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Nanofibrous scaffolds support a 3D in vitro permeability model of the human intestinal epitheleum (2019)
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Patient, J. D., Hajiali, H., Harris, K., Abrahamsson, B., Tannergreen, C., White, L. J., …Rose, F. R. (2019). Nanofibrous scaffolds support a 3D in vitro permeability model of the human intestinal epitheleum. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 10, Article 456. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2019.00456

Advances in drug research not only depend on high throughput screening to evaluate large numbers of lead compounds but also on the development of in vitro models which can simulate human tissues in terms of drug permeability and functions. Potential... Read More about Nanofibrous scaffolds support a 3D in vitro permeability model of the human intestinal epitheleum.

Microparticles for controlled GDF6 delivery to direct ASC?based nucleus pulposus regeneration (2019)
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Hodgkinson, T., Stening, J. Z., White, L. J., Shakesheff, K. M., Hoyland, J. A., & Richardson, S. M. (2019). Microparticles for controlled GDF6 delivery to direct ASC?based nucleus pulposus regeneration. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 13(8), 1406-1417. https://doi.org/10.1002/term.2882

Currently, there is no effective long-term treatment for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD), making it an attractive candidate for regenerative therapies. Hydrogel delivery of adipose stem cells (ASCs) in combination with controlled release of b... Read More about Microparticles for controlled GDF6 delivery to direct ASC?based nucleus pulposus regeneration.

The Schistosoma mansoni cyclophilin A epitope 107-121 induces a protective immune response against schistosomiasis (2019)
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de Melo, T. T., Mendes, M. M., Alves, C. C., Carvalho, G. B., Fernandes, V. C., Pimenta, D. L. F., …Fonseca, C. T. (2019). The Schistosoma mansoni cyclophilin A epitope 107-121 induces a protective immune response against schistosomiasis. Molecular Immunology, 111, 172-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molimm.2019.04.021

Great efforts have been made to identify promising antigens and vaccine formulations against schistosomiasis. Among the previously described Schistosoma vaccine candidates, cyclophilins comprise an interesting antigen that could be used for vaccine f... Read More about The Schistosoma mansoni cyclophilin A epitope 107-121 induces a protective immune response against schistosomiasis.

Controllable thioester-based hydrogen sulfide slow-releasing donors as cardioprotective agents (2019)
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Yao, H., Luo, S., Liu, J., Xie, S., Liu, Y., Xu, J., …Xu, S. (2019). Controllable thioester-based hydrogen sulfide slow-releasing donors as cardioprotective agents. Chemical Communications, 55(44), 6193-6196. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cc02829c

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an important signaling molecule with promising protective effects in many physiological and pathological processes. However, the study of H2S has been impeded by the lack of appropriate H2S donors that could mimic its slow-r... Read More about Controllable thioester-based hydrogen sulfide slow-releasing donors as cardioprotective agents.

Mapping the metabolism of five amino acids in bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei using U-13C-labelled substrates and LC–MS (2019)
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Johnston, K., Kim, D., Kerkhoven, E., Burchmore, R., Barrett, M., & Achcar, F. (2019). Mapping the metabolism of five amino acids in bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei using U-13C-labelled substrates and LC–MS. Bioscience Reports, 39(5), https://doi.org/10.1042/bsr20181601

The metabolism of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei has been the focus of numerous studies since the 1940s. Recently it was shown, using metabolomics coupled with heavy-atom isotope labelled glucose, that the metabolism of the bloodstream form parasite... Read More about Mapping the metabolism of five amino acids in bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei using U-13C-labelled substrates and LC–MS.

A novel low molecular weight nanocomposite hydrogel formulation for intra-tumoural delivery of anti-cancer drugs (2019)
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Štaka, I., Cadete, A., Surikutchi, B. T., Abuzaid, H., Bradshaw, T. D., Alonso, M. J., & Marlow, M. (2019). A novel low molecular weight nanocomposite hydrogel formulation for intra-tumoural delivery of anti-cancer drugs. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 565, 151-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2019.04.070

Herein, an injectable formulation composed of a low molecular weight gelator (LMWG) based hydrogel and drug-loaded polymeric nanocapsules (NCs) is described. The NCs, made of hyaluronic acid and polyglutamic acid and loaded with C14-Gemcitabine (GEM... Read More about A novel low molecular weight nanocomposite hydrogel formulation for intra-tumoural delivery of anti-cancer drugs.

Targeted protein delivery: carbodiimide crosslinking influences protein release from microparticles incorporated within collagen scaffolds (2019)
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Tanase, C. E., Qutachi, O., White, L. J., Shakesheff, K. M., McCaskie, A. W., Best, S. M., & Cameron, R. E. (2019). Targeted protein delivery: carbodiimide crosslinking influences protein release from microparticles incorporated within collagen scaffolds. Regenerative Biomaterials, 6(5), 279-287. https://doi.org/10.1093/rb/rbz015

Tissue engineering response may be tailored via controlled, sustained release of active agents from protein loaded degradable microparticles incorporated directly within 3D ice-templated collagen scaffolds. However, the effects of covalent crosslink... Read More about Targeted protein delivery: carbodiimide crosslinking influences protein release from microparticles incorporated within collagen scaffolds.

Antimicrobial use in UK long-term care facilities: Results of a point prevalence survey (2019)
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Thornley, T., Ashiru-Oredope, D., Beech, E., Howard, P., Kirkdale, C. L., Elliott, H., …Roberts, A. (2019). Antimicrobial use in UK long-term care facilities: Results of a point prevalence survey. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 74(7), 2083-2090. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkz135

Background: The majority of people in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are aged 65 years and older, and most of their care needs are provided by the LTCF staff. Provision of healthcare services for residents in LTCFs is variable and can result in di... Read More about Antimicrobial use in UK long-term care facilities: Results of a point prevalence survey.

Water-Based 3D Inkjet Printing of an Oral Pharmaceutical Dosage Form (2019)
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Cader, H. K., Rance, G. A., Alexander, M. R., Gonçalves, A. D., Roberts, C. J., Tuck, C. J., & Wildman, R. D. (2019). Water-Based 3D Inkjet Printing of an Oral Pharmaceutical Dosage Form. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 564, 359-368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2019.04.026

Inkjet printing is a form of additive manufacturing where liquid droplets are selectively deposited onto a substrate followed by solidification. The process provides significant potential advantages for producing solid oral dosage forms or tablets, i... Read More about Water-Based 3D Inkjet Printing of an Oral Pharmaceutical Dosage Form.

Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of pyridine-chalcone derivatives as novel microtubule-destabilizing agents (2019)
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Xu, F., Li, W., Shuai, W., Yang, L., Bi, Y., Ma, C., …Xu, J. (2019). Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of pyridine-chalcone derivatives as novel microtubule-destabilizing agents. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 173, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2019.04.008

Further optimization of the trimethoxyphenyl scaffold of parent chalcone compound (2a) by introducing a pyridine ring afforded a series of novel pyridine-chalcone derivatives as potential anti-tubulin agents. All the target compounds were evaluated f... Read More about Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of pyridine-chalcone derivatives as novel microtubule-destabilizing agents.

Penetration and uptake of Nanoparticles in 3D tumour spheroids (2019)
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Tchoryk, A., Taresco, V., Argent, R., Ashford, M. B., Gellert, P., Stolnik, S., …Garnett, M. C. (2019). Penetration and uptake of Nanoparticles in 3D tumour spheroids. Bioconjugate Chemistry, 30(5), 1371-1384. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.9b00136

Animal models are effective for assessing tumour localisation of nanosystems, but difficult to use for studying penetration beyond the vasculature. Here, we have used well-characterised HCT116 colorectal cancer spheroids to study the effect of nanopa... Read More about Penetration and uptake of Nanoparticles in 3D tumour spheroids.

A survey of smoking cessation training within UK Pharmacy education (2019)
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Hunter, A., Bobak, A., & Anderson, C. (2019). A survey of smoking cessation training within UK Pharmacy education. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 11(7), 696-701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cptl.2019.03.007

Introduction: Tobacco smoking is a significant public health problem, and remains the leading cause of preventable, premature death in the UK. In order to reduce the burden of smoking in the UK, all healthcare professionals should be able to advise a... Read More about A survey of smoking cessation training within UK Pharmacy education.

Cardiac glycoside cerberin exerts anticancer activity through PI3K/AKT/mTOR signal transduction inhibition (2019)
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Hossan, M. S., Chan, Z. Y., Collins, H. M., Shipton, F. N., Butler, M. S., Rahmatullah, M., …Bradshaw, T. D. (2019). Cardiac glycoside cerberin exerts anticancer activity through PI3K/AKT/mTOR signal transduction inhibition. Cancer Letters, 453, 57-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2019.03.034

Natural products possess a significant role in anticancer therapy and many currently-used anticancer drugs are of natural origin. Cerberin (CR), a cardenolide isolated from the fruit kernel of Cerbera odollam, was found to potently inhibit cancer cel... Read More about Cardiac glycoside cerberin exerts anticancer activity through PI3K/AKT/mTOR signal transduction inhibition.

An antimicrobial impregnated urinary catheter that reduces mineral encrustation and prevents colonisation by multi-drug resistant organisms for up to 12  weeks (2019)
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Belfield, K., Chen, X., Smith, E. F., Ashraf, W., & Bayston, R. (2019). An antimicrobial impregnated urinary catheter that reduces mineral encrustation and prevents colonisation by multi-drug resistant organisms for up to 12  weeks. Acta Biomaterialia, 90, 157-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2019.03.042

Two major complications of indwelling urinary catheterisation include infection and mineral encrustation of the catheter. Our antimicrobial urinary catheter (AUC) impregnated with rifampicin, triclosan, and sparfloxacin has demonstrated long-term pro... Read More about An antimicrobial impregnated urinary catheter that reduces mineral encrustation and prevents colonisation by multi-drug resistant organisms for up to 12  weeks.

Plasma kallikrein structure reveals apple domain disc rotated conformation compared to factor XI (2019)
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Li, C., Voos, K. M., Pathak, M., Hall, G., McCrae, K. R., Dreveny, I., …Emsley, J. (2019). Plasma kallikrein structure reveals apple domain disc rotated conformation compared to factor XI. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 17(5), 759-770. https://doi.org/10.1111/jth.14418

Background Plasma prekallikrein (PK) and factor XI (FXI) are apple domain‐containing serine proteases that when activated to PKa and FXIa cleave substrates kininogen, factor XII, and factor IX, respectively, directing plasma coagulation, bradykinin... Read More about Plasma kallikrein structure reveals apple domain disc rotated conformation compared to factor XI.

A comparison of the mitochondrial proteome and lipidome in the mouse and long-lived Pipistrelle bats (2019)
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Pollard, A. K., Ingram, T. L., Ortori, C. A., Shephard, F., Brown, M., Liddell, S., …Chakrabarti, L. (2019). A comparison of the mitochondrial proteome and lipidome in the mouse and long-lived Pipistrelle bats. Aging, 11(6), 1664-1685. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101861

It is accepted that smaller mammals with higher metabolic rates have shorter lifespans. The very few species that do not follow these rules can give insights into interesting differences. The recorded maximum lifespans of bats are exceptional - over... Read More about A comparison of the mitochondrial proteome and lipidome in the mouse and long-lived Pipistrelle bats.

The polyadenylation inhibitor cordycepin reduces pain, inflammation and joint pathology in rodent models of osteoarthritis (2019)
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Ashraf, S., Radhi, M., Gowler, P., Burston, J. J., Gandhi, R. D., Thorn, G. J., …Chapman, V. (2019). The polyadenylation inhibitor cordycepin reduces pain, inflammation and joint pathology in rodent models of osteoarthritis. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41140-1

Clinically, osteoarthritis (OA) pain is significantly associated with synovial inflammation. Identification of the mechanisms driving inflammation could reveal new targets to relieve this prevalent pain state. Herein, a role of polyadenylation in OA... Read More about The polyadenylation inhibitor cordycepin reduces pain, inflammation and joint pathology in rodent models of osteoarthritis.

Enhanced vitamin C skin permeation from supramolecular hydrogels, illustrated using in situ ToF-SIMS 3D chemical profiling (2019)
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Starr, N. J., Hamid, K. A., Wibawa, J., Marlow, I., Bell, M., Pérez-García, L., …Scurr, D. J. (2019). Enhanced vitamin C skin permeation from supramolecular hydrogels, illustrated using in situ ToF-SIMS 3D chemical profiling. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 563, 21-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2019.03.028

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is a naturally occurring, powerful anti-oxidant with the potential to deliver numerous benefits to the skin when applied topically. However, topical use of this compound is currently restricted by an instability in tradition... Read More about Enhanced vitamin C skin permeation from supramolecular hydrogels, illustrated using in situ ToF-SIMS 3D chemical profiling.

Polyvalent diazonium polymers provide efficient protection of oncolytic adenovirus Enadenotucirev from neutralizing antibodies while maintaining biological activity in vitro and in vivo (2019)
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Francini, N., Cochrane, D., Illingworth, S., Purdie, L., Mantovani, G., Fisher, K., …Alexander, C. (2019). Polyvalent diazonium polymers provide efficient protection of oncolytic adenovirus Enadenotucirev from neutralizing antibodies while maintaining biological activity in vitro and in vivo. Bioconjugate Chemistry, 30(4), 1244-1257. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.9b00189

Oncolytic viruses offer many advantages for cancer therapy when administered directly to confined solid tumors. However, the systemic delivery of these viruses is problematic because of the host immune response, undesired interactions with blood comp... Read More about Polyvalent diazonium polymers provide efficient protection of oncolytic adenovirus Enadenotucirev from neutralizing antibodies while maintaining biological activity in vitro and in vivo.

GSK3β-SCFFBXW7α mediated phosphorylation and ubiquitination of IRF1 are required for its transcription-dependent turnover (2019)
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Garvin, A. J., Khalaf, A. H., Rettino, A., Xicluna, J., Butler, L., Morris, J. R., …Clarke, N. M. (2019). GSK3β-SCFFBXW7α mediated phosphorylation and ubiquitination of IRF1 are required for its transcription-dependent turnover. Nucleic Acids Research, 47(9), 4476-4494. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz163

IRF1 (Interferon Regulatory Factor-1) is the prototype of the IRF family of DNA binding transcription factors. IRF1 protein expression is regulated by transient up-regulation in response to external stimuli followed by rapid degradation via the ubiqu... Read More about GSK3β-SCFFBXW7α mediated phosphorylation and ubiquitination of IRF1 are required for its transcription-dependent turnover.