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Motor-related oscillatory activity in schizophrenia according to phase of illness and clinical symptom severity (2020)
Journal Article
Gascoyne, L. E., Brookes, M. J., Rathnaiah, M., Zia Ul Haq Katshu, M., Koelewijn, L., Williams, G., …Morris, P. G. (2021). Motor-related oscillatory activity in schizophrenia according to phase of illness and clinical symptom severity. NeuroImage: Clinical, 29, Article 102524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102524

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) measures magnetic fields generated by synchronised neural current flow and provides direct inference on brain electrophysiology and connectivity, with high spatial and temporal resolution. The movement-related beta decrea... Read More about Motor-related oscillatory activity in schizophrenia according to phase of illness and clinical symptom severity.

Ion channels as therapeutic targets in high grade gliomas (2020)
Journal Article
Griffin, M., Khan, R., Basu, S., & Smith, S. (2020). Ion channels as therapeutic targets in high grade gliomas. Cancers, 12(10), Article 3068. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers12103068

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a lethal brain cancer with an average survival of 14-15 months with maximal treatment. High grade gliomas (HGG) form a leading cause of CNS cancer-related death in children and adults due to the aggressive nature of t... Read More about Ion channels as therapeutic targets in high grade gliomas.

Targeting glutamine synthesis inhibits stem cell adipogenesis in vitro (2020)
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Velickovic, K., Lugo Leija, H. A., Surrat, A., Kim, D., Sacks, H., Symonds, M. E., & Sottile, V. (2020). Targeting glutamine synthesis inhibits stem cell adipogenesis in vitro. Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 54(5), 917-927. https://doi.org/10.33594/000000278

Background/Aims: Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in the body and has a metabolic role as a precursor for protein, amino sugar and nucleotide synthesis. After glucose, glutamine is the main source of energy in cells and has recently been sho... Read More about Targeting glutamine synthesis inhibits stem cell adipogenesis in vitro.

What are the development priorities for management of type 2 diabetes by general practitioners in Ningbo, China: a qualitative study of patients’ and practitioners’ perspectives (2020)
Journal Article
Woolley, A., Li, L., Solomon, J., Li, J., Huang, K., Chahal, P., …Chattopadhyay, K. (2020). What are the development priorities for management of type 2 diabetes by general practitioners in Ningbo, China: a qualitative study of patients’ and practitioners’ perspectives. BMJ Open, 10(9), Article e037215. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037215

Objectives: To explore patient and general practitioner (GP)’s perspectives on primary care management of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in Ningbo, China. We aim to understand the current benefits and challenges, and to identify development pri... Read More about What are the development priorities for management of type 2 diabetes by general practitioners in Ningbo, China: a qualitative study of patients’ and practitioners’ perspectives.

The challenge of online learning for medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020)
Journal Article
Sandars, J., & Patel, R. (2020). The challenge of online learning for medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic. International journal of medical education, 11, 169-170. https://doi.org/10.5116/ijme.5f20.55f2

The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education systems across the world has led to major and rapid changes in the provision of higher and medical education, with increasing delivery of the curriculum by online approaches. A recent synthesis... Read More about The challenge of online learning for medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Multimodal virtual environments: an opportunity to improve fire safety training? (2020)
Journal Article
Lawson, G., Roper, T., Shaw, E., Hsieh, M., & Cobb, S. V. (2020). Multimodal virtual environments: an opportunity to improve fire safety training?. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 18(2), 155-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/14773996.2020.1796085

Fires and fire-related fatalities remain a tragic and frequent occurrence. Evidence has shown that humans adopt sub-optimal behaviours during fire incidents and, therefore, training is one possible means to improve occupant survival rates. We present... Read More about Multimodal virtual environments: an opportunity to improve fire safety training?.

Association between socioeconomic factors and soft drink consumption among adults in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study (2020)
Journal Article
Sim, S., Pisey, V., & Dewey, R. S. (2020). Association between socioeconomic factors and soft drink consumption among adults in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study. F1000Research, 9, Article 708. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.24890.1

Background: Soft drinks are an attractive and popular drink, consumed by many people to fulfill their energy. However, soft drink consumption is an important risk factor for non-communicable diseases. This study aimed to investigate the association b... Read More about Association between socioeconomic factors and soft drink consumption among adults in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study.

Results of a UK-wide vignette study with occupational therapists to explore cognitive screening post-stroke (2020)
Journal Article
Geraghty, J., Ablewhite, J., das Nair, R., Lincoln, N., Kontou, E., Roffe, J., …Drummond, A. (2020). Results of a UK-wide vignette study with occupational therapists to explore cognitive screening post-stroke. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 27(7),

Background. There is a paucity of evidence in the UK regarding occupational therapy (OT) cognitive screening, and whether, and how, cognitive impairments are identified and assessed. Aims To identify current OT practice for the assessment of c... Read More about Results of a UK-wide vignette study with occupational therapists to explore cognitive screening post-stroke.

Untargeted metabolomics for uncovering biological markers of human skeletal muscle ageing (2020)
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Wilkinson, D. J., Rodriguez-Blanco, G., Dunn, W. B., Phillips, B. E., Williams, J. P., Greenhaff, P. L., …Atherton, P. J. (2020). Untargeted metabolomics for uncovering biological markers of human skeletal muscle ageing. Aging, 12(13), 12517-12533. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.103513

Ageing compromises skeletal muscle mass and function through poorly defined molecular aetiology. Here we have used untargeted metabolomics using UHPLC-MS to profile muscle tissue from young (n=10, 25±4y), middle aged (n=18, 50±4y) and older (n=18, 70... Read More about Untargeted metabolomics for uncovering biological markers of human skeletal muscle ageing.

Supervised Bayesian statistical learning to identify prognostic risk factor patterns from population data (2020)
Book Chapter
Crooks, C. J. (2020). Supervised Bayesian statistical learning to identify prognostic risk factor patterns from population data. In L. B. Pape-Haugaard, C. Lovis, I. Cort Madsen, P. Weber, P. Hostrup Nielsen, & P. Scott (Eds.), Digital personalized health and medicine: Proceedings of MIE 2020 (422-426). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI200195

Current methods for building risk models assume averaged uniform effects across populations. They use weighted sums of individual risk factors from regression models with only a few interactions, such as age. This does not allow risk factor effects t... Read More about Supervised Bayesian statistical learning to identify prognostic risk factor patterns from population data.

Entraining Movement-Related Brain Oscillations to Suppress Tics in Tourette Syndrome (2020)
Journal Article
Morera Maiquez, B., Sigurdsson, H. P., Dyke, K., Clarke, E., McGrath, P., Pasche, M., …Jackson, S. R. (2020). Entraining Movement-Related Brain Oscillations to Suppress Tics in Tourette Syndrome. Current Biology, 30(12), 2334-2342.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.044

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterised by the occurrence of vocal and motor tics. Tics are involuntary, repetitive, movements and vocalisations that occur in bouts, typically many times in a single day, and are often prec... Read More about Entraining Movement-Related Brain Oscillations to Suppress Tics in Tourette Syndrome.

Reducing dropout in acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness?based cognitive therapy, and problem?solving therapy for chronic pain and cancer patients using motivational interviewing (2020)
Journal Article
Malins, S., Biswas, S., Rathbone, J., Vogt, W., Pye, N., Levene, J., …Russell, J. (2020). Reducing dropout in acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy, and problem‐solving therapy for chronic pain and cancer patients using motivational interviewing. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 59(3), 424-438. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12254

Objective. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Problem-Solving Therapy are types of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) group that improve physical and mental health in chronic pain or cancer. However, dropout i... Read More about Reducing dropout in acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness?based cognitive therapy, and problem?solving therapy for chronic pain and cancer patients using motivational interviewing.

Gestational poly(I:C) attenuates, not exacerbates, the behavioral, cytokine and mTOR changes caused by isolation rearing in a rat ‘dual-hit’ model for neurodevelopmental disorders (2020)
Journal Article
Goh, J. Y., O'Sullivan, S. E., Shortall, S. E., Zordan, N., Piccinini, A. M., Potter, H. G., …King, M. V. (2020). Gestational poly(I:C) attenuates, not exacerbates, the behavioral, cytokine and mTOR changes caused by isolation rearing in a rat ‘dual-hit’ model for neurodevelopmental disorders. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 89, 100-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.076

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. Many psychiatric illnesses have a multifactorial etiology involving genetic and environmental risk factors that trigger persistent neurodevelopmental impairments. Several risk factors have been individually replicated in rodents,... Read More about Gestational poly(I:C) attenuates, not exacerbates, the behavioral, cytokine and mTOR changes caused by isolation rearing in a rat ‘dual-hit’ model for neurodevelopmental disorders.

Elevated MMP9 expression in breast cancer is a predictor of shorter patient survival (2020)
Journal Article
Joseph, C., Alsaleem, M., Orah, N., Narasimha, P. L., Miligy, I. M., Kurozumi, S., …Rakha, E. A. (2020). Elevated MMP9 expression in breast cancer is a predictor of shorter patient survival. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 182, 267–282. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-020-05670-x

Purpose: MMP9 is a matricellular protein associated with extracellular matrix (ECM) remodelling, that promotes tumour progression, and modulates the activity of cell adhesion molecules and cytokines. This study aims to assess the prognostic value of... Read More about Elevated MMP9 expression in breast cancer is a predictor of shorter patient survival.

Exploration of temperature and shelf-life dependency of the therapeutically available Insulin Detemir (2020)
Journal Article
Beji, O., Gillis, R. B., Dinu, V., Jiwani, S. I., Gyasi-Antwi, P., Fisk, I. D., …Adams, G. G. (2020). Exploration of temperature and shelf-life dependency of the therapeutically available Insulin Detemir. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 152, 340-347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2020.05.016

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Purpose: Insulin, in typical use, undergoes multiple changes in temperature; from refrigerator, to room temperature, to body temperature. Although long-term storage temperature has been well-studied, the short term changes to ins... Read More about Exploration of temperature and shelf-life dependency of the therapeutically available Insulin Detemir.

Correlation between breast cancer and lifestyle within the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Tanner, L. T. A., & Cheung, K. L. (2020). Correlation between breast cancer and lifestyle within the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A systematic review. World Journal of Clinical Oncology, 11(4), 217-242. https://doi.org/10.5306/wjco.v11.i4.217

BACKGROUND In the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCCCs), Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, breast cancer (BC) is the greatest cause of cancer incidence and mortality. Obesity and physical inactivity ar... Read More about Correlation between breast cancer and lifestyle within the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A systematic review.

Succession of physiological stages hallmarks the transcriptomic response of the fungus Aspergillus niger to lignocellulose (2020)
Journal Article
van Munster, J. M., Daly, P., Blythe, M. J., Ibbett, R., Kokolski, M., Gaddipati, S., …Archer, D. B. (2020). Succession of physiological stages hallmarks the transcriptomic response of the fungus Aspergillus niger to lignocellulose. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 13(1), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-020-01702-2

Background Understanding how fungi degrade lignocellulose is a cornerstone of improving renewables-based biotechnology, in particular for the production of hydrolytic enzymes. Considerable progress has been made in investigating fungal degradation d... Read More about Succession of physiological stages hallmarks the transcriptomic response of the fungus Aspergillus niger to lignocellulose.

Hospital-Acquired Viral Respiratory Tract Infections in the Neonatal Unit: A Comparison with Other Inpatient Groups (2020)
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Taylor, C., Tan, S., McClaughry, R., & Sharkey, D. (2020). Hospital-Acquired Viral Respiratory Tract Infections in the Neonatal Unit: A Comparison with Other Inpatient Groups. Neonatology, 117(4), 513–516. https://doi.org/10.1159/000506427

Background: Hospital-acquired viral respiratory tract infections (VRTIs) cause significant morbidity and mortality in neonatal patients. This includes escalation of respiratory support, increased length of hospital stay, and need for home oxygen, as... Read More about Hospital-Acquired Viral Respiratory Tract Infections in the Neonatal Unit: A Comparison with Other Inpatient Groups.

The Effect of Whey Protein Supplementation on Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis and Performance Recovery in Resistance-Trained Men (2020)
Journal Article
Davies, R. W., Bass, J. J., Carson, B. P., Norton, C., Kozior, M., Wilkinson, D. J., …Jakeman, P. M. (2020). The Effect of Whey Protein Supplementation on Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis and Performance Recovery in Resistance-Trained Men. Nutrients, 12(3), Article 845. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12030845

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of whey protein supplementation on myofibrillar protein synthesis (myoPS) and muscle recovery over a 7-d period of intensified resistance training (RT). Methods: In a double-blind random... Read More about The Effect of Whey Protein Supplementation on Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis and Performance Recovery in Resistance-Trained Men.