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Fluorophosphonate-functionalised titanium via a pre-adsorbed alkane phosphonic acid: a novel dual action surface finish for bone regenerative applications (2015)
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Ayre, W. N., Scott, T., Hallam, K., Blom, A. W., Denyer, S., Bone, H. K., & Mansell, J. P. (2016). Fluorophosphonate-functionalised titanium via a pre-adsorbed alkane phosphonic acid: a novel dual action surface finish for bone regenerative applications. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 27(2), Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10856-015-5644-7

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Abstract: Enhancing vitamin D-induced human osteoblast (hOB) maturation at bone biomaterial surfaces is likely to improve prosthesis integration with resultant reductions in the need for revision art... Read More about Fluorophosphonate-functionalised titanium via a pre-adsorbed alkane phosphonic acid: a novel dual action surface finish for bone regenerative applications.

Facile aqueous growth of 150 nm ZnO nanowires for energy harvester: Enhanced output voltage using Pt sputtered electrode (2015)
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Luxton, R., Ahmad, M., Kiely, J., Luxton, R. W., Jabeen, M., & Khalid, M. (2016). Facile aqueous growth of 150 nm ZnO nanowires for energy harvester: Enhanced output voltage using Pt sputtered electrode. Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, 7, 141-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbsr.2015.12.005

© 2015. Facile aqueous growth technique was adopted to grow diameter controlled 150 nm ZnO nanowires on an ITO (indium tin oxide) coated PET (poly ethylene terephthalate) substrate. Prior to nanowire growth, a pure wurtazite structured ZnO seed layer... Read More about Facile aqueous growth of 150 nm ZnO nanowires for energy harvester: Enhanced output voltage using Pt sputtered electrode.

The worries of weaning: Newspaper reporting of infant weaning and its impact on dialogue in online discussion forums (2015)
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Knowles, R., & Wilkinson, C. (2017). The worries of weaning: Newspaper reporting of infant weaning and its impact on dialogue in online discussion forums. Journalism, 18(3), 350-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884915620230

© SAGE Publications. Despite infant weaning being one of the most challenging aspects of parenting, there is uncertainty about the right time to start. This research aimed to understand the impact of newspaper reporting of weaning on parents, in part... Read More about The worries of weaning: Newspaper reporting of infant weaning and its impact on dialogue in online discussion forums.

Development and validation of a high throughput, closed tube method for the determination of haemoglobin alpha gene (HBA1 and HBA2) numbers by gene ratio assay copy enumeration-PCR (GRACE-PCR) (2015)
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Turner, A., Sasse, J., & Varadi, A. (2015). Development and validation of a high throughput, closed tube method for the determination of haemoglobin alpha gene (HBA1 and HBA2) numbers by gene ratio assay copy enumeration-PCR (GRACE-PCR). BMC Medical Genetics, 16, Article 115. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12881-015-0258-y

© 2015 Turner et al. Background: Deletions of the aα-globin genes are the most common genetic abnormalities in the world. Currently multiplex Gap-PCRs are frequently used to identify specific sets of common deletions. However, these assays require si... Read More about Development and validation of a high throughput, closed tube method for the determination of haemoglobin alpha gene (HBA1 and HBA2) numbers by gene ratio assay copy enumeration-PCR (GRACE-PCR).

Effects of Lipid Composition on Bilayer Membranes Quantified by All-Atom Molecular Dynamics (2015)
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Ding, W., Palaiokostas, M., Wang, W., & Orsi, M. (2015). Effects of Lipid Composition on Bilayer Membranes Quantified by All-Atom Molecular Dynamics. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119(49), 15263-15274. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b06604

© 2015 American Chemical Society. Biological bilayer membranes typically contain varying amounts of lamellar and nonlamellar lipids. Lamellar lipids, such as dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC), are defined by their tendency to form the lamellar phase... Read More about Effects of Lipid Composition on Bilayer Membranes Quantified by All-Atom Molecular Dynamics.

The design, development and application of electrochemical glutamate biosensors (2015)
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Hart, J. P., Pemberton, R. M., Hughes, G., Hughes, G., Pemberton, R., Fielden, P. R., & Hart, J. P. (2016). The design, development and application of electrochemical glutamate biosensors. Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 79, 106-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2015.10.020

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. The development of biosensors for the determination of glutamate has been of great research interest for the past 25 years due to its importance in biomedical and food studies. This review focusses on the various strategies used... Read More about The design, development and application of electrochemical glutamate biosensors.

SUMOylation of Syntaxin1A regulates presynaptic endocytosis (2015)
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Henley, J. M., Craig, T. J., Anderson, D., Evans, A. J., & Girach, F. (2015). SUMOylation of Syntaxin1A regulates presynaptic endocytosis. Scientific Reports, 5, 17669. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep17669

Neurotransmitter release from the presynaptic terminal is under very precise spatial and temporal control. Following neurotransmitter release, synaptic vesicles are recycled by endocytosis and refilled with neurotransmitter. During the exocytosis eve... Read More about SUMOylation of Syntaxin1A regulates presynaptic endocytosis.

Gibbsiella papilionis Kim et al. 2013 is a later heterotypic synonym of gibbsiella dentisursi Saito et al. 2013 (2015)
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Brady, C., Irisawa, T., Iino, T., Ohkuma, M., Arnold, D. L., & Denman, S. (2015). Gibbsiella papilionis Kim et al. 2013 is a later heterotypic synonym of gibbsiella dentisursi Saito et al. 2013. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 65(12), 4788-4791. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000649

© 2015 IUMS. Synonymy of Gibbsiella dentisursi DSM 23818T (=NUM 1720T) and Gibbsiella papilionis JCM 18389T (=LEN33T) was suspected following multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) of both type strains in a previous classification study, where they were... Read More about Gibbsiella papilionis Kim et al. 2013 is a later heterotypic synonym of gibbsiella dentisursi Saito et al. 2013.

Dual Action of lysophosphatidate- functionalised titanium: Interactions with human (MG63) osteoblasts and methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (2015)
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Skindersoe, M. E., Krogfelt, K. A., Blom, A., Jiang, G., Prestwich, G. D., & Mansell, J. P. (2015). Dual Action of lysophosphatidate- functionalised titanium: Interactions with human (MG63) osteoblasts and methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus. PLoS ONE, 10(11), Article e0143509. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143509

© 2015 Skindersoe et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are... Read More about Dual Action of lysophosphatidate- functionalised titanium: Interactions with human (MG63) osteoblasts and methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus.

Actividades Educativas en el museo científico: De ciencia divertida a ciencia seductora (2015)
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Fernandez, G., Stengler, E., & Viladot, P. (2015). Actividades Educativas en el museo científico: De ciencia divertida a ciencia seductora

Science centres and museums have undergone a great evolution in recent decades although it seems that, lately, the science museum model has been somewhat stagnant. Since the radical changes of the mid-twentieth century, it has developed towards strat... Read More about Actividades Educativas en el museo científico: De ciencia divertida a ciencia seductora.

Inter-Taxa differences in iodine uptake by plants: Implications for food quality and contamination (2015)
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Siasou, E., & Willey, N. (2015). Inter-Taxa differences in iodine uptake by plants: Implications for food quality and contamination. Agronomy, 5(4), 537-554. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy5040537

© 2015 by the authors. Although iodine is not essential for plants, they take it up readily and, in foodchains, are significant sources of iodine for organisms with an essential requirement for it. During several nuclear accidents radioiodine has bee... Read More about Inter-Taxa differences in iodine uptake by plants: Implications for food quality and contamination.

A novel biosensor for prediction of global hypomethylation by decitabine and azacytadine in leukaemic cells (2015)
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May, J. E., Allainguillaume, J., Page, K., Stratford-Smith, C., Aruomaren, A., Alloush, H., …Anderson, E. (2015). A novel biosensor for prediction of global hypomethylation by decitabine and azacytadine in leukaemic cells. Mutagenesis, 30(6), 856. https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage/gev074

Decitabine (DAC) and azacytidine (AZA) are cytidine ana- logues and hypomethylating agents used in the manage- ment of patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), where the main goal is to prevent transformation to acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), wh... Read More about A novel biosensor for prediction of global hypomethylation by decitabine and azacytadine in leukaemic cells.

The stromal cell line HS-5 is an alternative mesenchymal stem cell source for the development of a 3D bone marrow model (2015)
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Kabrah, S., May, J. E., Donaldson, C., & Morse, H. R. (2015). The stromal cell line HS-5 is an alternative mesenchymal stem cell source for the development of a 3D bone marrow model. Mutagenesis, 30(6), 861. https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage/gev074

Developing a novel three-dimensional (3D) in vitro model of the bone marrow microenvironment using bone mar- row mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) in commercial matrices involves a series of distinct processes. This starts with selecting an appropriat... Read More about The stromal cell line HS-5 is an alternative mesenchymal stem cell source for the development of a 3D bone marrow model.

Determination of the appropriate gene for real-time PCR analysis of the immotalized stromal cell line HS-5 in 2D and 3D culture following melphalan exposure (2015)
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Kabrah, S., May, J. E., Donaldson, C., & Morse, H. R. (2015). Determination of the appropriate gene for real-time PCR analysis of the immotalized stromal cell line HS-5 in 2D and 3D culture following melphalan exposure. Mutagenesis, 30(6), 874. https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage/gev074

Although gene expression analysis using real-time quan- titative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) is an accurate method to evaluate cell activi- ties and phenotypes, the reliability of the analysis depends on the selection of... Read More about Determination of the appropriate gene for real-time PCR analysis of the immotalized stromal cell line HS-5 in 2D and 3D culture following melphalan exposure.

Bone marrow and myeloma cellular communication protects from genotoxicity in a drug-specific manner (2015)
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Andrews, S., Morse, H. R., & May, J. E. (2015). Bone marrow and myeloma cellular communication protects from genotoxicity in a drug-specific manner. Mutagenesis, 30(6), 867-868. https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage/gev074

Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable haematological malignancy with most patients eventually developing ad- vanced, relapsing disease and drug resistance (1,2). This may result from protection by BM mesenchymal cells (BM— MSC) interacting with MM ce... Read More about Bone marrow and myeloma cellular communication protects from genotoxicity in a drug-specific manner.

The Scd6/Lsm14 protein xRAPB has properties different from RAP55 in selecting mRNA for early translation or intracellular distribution in Xenopus oocytes (2015)
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Ladomery, M., & Sommerville, J. (2015). The Scd6/Lsm14 protein xRAPB has properties different from RAP55 in selecting mRNA for early translation or intracellular distribution in Xenopus oocytes. BBA - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, 1849(11), 1363-1373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbagrm.2015.10.002

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Oocytes accumulate mRNAs in the form of maternal ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particles, the protein components of which determine the location and stability of individual mRNAs prior to translation. Scd6/Lsm14 proteins, typified by R... Read More about The Scd6/Lsm14 protein xRAPB has properties different from RAP55 in selecting mRNA for early translation or intracellular distribution in Xenopus oocytes.

LGR5 regulates pro-survival MEK/ERK and proliferative Wnt/β-catenin signalling in neuroblastoma (2015)
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Vieira, G. C., Chockalingam, S., Melegh, Z., Greenhough, A., Malik, S., Szemes, M., …Malik, K. (2015). LGR5 regulates pro-survival MEK/ERK and proliferative Wnt/β-catenin signalling in neuroblastoma. Oncotarget, 6(37), 40053-40067. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.5548

LGR5 is a marker of normal and cancer stem cells in various tissues where it functions as a receptor for R-spondins and increases canonical Wnt signalling amplitude. Here we report that LGR5 is also highly expressed in a subset of high grade neurobla... Read More about LGR5 regulates pro-survival MEK/ERK and proliferative Wnt/β-catenin signalling in neuroblastoma.

Development of a voltammetric assay, using screen-printed electrodes, for clonazepam and its application to beverage and serum samples (2015)
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Honeychurch, K. C., Brooks, J., & Hart, J. P. (2016). Development of a voltammetric assay, using screen-printed electrodes, for clonazepam and its application to beverage and serum samples. Talanta, 147, 510-515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2015.10.032

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This paper describes the development of an electrochemical assay based on screen-printed carbon sensors for the determination of clonazepam in serum and in wine. The cyclic voltammetric behaviour of the drug... Read More about Development of a voltammetric assay, using screen-printed electrodes, for clonazepam and its application to beverage and serum samples.