Life Sciences

Ferrier, C., Brookwell, K., Quinn, P., Ms Kelly Brookwell and Mr Paul Quinn 2012. Foundation degrees in biomedical science: the student experience. Biomedical Scientist. 56 (9), pp. 560 - 561.

Williams, H.E., Steele, J.C.P., Clements, M.O. and Keshavarz, T. 2012. γ-Heptalactone is an endogenously produced quorum-sensing molecule regulating growth and secondary metabolite production by Aspergillus nidulans. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 96 (3), pp. 773-781. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-012-4065-5

Terstyanszky, G., Kiss, T., Kukla, T., Lichtenberger, Z., Winter, S., Greenwell, P., McEldowney, S. and Heindl, H. 2012. Application repository and science gateway for running molecular docking and dynamics simulations. in: Gesing, S., Glatard, T., Kruger, J., Delgado Olabarriaga, S., Solomonides, T., Silverstein, J.C., Montagnat, J., Gaignard, A. and Krefting, D. (ed.) Healthgrid applications and technologies meet science gateways for life sciences IOS Press.

Taylor, A.E., Kuper, H., Varma, R.D., Wells, J.C.K., Bell, J.D., Radhakrishna, K.V., Kulkarni, B., Kinra, S., Timpson, N.J., Ebrahim, S., Smith, G.D. and Ben-Shlomo, Y. 2012. Validation of dual energy x-ray absorptiometry measures of abdominal fat by comparison with magnetic resonance imaging in an Indian population. PLoS ONE. 7 (12) e51042. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051042

Solanky, B.S., Sanchez-Canon, G.J., Cobbold, J.F.L., Taylor-Robinson, S.D., Bell, J.D., Scudamore, C.L., Ross, E., Holder, J.C., So, P.W. and Cox, I.J. 2012. Metabolic profiling of the rat liver after chronic ingestion of alpha-naphthylisothiocyanate using in vivo and ex vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Toxicological Sciences. 126 (2), pp. 306-316. https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfs019

Salisbury, C. and Robertson, C.E. 2012. Do public health messages impact on knowledge, diet and lifestyle choices of women during pregnancy? International Journal of Food, Nutrition and Public Health. 5 (4), pp. 225-247.

Rambaruth, N.D.S., Greenwell, P. and Dwek, M. 2012. The lectin Helix pomatia agglutinin recognises O-GlcNAc containing glycoproteins in human breast cancer. Glycobiology. 22 (6), pp. 839-848. https://doi.org/10.1093/glycob/cws051

Pilkington, K. and CAM-Cancer Consortium 2012. Ozone therapy. CAM-Cancer Database National Information Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NIFAB).

Pilkington, K. and CAM-Cancer Consortium 2012. Noni (Morinda citrifolia). CAM-Cancer Database National Information Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NIFAB).

Pilkington, K. and CAM-Cancer Consortium 2012. Echinacea spp. CAM-Cancer Database CAM-Cancer Consortium (Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Cancer).

Peters, D. 2012. The placebo response in migraine treatment. in: Fernández-de-las-Peñas, C., Chaitow, L. and Schoenen, J. (ed.) Multidisciplinary management of migraine: pharmacological, manual, and other therapies Sudbury, Maryland Jones & Bartlett Learning. pp. 313-326

Ounzain, S., Kobayashi, S., Peterson, R., He, A., Samani, N.J., Menick, D.R., Pu, W.T., Liang, Q. and Chong, Nelson W. 2012. Cardiac expression of STARS, a novel gene involved in cardiac development and disease, is regulated by GATA4. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 32 (10), pp. 1830-1843. https://doi.org/10.1128/MCB.06374-11

Opoku-Okrah, C., Smith, C.L., Gordge, M.P., Parry, M., Robertson, C.E., Abgenyega, T. and Nakua, E. 2012. Alpha thalassaemia and the severity of Plasmodium falciparum infection in microcytic children from the Ashanti region of Ghana. British Society for Haematology 52nd meeting. Glasgow 16-18 April 2012

Milton, N.G.N., Chilumuri, A., Rocha-Ferreira, E., Nercessian, A.N. and Ashioti, M. 2012. Kisspeptin prevention of Amyloid-β Peptide neurotoxicity in vitro. ACS chemical neuroscience. 3 (9), pp. 706-719. https://doi.org/10.1021/cn300045d

Lydyard, P.M. and Porakishvili, N. 2012. Cells, tissues and organs of the immune system. in: Male, D., Brostoff, J., Roth, D.B. and Roitt, I.M. (ed.) Immunology (8th edition) Elsevier. pp. 17-50

Loo, R.L., Chan, Q., Brown, I.J., Robertson, C.E., Stamler, J., Nicholson, J.K., Holmes, E. and Elliott, P. 2012. A comparison of self-reported analgesic use and detection of urinary ibuprofen and acetaminophen metabolites by means of metabonomics. American Journal of Epidemiology. 175 (4), pp. 348-358. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwr292

Jain, S., Draper, A., Clow, A., Lynch, R. and Derges, J. 2012. What shapes participation in a community-based intervention? Evidence from a qualitative evaluation of the well London project. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 66 (S1), p. A3. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2012-201753.007

Hankir, M., Bueter, M., Gsell, W., Seyfried, F., Khalil, M., Smith, K.L., Bloom, S.R., Bell, J.D. and le Roux, C.W. 2012. Increased energy expenditure in gastric bypass rats is not caused by activated brown adipose tissue. Obesity Facts. 5 (3), pp. 349-358. https://doi.org/10.1159/000339742

Gyamfi, D., Everitt, H.E. and Patel, V. 2012. Chinese herbal products in the prevention and treatment of liver disease. in: Watson, R.R. and Preedy, V.R. (ed.) Bioactive food as dietary interventions for liver and gastrointestinal disease Academic Press. pp. 537-550

Gavins, F.N.E., Hughes, E.L., Buss, N.A.P.S., Holloway, P.M., Getting, S.J. and Buckingham, J.C. 2012. Leukocyte recruitment in the brain in sepsis: involvement of the annexin 1-FPR2/ALX anti-inflammatory system. FASEB Journal. 26 (12), pp. 4977-4989. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.12-205971

Everest, A., Keshavarz, T. and Roy, I. 2012. Enhanced production of the polyhydroxyalkanoate, P(3HB), from cacillus cereus SPV and its applications in cartilage regeneration. Gordon Research Conference on Biopolymers. Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, USA 3-8 June 2012

Draper, A., Clow, A., Lynch, R., Jain, S., Philips, G., Petticrew, M. and Renton, A. 2012. Building a logic model for a complex intervention: a worked example from the Well London CRCT. Population Health: Methods and Challenges, MRC Conference. ICC Birmingham 23-25 April 2012

Derges, J., Lynch, R., Clow, A., Pettigrew, M. and Draper, A. 2012. Complaints about dog faeces as a symbolic representation of incivility in London, UK: a qualitative study. Critical Public Health. 22 (4), pp. 419-425. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2012.710738

Derges, J., Draper, A., Clow, A., Lynch, R. and Jain, S. 2012. What are the specific pathways and project components that have a positive impact on the well-being of participants in a ‘well London’ project? Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 66 (S1), p. A57. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2012-201753.147

Dalby, A.R., Emam, I. and Franke, R. 2012. Analysis of gene expression data from non-small celllung carcinoma cell lines reveals distinct sub-classesfrom those identified at the phenotype level. PLoS ONE. 7 (11) e50253. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050253

Chong, Nelson W., Koekemoer, A.L., Ounzain, S., Samani, N.J., Shin, J.T. and Shaw, S.Y. 2012. STARS (striated muscle activator of rho signalling) is essential to maintain cardiac development and function in vivo via a SRF pathway. PLoS ONE. 7 (7) e40966. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040966

Chong, Nelson W. 2012. The Abra gene: a crucial factor for cardiac development and disease. International conference on “Developmental Physiology”. Kilworth Hotel, Leicestershire June 2012

Can, V.C., Kaneva, M., Kerrigan, M.J.P., Locke, I.C. and Getting, S.J. 2012. The anti-inflammatory effects of melanocortin peptides in lipopolysaccharide activated chondrocytes. British Phamacological Society Winter Meeting 2012. London, UK 18th-20th December

Alonso-Fernandez, J.R. and Patel, V. 2012. Dietary sugars: TLC screening of sugars in urine and blood samples. in: Preedy, V.R. (ed.) Dietary sugars: chemistry, analysis, function and effects Royal Society of Chemistry. pp. 186-205

Preedy, V.R. and Patel, V. (ed.) 2012. Biosensors and environmental health. CRC Press.

Preedy, V.R. and Patel, V. (ed.) 2012. Biosensors and cancer. Boca Raton, FL CRC Press.

Watson, R.A., Pride, N.B., Thomas, E.L., Ind, P.W. and Bell, J.D. 2012. Relation between trunk fat volume and reduction of total lung capacity in obese men. Journal of Applied Physiology. 112 (1), pp. 118-126. https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00217.2011

Thomas, E.L., Parkinson, J.R.C., Frost, G.S., Goldstone, A.P., Doré, C.J., McCarthy, J., Collins, A.L., Fitzpatrick, J., Durighel, G., Taylor-Robinson, S.D. and Bell, J.D. 2012. The missing risk: MRI and MRS phenotyping of abdominal adiposity and ectopic fat. Obesity. 20 (1), pp. 76-87. https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2011.142

Hankir, M., Parkinson, J.R.C., Bloom, S.R. and Bell, J.D. 2012. The effects of glutamate receptor agonists and antagonists on mouse hypothalamic and hippocampal neuronal activity shown through manganese enhanced MRI. NeuroImage. 59 (2), pp. 968-978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.063

Anastasovska, J., Arora, T., Sanchez-Canon, G.J., Parkinson, J.R.C., Touhy, K., Gibson, G.R., Nadkarni, N., So, P.W., Goldstone, A.P., Thomas, E.L., Hankir, M., Van Loo, J., Modi, N., Bell, J.D. and Frost, G.S. 2012. Fermentable carbohydrate alters hypothalamic neuronal activity and protects against the obesogenic environment. Obesity. 20 (5), pp. 1016-1023. https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2012.6

Peiris, D., Markiv, A., Curley, G.P. and Dwek, M. 2012. A novel approach to determining the affinity of protein-carbohydrate interactions employing adherent cancer cells grown on a biosensor surface. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 35 (1), pp. 160-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2012.02.037

Thomas, E.L., Frost, G.S., Taylor-Robinson, S.D. and Bell, J.D. 2012. Excess body fat in obese and normal weight subjects. Nutrition Research Reviews. 25 (1), pp. 150-161. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954422412000054

Mehta, S.R., Godsland, I.F., Thomas, E.L., Pavitt, D.V., Morin, S.H.X., Bell, J.D., Taylor-Robinson, S.D. and Johnston, D.G. 2012. Intrahepatic insulin exposure, intrahepatocellular lipid and regional body fat in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 97 (6), pp. 2151-2159. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2011-2430

Gardner, C.J., Irwin, A., Daousi, C., McFarlane, I.A., Joseph, F., Bell, J.D., Thomas, E.L., Adams, V.L., Kemp, G.J. and Cuthbertson, D.J. 2012. Hepatic steatosis, GH deficiency and the effects of GH replacement: a Liverpool magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. European Journal of Endocrinology. 166, pp. 993-1002. https://doi.org/10.1530/EJE-12-0002

Basnett, P., Knowles, J.C., Pishbin, F., Smith, C.L., Keshavarz, T., Boccaccini, A.R. and Roy, I. 2012. Novel biodegradable and biocompatible poly(3-hydroxyoctanoate)/bacterial cellulose composites. Advanced Engineering Materials. 14 (6), pp. B330-B343. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.201180076