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Defining the inflammatory signature of human lung explant tissue in the presence and absence of glucocorticoid (2017)
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Rimington, T. L., Hodge, E., Billington, C. K., Bhaker, S., K C, B., Kilty, I., Jelinsky, S., Hall, I. P., & Sayers, I. (2017). Defining the inflammatory signature of human lung explant tissue in the presence and absence of glucocorticoid. F1000Research, 6, Article 460. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.10961.1

Background: Airway inflammation is a feature of many respiratory diseases and there is a need for newer, more effective anti-inflammatory compounds. The aim of this study was to develop an ex vivo human lung explant model which can be used to help st... Read More about Defining the inflammatory signature of human lung explant tissue in the presence and absence of glucocorticoid.

Lung function associated gene Integrator Complex subunit 12 regulates protein synthesis pathways (2017)
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Kheirallah, A. K., de Moor, C. H., Faiz, A., Sayers, I., & Hall, I. P. (2017). Lung function associated gene Integrator Complex subunit 12 regulates protein synthesis pathways. BMC Genomics, 18(1), Article 248. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3628-3

BACKGROUND: Genetic studies of human lung function and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease have identified a highly significant and reproducible signal on 4q24. It remains unclear which of the two candidate genes within this locus may regulate lung... Read More about Lung function associated gene Integrator Complex subunit 12 regulates protein synthesis pathways.

Predicting hospital stay, mortality and readmission in people admitted for hypoglycaemia: prognostic models derivation and validation (2017)
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Zaccardi, F., Webb, D. R., Davies, M. J., Dhalwani, N. N., Gray, L. J., Chatterjee, S., Housley, G., Shaw, D., Hatton, J. W., & Khunti, K. (2017). Predicting hospital stay, mortality and readmission in people admitted for hypoglycaemia: prognostic models derivation and validation. Diabetologia, 60(6), 1007-1015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-017-4235-1

Aims/hypothesis: Hospital admissions for hypoglycaemia represent a significant burden on individuals with diabetes and have a substantial economic impact on healthcare systems. To date, no prognostic models have been developed to predict outcomes fol... Read More about Predicting hospital stay, mortality and readmission in people admitted for hypoglycaemia: prognostic models derivation and validation.

Risk factors and outcome differences in hypoglycaemia-related hospital admissions: A case-control study in England: ZACCARDIet al. (2017)
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Zaccardi, F., Webb, D. R., Davies, M. J., Dhalwani, N. N., Housley, G., Shaw, D., Hatton, J. W., & Khunti, K. (2017). Risk factors and outcome differences in hypoglycaemia-related hospital admissions: A case-control study in England: ZACCARDIet al. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 19(10), 1371-1378. https://doi.org/10.1111/dom.12941

Aims: To evaluate risk factors for hospital admissions for hypoglycaemia and compare length of hospitalization, inpatient mortality and hospital readmission between hypoglycaemia- and nonhypoglycaemia-related admissions.
Materials and methods: We us... Read More about Risk factors and outcome differences in hypoglycaemia-related hospital admissions: A case-control study in England: ZACCARDIet al..

Role of ROCK isoforms in regulation of stiffness induced myofibroblast differentiation in lung fibrosis (2017)
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Htwe, S. S., Cha, B. H., Yue, K., Khademhosseini, A., Knox, A. J., & Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2017). Role of ROCK isoforms in regulation of stiffness induced myofibroblast differentiation in lung fibrosis. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, 56(6), 772-783. https://doi.org/10.1165/rcmb.2016-0306OC

Fibrosis is a major cause of progressive organ dysfunction in several chronic pulmonary diseases. Rho associated coiled-coil forming kinase (ROCK) has shown to be involved in myofibroblast differentiation driven by altered matrix stiffness in fibroti... Read More about Role of ROCK isoforms in regulation of stiffness induced myofibroblast differentiation in lung fibrosis.

Genetic variants affecting cross-sectional lung function in adults show little or no effect on longitudinal lung function decline (2017)
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John, C., Soler Artigas, M., Hui, J., Nielsen, S. F., Rafaels, N., Paré, P. D., Hansel, N. N., Shrine, N., Kilty, I., Malarstig, A., Jelinsky, S. A., Vedel-Krogh, S., Barnes, K., Hall, I. P., Beilby, J., Musk, A. W., Nordestgaard, B. G., James, A., Wain, L. V., & Tobin, M. D. (2017). Genetic variants affecting cross-sectional lung function in adults show little or no effect on longitudinal lung function decline. Thorax, 72(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-208448

Background: Genome-wide association studies have identified numerous genetic regions that influence cross-sectional lung function. Longitudinal decline in lung function also includes a heritable component but the genetic determinants have yet to be d... Read More about Genetic variants affecting cross-sectional lung function in adults show little or no effect on longitudinal lung function decline.

Genome-wide association analyses for lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify new loci and potential druggable targets (2017)
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Wain, L. V., Shrine, N., Artigas, M. S., Erzurumluoglu, A. M., Noyvert, B., Bossini-Castillo, L., Obeidat, M., Henry, A. P., Portelli, M. A., Hall, R. J., Billington, C. K., Rimington, T. L., Fenech, A. G., Johnson, C., Blake, T., Jackson, V. E., Allen, R. J., Prins, B. P., Campbell, A., Sayers, I., & Hall, I. P. (2017). Genome-wide association analyses for lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify new loci and potential druggable targets. Nature Genetics, 49(3), 416-425. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3787

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by reduced lung function and is the third leading cause of death globally. Through genome-wide association discovery in 48,943 individuals, selected from extremes of the lung function dist... Read More about Genome-wide association analyses for lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify new loci and potential druggable targets.

Genetic loci associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap with loci for lung function and pulmonary fibrosis (2017)
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Hobbs, B. D., de Jong, K., Lamontagne, M., Bossé, Y., Shrine, N., Artigas, M. S., Wain, L. V., Hall, I. P., Jackson, V. E., Wyss, A. B., London, S. J., North, K. E., Franceschini, N., Strachan, D. P., Beaty, T. H., Hokanson, J. E., Crapo, J. D., Castaldi, P. J., Chase, R. P., Bartz, T. M., …Cho, M. H. (in press). Genetic loci associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap with loci for lung function and pulmonary fibrosis. Nature Genetics, 49(3), https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3752

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. We performed a genetic association study in 15,256 cases and 47,936 controls, with replication of select top results (P < 5 × 10(-6)) in 9,498 cases and 9,748 con... Read More about Genetic loci associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap with loci for lung function and pulmonary fibrosis.

Nanoscale engineering of hybrid magnetite–carbon nanofibre materials for magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents (2017)
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Metelkina, O. N., Lodge, R. W., Rudakovskaya, P. G., Gerasimov, V. M., Lucas, C. H., Grebennikov, I. S., Shchetinin, I. V., Savchenko, A. G., Pavlovskaya, G. E., Rance, G. A., del Carmen Gimenez-Lopez, M., Khlobystov, A. N., & Majouga, A. G. (2017). Nanoscale engineering of hybrid magnetite–carbon nanofibre materials for magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 5(8), 2167-2174. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6TC04141H

Magnetic nanomaterials show significant promise as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We have developed a new highly efficient one-step procedure for the synthesis of magnetically- functionalised hollow carbon nanofibres, where (i)... Read More about Nanoscale engineering of hybrid magnetite–carbon nanofibre materials for magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents.

Targeted sequencing of lung function loci in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cases and controls (2017)
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Artigas, M. S., Wain, L. V., Shrine, N., McKeever, T. M., Sayers, I., Hall, I. P., & Tobin, M. D. (2017). Targeted sequencing of lung function loci in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cases and controls. PLoS ONE, 12(1), Article e0170222. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170222

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death worldwide; smoking is the main risk factor for COPD, but genetic factors are also relevant contributors. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of the lung function meas... Read More about Targeted sequencing of lung function loci in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cases and controls.