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Osteological, multi-isotope and proteomic analysis of poorly-preserved human remains from a Dutch East India Company burial ground in South Africa (2023)
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Olszewski, J., Hall, R. A., Kootker, L. M., Oldham, N. J., Layfield, R., Shaw, B., …Schrader, S. A. (2023). Osteological, multi-isotope and proteomic analysis of poorly-preserved human remains from a Dutch East India Company burial ground in South Africa. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 14666. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41503-9

Skeletal remains discovered in Simon’s Town, South Africa, were hypothesised as being associated with a former Dutch East India Company (VOC) hospital. We report a novel combined osteological and biochemical approach to these poorly-preserved remains... Read More about Osteological, multi-isotope and proteomic analysis of poorly-preserved human remains from a Dutch East India Company burial ground in South Africa.

On the origins of phenotypic parallelism in benthic and limnetic stickleback (2023)
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Dean, L. L., Magalhaes, I. S., D’Agostino, D., Hohenlohe, P., & MacColl, A. D. C. (2023). On the origins of phenotypic parallelism in benthic and limnetic stickleback. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(9), Article msad191. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad191

Rapid evolution of similar phenotypes in similar environments, giving rise to in situ parallel adaptation, is an important hallmark of ecological speciation. However, what appears to be in situ adaptation can also arise by dispersal of divergent line... Read More about On the origins of phenotypic parallelism in benthic and limnetic stickleback.

Socio-economic factors, mood, primary care utilization, and quality of life as predictors of intervention cessation and chronic stress in a type 2 diabetes prevention intervention (PREVIEW Study) (2023)
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Huttunen-Lenz, M., Raben, A., Adam, T., Macdonald, I., Taylor, M. A., Stratton, G., …Schlicht, W. (2023). Socio-economic factors, mood, primary care utilization, and quality of life as predictors of intervention cessation and chronic stress in a type 2 diabetes prevention intervention (PREVIEW Study). BMC Public Health, 23(1), Article 1666. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16569-9

Background: Sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet combined with overweight are risk factors for type 2 diabetes (T2D). Lifestyle interventions with weight-loss are effective in T2D-prevention, but unsuccessful completion and chronic stress may hinde... Read More about Socio-economic factors, mood, primary care utilization, and quality of life as predictors of intervention cessation and chronic stress in a type 2 diabetes prevention intervention (PREVIEW Study).

Medium-Chain Fatty Acids Rescue Motor Function and Neuromuscular Junction Degeneration in a Drosophila Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (2023)
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Dunn, E., Steinert, J. R., Stone, A., Sahota, V., Williams, R. S. B., Snowden, S., & Augustin, H. (2023). Medium-Chain Fatty Acids Rescue Motor Function and Neuromuscular Junction Degeneration in a Drosophila Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Cells, 12(17), Article 2163. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells12172163

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset neurodegenerative disease characterised by progressive degeneration of the motor neurones. An expanded GGGGCC (G4C2) hexanucleotide repeat in C9orf72 is the most common genetic cause of ALS and fr... Read More about Medium-Chain Fatty Acids Rescue Motor Function and Neuromuscular Junction Degeneration in a Drosophila Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

In vivo observation of a stomach road or ‘Magenstrasse’ for gastric emptying using MRI imaging in healthy humans (2023)
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Almutairi, F., Alyami, J., Pritchard, S., Alsharef, W., Spiller, R. C., Gowland, P. A., …Hoad, C. L. (2023). In vivo observation of a stomach road or ‘Magenstrasse’ for gastric emptying using MRI imaging in healthy humans. Clinical Nutrition Open Science, 51, 35-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nutos.2023.08.002

The presence of a ‘magenstrasse’, a central ‘stomach road’ for flow and mixing of foods and drinks in the stomach had been predicted from hydrodynamic modelling. Here a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tagging technique was used to gain novel insight... Read More about In vivo observation of a stomach road or ‘Magenstrasse’ for gastric emptying using MRI imaging in healthy humans.

Systematic Review: Sarcopenia in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease (2023)
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Aljilani, B., Tsintzas, K., Jacques, M., Radford, S., & Moran, G. W. (2023). Systematic Review: Sarcopenia in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, 57, 647-654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnesp.2023.08.009

Background: Low skeletal muscle mass (MM) and deteriorated function (sarcopenia) can be a frequent complication in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Aim: To conduct a systematic review of the paediatric IBD literature on skeletal muscle fu... Read More about Systematic Review: Sarcopenia in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease.

Molecular phylogeny and morphological evolution of the Chinese land snail Cathaica Möllendorff, 1884 (Eupulmonata: Camaenidae) in Shandong Province, China (2023)
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Zhang, G., & Wade, C. M. (2023). Molecular phylogeny and morphological evolution of the Chinese land snail Cathaica Möllendorff, 1884 (Eupulmonata: Camaenidae) in Shandong Province, China. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 140(4), 556-577. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blad067

Cathaica is a genus of bradybaenid land snails occurring in China and is widespread in Shandong Province. Here we re-describe three species, C. pyrrhozona, C. fasciola and C. leei, and describe two new species, Cathaica fohuiensis Zhang sp. nov. and... Read More about Molecular phylogeny and morphological evolution of the Chinese land snail Cathaica Möllendorff, 1884 (Eupulmonata: Camaenidae) in Shandong Province, China.

A potential alternative to fungicides using actives-free (meth)acrylate polymers for protection of wheat crops from fungal attachment and infection (2023)
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Crawford, L. A., Cuzzucoli Crucitti, V., Stimpson, A., Morgan, C., Blake, J., Wildman, R. D., …Avery, S. V. (2023). A potential alternative to fungicides using actives-free (meth)acrylate polymers for protection of wheat crops from fungal attachment and infection. Green Chemistry, 25(21), 8558-8569. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3gc01911j

Fungicidal compounds are actives widely used for crop protection from fungal infection, but they can also kill beneficial organisms, enter the food chain and promote resistant pathogen strains from overuse. Here we report the first field crop trial o... Read More about A potential alternative to fungicides using actives-free (meth)acrylate polymers for protection of wheat crops from fungal attachment and infection.

Seasonal patterns of Schistosoma mansoni infection within Biomphalaria snails at the Ugandan shorelines of Lake Albert and Lake Victoria (2023)
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Andrus, P. S., Stothard, J. R., & Wade, C. M. (2023). Seasonal patterns of Schistosoma mansoni infection within Biomphalaria snails at the Ugandan shorelines of Lake Albert and Lake Victoria. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17(8), Article e0011506. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011506

Intestinal schistosomiasis is hyperendemic in many sub-Saharan African countries. In Uganda, it is endemic at both Lake Albert (LA) and Lake Victoria (LV) and caused by S. mansoni that uses Biomphalaria snails as obligatory intermediate snail hosts.... Read More about Seasonal patterns of Schistosoma mansoni infection within Biomphalaria snails at the Ugandan shorelines of Lake Albert and Lake Victoria.

Quorum-sensing, intra- and inter-species competition in the staphylococci (2023)
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Williams, P., Hill, P., Bonev, B., & Chan, W. C. (2023). Quorum-sensing, intra- and inter-species competition in the staphylococci. Microbiology, 169(8), https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001381

In Gram-positive bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and the coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS), the accessory gene regulator (agr) is a highly conserved but polymorphic quorum-sensing system involved in colonization, virulence and biofilm de... Read More about Quorum-sensing, intra- and inter-species competition in the staphylococci.

Combined genomics to discover genes associated with tolerance to soil carbonate (2023)
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Busoms, S., Pérez‐Martín, L., Terés, J., Huang, X., Yant, L., Tolrà, R., …Poschenrieder, C. (2023). Combined genomics to discover genes associated with tolerance to soil carbonate. Plant, Cell and Environment, 46(12), 3986-3998. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14691

Carbonate‐rich soils limit plant performance and crop production. Previously, local adaptation to carbonated soils was detected in wild Arabidopsis thaliana accessions, allowing the selection of two demes with contrasting phenotypes: A1 (carbonate to... Read More about Combined genomics to discover genes associated with tolerance to soil carbonate.

Emergent mechanical control of vascular morphogenesis (2023)
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Whisler, J., Shahreza, S., Schlegelmilch, K., Ege, N., Javanmardi, Y., Malandrino, A., …Moeendarbary, E. (2023). Emergent mechanical control of vascular morphogenesis. Science Advances, 9(32), Article eadg9781. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg9781

Vascularization is driven by morphogen signals and mechanical cues that coordinately regulate cellular force generation, migration, and shape change to sculpt the developing vascular network. However, it remains unclear whether developing vasculature... Read More about Emergent mechanical control of vascular morphogenesis.

Preservation of whole antibodies within ancient teeth (2023)
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Shaw, B., McDonnell, T., Radley, E., Thomas, B., Smith, L., Davenport, C. A. L., …Layfield, R. (2023). Preservation of whole antibodies within ancient teeth. iScience, 26(9), Article 107575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107575

Archaeological remains can preserve some proteins into deep time, offering remarkable opportunities for probing past events in human history. Recovering functional proteins from skeletal tissues could uncover a molecular memory related to the life-hi... Read More about Preservation of whole antibodies within ancient teeth.

Recombinase-independent chromosomal rearrangements between dispersed inverted repeats in Saccharomyces cerevisiae meiosis (2023)
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Allison, R. M., Johnson, D. J., Neale, M. J., & Gray, S. (2023). Recombinase-independent chromosomal rearrangements between dispersed inverted repeats in Saccharomyces cerevisiae meiosis. Nucleic Acids Research, 51(18), 9703-9715. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad650

DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair by homologous recombination (HR) uses a DNA template with similar sequence to restore genetic identity. Allelic DNA repair templates can be found on the sister chromatid or homologous chromosome. During meiotic re... Read More about Recombinase-independent chromosomal rearrangements between dispersed inverted repeats in Saccharomyces cerevisiae meiosis.

Mortality rates among patients successfully treated for hepatitis C in the era of interferon-free antivirals: population based cohort study (2023)
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Hamill, V., Wong, S., Benselin, J., Krajden, M., Hayes, P. C., Mutimer, D., …Innes, H. (2023). Mortality rates among patients successfully treated for hepatitis C in the era of interferon-free antivirals: population based cohort study. BMJ, 382, Article e074001. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-074001

Objectives To quantify mortality rates for patients successfully treated for hepatitis C in the era of interferon-free, direct acting antivirals and compare these rates with those of the general population. Design Population based cohort study.... Read More about Mortality rates among patients successfully treated for hepatitis C in the era of interferon-free antivirals: population based cohort study.

Design, Synthesis, and Application of Fluorescent Ligands Targeting the Intracellular Allosteric Binding Site of the CXC Chemokine Receptor 2 (2023)
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Casella, B. M., Farmer, J. P., Nesheva, D. N., Williams, H. E., Charlton, S. J., Holliday, N. D., …Mistry, S. N. (2023). Design, Synthesis, and Application of Fluorescent Ligands Targeting the Intracellular Allosteric Binding Site of the CXC Chemokine Receptor 2. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c00849

The inhibition of CXC chemokine receptor 2 (CXCR2), a key inflammatory mediator, is a potential strategy in the treatment of several pulmonary diseases and cancers. The complexity of endogenous chemokine interaction with the orthosteric binding site... Read More about Design, Synthesis, and Application of Fluorescent Ligands Targeting the Intracellular Allosteric Binding Site of the CXC Chemokine Receptor 2.

Genome-wide diversity and admixture of five indigenous cattle populations from the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia (2023)
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Zegeye, T., Belay, G., Vallejo-Trujillo, A., Han, J., & Hanotte, O. (2023). Genome-wide diversity and admixture of five indigenous cattle populations from the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. Frontiers in Genetics, 14, Article 1050365. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2023.1050365

The Tigray region, where we found around eight per cent of the indigenous cattle population of Ethiopia, is considered as the historic centre of the country, with the ancient pre-Aksumite and Aksumite civilisations in contact with the civilisations o... Read More about Genome-wide diversity and admixture of five indigenous cattle populations from the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.

The impact of respiratory infections and probiotic use on the nasal microbiota of frail residents in long-term care homes (2023)
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Bowdish, D. M. E., Rossi, L., Loeb, M., Johnstone, J., Schenck, L. P., Fontes, M., …Whelan, F. J. (2023). The impact of respiratory infections and probiotic use on the nasal microbiota of frail residents in long-term care homes. ERJ Open Research, 9(5), Article 00212-2023. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00212-2023

Background Residents in long-term care homes, who tend to be of advanced age and frail, are at increased risk of respiratory infections. The respiratory microbiota is known to change with age, but whether these changes contribute to the risk of infec... Read More about The impact of respiratory infections and probiotic use on the nasal microbiota of frail residents in long-term care homes.

Assessment of the potential of novel and classical opioids to induce respiratory depression in mice (2023)
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Hill, R., Sanchez, J., Lemel, L., Antonijevic, M., Hosking, Y., Mistry, S. N., …Canals, M. (2023). Assessment of the potential of novel and classical opioids to induce respiratory depression in mice. British Journal of Pharmacology, 180(24), 3160-3174. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.16199

Background and Purpose Opioid-induced respiratory depression limits the use of μ-opioid receptor agonists in clinical settings and is the main cause of opioid overdose fatalities. The relative potential of different opioid agonists to induce respira... Read More about Assessment of the potential of novel and classical opioids to induce respiratory depression in mice.

Comparing shell size and shape with canonical variate analysis of sympatric Biomphalaria species within Lake Albert and Lake Victoria, Uganda (2023)
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Andrus, P. S., Stothard, J. R., Kabatereine, N. B., & Wade, C. M. (2023). Comparing shell size and shape with canonical variate analysis of sympatric Biomphalaria species within Lake Albert and Lake Victoria, Uganda. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 199(3), 713–722. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad052

The Great African Lakes in Uganda (Lake Albert and Lake Victoria) are known habitats to several sympatric species of Biomphalaria, intermediate snail hosts of the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni. However, accurate identification of snails by morph... Read More about Comparing shell size and shape with canonical variate analysis of sympatric Biomphalaria species within Lake Albert and Lake Victoria, Uganda.