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Tissue transglutaminase (TG-2) modified amniotic membrane: A novel scaffold for biomedical applications (2012)
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Chau, D. Y., Brown, S. V., Mather, M. L., Hutter, V., Tint, N. L., Dua, H. S., …Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2012). Tissue transglutaminase (TG-2) modified amniotic membrane: A novel scaffold for biomedical applications. Biomedical Materials, 7(4), Article 045011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-6041/7/4/045011

The amniotic membrane (AM) is considered as a natural cell culture substrate and has occasionally been exploited in regenerative medicine especially for ocular surface reconstruction and dermal wound healing applications. However, its use is limited... Read More about Tissue transglutaminase (TG-2) modified amniotic membrane: A novel scaffold for biomedical applications.

Three-dimensional pharmacophore design and biochemical screening identifies substituted 1,2,4-triazoles as inhibitors of the annexin A2-S100A10 protein interaction (2012)
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Reddy, T. R., Li, C., Fischer, P. M., & Dekker, L. V. (2012). Three-dimensional pharmacophore design and biochemical screening identifies substituted 1,2,4-triazoles as inhibitors of the annexin A2-S100A10 protein interaction. ChemMedChem, 7(8), https://doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.201200107

Protein interactions are increasingly appreciated as targets in small-molecule drug discovery. The interaction between the adapter protein S100A10 and its binding partner annexin A2 is a potentially important drug target. To obtain small-molecule sta... Read More about Three-dimensional pharmacophore design and biochemical screening identifies substituted 1,2,4-triazoles as inhibitors of the annexin A2-S100A10 protein interaction.

Strategies for MCR image analysis of large hyperspectral data-sets (2012)
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Scurr, D. J., Hook, A. L., Burley, J., Williams, P. M., Anderson, D. G., Langer, R., …Alexander, M. R. (2012). Strategies for MCR image analysis of large hyperspectral data-sets. Surface and Interface Analysis, 45(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/sia.5040

Polymer microarrays are a key enabling technology for high throughput materials discovery. In this study, multivariate image analysis, specifically multivariate curve resolution (MCR), is applied to the hyperspectral time of flight secondary ion mass... Read More about Strategies for MCR image analysis of large hyperspectral data-sets.

Sustained translational repression by eIF2?-P mediates prion neurodegeneration (2012)
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Moreno, J. A., Radford, H., Peretti, D., Steinert, J. R., Verity, N., Martin, M. G., …Mallucci, G. R. (2012). Sustained translational repression by eIF2α-P mediates prion neurodegeneration. Nature, 485(7399), 507-511. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11058

The mechanisms leading to neuronal death in neurodegenerative disease are poorly understood. Many of these disorders, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and prion diseases, are associated with the accumulation of misfolded disease-specific proteins.... Read More about Sustained translational repression by eIF2?-P mediates prion neurodegeneration.

Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi (2012)
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Lim, Z., Anderson, C., & McGrath, S. (2012). Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2012.01.004

The dominance of the human capital approach in vocational skills development has been increasingly questioned for being de-humanised and de-contextualised. Contrary to this trend, the discourse in health professional skills development has shown incr... Read More about Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi.

Thermoresponsive polymer colloids for drug delivery and cancer therapy (2011)
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Abulateefeh, S. R., Spain, S. G., Aylott, J. W., Chan, W. C., Garnett, M. C., & Alexander, C. (2011). Thermoresponsive polymer colloids for drug delivery and cancer therapy. Macromolecular Bioscience, 11(12), 1722-1734. https://doi.org/10.1002/mabi.201100252

Many difficulties in treating cancer arise from the problems in directing highly cytotoxic agents to the deseased tissues, cells and intracellular compartments. Many drug delivery systems have been devised to address this problem, including those tha... Read More about Thermoresponsive polymer colloids for drug delivery and cancer therapy.

CHOTs optical transducers (2011)
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Arca, A., Aylott, J., Marques, L., Clark, M., Somekh, M., Smith, R., …Chen, X. (2011). CHOTs optical transducers. Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, 26(3-4), 353-366. https://doi.org/10.1080/10589759.2011.573555

Laser ultrasonics conventionally use direct absorption in the sample to generate ultrasound and monitor the sample to detect the ultrasound. However, in some circumstances there are significant advantages to using an optical transducer - a device to... Read More about CHOTs optical transducers.

Polymers with hydro-responsive topography identi?ed using high throughput AFM of an acrylate microarray (2011)
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Hook, A. L., Yang, J., Chen, X., Roberts, C. J., Mei, Y., Anderson, D. G., …Davies, M. C. (2011). Polymers with hydro-responsive topography identified using high throughput AFM of an acrylate microarray. Soft Matter, 7, https://doi.org/10.1039/c1sm06063e

Atomic force microscopy has been applied to an acrylate polymer microarray to achieve a full topographic characterisation. This process discovered a small number of hydro-responsive materials created from monomers with disparate hydrophilicities that... Read More about Polymers with hydro-responsive topography identi?ed using high throughput AFM of an acrylate microarray.

Uniform cell colonization of porous 3-D scaffolds achieved using radial control of surface chemistry (2011)
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Intranuovo, F., Howard, D., White, L. J., Johal, R. K., Ghaemmaghami, A. M., Favia, P., …Alexander, M. R. (2011). Uniform cell colonization of porous 3-D scaffolds achieved using radial control of surface chemistry. Acta Biomaterialia, 7(9), 3336-3344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2011.05.020

Uniform cellular distribution is a prerequisite to forming tissue within porous scaffolds, but the seeding process often results in preferential adhesion of cells at the periphery. We develop a vapour phase coating strategy which is readily applicabl... Read More about Uniform cell colonization of porous 3-D scaffolds achieved using radial control of surface chemistry.

Evaluation of patient reporting of adverse drug reactions to the UK ‘Yellow Card Scheme’: literature review, descriptive and qualitative analyses, and questionnaire surveys (2011)
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Avery, A., Anderson, C., Bond, C., Fortnum, H., Gifford, A., Hannaford, P., …Watson, M. (2011). Evaluation of patient reporting of adverse drug reactions to the UK ‘Yellow Card Scheme’: literature review, descriptive and qualitative analyses, and questionnaire surveys. NIHR HTA. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta15200

Background: The monitoring of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) through pharmacovigilance is vital to patient safety. Spontaneous reporting of ADRs is one method of pharmacovigilance, and in the UK this is undertaken through the Yellow Card Scheme (YC... Read More about Evaluation of patient reporting of adverse drug reactions to the UK ‘Yellow Card Scheme’: literature review, descriptive and qualitative analyses, and questionnaire surveys.

A pharmacy-based private chlamydia screening programme: Results from the first 2 years of screening and treatment (2011)
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Anderson, C., & Thornley, T. (2011). A pharmacy-based private chlamydia screening programme: Results from the first 2 years of screening and treatment. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 33(1), 88-91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-010-9460-3

Objective A major UK Pharmacy chain private Chlamydia screening and treatment service began in October 2006. People pay for a screening kit, send off a urine sample, and are informed of their result directly. Treatment is accessed via the pharmacy ch... Read More about A pharmacy-based private chlamydia screening programme: Results from the first 2 years of screening and treatment.

End-stapled homo and hetero collagen triple helices: A click chemistry approach (2010)
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Byrne, C., McEwan, P. A., Emsley, J., Fischer, P. M., & Chan, W. C. (2011). End-stapled homo and hetero collagen triple helices: A click chemistry approach. Chemical Communications, 47(9), 2589-2591. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0cc04795c

A CuAAC reaction was established for modular synthesis of end-stapled homo- and hetero-triple helical peptides, generating "clicked" macro-assemblies with enhanced thermal stability. © 2011 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

Protease sensing with nanoparticle based platforms (2010)
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Welser, K., Adsley, R., Moore, B. M., Chan, W. C., & Aylott, J. W. (2011). Protease sensing with nanoparticle based platforms. Analyst, 136(1), 29-41. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0an00429d

Nanoparticulate systems in various unique configurations are highly effective at detecting protease activity both in vivo and in vitro. In this article, we have summarised the conventional modern methods for monitoring protease activity, and critical... Read More about Protease sensing with nanoparticle based platforms.

Regulation of neurotoxin production and sporulation by a putative agrBD signaling system in proteolytic Clostridium botulinum (2010)
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Cooksley, C. M., Davis, I. J., Winzer, K., Chan, W. C., Peck, M. W., & Minton, N. P. (2010). Regulation of neurotoxin production and sporulation by a putative agrBD signaling system in proteolytic Clostridium botulinum. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76(13), 4448-4460. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03038-09

A significant number of genome sequences of Clostridium botulinum and related species have now been determined. In silico analysis of these data revealed the presence of two distinct agr loci (agr-1 and agr-2) in all group I strains, each encoding pu... Read More about Regulation of neurotoxin production and sporulation by a putative agrBD signaling system in proteolytic Clostridium botulinum.

Garlic as an inhibitor of pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing in cystic fibrosis - A pilot randomized controlled trial (2010)
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Smyth, A. R., Cifelli, P. M., Ortori, C. A., Righetti, K., Lewis, S., Erskine, P., …Knox, A. (2010). Garlic as an inhibitor of pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing in cystic fibrosis - A pilot randomized controlled trial. Pediatric Pulmonology, 45(4), 356-362. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppul.21193

Pseudomonas aeruginosa forms biofilms in the cystic fibrosis lung. Quorum sensing (QS) controls biofilm maturation, immune evasion, antibiotic tolerance and virulence factor production. Garlic shows QS inhibitory activity in vitro and in animal model... Read More about Garlic as an inhibitor of pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing in cystic fibrosis - A pilot randomized controlled trial.

5-Carboxyfluorescein tagged N-phenylanthranilamide as a tracer reagent for fluorescence polarization: A robust method to screen MAPK pathway allosteric inhibitors (2010)
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Rezvani, Z. N., Mayer, R. J., & Chan, W. C. (2010). 5-Carboxyfluorescein tagged N-phenylanthranilamide as a tracer reagent for fluorescence polarization: A robust method to screen MAPK pathway allosteric inhibitors. Chemical Communications, 46(12), 2043-2045. https://doi.org/10.1039/b925042e

Fluorescence polarization using Nα-(fluorescein-5- carbonyl)-Nε-(N-[2-fluoro-4-iodophenyl]-3,4- difluoroanthraniloyl)lysyl amide is capable of rapidly identifying inhibitor ligands that bind to an allosteric site in MEK1. © The Royal Society of Chemi... Read More about 5-Carboxyfluorescein tagged N-phenylanthranilamide as a tracer reagent for fluorescence polarization: A robust method to screen MAPK pathway allosteric inhibitors.

High throughput methods applied in biomaterial development and discovery (2010)
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Hook, A. L., Anderson, D. G., Langer, R., Williams, P., Davies, M. C., & Alexander, M. R. (2010). High throughput methods applied in biomaterial development and discovery. Biomaterials, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2009.09.037

The high throughput discovery of new materials can be achieved by rapidly screening many different materials synthesised by a combinatorial approach to identify the optimal material that fulfils a particular biomedical application. Here we review the... Read More about High throughput methods applied in biomaterial development and discovery.

A facile method to clickable sensing polymeric nanoparticles (2009)
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Welser, K., Perera, M. D., Aylott, J. W., & Chan, W. C. (2009). A facile method to clickable sensing polymeric nanoparticles. Chemical Communications, 6601-6603. https://doi.org/10.1039/b914358k

Clickable biocompatible nanoparticles were prepared in a one-pot process by microemulsion polymerization using acrylamide, N,N′-methylene bisacrylamide and either N-(11-azido-3,6,9-trioxaundecanyl)acrylamide or N-propargylacrylamide, which were then... Read More about A facile method to clickable sensing polymeric nanoparticles.