Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (18)

Humoral and cellular immunity in patients with rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination (2022)
Journal Article

Objectives: COVID-19 vaccine responses in rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases (RAIRD) remain poorly understood, in particular there is little known about whether people develop effective T-cell responses. We conducted a prospective cohort study to eva... Read More about Humoral and cellular immunity in patients with rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.

A mechanoresponsive nano-sized carrier achieves intracellular release of drug on external ultrasound stimulus (2022)
Journal Article

Control over intracellular release of therapeutic compounds incorporated into nano-carriers will open new possibilities for targeted treatments of various diseases including cancer, and viral and bacterial infections. Here we report our study on mech... Read More about A mechanoresponsive nano-sized carrier achieves intracellular release of drug on external ultrasound stimulus.

ABCB1 inhibition provides a novel therapeutic target to block TWIST1-induced migration in medulloblastoma (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Therapeutic intervention in metastatic medulloblastoma is dependent upon elucidating the underlying metastatic mechanism. We investigated whether an epithelialmesenchymal transition (EMT)-like pathway could drive medulloblastoma metastasi... Read More about ABCB1 inhibition provides a novel therapeutic target to block TWIST1-induced migration in medulloblastoma.

Increased IL-2 and reduced tgf-? upon t-cell stimulation are associated with GM-CSF upregulation in multiple immune cell types in multiple sclerosis (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 by the authors. Granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine produced by immune cells. Recent evidence suggests that GM-CSF plays an important role in multiple sclerosis (MS) pathogenesis. We investi... Read More about Increased IL-2 and reduced tgf-? upon t-cell stimulation are associated with GM-CSF upregulation in multiple immune cell types in multiple sclerosis.

Metabolism based isolation of invasive glioblastoma cells with specific gene signatures and tumorigenic potential (2020)
Journal Article

Background Glioblastoma (GBM) is a highly aggressive brain tumor with rapid subclonal diversification, harboring molecular abnormalities that vary temporo-spatially, a contributor to therapy resistance. Fluorescence guided neurosurgical resection ut... Read More about Metabolism based isolation of invasive glioblastoma cells with specific gene signatures and tumorigenic potential.

Hookworm Treatment for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis: A Randomized Double-Blinded Placebo-Controlled Trial (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Importance: Studies suggest gut worms induce immune responses that can protect against multiple sclerosis (MS). To our knowledge, there are no controlled treatment trials with helminth in MS.... Read More about Hookworm Treatment for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis: A Randomized Double-Blinded Placebo-Controlled Trial.

Characterization of human FcεRIα chain expression and gene copy number in humanized rat basophilic leukaemia (RBL) reporter cell lines (2019)
Journal Article

Several laboratories have created rat basophil leukemia (RBL) cell lines stably transfected with the human high affinity IgE receptor (FcεRI H). More recently, humanized RBL cell lines saw the introduction of reporter genes such as luciferase (RS-ATL... Read More about Characterization of human FcεRIα chain expression and gene copy number in humanized rat basophilic leukaemia (RBL) reporter cell lines.

Intracellular processing of silica-coated superparamagnetic iron nanoparticles in human mesenchymal stem cells (2019)
Journal Article

Silica-coated Superparamagnetic Iron Nanoparticles (SiMAGs) are an exciting biomedical technology capable of targeted delivery of cell-based therapeutics and disease diagnosis. However, in order to realise their full clinical potential, their intrace... Read More about Intracellular processing of silica-coated superparamagnetic iron nanoparticles in human mesenchymal stem cells.

Multicomponent analysis of the tumour microenvironment reveals low CD8 T cell number, low stromal caveolin-1 and high tenascin-C and their combination as significant prognostic markers in non-small cell lung cancer (2017)
Journal Article

The complex interplay of the tumour microenvironment (TME) and its role in disease progression and response to therapy is poorly understood. The majority of studies to date focus on individual components or molecules within the TME and so lack the po... Read More about Multicomponent analysis of the tumour microenvironment reveals low CD8 T cell number, low stromal caveolin-1 and high tenascin-C and their combination as significant prognostic markers in non-small cell lung cancer.

Unbiased analysis of the impact of micropatterned biomaterials on macrophage behaviour provides insights beyond pre-defined polarisation states (2017)
Journal Article

Macrophages are master regulators of immune responses towards implanted biomaterials. The activation state adopted by macrophages in response to biomaterials determines their own phenotype and function as well as those of other resident and infiltrat... Read More about Unbiased analysis of the impact of micropatterned biomaterials on macrophage behaviour provides insights beyond pre-defined polarisation states.

3-dimensional patient-derived lung cancer assays reveal resistance to standards-of-care promoted by stromal cells but sensitivity to histone deacetylase inhibitors (2016)
Journal Article

There is a growing recognition that current preclinical models do not reflect the tumor microenvironment in cellular, biological, and biophysical content and this may have a profound effect on drug efficacy testing, especially in the era of molecular... Read More about 3-dimensional patient-derived lung cancer assays reveal resistance to standards-of-care promoted by stromal cells but sensitivity to histone deacetylase inhibitors.

Quantum dot labelling of adenovirus allows for highly sensitive single cell flow and imaging cytometry (2015)
Journal Article

A quantum dot method for highly efficient labelling of single adenoviral particles is developed. The technique has no impact on viral fitness and allows the imaging and tracking of virus binding and internalisation events using a variety of technique... Read More about Quantum dot labelling of adenovirus allows for highly sensitive single cell flow and imaging cytometry.