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Fluorescence-based experimental model to evaluate the concomitant effect of drugs on the tumour microenvironment and cancer cells (2012)
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Ramasamy, K., Khatun, H., Macpherson, L., Caley, M. P., Sturge, J., Mufti, G. J., Schey, S. A., & Calle, Y. (2012). Fluorescence-based experimental model to evaluate the concomitant effect of drugs on the tumour microenvironment and cancer cells. British journal of haematology, 157(5), 564-579. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2141.2012.09103.x

The response of the tumour microenvironment to anti-cancer drugs can influence treatment efficacy. Current drug-screening methodologies fail to distinguish and quantify simultaneously the concomitant effect of drugs on the tumour stroma and cancer ce... Read More about Fluorescence-based experimental model to evaluate the concomitant effect of drugs on the tumour microenvironment and cancer cells.

Circulating sphingosine-1-phosphate and erythrocyte sphingosine kinase-1 activity as novel biomarkers for early prostate cancer detection (2012)
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Nunes, J., Naymark, M., Sauer, L., Muhammad, A., Keun, H., Sturge, J., Stebbing, J., Waxman, J., & Pchejetski, D. (2012). Circulating sphingosine-1-phosphate and erythrocyte sphingosine kinase-1 activity as novel biomarkers for early prostate cancer detection. The British Journal of Cancer, 106(5), 909-915. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2012.14

Background: Current markers available for screening normal populations and for monitoring prostate cancer (PCa) treatment lack sensitivity and selectivity. Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a circulating lipid second messenger involved in cell growth... Read More about Circulating sphingosine-1-phosphate and erythrocyte sphingosine kinase-1 activity as novel biomarkers for early prostate cancer detection.

Proteomic identification of predictive biomarkers of resistance to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in luminal breast cancer: a possible role for 14-3-3 theta/tau and tBID? (2012)
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Hodgkinson, V. C., ELFadl, D., Agarwal, V., Garimella, V., Russell, C., Long, E. D., Fox, J. N., McManus, P. L., Mahapatra, T. K., Kneeshaw, P. J., Drew, P. J., Lind, M. J., & Cawkwell, L. (2012). Proteomic identification of predictive biomarkers of resistance to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in luminal breast cancer: a possible role for 14-3-3 theta/tau and tBID?. Journal of Proteomics, 75(4), 1276-1283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2011.11.005

Introduction: Chemotherapy resistance is a major obstacle in effective neoadjuvant treatment for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. The ability to predict tumour response would allow chemotherapy administration to be directed towards only thos... Read More about Proteomic identification of predictive biomarkers of resistance to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in luminal breast cancer: a possible role for 14-3-3 theta/tau and tBID?.

Evaluation of heart tissue viability under redox-magnetohydrodynamics conditions: Toward fine-tuning flow in biological microfluidics applications (2012)
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Cheah, L. T., Fritsch, I., Haswell, S. J., & Greenman, J. (2012). Evaluation of heart tissue viability under redox-magnetohydrodynamics conditions: Toward fine-tuning flow in biological microfluidics applications. Biotechnology and bioengineering, 109(7), 1827-1834. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.24426

A microfluidic system containing a chamber for heart tissue biopsies, perfused with Krebs–Henseleit buffer containing glucose and antibiotic (KHGB) using peristaltic pumps and continuously stimulated, was used to evaluate tissue viability under redox... Read More about Evaluation of heart tissue viability under redox-magnetohydrodynamics conditions: Toward fine-tuning flow in biological microfluidics applications.

Effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and new fenamate analogues on TRPC4 and TRPC5 channels (2012)
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Jiang, H., Zeng, B., Chen, G.-L., Bot, D., Eastmond, S., Elsenussi, S. E., Atkin, S. L., Boa, A. N., & Xu, S.-Z. (2012). Effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and new fenamate analogues on TRPC4 and TRPC5 channels. Biochemical Pharmacology, 83(7), 923-931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2012.01.014

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are widely used anti-inflammatory therapeutic agents,among which the fenamate analogues play important roles in regulating intracellular Ca<sup>2+</sup> transient and ion channels. However, the effect of... Read More about Effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and new fenamate analogues on TRPC4 and TRPC5 channels.

Inflammatory stimuli up-regulate transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 expression in human bronchial fibroblasts (2012)
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Sadofsky, L. R., Ramachandran, R., Crow, C., Cowen, M., Compton, S. J., & Morice, A. H. (2012). Inflammatory stimuli up-regulate transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 expression in human bronchial fibroblasts. Experimental Lung Research, 38(2), 75-81. https://doi.org/10.3109/01902148.2011.644027

Lung fibroblasts are involved in interstitial lung disease, chronic asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The expanded fibroblast population in airway disease leads to airway remodeling and contributes to the inflammatory process... Read More about Inflammatory stimuli up-regulate transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 expression in human bronchial fibroblasts.

Ectopic expression of cyclase associated protein CAP restores the streaming and aggregation defects of adenylyl cyclase a deficient Dictyostelium discoideum cells (2012)
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Sultana, H., Neelakanta, G., Rivero, F., Blau-Wasser, R., Schleicher, M., & Noegel, A. A. (2012). Ectopic expression of cyclase associated protein CAP restores the streaming and aggregation defects of adenylyl cyclase a deficient Dictyostelium discoideum cells. BMC developmental biology, 12, Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-12-3

Background: Cell adhesion, an integral part of D. discoideum development, is important for morphogenesis and regulated gene expression in the multicellular context and is required to trigger cell-differentiation. G-protein linked adenylyl cyclase pat... Read More about Ectopic expression of cyclase associated protein CAP restores the streaming and aggregation defects of adenylyl cyclase a deficient Dictyostelium discoideum cells.

Voltammetric Immunoassay for the Detection of Protein Biomarkers (2012)
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Haswell, S. J., Dou, Y.-H., Wadhawan, J., & Greenman, J. (2012). Voltammetric Immunoassay for the Detection of Protein Biomarkers. Electroanalysis, 24(2), 264-272. https://doi.org/10.1002/elan.201100676

A strategy for a fast (ca. 20 min), specific, electrochemical immunoassay for the cardiac biomarker creatine kinase (CK) and the human cytokine interleukin 10 (IL10) has been developed in this paper. The polyaniline modified gold surface formed from... Read More about Voltammetric Immunoassay for the Detection of Protein Biomarkers.

Reply to “Analysis of NO and its metabolites by mass spectrometry. Comment on ‘Detection of nitric oxide in tissue samples by ESI-MS’” (2011)
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Zheng, S., Webster, A., Zheng, S., Welham, K. J., Dyer, C. E., Greenman, J., Haswell, S. J., Webster, A., Zheng, S., Welham, K. J., Dyer, C. E., Greenman, J., Haswell, S. J., Zheng, S., Webster, A., Welham, K. J., Dyer, C. E., Greenman, J., Haswell, S. J., Zheng, S., …Haswell, S. J. (2011). Reply to “Analysis of NO and its metabolites by mass spectrometry. Comment on ‘Detection of nitric oxide in tissue samples by ESI-MS’”. Analyst, 136(2), 411-411. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0an00729c

Comment by Tsikas et al. (Analyst, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/c0an00411a) on the preliminary work by Shen and colleagues (Analyst, 2010, 135, 302) describing the use of ESI-MS/MS for the detection of methylpiperazinobenzenediamine, as a probe for NO in tissu... Read More about Reply to “Analysis of NO and its metabolites by mass spectrometry. Comment on ‘Detection of nitric oxide in tissue samples by ESI-MS’”.

Comparative genomics of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum and Dictyostelium purpureum (2011)
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Sucgang, R., Kuo, A., Tian, X., Salerno, W., Parikh, A., Feasley, C. L., Dalin, E., Tu, H., Huang, E., Barry, K., Lindquist, E., Shapiro, H., Bruce, D., Schmutz, J., Salamov, A., Fey, P., Gaudet, P., Anjard, C., Madan Babu, M., Basu, S., …Grigoriev, I. V. (2011). Comparative genomics of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum and Dictyostelium purpureum. Genome Biology, 12(2), Article R20. https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2011-12-2-r20

Background: The social amoebae (Dictyostelia) are a diverse group of Amoebozoa that achieve multicellularity by aggregation and undergo morphogenesis into fruiting bodies with terminally differentiated spores and stalk cells. There are four groups of... Read More about Comparative genomics of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum and Dictyostelium purpureum.

Low molecular weight heparin downregulates tissue factor expression and activity by modulating growth factor receptor-mediated induction of nuclear factor-κB (2011)
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Ettelaie, C., Fountain, D., Collier, M. E. W., ElKeeb, A. M., Xiao, Y. P., & Maraveyas, A. (2011). Low molecular weight heparin downregulates tissue factor expression and activity by modulating growth factor receptor-mediated induction of nuclear factor-κB. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA): Molecular Basis of Disease, 1812(12), 1591-1600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2011.09.007

Treatment of cancer patients with low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) appears to have beneficial effects. In this study, the influence of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) on tissue factor (TF) expression and activity in five cell lines from variou... Read More about Low molecular weight heparin downregulates tissue factor expression and activity by modulating growth factor receptor-mediated induction of nuclear factor-κB.

Effect of treatment on systemic cytokines in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients (2011)
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Green, V. L., Michno, A., Greenman, J., & Stafford, N. D. (2012). Effect of treatment on systemic cytokines in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients. Results in immunology, 2, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinim.2011.12.001

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of HNSCC tumour treatment on systemic Th1 and Th2 cytokine levels and investigate correlations with clinicopathological parameters. IL2, IL4, IL5, IL6, IL8, IL10, IL13, GMCSF, IFNγ and TNFα were measu... Read More about Effect of treatment on systemic cytokines in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients.

TGFβ1-Endo180-dependent collagen deposition is dysregulated at the tumour-stromal interface in bone metastasis (2011)
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Caley, M. P., Kogianni, G., Adamarek, A., Gronau, J. H., Rodriguez-Teja, M., Fonseca, A.-V., Mauri, F., Sandison, A., Rhim, J. S., Palmieri, C., Cobb, J. P., Waxman, J., & Sturge, J. (2012). TGFβ1-Endo180-dependent collagen deposition is dysregulated at the tumour-stromal interface in bone metastasis. Journal of Pathology, 226(5), 775-783. https://doi.org/10.1002/path.3958

Cellular niches in adult tissue can harbour dysregulated microenvironments that become the driving force behind disease progression. The major environmental change when metastatic cells arrive in the bone is the destruction of mineralized type I coll... Read More about TGFβ1-Endo180-dependent collagen deposition is dysregulated at the tumour-stromal interface in bone metastasis.

Exercise training attenuates the hypermuscular phenotype and restores skeletal muscle function in the myostatin null mouse (2011)
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Matsakas, A., Macharia, R., Otto, A., Elashry, M. I., Mouisel, E., Romanello, V., Sartori, R., Amthor, H., Sandri, M., Narkar, V., & Patel, K. (2012). Exercise training attenuates the hypermuscular phenotype and restores skeletal muscle function in the myostatin null mouse. Experimental Physiology, 97(1), 125-140. https://doi.org/10.1113/expphysiol.2011.063008

Myostatin regulates both muscle mass and muscle metabolism. The myostatin null (MSTN -/- ) mouse has a hypermuscular phenotype owing to both hypertrophy and hyperplasia of the myofibres. The enlarged muscles display a reliance on glycolysis for ener... Read More about Exercise training attenuates the hypermuscular phenotype and restores skeletal muscle function in the myostatin null mouse.

The Arp2/3 activator WASH regulates α5β1-integrin-mediated invasive migration (2011)
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Zech, T., Calaminus, S., Caswell, P., Spence, H. J., Carnell, M., Insall, R. H., Norman, J., & Machesky, L. M. (2012). The Arp2/3 activator WASH regulates α5β1-integrin-mediated invasive migration. Journal of cell science, 124(22), 3753-3759. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.080986

The actin cytoskeleton provides scaffolding and physical force to effect fundamental processes such as motility, cytokinesis and vesicle trafficking. The Arp2/3 complex nucleates actin structures and contributes to endocytic vesicle invagination and... Read More about The Arp2/3 activator WASH regulates α5β1-integrin-mediated invasive migration.

A new role for the architecture of microvillar actin bundles in apical retention of membrane proteins (2011)
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Revenu, C., Ubelmann, F., Hurbain, I., El-Marjou, F., Dingli, F., Loew, D., Delacour, D., Gilet, J., Brot-Laroche, E., Rivero, F., Louvard, D., & Robine, S. (2012). A new role for the architecture of microvillar actin bundles in apical retention of membrane proteins. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 23(2), 324-336. https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E11-09-0765

Actin-bundling proteins are identified as key players in the morphogenesis of thin membrane protrusions. Until now, functional redundancy among the actin-bundling proteins villin, espin, and plastin-1 has prevented definitive conclusions regarding th... Read More about A new role for the architecture of microvillar actin bundles in apical retention of membrane proteins.

The International Society on Thrombosis and Haematosis von Willebrand disease database: An update (2011)
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Hampshire, D. J., & Goodeve, A. C. (2011). The International Society on Thrombosis and Haematosis von Willebrand disease database: An update. Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis, 37(5), 470-479. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0031-1281031

The online locus-specific database for von Willebrand disease (VWFdb) acts as a repository for sequence variant data and associated resources for those with an interest in the disorder. It currently holds details of 561 mutations and 217 polymorphism... Read More about The International Society on Thrombosis and Haematosis von Willebrand disease database: An update.

Gemcitabine versus gemcitabine plus dalteparin thromboprophylaxis in pancreatic cancer (2011)
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Ettelaie, C., Gardiner, E., Maraveyas, A., Bozas, G., Fyfe, D., Lofts, F., Propper, D., Roy, R., Sgouros, J., Waters, J., & Wedgwood, K. (2012). Gemcitabine versus gemcitabine plus dalteparin thromboprophylaxis in pancreatic cancer. European Journal of Cancer, 48(9), 1283-1292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2011.10.017

Background: Annualised figures show an up to 7-fold higher incidence of vascular thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer (APC) compared to other common malignancies. Concurrent VTE has been shown to confer a worse overall pr... Read More about Gemcitabine versus gemcitabine plus dalteparin thromboprophylaxis in pancreatic cancer.

Serum IL10, IL12 and circulating CD4+CD25high T regulatory cells in relation to long-term clinical outcome in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients (2011)
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Green, V. L., Irune, E., Prasai, A., Alhamarneh, O., Greenman, J., & Stafford, N. D. (2012). Serum IL10, IL12 and circulating CD4+CD25high T regulatory cells in relation to long-term clinical outcome in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients. International Journal of Oncology, 40(3), 833-839. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2011.1259

IL10, but not IL12 or T regulatory cells in the circulation of newly presenting, pre-treatment head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patients, has been shown previously to be related to survival over a mean follow-up period of 15 months. Here... Read More about Serum IL10, IL12 and circulating CD4+CD25high T regulatory cells in relation to long-term clinical outcome in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients.

The 'headache tree' via umbellulone and TRPA1 activates the trigeminovascular system (2011)
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Nassini, R., Materazzi, S., Vriens, J., Prenen, J., Benemei, S., De Siena, G., la Marca, G., Andrè, E., Preti, D., Avonto, C., Sadofsky, L., Di Marzo, V., De Petrocellis, L., Dussor, G., Porreca, F., Taglialatela-Scafati, O., Appendino, G., Nilius, B., & Geppetti, P. (2012). The 'headache tree' via umbellulone and TRPA1 activates the trigeminovascular system. Brain, 135(2), 376-390. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awr272

The California bay laurel or Umbellularia californica (Hook. & Arn.) Nutt., is known as the 'headache tree' because the inhalation of its vapours can cause severe headache crises. However, the underlying mechanism of the headache precipitating proper... Read More about The 'headache tree' via umbellulone and TRPA1 activates the trigeminovascular system.