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Evolution of ?-blockers: from anti-anginal drugs to ligand-directed signalling (2011)
Journal Article

Sir James Black developed ?-blockers, one of the most useful groups of drugs in use today. Not only are they being used for their original purpose to treat angina and cardiac arrhythmias, but they are also effective therapeutics for hypertension, car... Read More about Evolution of ?-blockers: from anti-anginal drugs to ligand-directed signalling.

The transposon-like correia elements encode numerous strong promoters and provide a potential new mechanism for phase variation in the meningococcus (2011)
Journal Article

Neisseria meningitidis is the primary causative agent of bacterial meningitis. The genome is rich in repetitive DNA and almost 2% is occupied by a diminutive transposon called the Correia element. Here we report a bioinformatic analysis defining eigh... Read More about The transposon-like correia elements encode numerous strong promoters and provide a potential new mechanism for phase variation in the meningococcus.

Nuclear survivin: cellular consequences and therapeutic implications (2011)
Book Chapter

The great deluge algorithm explores neighbouring solutions which are accepted if they are better than the best solution so far or if the detriment in quality is no larger than the current water level. In the original great deluge method, the water le... Read More about Nuclear survivin: cellular consequences and therapeutic implications.

Tonic modulation of spinal hyperexcitability by the endocannabinoid receptor system in a rat model of osteoarthritis pain (2010)
Journal Article

Objective. To investigate the impact of an experimental model of osteoarthritis (OA) on spinal nociceptive processing and the role of the inhibitory endocannabinoid system in regulating sensory processing at the spinal level. Methods. Experiment... Read More about Tonic modulation of spinal hyperexcitability by the endocannabinoid receptor system in a rat model of osteoarthritis pain.

Base flipping in Tn10 transposition: an active flip and capture mechanism (2009)
Journal Article

The bacterial Tn5 and Tn10 transposases have a single active site that cuts both strands of DNA at their respective transposon ends. This is achieved using a hairpin intermediate that requires the DNA to change conformation during the reaction. In Tn... Read More about Base flipping in Tn10 transposition: an active flip and capture mechanism.

Sensory gating and its modulation by cannabinoids: electrophysiological, computational and mathematical analysis (2008)
Journal Article

Gating of sensory information can be assessed using an auditory conditioning-test paradigm which measures the reduction in the auditory evoked response to a test stimulus following an initial conditioning stimulus. Recording brainwaves from specific... Read More about Sensory gating and its modulation by cannabinoids: electrophysiological, computational and mathematical analysis.

Elucidating the interactions between the adhesive and transcriptioanl functions of beta-catenin in normal and cancerous cells (2007)
Journal Article

Wnt signalling is involved in a wide range of physiological and pathological processes. The presence of an extracellular Wnt stimulus induces cytoplasmic stabilisation and nuclear translocation of beta-catenin, a protein that also plays an essential... Read More about Elucidating the interactions between the adhesive and transcriptioanl functions of beta-catenin in normal and cancerous cells.

Analgesic Effects of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Inhibition in a Rat Model of Neuropathic Pain (2006)
Journal Article

Cannabinoid-based medicines have therapeutic potential for the treatment of pain. Augmentation of levels of endocannabinoids with inhibitors of fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) is analgesic in models of acute and inflammatory pain states. The aim of... Read More about Analgesic Effects of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Inhibition in a Rat Model of Neuropathic Pain.

The role of cannabinoids in the neurobiology of sensory gating: a firing rate model study (2006)
Journal Article

Gating of sensory (e.g. auditory) information has been demonstrated as a reduction in the auditory-evoked potential responses recorded in the brain of both normal animals and human subjects. Auditory gating is perturbed in schizophrenic patients and... Read More about The role of cannabinoids in the neurobiology of sensory gating: a firing rate model study.

Analysis of the Sam50 translocase of excavate organisms supports evolution of divergent organelles from a common endosymbiotic event
Journal Article

As free-living organisms the ancestors of mitochondria and plastids encoded complete genomes, proteomes and metabolomes. As these symbionts became organelles all these aspects were reduced – genomes have degenerated with the host nucleus now encoding... Read More about Analysis of the Sam50 translocase of excavate organisms supports evolution of divergent organelles from a common endosymbiotic event.