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Single-Cell Tracking on Polymer Microarrays Reveals the Impact of Surface Chemistry on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Twitching Speed and Biofilm Development (2020)
Journal Article
Carabelli, A. M., Isgró, M., Sanni, O., Figueredo, G. P., Winkler, D. A., Burroughs, L., …Alexander, M. R. (2020). Single-Cell Tracking on Polymer Microarrays Reveals the Impact of Surface Chemistry on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Twitching Speed and Biofilm Development. ACS Applied Bio Materials, 3(12), 8471–8480. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsabm.0c00849

© 2020 American Chemical Society. Bacterial biofilms exhibit up to 1000 times greater resistance to antibiotic or host immune clearance than planktonic cells. Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces retractable type IV pili (T4P) that facilitate twitching mo... Read More about Single-Cell Tracking on Polymer Microarrays Reveals the Impact of Surface Chemistry on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Twitching Speed and Biofilm Development.

Reduction-responsive polymers for drug delivery in cancer therapy—Is there anything new to discover? (2020)
Journal Article
Monteiro, P. F., Travanut, A., Conte, C., & Alexander, C. (2021). Reduction-responsive polymers for drug delivery in cancer therapy—Is there anything new to discover?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, 13(2), Article e1678. https://doi.org/10.1002/wnan.1678

© 2020 The Authors. WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. Among various types of stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems, reduction-responsive polymers have attracted great interest. In general, these systems h... Read More about Reduction-responsive polymers for drug delivery in cancer therapy—Is there anything new to discover?.

The use of intravenous lidocaine for postoperative pain and recovery: international consensus statement on efficacy and safety (2020)
Journal Article
Foo, I., Macfarlane, A. J. R., Srivastava, D., Bhaskar, A., Barker, H., Knaggs, R., …Smith, A. F. (2021). The use of intravenous lidocaine for postoperative pain and recovery: international consensus statement on efficacy and safety. Anaesthesia, 76(2), 238-250. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.15270

Intravenous lidocaine is used widely for its effect on postoperative pain and recovery but it can be, and has been, fatal when used inappropriately and incorrectly. The risk‐benefit ratio of i.v. lidocaine varies with type of surgery and with patient... Read More about The use of intravenous lidocaine for postoperative pain and recovery: international consensus statement on efficacy and safety.

Global trends in pharmacy practice (2020)
Book Chapter
Anderson, C. (2020). Global trends in pharmacy practice. In A. Adejare (Ed.), Remington : the science and practice of pharmacy (769-780). (23rd edition). Amsterdam: Elsevier

The practice of pharmacy globally has evolved during the 21st century in response to the changing economic, political and social environment. Using country examples this chapter examines some of progress made in community pharmacy and particularly se... Read More about Global trends in pharmacy practice.

A systematic review of postgraduate training programmes directed at pharmacists entering primary care (2020)
Journal Article
Groen, A., Lucas, C., Benson, H., Alsubaie, M., & Boyd, M. J. (2020). A systematic review of postgraduate training programmes directed at pharmacists entering primary care. Pharmacy Education, 20, 313-323. https://doi.org/10.46542/pe.2020.201.313323

This systematic review explores the international postgraduate education and training programmes designed to provide or develop knowledge or skills focused on enabling pharmacists to work in a general practice setting. Four thousand, eight hundred an... Read More about A systematic review of postgraduate training programmes directed at pharmacists entering primary care.

Feasibility of a community pharmacy antimicrobial stewardship intervention (PAMSI): An innovative approach to improve patients' understanding of their antibiotics (2020)
Journal Article
Allison, R., Chapman, S., Howard, P., Thornley, T., Ashiru-Oredope, D., Walker, S., …McNulty, C. A. (2020). Feasibility of a community pharmacy antimicrobial stewardship intervention (PAMSI): An innovative approach to improve patients' understanding of their antibiotics. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, 2(4), Article dlaa089. https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlaa089

Background: Community pharmacy staff have an opportunity to play a pivotal role in antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) due to their expertise in medicines and accessibility to patients. Objectives: To develop and test the feasibility of a pharmacy AMS in... Read More about Feasibility of a community pharmacy antimicrobial stewardship intervention (PAMSI): An innovative approach to improve patients' understanding of their antibiotics.

Inter-Flake Quantum Transport of Electrons and Holes in Inkjet-Printed Graphene Devices (2020)
Journal Article
Wang, F., Gosling, J. H., Rance, G. A., Trindade, G. F., Makarovsky, O., Cottam, N. D., …Turyanska, L. (2021). Inter-Flake Quantum Transport of Electrons and Holes in Inkjet-Printed Graphene Devices. Advanced Functional Materials, 31(5), Article 2007478. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202007478

© 2020 The Authors. Advanced Functional Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH 2D materials have unique structural and electronic properties with potential for transformative device applications. However, such devices are usually bespoke structures ma... Read More about Inter-Flake Quantum Transport of Electrons and Holes in Inkjet-Printed Graphene Devices.

Targeted delivery of lopinavir to HIV reservoirs in the mesenteric lymphatic system by lipophilic ester prodrug approach (2020)
Journal Article
Qin, C., Chu, Y., Feng, W., Fromont, C., He, S., Ali, J., …Gershkovich, P. (2021). Targeted delivery of lopinavir to HIV reservoirs in the mesenteric lymphatic system by lipophilic ester prodrug approach. Journal of Controlled Release, 329, 1077-1089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.10.036

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. The combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) can efficiently suppress HIV replication, but the cessation of cART usually results in viral rebound, mostly due to the presence of viral reservoirs. The mesenteric lymphatic system, inc... Read More about Targeted delivery of lopinavir to HIV reservoirs in the mesenteric lymphatic system by lipophilic ester prodrug approach.

Hybrid bioactive hydroxyapatite/polycaprolactone nanoparticles for enhanced osteogenesis (2020)
Journal Article
El-Habashy, S. E., Eltaher, H. M., Gaballah, A., Zaki, E. I., Mehanna, R. A., & El-Kamel, A. H. (2021). Hybrid bioactive hydroxyapatite/polycaprolactone nanoparticles for enhanced osteogenesis. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 119, Article 111599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2020.111599

Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles (HApN) are largely employed as osteogenic inorganic material. Inorganic/polymeric hybrid nanostructures can provide versatile bioactivity for superior osteogenicity, particularly as nanoparticles. Herein, we present hybri... Read More about Hybrid bioactive hydroxyapatite/polycaprolactone nanoparticles for enhanced osteogenesis.

Etoposide and olaparib polymer-coated nanoparticles within a bioadhesive sprayable hydrogel for post-surgical localised delivery to brain tumours (2020)
Journal Article
McCrorie, P., Mistry, J., Taresco, V., Lovato, T., Fay, M., Ward, I., …Rahman, R. (2020). Etoposide and olaparib polymer-coated nanoparticles within a bioadhesive sprayable hydrogel for post-surgical localised delivery to brain tumours. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 157, 108-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2020.10.005

Glioblastoma is a malignant brain tumour with a median survival of 14.6 months from diagnosis. Despite maximal surgical resection and concurrent chemoradiotherapy, reoccurrence is inevitable. To try combating the disease at a stage of low residual tu... Read More about Etoposide and olaparib polymer-coated nanoparticles within a bioadhesive sprayable hydrogel for post-surgical localised delivery to brain tumours.