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Sensitivity to experiencing alcohol hangovers: Reconsideration of the 0.11% blood alcohol concentration (BAC) threshold for having a hangover (2020)
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Verster, J. C., Kruisselbrink, L. D., Slot, K. A., Anogeianaki, A., Adams, S., Alford, C., …Stock, A. K. (2020). Sensitivity to experiencing alcohol hangovers: Reconsideration of the 0.11% blood alcohol concentration (BAC) threshold for having a hangover. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9(1), Article 179. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9010179

The 2010 Alcohol Hangover Research Group consensus paper defined a cutoff blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.11% as a toxicological threshold indicating that sufficient alcohol had been consumed to develop a hangover. The cutoff was based on prev... Read More about Sensitivity to experiencing alcohol hangovers: Reconsideration of the 0.11% blood alcohol concentration (BAC) threshold for having a hangover.

APC and AXIN2 are promising biomarker candidates for the early detection of adenomas and hyperplastic polyps (2020)
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Almond, S., Anaraki, F., Young, C., Ashrafian Bonab, M., Asadzadeh-Aghdaei, H., Rezvani, H., …Ladomery, M. (2020). APC and AXIN2 are promising biomarker candidates for the early detection of adenomas and hyperplastic polyps. Cancer Informatics, 19, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1177/1176935120972383

Aberrant activation of the WNT/CTNNB1 pathway is notorious in colorectal cancer (CRC). Here, we demonstrate that the expression of specific and crucial WNT signaling pathway genes is linked to disease progression in colonic adenomatous (AP) and hyper... Read More about APC and AXIN2 are promising biomarker candidates for the early detection of adenomas and hyperplastic polyps.

Polydopamine-lysophosphatidate-functionalised titanium: A novel hybrid surface finish for bone regenerative applications (2020)
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Baldwin, F., Craig, T. J., Shiel, A. I., Cox, T., Lee, K., & Mansell, J. P. (2020). Polydopamine-lysophosphatidate-functionalised titanium: A novel hybrid surface finish for bone regenerative applications. Molecules, 25(7), Article 1583. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25071583

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Aseptic loo... Read More about Polydopamine-lysophosphatidate-functionalised titanium: A novel hybrid surface finish for bone regenerative applications.

The use of storm fragments and biodegradable replanting methods allows for a low-impact habitat restoration method of seagrass meadows, in the eastern Aegean Sea (2020)
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Ward, E., Meek, S., Gordon, D., Cameron, T., Steer, M., Smith, D., …Tsimpidis, T. (2020). The use of storm fragments and biodegradable replanting methods allows for a low-impact habitat restoration method of seagrass meadows, in the eastern Aegean Sea. Conservation Evidence, 17, 1-16

Seagrasses are important marine ecosystems but are vulnerable to physical damage from anthropogenic activities such as anchoring and trawling. Replanting damaged areas can represent a viable restoration strategy, yet current methods rely on the remov... Read More about The use of storm fragments and biodegradable replanting methods allows for a low-impact habitat restoration method of seagrass meadows, in the eastern Aegean Sea.

Relationship between alcohol hangover and physical endurance performance: Walking the Samaria Gorge (2019)
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Verster, J. C., Anogeianaki, A., Kruisselbrink, D., Alford, C., & Stock, A. K. (2020). Relationship between alcohol hangover and physical endurance performance: Walking the Samaria Gorge. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9(1), Article 114. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9010114

Alcohol hangover is a potentially debilitating state. Several studies have demonstrated that it does not seem to impair strength or short-term endurance, but its effects on continuous exercise performance/long-term endurance have never been investiga... Read More about Relationship between alcohol hangover and physical endurance performance: Walking the Samaria Gorge.

Forensic science in Ghana: A review (2019)
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Amankwaa, A. O., Nsiah Amoako, E., Mensah Bonsu, D. O., & Banyeh, M. (2019). Forensic science in Ghana: A review. Forensic Science International, 1, 151-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2019.07.008

The use of forensic science continues to grow across the world. In Ghana, major advancements took off in 2011, including the introduction of modern DNA profiling and the establishment of an automated fingerprint identification system. These developme... Read More about Forensic science in Ghana: A review.

Leukaemic and bone marrow stromal cells alter cytarabine genotoxicity and cytotoxicity in favour of disease (2019)
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May, J., Gynn, L., Anderson, E., & Robinson, G. (2019). Leukaemic and bone marrow stromal cells alter cytarabine genotoxicity and cytotoxicity in favour of disease. Mutagenesis, 34(5/6), e5. https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage/gez025

Resistance to therapy remains one of the greatest challenges in the management of the blood and bone marrow (BM) disorder, acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). This study aimed to investigate how leukaemic and BM stromal cells contribute to altered chemo-s... Read More about Leukaemic and bone marrow stromal cells alter cytarabine genotoxicity and cytotoxicity in favour of disease.

Rapid bactericidal effect of cinnamon bark essential oil against Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2019)
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Elcocks, E., Spencer‐Phillips, P., & Adukwu, E. (2020). Rapid bactericidal effect of cinnamon bark essential oil against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 128(4), 1025-1037. https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.14538

AIMS: This study aimed to identify the most effective antimicrobial from a selection of essential oils and investigate its bactericidal properties against Ps. aeruginosa. METHODS AND RESULTS: The disc diffusion assay and minimal inhibitory/bacte... Read More about Rapid bactericidal effect of cinnamon bark essential oil against Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Advantages and limitations of naturalistic study designs and their implementation in alcohol hangover research (2019)
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Verster, J. C., van de Loo, A. J. A. E., Adams, S., Stock, A., Benson, S., Scholey, A., …Bruce, G. (2019). Advantages and limitations of naturalistic study designs and their implementation in alcohol hangover research. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8(12), Article 2160. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm8122160

In alcohol hangover research, both naturalistic designs and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are successfully employed to study the causes, consequences, and treatments of hangovers. Although increasingly applied in both social sciences and medica... Read More about Advantages and limitations of naturalistic study designs and their implementation in alcohol hangover research.

Influence of Bone Marrow Stromal and Leukemic Cells on Cytarabine Chemo-Toxicity in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). (2019)
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Gynn, L. E., Anderson, E., Robinson, G. M., Wexler, S. A., Upstill-Goddard, G., Cox, C., …Morgan, R. G. (2019). Influence of Bone Marrow Stromal and Leukemic Cells on Cytarabine Chemo-Toxicity in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). Blood, 134(Supplement 1), 2492. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2019-122891

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) are known to protect leukemic cells from drug-induced toxicity within the bone marrow (BM) niche, however, less is known about leukemic impact on supportive MSC. The nucleoside-analogue, cytarabine (Ara-C), is a front-... Read More about Influence of Bone Marrow Stromal and Leukemic Cells on Cytarabine Chemo-Toxicity in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)..

Novel, rapid, low-cost screen-printed (bio)sensors for the direct analysis of boar taint compounds androstenone and skatole in porcine adipose tissue: Comparison with a high-resolution gas chromatographic method (2019)
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Westmacott, K. L., Crew, A. P., Doran, O., & Hart, J. P. (2020). Novel, rapid, low-cost screen-printed (bio)sensors for the direct analysis of boar taint compounds androstenone and skatole in porcine adipose tissue: Comparison with a high-resolution gas chromatographic method. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 150, Article 111837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2019.111837

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. This is the first report on the fabrication, characterisation and application of an electrochemical (bio)sensor system for the simultaneous measurement of skatole and androstenone. A biosensor for androstenone was fabricated usin... Read More about Novel, rapid, low-cost screen-printed (bio)sensors for the direct analysis of boar taint compounds androstenone and skatole in porcine adipose tissue: Comparison with a high-resolution gas chromatographic method.

Pseudomonas daroniae sp. nov. and Pseudomonas dryadis sp. nov., isolated from pedunculate oak affected by acute oak decline in the UK (2019)
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Bueno-Gonzalez, V., Brady, C., Denman, S., Plummer, S., Allainguillaume, J., & Arnold, D. (2019). Pseudomonas daroniae sp. nov. and Pseudomonas dryadis sp. nov., isolated from pedunculate oak affected by acute oak decline in the UK. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 69(11), 3368-3376. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003615

Twenty-two cream-coloured bacterial strains were isolated from oak trees affected by acute oak decline (AOD) in Southern England. Isolates were Gram-negative, motile, slightly curved rods, aerobic, non-spore-forming, catalase positive and oxidase pos... Read More about Pseudomonas daroniae sp. nov. and Pseudomonas dryadis sp. nov., isolated from pedunculate oak affected by acute oak decline in the UK.

Evaluation of additives on reversed-phase chromatography of monoclonal antibodies using a 1000 Å stationary phase (2019)
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McCalley, D. V., & Guillarme, D. (2020). Evaluation of additives on reversed-phase chromatography of monoclonal antibodies using a 1000 Å stationary phase. Journal of Chromatography A, 1610, Article 460562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2019.460562

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. A wide pore (1000 Å) diphenyl stationary phase was evaluated for the analysis of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), comparing a conventional mobile phase of acetonitrile-water containing overall 0.1% trifluoracetic acid (TFA) with a s... Read More about Evaluation of additives on reversed-phase chromatography of monoclonal antibodies using a 1000 Å stationary phase.

Recommendations on terminology and experimental best practice associated with plant nitric oxide research (2019)
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Gupta, K. J., Hancock, J. T., Petrivalsky, M., Kolbert, Z. S., Lindermayr, C., Durner, J., …John Loake, G. (2020). Recommendations on terminology and experimental best practice associated with plant nitric oxide research. New Phytologist, 225(5), 1828-1834. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16157

© 2019 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2019 New Phytologist Trust Nitric oxide (NO) emerged as a key signal molecule in plants. During the last two decades impressive progress has been made in plant NO research. This small, redox-active molecule is no... Read More about Recommendations on terminology and experimental best practice associated with plant nitric oxide research.

Network theory and the resilience of redox signaling (2019)
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Hancock, J. T., Veal, D., & Hancock, A. L. (2019). Network theory and the resilience of redox signaling. Reactive Oxygen Species, 8(23), 245-257

The redox status inside and around cells is critically important to control, being used to maintain reduced compounds in the correct state and for cell signaling mechanisms. A myriad of compounds and proteins are involved in a vast network system to... Read More about Network theory and the resilience of redox signaling.

Lemurs in Cacao: Presence and Abundance within the Shade Plantations of Northern Madagascar (2019)
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Webber, A. D., Solofondranohatra, J. S., Razafindramoana, S., Fernandez, D., Parker, C. A., Steer, M., …Allainguillaume, J. (in press). Lemurs in Cacao: Presence and Abundance within the Shade Plantations of Northern Madagascar. Folia Primatologica, 91(2), 96-107. https://doi.org/10.1159/000501987

© 2019 S. Karger AG, Basel. The recognition that much biodiversity exists outside protected areas is driving research to understand how animals survive in anthropogenic landscapes. In Madagascar, cacao (Theobroma cacao) is grown under a mix of native... Read More about Lemurs in Cacao: Presence and Abundance within the Shade Plantations of Northern Madagascar.

Abscisic acid induced a negative geotropic response in dark-incubated Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (2019)
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Al-Hijab, L., Gregg, A., Davies, R., Macdonald, H., Ladomery, M., & Wilson, I. (2019). Abscisic acid induced a negative geotropic response in dark-incubated Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 12063. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48632-0

© 2019, The Author(s). The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays a role in stresses that alter plant water status and may also regulate root gravitropism and hydrotropism. ABA also exists in the aquatic algal progenitors of land plants, but other th... Read More about Abscisic acid induced a negative geotropic response in dark-incubated Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

An electrocatalytic screen-printed amperometric sensor for the selective measurement of thiamine (Vitamin B1) in food supplements (2019)
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Smart, A., Westmacott, K. L., Crew, A., Doran, O., & Hart, J. P. (2019). An electrocatalytic screen-printed amperometric sensor for the selective measurement of thiamine (Vitamin B1) in food supplements. Biosensors, 9(3), Article 98. https://doi.org/10.3390/bios9030098

An electrocatalytic screen-printed sensor has been investigated for the measurement of the biologically important biomolecule vitamin B1 (thiamine) for the first time in food supplements. Under basic conditions, the vitamin was converted to its elect... Read More about An electrocatalytic screen-printed amperometric sensor for the selective measurement of thiamine (Vitamin B1) in food supplements.

Phenethyl isothiocyanate hampers growth and progression of HER2-positive breast and ovarian carcinoma by targeting their stem cell compartment (2019)
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Koschorke, A., Faraci, S., Giani, D., Chiodoni, C., Iorio, E., Canese, R., …Pupa, S. M. (2019). Phenethyl isothiocyanate hampers growth and progression of HER2-positive breast and ovarian carcinoma by targeting their stem cell compartment. Cellular Oncology, 42(6), 815-828. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13402-019-00464-w

© 2019, International Society for Cellular Oncology. Purpose: Isothiocyanates elicit anticancer effects by targeting cancer stem cells (CSCs). Here, we tested the antitumor activity of phenethyl-isothiocyanate (PEITC), either alone or in combination... Read More about Phenethyl isothiocyanate hampers growth and progression of HER2-positive breast and ovarian carcinoma by targeting their stem cell compartment.