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Direct detection and measurement of wall shear stress using a filamentous bio-nanoparticle (2015)
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Salmon, A. H. J., Lobo, D. P., Wemyss, A. M., Smith, D. J., Straube, A., Betteridge, K. B., Salmon, A. H., Foster, R. R., Elhegni, H. E., Satchell, S. C., Little, H. A., Pacheco-Gómez, R., Simmons, M. J., Hicks, M. R., Bates, D. O., Rodger, A., Dafforn, T. R., & Arkill, K. P. (2015). Direct detection and measurement of wall shear stress using a filamentous bio-nanoparticle. Nano Research, 8(10), 3307-3315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-015-0831-x

The wall shear stress (WSS) that a moving fluid exerts on a surface affects many processes including those relating to vascular function. WSS plays an important role in normal physiology (e.g. angiogenesis) and affects the microvasculature's primary... Read More about Direct detection and measurement of wall shear stress using a filamentous bio-nanoparticle.

Vascular endothelial growth factor-A165b is protective and restores endothelial glycocalyx in diabetic nephropathy (2015)
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Oltean, S., Qiu, Y., Ferguson, J. K., Stevens, M., Neal, C., Russell, A., Kaura, A., Arkill, K. P., Harris, K., Symonds, C., Lacey, K., Wijeyaratne, L., Gammons, M., Wylie, E., Hulse, R. P., Alsop, C., Cope, G., Damodaran, G., Betteridge, K. B., Ramnath, R., …Salmon, A. H. (2015). Vascular endothelial growth factor-A165b is protective and restores endothelial glycocalyx in diabetic nephropathy. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 26(8), https://doi.org/10.1681/ASN.2014040350

Diabetic nephropathy is the leading cause of ESRD in high-income countries and a growing problem across the world. Vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A) is thought to be a critical mediator of vascular dysfunction in diabetic nephropathy, yet... Read More about Vascular endothelial growth factor-A165b is protective and restores endothelial glycocalyx in diabetic nephropathy.

Vascular endothelial growth factor-A165b prevents diabetic neuropathic pain and sensory neuronal degeneration (2015)
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Hulse, R. P., Beazley-Long, N., Ved, N., Bestall, S. M., Riaz, H., Singhal, P., Ballmer Hofer, K., Harper, S. J., Bates, D. O., & Donaldson, L. F. (2015). Vascular endothelial growth factor-A165b prevents diabetic neuropathic pain and sensory neuronal degeneration. Clinical Science, 129(8), https://doi.org/10.1042/CS20150124

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy affects up to half of diabetic patients. This neuronal damage leads to sensory disturbances, including allodynia and hyperalgesia. Many growth factors have been suggested as useful treatments for prevention of neurodege... Read More about Vascular endothelial growth factor-A165b prevents diabetic neuropathic pain and sensory neuronal degeneration.

IL-4 Regulates Specific Arg-1+ Macrophage sFlt-1–Mediated Inhibition of Angiogenesis (2015)
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Wu, W.-K., Georgiadis, A., Copland, D. A., Liyanage, S., Luhmann, U. F., Robbie, S. J., Liu, J., Wu, J., Bainbridge, J. W., Bates, D. O., Ali, R. R., Nicholson, L. B., & Dick, A. D. (2015). IL-4 Regulates Specific Arg-1+ Macrophage sFlt-1–Mediated Inhibition of Angiogenesis. American Journal of Pathology, 185(8), 2324-2335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2015.04.013

One of the main drivers for neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration is activation of innate immunity in the presence of macrophages. Here, we demonstrate that T helper cell type 2 cytokines and, in particular, IL-4 condition human and... Read More about IL-4 Regulates Specific Arg-1+ Macrophage sFlt-1–Mediated Inhibition of Angiogenesis.

Regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor in prostate cancer (2015)
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de Brot, S., Ntekim, A., Cardenas, R., James, V., Allegrucci, C., Heery, D. M., Bates, D. O., Ødum, N., Persson, J. L., & Mongan, N. P. (2015). Regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor in prostate cancer. Endocrine-Related Cancer, 22(3), Article R107-R123. https://doi.org/10.1530/ERC-15-0123

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common malignancy affecting men in the western world. Although radical prostatectomy and radiation therapy can successfully treat PCa in the majority of patients, up to ∼30% will experience local recurrence or metast... Read More about Regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor in prostate cancer.

Serine-arginine protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) inhibition as a potential novel targeted therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer (2014)
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Mavrou, A., Brakspear, K., Hamdollah-Zadeh, M., Damodaran, G., Babaei-Jadidi, R., Oxley, J., Gillatt, D., Ladomery, M., Harper, S., Bates, D., & Oltean, S. (2015). Serine-arginine protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) inhibition as a potential novel targeted therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer. Oncogene, 34(33), 4311-4319. https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2014.360

Angiogenesis is required for tumour growth and is induced principally by vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A). VEGF-A pre-mRNA is alternatively spliced at the terminal exon to produce two families of isoforms, pro- and anti-angiogenic, only... Read More about Serine-arginine protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) inhibition as a potential novel targeted therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer.

An antiangiogenic isoform of VEGF-A contributes to impaired vascularization in peripheral artery disease (2014)
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Kikuchi, R., Nakamura, K., MacLauchlan, S., Thi-Minh Ngo, D., Shimizu, I., Javier Fuster, J., Katanasaka, Y., Yoshida, S., Qiu, Y., Yamaguchi, T. P., Matsushita, T., Murohara, T., Gokce, N., Bates, D., Hamburg, N. M., & Walsh, K. (2014). An antiangiogenic isoform of VEGF-A contributes to impaired vascularization in peripheral artery disease. Nature Medicine, 20(12), 1464–1471. https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.3703

Regulation of alternative VEGF-A mRNA splicing is a therapeutic target for analgesia (2014)
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Hulse, R., Beazley-Long, N., Hua, J., Kennedy, H., Prager, J., Bevan, H., Qiu, Y., Fernandes, E., Gammons, M., Ballmer-Hofer, K., Gittenberger de Groot, A., Churchill, A., Harper, S., Brain, S., Bates, D., & Donaldson, L. (2014). Regulation of alternative VEGF-A mRNA splicing is a therapeutic target for analgesia. Neurobiology of Disease, 71, 245-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2014.08.012

Vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A) is best known as a key regulator of the formation of new blood vessels. Neutralization of VEGF-A with anti-VEGF therapy e.g. bevacizumab, can be painful, and this is hypothesized to result from a loss of... Read More about Regulation of alternative VEGF-A mRNA splicing is a therapeutic target for analgesia.

Alternative splicing of TIA-1 in human colon cancer regulates VEGF isoform expression, angiogenesis, tumour growth and bevacizumab resistance (2014)
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Hamdollah Zadeh, M. A., Amin, E. M., Hoareau-Aveilla, C., Domingo, E., Symonds, K. E., Ye, X., Heesom, K. J., Salmon, A., D'Silva, O., Betteridge, K. B., Williams, A. C., Kerr, D. J., Salmon, A. H., Oltean, S., Midgley, R. S., Ladomery, M. R., Harper, S. J., Varey, A. H., & Bates, D. O. (2015). Alternative splicing of TIA-1 in human colon cancer regulates VEGF isoform expression, angiogenesis, tumour growth and bevacizumab resistance. Molecular Oncology, 9(1), 167-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molonc.2014.07.017

Antiangiogenic actions of vascular endothelial growth factor-A165b, an inhibitory isoform of vascular endothelial growth factor-A, in human obesity (2014)
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Bates, D., Ngo, D. T. M., Farb, M. G., Kikuchi, R., Karki, S., Tiwari, S., Bigornia, S. J., LaValley, M. P., Hamburg, N. M., Vita, J. A., Hess, D. T., Walsh, K., & Gokce, N. (2014). Antiangiogenic actions of vascular endothelial growth factor-A165b, an inhibitory isoform of vascular endothelial growth factor-A, in human obesity. Circulation, 130(13), 1072-1080. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.008171

Background—Experimental studies suggest that visceral adiposity and adipose tissue dysfunction play a central role in obesity-related cardiometabolic complications. Impaired angiogenesis in fat has been implicated in the development of adipose tissue... Read More about Antiangiogenic actions of vascular endothelial growth factor-A165b, an inhibitory isoform of vascular endothelial growth factor-A, in human obesity.

Resolution of the three dimensional structure of components of the glomerular filtration barrier (2014)
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Qvortrup, K., ARKILL, K., Starborg, T., Mantell, J., Knupp, C., Michel, C., Harper, S., Salmon, A., Squire, J., Bates, D., & Neal, C. (2014). Resolution of the three dimensional structure of components of the glomerular filtration barrier. BMC Nephrology, 15(1), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-15-24

Background: The human glomerulus is the primary filtration unit of the kidney, and contains the Glomerular Filtration Barrier (GFB). The GFB had been thought to comprise 3 layers - the endothelium, the basement membrane and the podocyte foot processe... Read More about Resolution of the three dimensional structure of components of the glomerular filtration barrier.

VEGF-A165b Is an Endogenous Neuroprotective Splice Isoform of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A inVivo and inVitro (2013)
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Beazley-Long, N., Hua, J., Jehle, T., Hulse, R. P., Dersch, R., Lehrling, C., Bevan, H., Qiu, Y., Lagrèze, W. A., Wynick, D., Churchill, A. J., Kehoe, P., Harper, S. J., Bates, D. O., & Donaldson, L. F. (2013). VEGF-A165b Is an Endogenous Neuroprotective Splice Isoform of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A inVivo and inVitro. American Journal of Pathology, 183(3), 918-929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2013.05.031

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) A is generated as two isoform families by alternative RNA splicing, represented by VEGF-A165a and VEGF-A165b. These isoforms have opposing actions on vascular permeability, angiogenesis, and vasodilatation. T... Read More about VEGF-A165b Is an Endogenous Neuroprotective Splice Isoform of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A inVivo and inVitro.