Life Sciences

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

Basty, N., Liu, Y., Cule, M., Thomas, E.L., Bell, J.D. and Whitcher, B. 2020. Automated Measurement of Pancreatic Fat and Iron Concentration Using Multi-Echo and T1-Weghted MRI Data. International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2020. Iowa City, USA 03 - 07 Apr 2020 IEEE . https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI45749.2020.9098650

Gaze, D.C. 2020. Clinical utility of cardiac troponin measurement in COVID-19 infection. Annals of Clinical Biochemistry: International Journal of Laboratory Medicine. 57 (3), pp. 202-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/0004563220921888

Marco Sancandi, Uysal Onganer, P., Igor Kraev, Mercer, A. and Lange, S. 2020. Protein Deimination Signatures in Plasma and Plasma-EVs and Protein Deimination in the Brain Vasculature in a Rat Model of Pre-Motor Parkinson’s Disease. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21 (8) 2743. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21082743

Bowden, T.J., Kraev, I. and Lange, S. 2020. Post-translational Protein Deimination Signatures and Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) in the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) . Developmental and Comparative Immunology. 110 103714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dci.2020.103714

Adegboye, A.R.A., Ojo, O. and Begum, G. 2020. The Use of Dietary Supplements Among African and Caribbean Women Living in the UK: A Cross-sectional Study. Nutrients. 12 (3) 847. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12030847

Aziz, Z., Keshavarz, T. and Kyazze, G. 2020. Recycling and the Environment: a Comparative Review Between Mineral-based Plastics and Bioplastics. Chemical Engineering Transactions. 79, pp. 355-360. https://doi.org/10.3303/CET2079060

Selim, N., Maghrawy, H., Fathy, R., Gamal, M., Abd El Kareem, H., Bowman, K., Breheny, M., Kyazze, G., Keshavarz, T. and Gomaa, O. 2020. Modification of bacterial cell membrane to accelerate decolorization of textile wastewater effluent using microbial fuel cells: role of gamma radiation. Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences. 13 (1), pp. 373-382. https://doi.org/10.1080/16878507.2020.1743480

Mohammed, M. 2020. Dr Manal Mohammed holds public lecture about superbugs at Westminster’s Difference Festival (27 February 2020).

Mohammed, M. 2020. Dr Manal Mohammed for The Conversation about which kinds of sanitisers are most effective against coronavirus. The Conversation.

Parisinos, C.A., Wilman, H., Thomas, E.L., Kelly, M., Nicholls, R.C., McGonigle, J., Neubauer, S., Hingorani, A.D., Patel, R.S., Hemingway, H., Bell, J.D., Banerjee, R and Yaghootkar, H. 2020. Genome-wide and Mendelian randomisation studies of liver MRI yield insights into the pathogenesis of steatohepatitis. Journal of Hepatology. 73, pp. 241-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2020.03.032

Polley, M.J., Whiteside, J., Elnaschie, S. and Fixsen, Alison 2020. What does successful social prescribing look like? Mapping meaningful outcomes. London University of Westminster.

Lincoln, G. 2020. An Exploration of Relocation Decision-making and Experience: Wellbeing and Chronic Stress Outcomes for Older Under- Occupying Homeowners. Prof Doc Thesis University of Westminster Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/qyz5y

Warford, A., Rahman, N.S., Ribeiro, D.A. and Uysal Onganer, P. 2020. Demonstration of microRNA using in situ hybridisation on formalin fixed paraffin wax samples using conventional oligonucleotide probes: a comparison with the use of locked nucleic acid probes. British Journal of Biomedical Science. 77 (3), pp. 135-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/09674845.2020.1748913

Criscitiello, M.F., Kraev, I., Petersen, L.H. and Lange, S. 2020. Deimination Protein Profiles in Alligator mississippiensis Reveal Plasma and Extracellular Vesicle- specific Signatures Relating to Immunity, Metabolic Function and Gene Regulation. Frontiers in Immunology. 11 651. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.00651