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Prior Consumption of a Fat Meal in Healthy Adults Modulates the Brain's Response to Fat (2016)
Journal Article
Eldeghaidy, S., Marciani, L., Hort, J., Hollowood, T. A., Singh, G., Bush, D., …Francis, S. T. (2016). Prior Consumption of a Fat Meal in Healthy Adults Modulates the Brain's Response to Fat. Journal of Nutrition, 146(11), 2187-2198. https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.116.234104

Background: Consumption of fat is regulated by reward and homeostatic pathways, but no studies have examined the role of the intake of a high fat meal (HFM) on subsequent brain activation to oral stimuli. Objective: We evaluated how prior consumptio... Read More about Prior Consumption of a Fat Meal in Healthy Adults Modulates the Brain's Response to Fat.

Anti-nociceptive and desensitizing effects of olvanil on capsaicin-induced thermal hyperalgesia in the rat (2016)
Journal Article
Alsalem, M., Millns, P., Altarifi, A., El-Salem, K., Chapman, V., & Kendall, D. A. (in press). Anti-nociceptive and desensitizing effects of olvanil on capsaicin-induced thermal hyperalgesia in the rat. BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, 17, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40360-016-0074-9

Background: Olvanil (NE 19550) is a non-pungent synthetic analogue of capsaicin, the natural pungent ingredient of capsicum which activates the transient receptor potential vanilloid type-1 (TRPV1) channel and was developed as a potential analgesic c... Read More about Anti-nociceptive and desensitizing effects of olvanil on capsaicin-induced thermal hyperalgesia in the rat.

SBRC-Nottingham: sustainable routes to platform chemicals from C1 wastes Gases (2016)
Journal Article
Burbidge, A., & Minton, N. P. (2016). SBRC-Nottingham: sustainable routes to platform chemicals from C1 wastes Gases. Biochemical Society Transactions, 44(3), 684-686. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20160010

SBRC-Nottingham (www.sbrc-nottingham.ac.uk) was one of the first three UK university-based Synthetic Biology Research Centres (SBRCs) to be funded by the BBSRC and EPSRC as part of the recommendations made in the UKs Synthetic Biology Roadmap. It was... Read More about SBRC-Nottingham: sustainable routes to platform chemicals from C1 wastes Gases.

Deficits in object-in-place but not relative recency performance in the APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: implications for object recognition (2016)
Journal Article
Bonardi, C., Pardon, M., & Armstrong, P. (2016). Deficits in object-in-place but not relative recency performance in the APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: implications for object recognition. Behavioural Brain Research, 313, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2016.07.008

Performance was examined on three variants of the spontaneous object recognition (SOR) task, in 5-month old APPswe/PS1dE9 mice and wild-type littermate controls. A deficit was observed in an object-in-place (OIP) task, in which mice are preexposed to... Read More about Deficits in object-in-place but not relative recency performance in the APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: implications for object recognition.

Consequences of late-stage non-small cell lung cancer cachexia on muscle metabolic processes (2016)
Journal Article
Murton, A. J., Maddocks, M., Stephens, F. B., Marimuthu, K., England, R., & Wilcock, A. (in press). Consequences of late-stage non-small cell lung cancer cachexia on muscle metabolic processes. Clinical Lung Cancer, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cllc.2016.06.003

Introduction: Loss of muscle is common in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and contributes to the high morbidity and mortality of this group. The exact mechanisms behind the loss of muscle are unclear. Patients and methods... Read More about Consequences of late-stage non-small cell lung cancer cachexia on muscle metabolic processes.

Uncoupling the Structure–Activity Relationships of β2 Adrenergic Receptor Ligands from Membrane Binding (2016)
Journal Article
Dickson, C. J., Hornak, V., Velez-Vega, C., McKay, D. J., Reilly, J., Sandham, D. A., …Duca, J. S. (2016). Uncoupling the Structure–Activity Relationships of β2 Adrenergic Receptor Ligands from Membrane Binding. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 59(12), 5780-5789. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b00358

Ligand binding to membrane proteins may be significantly influenced by the interaction of ligands with the membrane. In particular, the microscopic ligand concentration within the membrane surface solvation layer may exceed that in bulk solvent, resu... Read More about Uncoupling the Structure–Activity Relationships of β2 Adrenergic Receptor Ligands from Membrane Binding.

Caffeine alters the behavioural and body temperature responses to mephedrone without causing long-term neurotoxicity in rats (2016)
Journal Article
Shortall, S. E., Green, A. R., Fone, K. C., & King, M. V. (2016). Caffeine alters the behavioural and body temperature responses to mephedrone without causing long-term neurotoxicity in rats. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 30(7), https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881116650408

Administration of caffeine with 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) alters the pharmacological properties of MDMA in rats. The current study examined whether caffeine alters the behavioural and neurochemical effects of mephedrone, which has simi... Read More about Caffeine alters the behavioural and body temperature responses to mephedrone without causing long-term neurotoxicity in rats.

On the pivotal role of PPARa in adaptation of the heart to hypoxia and why fat in the diet increases hypoxic injury (2016)
Journal Article
Cole, M., Abd Jamil, A. H., Heather, L. C., Murray, A. J., Sutton, E. R., Slingo, M., …Clarke, K. (2016). On the pivotal role of PPARa in adaptation of the heart to hypoxia and why fat in the diet increases hypoxic injury. FASEB Journal, 30(8), 2684-2697. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.201500094R

The role of peroxisome proliferator activated alpha (PPAR?) -mediated metabolic remodeling in cardiac adaptation to hypoxia has yet to be defined. Here, mice were housed in hypoxia for 3 weeks before in vivo contractile function was measured using c... Read More about On the pivotal role of PPARa in adaptation of the heart to hypoxia and why fat in the diet increases hypoxic injury.

The composite influence of the imidazolone moiety of CGP 12177 on its affinity and efficacy at the two conformations of the human ?1-adrenoceptor (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Mistry, S. N., & Baker, J. G. (2016). The composite influence of the imidazolone moiety of CGP 12177 on its affinity and efficacy at the two conformations of the human ?1-adrenoceptor.

The effect of the N-alkyl moiety on the interaction of pindolol analogues with the two agonist conformations of the human ?1-adrenoceptor (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Mistry, S. N., & Baker, J. G. (2016). The effect of the N-alkyl moiety on the interaction of pindolol analogues with the two agonist conformations of the human ?1-adrenoceptor.

Non-destructive characterisation of mesenchymal stem cell differentiation using LC-MS-based metabolite footprinting (2016)
Journal Article
Surrati, A., Linforth, R. S., Fisk, I. D., Sottile, V., & Kim, D. (in press). Non-destructive characterisation of mesenchymal stem cell differentiation using LC-MS-based metabolite footprinting. Analyst, 12, https://doi.org/10.1039/c6an00170j

Bone regeneration is a complex biological process where major cellular changes take place to support the osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal bone progenitors. To characterise these biological changes and better understand the pathways regulatin... Read More about Non-destructive characterisation of mesenchymal stem cell differentiation using LC-MS-based metabolite footprinting.

Isoaspartate, Carbamoyl phosphate synthase-1, and carbonic anhydrase-III as biomarkers of liver injury (2016)
Journal Article
Carter, W., Vigneswara, V., Newlaczyl, A., Wayne, D., Ahmed, B., Saddington, S., …Kharbanda, K. (2016). Isoaspartate, Carbamoyl phosphate synthase-1, and carbonic anhydrase-III as biomarkers of liver injury. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 458(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.01.158

We had previously shown that alcohol consumption can induce cellular isoaspartate protein damage via an impairment of the activity of protein isoaspartyl methyltransferase (PIMT), an enzyme that triggers repair of isoaspartate protein damage. To furt... Read More about Isoaspartate, Carbamoyl phosphate synthase-1, and carbonic anhydrase-III as biomarkers of liver injury.

Cas3 is a limiting factor for CRISPR-Cas immunity in Escherichia coli cells lacking H-NS (2016)
Journal Article
Majsec, K., Bolt, E. L., & Ivan?i?-Ba?e, I. (in press). Cas3 is a limiting factor for CRISPR-Cas immunity in Escherichia coli cells lacking H-NS. BMC Microbiology, 16(28), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-016-0643-5

Background: CRISPR-Cas systems provide adaptive immunity to mobile genetic elements in prokaryotes. In many bacteria, including E. coli, a specialized ribonucleoprotein complex called Cascade enacts immunity by “an interference reaction" between CRIS... Read More about Cas3 is a limiting factor for CRISPR-Cas immunity in Escherichia coli cells lacking H-NS.

Stepwise evolution of Elk-1 in early deuterostomes (2016)
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Saxton, J., Ferjentsik, Z., Ducker, C., & Shaw, P. E. (in press). Stepwise evolution of Elk-1 in early deuterostomes. FEBS Journal, 283(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.13607

Metazoans have multiple ETS paralogues with overlapping or indiscriminate biological functions. Elk- 1, one of three mammalian Ternary Complex Factors (TCFs), is a well-conserved, ETS domain-containing transcriptional regulator of mitogen-responsive... Read More about Stepwise evolution of Elk-1 in early deuterostomes.

Housing stakeholder preferences for the “soft” features of sustainable and healthy housing design in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Prochorskaite, A., Couch, C., Malys, N., & Maliene, V. (2016). Housing stakeholder preferences for the “soft” features of sustainable and healthy housing design in the UK. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13010111

It is widely recognised that the quantity and sustainability of new homes in the UK need to increase. However, it is important that sustainable housing is regarded holistically, and not merely in environmental terms, and incorporates elements that en... Read More about Housing stakeholder preferences for the “soft” features of sustainable and healthy housing design in the UK.