Whitcher, B., Shuaib, H., Charles-Edwards, G., Chowienczyk, P.J., Ellis, P. R., Berry, S.E. and Hall, W. 2020. Snacking on whole almonds for 6 weeks improves endothelial function and lowers LDL cholesterol but does not affect liver fat and other cardiometabolic risk factors in healthy adults: the ATTIS study, a randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 111 (6), p. 1178–1189. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqaa100

Yaghootkar, H., Bell, J.D., Whitcher, B. and Thomas, E.L. 2020. Ethnic differences in adiposity and diabetes risk – insights from genetic studies. Journal of Internal Medicine. 288 (3), pp. 271-283. https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.13082