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Bidirectional association between disturbed sleep and neuropathic pain symptoms: a prospective cohort study in post-total joint replacement participants (2018)
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Stocks, J., Tang, N. K., Walsh, D. A., Warner, S. C., Harvey, H., Jenkins, W., Abhishek, A., Doherty, M., & Valdes, A. M. (2018). Bidirectional association between disturbed sleep and neuropathic pain symptoms: a prospective cohort study in post-total joint replacement participants. Journal of Pain Research, 2018(11), 1087—1093. https://doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S149830

Disturbed sleep is strongly correlated with chronic pain. The aim of this study was to examine the association between sleep disturbance and incident joint pain focusing on neuropathic pain-like symptoms. 423 individuals who had undergone total joint... Read More about Bidirectional association between disturbed sleep and neuropathic pain symptoms: a prospective cohort study in post-total joint replacement participants.

hiPSC hepatocyte model demonstrates the role of unfolded protein response and inflammatory networks in α1-antitrypsin deficiency (2018)
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Segeritz, C.-P., Rashid, S. T., de Brito, M. C., Serra, M. P., Ordonez, A., Morell, C. M., Kaserman, J. E., Madrigal, P., Hannan, N. R., Gatto, L., Tan, L., Wilson, A. A., Lilley, K., Marciniak, S. J., Gooptu, B., Lomas, D. A., & Vallier, L. (2018). hiPSC hepatocyte model demonstrates the role of unfolded protein response and inflammatory networks in α1-antitrypsin deficiency. Journal of Hepatology, 69(4), 851-860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2018.05.028

© 2018 The Authors Background & Aims: α1-Antitrypsin deficiency (A1ATD) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the SERPINA1 gene. Individuals with the Z variant (Gly342Lys) retain polymerised protein in the endoplasmic reticulum (E... Read More about hiPSC hepatocyte model demonstrates the role of unfolded protein response and inflammatory networks in α1-antitrypsin deficiency.

Clinical evidence synopsis: hearing aids and health-related quality of life in adults with hearing loss (2018)
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Kitterick, P. T., & Ferguson, M. A. (2018). Clinical evidence synopsis: hearing aids and health-related quality of life in adults with hearing loss. Journal of the American Medical Association, 319(21), https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2018.5567

Clinical Question

Are hearing aids associated with improved health-related quality of life in adults with mild to moderate hearing loss?

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Compared with no hearing aids, the provision of hearing aids was associated with improveme... Read More about Clinical evidence synopsis: hearing aids and health-related quality of life in adults with hearing loss.

Cellular patterning of Arabidopsis roots under low phosphate conditions (2018)
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Janes, G., von Wangenheim, D., Cowling, S., Kerr, I. D., Band, L. R., French, A. P., & Bishopp, A. (2018). Cellular patterning of Arabidopsis roots under low phosphate conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, Article 735. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00735

Phosphorus is a crucial macronutrient for plants playing a critical role in many cellular signaling and energy cycling processes. In light of this, phosphorus acquisition efficiency is an important target trait for crop improvement, but it also provi... Read More about Cellular patterning of Arabidopsis roots under low phosphate conditions.

Molecular, Pathological, Radiological, and Immune Profiling of Non-brainstem Pediatric High-Grade Glioma from the HERBY Phase II Randomized Trial (2018)
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Varlet, P., Mackay, A., Burford, A., Molinari, V., Jones, D. T., Izquierdo, E., Brouwer-Visser, J., Giangaspero, F., Haberler, C., Pietsch, T., Jacques, T. S., Figarella-Branger, D., Rodriguez, D., Morgan, P. S., Raman, P., Waanders, A. J., Resnick, A. C., Massimino, M., Garrè, M. L., Smith, H., …Jones, C. (2018). Molecular, Pathological, Radiological, and Immune Profiling of Non-brainstem Pediatric High-Grade Glioma from the HERBY Phase II Randomized Trial. Cancer Cell, 33(5), 829-842.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2018.04.004

The HERBY trial was a phase II open-label, randomized, multicenter trial evaluating bevacizumab (BEV) in addition to temozolomide/radiotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed non-brainstem high-grade glioma (HGG) between the ages of 3 and 18 years.... Read More about Molecular, Pathological, Radiological, and Immune Profiling of Non-brainstem Pediatric High-Grade Glioma from the HERBY Phase II Randomized Trial.

Within and between day repeatability of the incremental shuttle walking test in patients with thoracic cancer (2018)
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Wilcock, A., Koon, S., Manderson, C., Taylor, V., & Maddocks, M. (2018). Within and between day repeatability of the incremental shuttle walking test in patients with thoracic cancer. Respiratory Medicine, 140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2018.05.018

Background:
Breathlessness is common in patients with thoracic cancer but difficult to manage. The Incremental Shuttle Walking Test (ISWT) can help assess new treatments, but its repeatability has not been described in this group.

Aim:
To examin... Read More about Within and between day repeatability of the incremental shuttle walking test in patients with thoracic cancer.

Relapse after treatment withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs for juvenile absence epilepsy and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (2018)
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Healy, L., Moran, M., Singhal, S., O'Donoghue, M. F., Alzoubidi, R., & Whitehouse, W. P. (2018). Relapse after treatment withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs for juvenile absence epilepsy and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy, 59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2018.05.015

Purpose
Conventional teaching is that juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) and juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE) require lifelong antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment. We therefore wanted to determine how many patients attending our epilepsy service with J... Read More about Relapse after treatment withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs for juvenile absence epilepsy and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.

Treatment strategies and survival outcomes in older women with breast cancer: a comparative study between the FOCUS cohort and Nottingham cohort (2018)
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Schuil, H., Derks, M., Liefers, G.-J., Portielje, J., van de Velde, C., Syed, B., Green, A., Ellis, I., Cheung, K.-L., & Bastiaannet, E. (in press). Treatment strategies and survival outcomes in older women with breast cancer: a comparative study between the FOCUS cohort and Nottingham cohort. Journal of Geriatric Oncology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2018.05.004

Objective: Clinical trials investigating breast cancer treatment often exclude or misrepresent older adults. This study compares treatment patterns and survival of older women diagnosed with breast cancer between a Dutch and a British observational c... Read More about Treatment strategies and survival outcomes in older women with breast cancer: a comparative study between the FOCUS cohort and Nottingham cohort.

Hepatoprotective effect of hydromethanolic leaf extract of Musanga cecropioides (Urticaceae) on carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury and oxidative stress (2018)
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Nwidu, L. L., Oboma, Y. I., Elmorsy, E., & Carter, W. G. (2018). Hepatoprotective effect of hydromethanolic leaf extract of Musanga cecropioides (Urticaceae) on carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury and oxidative stress. Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences, 13(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2018.04.006

Objective: Natural antioxidant products are gaining popularity as treatments for various pathological liver injuries. Musanga cecropioides (Urticaceae) leaf extract is used in ethnomedicine for the management of jaundice and other hepatic ailments in... Read More about Hepatoprotective effect of hydromethanolic leaf extract of Musanga cecropioides (Urticaceae) on carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury and oxidative stress.

Effect of dietary omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on frailty related phenotypes in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol (2018)
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Stocks, J., & Valdes, A. M. (2018). Effect of dietary omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on frailty related phenotypes in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. BMJ Open, 8(5), Article e021344. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021344

Introduction: The beneficial effect of dietary omega-3 supplementation in younger adults or older people with acute or chronic disease is established. Knowledge is now needed about the effect in medically stable older people. The objective of this st... Read More about Effect of dietary omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on frailty related phenotypes in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.