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Sulfur amino acid supplementation displays therapeutic potential in a C. elegans model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. (2022)
Journal Article
Ellwood, R. A., Slade, L., Lewis, J., Torregrossa, R., Sudevan, S., Piasecki, M., Whiteman, M., Etheridge, T., & Szewczyk, N. J. (2022). Sulfur amino acid supplementation displays therapeutic potential in a C. elegans model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Communications Biology, 5(1), Article 1255. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04212-z

Mutations in the dystrophin gene cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a common muscle disease that manifests with muscle weakness, wasting, and degeneration. An emerging theme in DMD pathophysiology is an intramuscular deficit in the gasotransmit... Read More about Sulfur amino acid supplementation displays therapeutic potential in a C. elegans model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy..

Dietary nitrate supplementation for preventing and reducing the severity of winter infections, including COVID-19, in care homes (BEET-Winter)-a randomised placebo-controlled feasibility trial (2022)
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Bath, P. M., Skinner, C. J. C., Bath, C. S., Woodhouse, L. J., Areti, A., Korovesi, K., Long, H., Havard, D., Coleman, C. M., England, T. J., Leyland, V., Lim, W. S., Montgomery, A. A., Royal, S., Avery, A., Webb, A. J., & Gordon, A. L. (2022). Dietary nitrate supplementation for preventing and reducing the severity of winter infections, including COVID-19, in care homes (BEET-Winter)-a randomised placebo-controlled feasibility trial. European Geriatric Medicine, 13, 1343-1355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-022-00714-5

Purpose
Infections cause considerable care home morbidity and mortality. Nitric oxide (NO) has broad-spectrum anti-viral, bacterial and yeast activity in vitro. We assessed the feasibility of supplementing dietary nitrate (NO substrate) intake in ca... Read More about Dietary nitrate supplementation for preventing and reducing the severity of winter infections, including COVID-19, in care homes (BEET-Winter)-a randomised placebo-controlled feasibility trial.

Caloric restriction improves glycaemic control without reducing plasma branched-chain amino acids or keto-acids in obese men (2022)
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Sayda, M. H., Abdul-Aziz, M. H., Gharahdaghi, N., Wilkinson, D. J., Greenhaff, P. L., Philips, B. E., Smith, K., Idris, I., & Atherton, P. J. (2022). Caloric restriction improves glycaemic control without reducing plasma branched-chain amino acids or keto-acids in obese men. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 19273. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21814-z

Higher plasma leucine, isoleucine and valine (BCAA) concentrations are associated with diabetes, obesity and insulin resistance (IR). Here, we evaluated the effects of 6-weeks very-low calorie diet (VLCD) upon fasting BCAA in overweight (OW) non-diab... Read More about Caloric restriction improves glycaemic control without reducing plasma branched-chain amino acids or keto-acids in obese men.

The impact of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic on the quality of breast cancer care in EUSOMA-certified breast centres (2022)
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van Dam, P., Tomatis, M., Ponti, A., Marotti, L., Aristei, C., Biganzoli, L., Cardoso, M. J., Cheung, K. L., Curigliano, G., De Vries, J., Santini, D., Sardanelli, F., Rubio, I. T., Baldini, V., Ballardini, B., Berger, J., Berlière, M., Bonetti, A., Bortul, M., Bussels, B., …Verhoeven, D. (2022). The impact of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic on the quality of breast cancer care in EUSOMA-certified breast centres. European Journal of Cancer, 177, 72-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2022.09.027

Aims: We analysed the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (COVID-19) on the quality of breast cancer care in certified EUSOMA (European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists) breast centres. Materials and methods: The results of the EUSOMA quality indic... Read More about The impact of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic on the quality of breast cancer care in EUSOMA-certified breast centres.

Quality of life in older adults with chronic kidney disease and transient changes in renal function: Findings from the Oxford Renal cohort (2022)
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Busa, I., Ordóñez-Mena, J. M., Yang, Y., Wolstenholme, J., Petrou, S., Taylor, C. J., O’Callaghan, C. A., Fraser, S. D., Taal, M. W., McManus, R. J., Hirst, J. A., & Hobbs, F. R. (2022). Quality of life in older adults with chronic kidney disease and transient changes in renal function: Findings from the Oxford Renal cohort. PLoS ONE, 17(10), Article e0275572. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275572

BACKGROUND: Quality of life (QoL) is an important measure of disease burden and general health perception. The relationship between early chronic kidney disease (CKD) and QoL remains poorly understood. The Oxford Renal Study (OxRen) cohort comprises... Read More about Quality of life in older adults with chronic kidney disease and transient changes in renal function: Findings from the Oxford Renal cohort.

Motor unit dysregulation following 15 days of unilateral lower limb immobilisation (2022)
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Inns, T. B., Bass, J. J., Hardy, E. J., Wilkinson, D. J., Stashuk, D. W., Atherton, P. J., Phillips, B. E., & Piasecki, M. (2022). Motor unit dysregulation following 15 days of unilateral lower limb immobilisation. Journal of Physiology, 600(21), 4753-4769. https://doi.org/10.1113/jp283425

Abstract: Disuse atrophy, caused by situations of unloading such as limb immobilisation, causes a rapid yet diverging reduction in skeletal muscle function when compared to muscle mass. While mechanistic insight into the loss of mass is well studied,... Read More about Motor unit dysregulation following 15 days of unilateral lower limb immobilisation.

Molecular Biomarker Expression in Window of Opportunity Studies for Oestrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer—A Systematic Review of the Literature (2022)
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Francis, J. W., Saundh, M., Parks, R. M., & Cheung, K. L. (2022). Molecular Biomarker Expression in Window of Opportunity Studies for Oestrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer—A Systematic Review of the Literature. Cancers, 14(20), Article 5027. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14205027

Window of opportunity (WoO) trials create the opportunity to demonstrate pharmacodynamic parameters of a drug in vivo and have increasing use in breast cancer research. Most breast cancer tumours are oestrogen receptor-positive (ER+), leading to the... Read More about Molecular Biomarker Expression in Window of Opportunity Studies for Oestrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer—A Systematic Review of the Literature.

The Association between Circulating Branched Chain Amino Acids and the Temporal Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis (2022)
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Ramzan, I., Ardavani, A., Vanweert, F., Mellett, A., Atherton, P. J., & Idris, I. (2022). The Association between Circulating Branched Chain Amino Acids and the Temporal Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis. Nutrients, 14(20), Article 4411. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14204411

Introduction: Recent studies have concluded that elevated circulating branched chain amino acids (BCAA) are associated with the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and obesity. However, the development of this association over time and th... Read More about The Association between Circulating Branched Chain Amino Acids and the Temporal Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis.

Human adaptation to immobilization: Novel insights of impacts on glucose disposal and fuel utilization (2022)
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Shur, N. F., Simpson, E. J., Crossland, H., Chivaka, P. K., Constantin, D., Cordon, S. M., Constantin-Teodosiu, D., Stephens, F. B., Lobo, D. N., Szewczyk, N., Narici, M., Prats, C., Macdonald, I. A., & Greenhaff, P. L. (2022). Human adaptation to immobilization: Novel insights of impacts on glucose disposal and fuel utilization. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 13(6), 2999-3013. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.13075

Background: Bed rest (BR) reduces whole-body insulin-stimulated glucose disposal (GD) and alters muscle fuel metabolism, but little is known about metabolic adaptation from acute to chronic BR nor the mechanisms involved, particularly when volunteers... Read More about Human adaptation to immobilization: Novel insights of impacts on glucose disposal and fuel utilization.

Development of a core outcome set for the evaluation of interventions to prevent COVID-19 in care homes (COS-COVID-PCARE Study) (2022)
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Shepherd, V., Islam, I., Wood, F., Williamson, P. R., Goodman, C., Bath, P. M., Thompson, C., Knapp, M., Gordon, A. L., & Hood, K. (2022). Development of a core outcome set for the evaluation of interventions to prevent COVID-19 in care homes (COS-COVID-PCARE Study). BMC Geriatrics, 22(1), Article 710. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03395-8

Background: People living in care homes have experienced devastating impact from COVID-19. As interventions to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 are developed and evaluated, there is an urgent need for researchers to agree on the outcomes used whe... Read More about Development of a core outcome set for the evaluation of interventions to prevent COVID-19 in care homes (COS-COVID-PCARE Study).