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Factors Affecting Adherence, Intake, and Perceived Palatability of Oral Nutritional Supplements: A Literature Review (2022)
Journal Article
Lester, S., Kleijn, M., Cornacchia, L., Hewson, L., Taylor, M. A., & Fisk, I. (2022). Factors Affecting Adherence, Intake, and Perceived Palatability of Oral Nutritional Supplements: A Literature Review. Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, 26, 663-674. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12603-022-1819-3

Oral nutritional supplements (ONS) are a clinically effective and relatively inexpensive way to supplement the diet of patients with, or at risk of, undernutrition. Good adherence is a primary determinant of the effectiveness of ONS. However adherenc... Read More about Factors Affecting Adherence, Intake, and Perceived Palatability of Oral Nutritional Supplements: A Literature Review.

Complete Genome Sequence of Paraclostridium bifermentans DSM 14991 (2022)
Journal Article
Little, G. T., Sellés Vidal, L., Steadman, M., Leyden-Preece, R., Taylor, G. M., & Heap, J. T. (2022). Complete Genome Sequence of Paraclostridium bifermentans DSM 14991. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 11(7), Article e00103-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00103-22

The complete genome sequence of Paraclostridium bifermentans was obtained by assembly of Illumina and Oxford Nanopore (ONT) reads. The sequence will enable study into the organism’s ability to biohydrogenate unsaturated acyl chains in the transformat... Read More about Complete Genome Sequence of Paraclostridium bifermentans DSM 14991.

Mineralizing Coating on 3D Printed Scaffolds for the Promotion of Osseointegration (2022)
Journal Article
Hasan, A., Bagnol, R., Owen, R., Latif, A., Rostam, H. M., Elsharkawy, S., …Mata, A. (2022). Mineralizing Coating on 3D Printed Scaffolds for the Promotion of Osseointegration. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 10, Article 836386. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2022.836386

Design and fabrication of implants that can perform better than autologous bone grafts remain an unmet challenge for the hard tissue regeneration in craniomaxillofacial applications. Here, we report an integrated approach combining additive manufactu... Read More about Mineralizing Coating on 3D Printed Scaffolds for the Promotion of Osseointegration.

New Microfluidic System for Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Assessment of Cell Culture Performance: Design and Development of New Electrode Material (2022)
Journal Article
Chmayssem, A., Tanase, C. E., Verplanck, N., Gougis, M., Mourier, V., Zebda, A., …Mailley, P. (2022). New Microfluidic System for Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Assessment of Cell Culture Performance: Design and Development of New Electrode Material. Biosensors, 12(7), Article 452. https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12070452

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is widely accepted as an effective and non-destructive method to assess cell health during cell-culture. However, there is a lack of compact devices compatible with microfluidic integration and microscopy... Read More about New Microfluidic System for Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Assessment of Cell Culture Performance: Design and Development of New Electrode Material.

Exploring the Psychological Impacts of COVID-19 Social Restrictions on International University Students: A Qualitative Study (2022)
Journal Article
Al-Oraibi, A., Fothergill, L., Yildirim, M., Knight, H., Carlisle, S., O’Connor, M., …Blake, H. (2022). Exploring the Psychological Impacts of COVID-19 Social Restrictions on International University Students: A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(13), Article 7631. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137631

The global COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on the mental well-being of university students, but little attention has been given to international students, who may have a unique experience and perspective. The aim of this study was to explore the views... Read More about Exploring the Psychological Impacts of COVID-19 Social Restrictions on International University Students: A Qualitative Study.

Upregulated expression of FFAR2 and SOC3 genes is associated with gout (2022)
Journal Article
Orji, O. C., López-Domínguez, M. B., Sandoval-Plata, G., Guetta-Baranes, T., Valdes, A. M., Doherty, M., …Abhishek, A. (2023). Upregulated expression of FFAR2 and SOC3 genes is associated with gout. Rheumatology, 62(2), 977-983. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keac360

Objective To examine the expression of Free fatty acid receptor 2 (FFAR2) and Suppressor of cytokine signalling 3 (SOCS3) genes in asymptomatic hyperuricaemia (AH), AH with MSU crystal deposition, inter-critical gout and gout flare.

Methods Study... Read More about Upregulated expression of FFAR2 and SOC3 genes is associated with gout.

Single-Cell Metabolic Profiling of Macrophages Using 3D OrbiSIMS: Correlations with Phenotype (2022)
Journal Article
Suvannapruk, W., Edney, M. K., Kim, D., Scurr, D. J., Ghaemmaghami, A. M., & Alexander, M. R. (2022). Single-Cell Metabolic Profiling of Macrophages Using 3D OrbiSIMS: Correlations with Phenotype. Analytical Chemistry, 94(26), 9389–9398. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.2c01375

Macrophages are important immune cells that respond to environmental cues acquiring a range of activation statuses represented by pro-inflammatory (M1) and anti-inflammatory (M2) phenotypes at each end of their spectrum. Characterizing the metabolic... Read More about Single-Cell Metabolic Profiling of Macrophages Using 3D OrbiSIMS: Correlations with Phenotype.

Acute effects of prior dietary fat ingestion on postprandial metabolic responses to protein and carbohydrate co-ingestion in overweight and obese men: A randomised crossover trial (2022)
Journal Article
Wilhelmsen, A., Davies, A., Mallinson, J., Pabla, P., Jones, R., Palmer, E. A., …Tsintzas, K. (2022). Acute effects of prior dietary fat ingestion on postprandial metabolic responses to protein and carbohydrate co-ingestion in overweight and obese men: A randomised crossover trial. Clinical Nutrition, 41(8), 1623-1635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2022.06.022

Background: Obesity and insulin resistance are associated with an impaired sensitivity to anabolic stimuli such as dietary protein (anabolic resistance). Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) may be protective against the deleterious effects... Read More about Acute effects of prior dietary fat ingestion on postprandial metabolic responses to protein and carbohydrate co-ingestion in overweight and obese men: A randomised crossover trial.

Does the Effect of a 3-Year Lifestyle Intervention on Body Weight and Cardiometabolic Health Differ by Prediabetes Metabolic Phenotype? A Post Hoc Analysis of the PREVIEW Study (2022)
Journal Article
Zhu, R., Jalo, E., Silvestre, M. P., Poppitt, S. D., Handjieva-Darlenska, T., Handjiev, S., …Raben, A. (2022). Does the Effect of a 3-Year Lifestyle Intervention on Body Weight and Cardiometabolic Health Differ by Prediabetes Metabolic Phenotype? A Post Hoc Analysis of the PREVIEW Study. Diabetes Care, 45(11), 2698-2708. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc22-0549

OBJECTIVE: To examine whether the effect of a 3-year lifestyle intervention on body weight and cardiometabolic risk factors differs by prediabetes metabolic phenotype.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: This post hoc analysis of the multicenter, random... Read More about Does the Effect of a 3-Year Lifestyle Intervention on Body Weight and Cardiometabolic Health Differ by Prediabetes Metabolic Phenotype? A Post Hoc Analysis of the PREVIEW Study.

Analysis of phenotype-genotype associations using genomic informational field theory (GIFT) (2022)
Journal Article
Wattis, J. A., Bray, S. M., Kyratzi, P., & Rauch, C. (2022). Analysis of phenotype-genotype associations using genomic informational field theory (GIFT). Journal of Theoretical Biology, 548, Article 111198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2022.111198

We show how field- and information theory can be used to quantify the relationship between genotype and phenotype in cases where phenotype is a continuous variable. Given a sample population of phenotype measurements, from various known genotypes, we... Read More about Analysis of phenotype-genotype associations using genomic informational field theory (GIFT).

Screening Mutants by Single Fly Genomic PCR (2022)
Book Chapter
Nagarajan, U., & Georgiou, M. (2022). Screening Mutants by Single Fly Genomic PCR. In Notch Signaling Research (15-25). Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2201-8_2

Imprecise P-element excision or FRT-mediated recombination is routinely performed to mutagenize a gene of interest. It is, however, tedious to maintain all independent and individual excised mutant fly lines before the presence of a mutation is confi... Read More about Screening Mutants by Single Fly Genomic PCR.

Effect of priming interval on reactogenicity, peak immunological response, and waning after homologous and heterologous COVID-19 vaccine schedules: exploratory analyses of Com-COV, a randomised control trial (2022)
Journal Article
Shaw, R. H., Liu, X., Stuart, A. S. V., Greenland, M., Aley, P. K., Andrews, N. J., …Okenyi, E. (2022). Effect of priming interval on reactogenicity, peak immunological response, and waning after homologous and heterologous COVID-19 vaccine schedules: exploratory analyses of Com-COV, a randomised control trial. Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 10(11), 1049-1060. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600%2822%2900163-1

Background: Priming COVID-19 vaccine schedules have been deployed at variable intervals globally, which might influence immune persistence and the relative importance of third-dose booster programmes. Here, we report exploratory analyses from the Com... Read More about Effect of priming interval on reactogenicity, peak immunological response, and waning after homologous and heterologous COVID-19 vaccine schedules: exploratory analyses of Com-COV, a randomised control trial.

Human parainfluenza 2 & 4: Clinical and genetic epidemiology in the UK, 2013–2017, reveals distinct disease features and co‐circulating genomic subtypes (2022)
Journal Article
Chellapuri, A., Smitheman, M., Chappell, J. G., Clark, G., Howson-Wells, H. C., Berry, L., …McClure, C. P. (2022). Human parainfluenza 2 & 4: Clinical and genetic epidemiology in the UK, 2013–2017, reveals distinct disease features and co‐circulating genomic subtypes. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 16(6), 1122-1132. https://doi.org/10.1111/irv.13012

Background: Human Parainfluenza viruses (HPIV) comprise of four members of the genetically distinct genera of Respirovirus (HPIV1&3) and Orthorubulavirus (HPIV2&4), causing significant upper and lower respiratory tract infections worldwide, particula... Read More about Human parainfluenza 2 & 4: Clinical and genetic epidemiology in the UK, 2013–2017, reveals distinct disease features and co‐circulating genomic subtypes.

Effects of substance P on human cerebral microvascular endothelial cell line hCMEC/D3 are mediated exclusively through a truncated NK-1 receptor and depend on cell confluence (2022)
Journal Article
Gao, X., Frakich, N., Filippini, P., Edwards, L. J., Vinkemeier, U., Gran, B., Tanasescu, R., Bayraktutan, U., Colombo, S., & Constantinescu, C. S. (2022). Effects of substance P on human cerebral microvascular endothelial cell line hCMEC/D3 are mediated exclusively through a truncated NK-1 receptor and depend on cell confluence. Neuropeptides, 95, Article 102265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.npep.2022.102265

The neuropeptide substance P (SP) mediates pain transmission, immune modulation, vasodilation and neurogenic inflammation. Its role in the peripheral nervous system has been well characterised. However, its actions on the blood-brain barrier (BBB) ar... Read More about Effects of substance P on human cerebral microvascular endothelial cell line hCMEC/D3 are mediated exclusively through a truncated NK-1 receptor and depend on cell confluence.

Planning experiments: Updated guidance on experimental design and analysis and their reporting III (2022)
Journal Article
Curtis, M. J., Alexander, S. P. H., Cirino, G., George, C. H., Kendall, D. A., Insel, P. A., …Ahluwalia, A. (2022). Planning experiments: Updated guidance on experimental design and analysis and their reporting III. British Journal of Pharmacology, 179(15), 3907-3913. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.15868

Scientists who plan to publish in British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP) must read this article before undertaking a study. This editorial provides guidance for the design of experiments. We have published previously two guidance documents on experime... Read More about Planning experiments: Updated guidance on experimental design and analysis and their reporting III.

A mechanoresponsive nano-sized carrier achieves intracellular release of drug on external ultrasound stimulus (2022)
Journal Article
Catania, R., Onion, D., Russo, E., Zelzer, M., Mantovani, G., Huett, A., & Stolnik, S. (2022). A mechanoresponsive nano-sized carrier achieves intracellular release of drug on external ultrasound stimulus. RSC Advances, 12(26), 16561-16569. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ra02307e

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.

Optimization of Peptide Linker-Based Fluorescent Ligands for the Histamine H1 Receptor (2022)
Journal Article
Kok, Z. Y., Stoddart, L. A., Mistry, S. J., Mocking, T. A., Vischer, H. F., Leurs, R., …Kellam, B. (2022). Optimization of Peptide Linker-Based Fluorescent Ligands for the Histamine H1 Receptor. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 65(12), 8258–8288. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.2c00125

The histamine H1 receptor (H1R) has recently been implicated in mediating cell proliferation and cancer progression, therefore high affinity H1R-selective fluorescent ligands are desirable tools for further investigation of this behaviour in vitro an... Read More about Optimization of Peptide Linker-Based Fluorescent Ligands for the Histamine H1 Receptor.

MEDB-64. Are Rab GTPases metastatic drivers in metastatic medulloblastoma? (2022)
Journal Article
Entwistle, S., Jackson, H. K., Kerr, I., Coyle, B., & Hume, A. (2022). MEDB-64. Are Rab GTPases metastatic drivers in metastatic medulloblastoma?. Neuro-Oncology, 24(Supplement_1), i121-i121. https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noac079.438

Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant paediatric brain cancer with poorer prognosis related to the onset of metastasis. It has four molecular subgroups; Wingless (WNT), Sonic Hedgehog (SHH), group 3 and group 4, of which group 3 is the most li... Read More about MEDB-64. Are Rab GTPases metastatic drivers in metastatic medulloblastoma?.

Symbiopectobacterium purcellii, gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the leafhopper Empoasca decipiens (2022)
Journal Article
Nadal-Jimenez, P., Siozios, S., Halliday, N., Cámara, M., & Hurst, G. D. D. (2022). Symbiopectobacterium purcellii, gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the leafhopper Empoasca decipiens. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 72(6), Article 005440. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005440

Bacterial endosymbionts are found in multiple arthropod species, where they play crucial roles as nutritional symbionts, defensive symbionts or reproductive parasites. Recent work has highlighted a new clade of heritable microbes within the gammaprot... Read More about Symbiopectobacterium purcellii, gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the leafhopper Empoasca decipiens.

Energy Metabolism in Mouse Sciatic Nerve A Fibres during Increased Energy Demand (2022)
Journal Article
Rich, L. R., Ransom, B. R., & Brown, A. M. (2022). Energy Metabolism in Mouse Sciatic Nerve A Fibres during Increased Energy Demand. Metabolites, 12(6), Article 505. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo12060505

The ability of sciatic nerve A fibres to conduct action potentials relies on an adequate supply of energy substrate, usually glucose, to maintain necessary ion gradients. Under our ex vivo experimental conditions, the absence of exogenously applied g... Read More about Energy Metabolism in Mouse Sciatic Nerve A Fibres during Increased Energy Demand.