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Cancer event rate and mortality with thienopyridines: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2016)
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Mamas. (2016). Cancer event rate and mortality with thienopyridines: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Drug Safety, 229-240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-016-0481-2

Introduction
Thienopyridines are a class of antiplatelet drugs widely used in cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment. A recent concern has come to light regarding the safety of thienopyridines because of the possible risk of malignancy. We... Read More about Cancer event rate and mortality with thienopyridines: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

A validated bioluminescence-based assay for the rapid determination of the initial rate of kill for discovery antimalarials (2016)
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Horrocks. (2016). A validated bioluminescence-based assay for the rapid determination of the initial rate of kill for discovery antimalarials. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 717-726. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkw449

Objectives: A future treatment for uncomplicated malaria will contain at least one component that exerts a rapid rate of kill. We describe here the validation and application of a simple, robust and rapid bioluminescence-based assay for the determina... Read More about A validated bioluminescence-based assay for the rapid determination of the initial rate of kill for discovery antimalarials.

The Developing Landscape of Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers for Spinal Cord Injury in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Blood (2016)
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Hulme, C., Brown, S., Fuller, H., Riddell, J., Osman, A., Chowdhury, J., Kumar, N., Johnson, W., & Wright, K. (2017). The Developing Landscape of Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers for Spinal Cord Injury in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Blood. Spinal Cord, 55, 114-125. https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.2016.174

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The identification of prognostic biomarkers of spinal cord injury (SCI) will help to assign SCI patients to the correct treatment and rehabilitation regimes. Further, the detection of biomarkers that predict permanent neurological outcom... Read More about The Developing Landscape of Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers for Spinal Cord Injury in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Blood.

Optimization of supercritical extraction of galegine from Galega officinalis L.: Neural network modeling and experimental optimization via response surface methodology (2016)
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Davoodi, P., Ghoreishi, S. M., & Hedayati, A. (2017). Optimization of supercritical extraction of galegine from Galega officinalis L.: Neural network modeling and experimental optimization via response surface methodology. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 34(3), 854-865. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-016-0304-2

Supercritical CO2 extraction of galegine from Galega officinalis L. was carried out under different operating conditions of temperature (35-55 °C), pressure (10-30MPa), dynamic extraction time (30-150min), CO2 flow rate (0.5-2.5 mL/min) and constant... Read More about Optimization of supercritical extraction of galegine from Galega officinalis L.: Neural network modeling and experimental optimization via response surface methodology.

Contaminants in Commercial Preparations of ‘Purified’ Small Leucine-Rich Proteoglycans May Distort Mechanistic Studies (2016)
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Owen, S., Jones, P., Caterson, B., Shirran, S., Fuller, H., Botting, C., & Roberts, S. (2016). Contaminants in Commercial Preparations of ‘Purified’ Small Leucine-Rich Proteoglycans May Distort Mechanistic Studies. Bioscience Reports, https://doi.org/10.1042/BSR20160465

This paper reports the perplexing results that came about because of seriously impure commercially available reagents. Commercial reagents and chemicals are routinely ordered by scientists and are expected to have been rigorously assessed for their p... Read More about Contaminants in Commercial Preparations of ‘Purified’ Small Leucine-Rich Proteoglycans May Distort Mechanistic Studies.

Biological challenges for regeneration of the degenerated disc using cellular therapies (2016)
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(2016). Biological challenges for regeneration of the degenerated disc using cellular therapies. Acta orthopaedica, 39 -46. https://doi.org/10.1080/17453674.2017.1297916

In this review, we discuss some of the challenges in successful cellular repair of the disc. We fi rst review the function, organization, and composition of a normal disc, outline the changes that occur in degeneration, and consider how these might i... Read More about Biological challenges for regeneration of the degenerated disc using cellular therapies.

Elucidation of the Physicochemical Properties Ruling the Colloidal Stability of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles under Physiological Conditions (2016)
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Aires, A., Cabrera, D., Alonso-Pardo, L. C., Cortajarena, A. L., & Teran, F. J. (2017). Elucidation of the Physicochemical Properties Ruling the Colloidal Stability of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles under Physiological Conditions. ChemNanoMat, 3(3), 183-189. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnma.201600333

Nanotechnology has brought countless novel applications regarding therapeutic, diagnostic, and sensing innovations. In particular, nanoparticle engineering enables the synthesis of nanocrystals with customized physical, chemical, and biological activ... Read More about Elucidation of the Physicochemical Properties Ruling the Colloidal Stability of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles under Physiological Conditions.

Impact of incomplete percutaneous revascularization in patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2016)
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Nagaraja, V., Ooi, S., Nolan, J., Large, A., De Belder, M., Ludman, P., Bagur, R., Curzen, N., Matsukage, T., Yoshimachi, F., Shing Kwok, C., Berry, C., & Mamas, M. A. (2016). Impact of incomplete percutaneous revascularization in patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 5(12), https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.004598

Background
Up to half of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention have multivessel coronary artery disease (MVD) with conflicting data regarding optimal revascularization strategy in such patients. This paper assesses the evidence for... Read More about Impact of incomplete percutaneous revascularization in patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Acceptability and potential effectiveness of commercial portion control tools amongst people with obesity (2016)
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Solis-Trapala. (2016). Acceptability and potential effectiveness of commercial portion control tools amongst people with obesity. British Journal of Nutrition, 1974 -1983. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114516004104

Exposure to large portion sizes is a risk factor for obesity. Specifically designed tableware may modulate how much is eaten and help with portion control. We examined the experience of using a guided crockery set (CS) and a calibrated serving spoon... Read More about Acceptability and potential effectiveness of commercial portion control tools amongst people with obesity.

Antibacterial effects of the essential oil from flower buds of Magnolia biondii Pamp (2016)
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Aldulaimi, O., & Li, W. (2016). Antibacterial effects of the essential oil from flower buds of Magnolia biondii Pamp. Planta Medica, s1-s381. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1596585

Flower buds of Magnolia biondii Pamp (family Magnoliaceae) is known as Xin-Yi in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, and is widely used for the treatment of allergic rhinitis, rhinosinusitis, nasal congestion, and headache.1 Bacterial infection caused by Stap... Read More about Antibacterial effects of the essential oil from flower buds of Magnolia biondii Pamp.

Effectiveness of medicines authentication technology to detect counterfeit, recalled and expired medicines: a two-stage quantitative secondary care study. (2016)
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(2016). Effectiveness of medicines authentication technology to detect counterfeit, recalled and expired medicines: a two-stage quantitative secondary care study. BMJ Open, e013837 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013837

OBJECTIVES: To identify the authentication and detection rate of serialised medicines using medicines authentication technology. DESIGN AND INTERVENTION: 4192 serialised medicines were entered into a hospital dispensary over two separate 8-week stage... Read More about Effectiveness of medicines authentication technology to detect counterfeit, recalled and expired medicines: a two-stage quantitative secondary care study..

Effects of nilotinib on leukaemia cells using vibrational microspectroscopy and cell cloning (2016)
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Siddique, M., Rutter, A., Wehbe, K., Cinque, G., Bellisola, G., & Sule-Suso, J. (2016). Effects of nilotinib on leukaemia cells using vibrational microspectroscopy and cell cloning. Analyst, 8(142), 1299-1307. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6an01914e

Over the last few years, both synchrotron-based FTIR (S-FTIR) and Raman microspectroscopies have helped to better understand the effects of drugs on cancer cells. However, cancer is a mixture of cells with different sensitivity/resistance to drugs. F... Read More about Effects of nilotinib on leukaemia cells using vibrational microspectroscopy and cell cloning.

Synthesis and antiproliferative activity of 2-chlorophenyl carboxamide thienopyridines (2016)
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van Rensburg, M., Leung, E., Haverkate, N. A., Eurtivong, C., Pilkington, L. I., Reynisson, J., & Barker, D. (2017). Synthesis and antiproliferative activity of 2-chlorophenyl carboxamide thienopyridines. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 27(2), 135-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2016.12.009

3-Amino-2-arylcarboxamide-thieno[2,3-b]pyridines are a known class of antiproliferative compounds with activity against the phospholipase C enzyme. To further investigate the structure activity relationships of these derivatives a series of analogues... Read More about Synthesis and antiproliferative activity of 2-chlorophenyl carboxamide thienopyridines.

Analysis of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein in synovial fluid, plasma and repair tissue of patients treated with autologous chondrocyte implantation (2016)
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McCarthy, H., Wright, K., Williams, J., Gallacher, P., Richardson, J., & Roberts, S. (2016). Analysis of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein in synovial fluid, plasma and repair tissue of patients treated with autologous chondrocyte implantation. International Journal of Experimental Pathology, A11 -A12. https://doi.org/10.1111/iep.12211

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Surgical treatment for developmental dysplasia of the hip- a single surgeon series of 47 hips with a 7 year mean follow up). (2016)
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Kuiper. (2016). Surgical treatment for developmental dysplasia of the hip- a single surgeon series of 47 hips with a 7 year mean follow up)

The treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in children remains controversial. We describe the clinical and radiological outcomes of  47 hips in 43 children treated with open surgery by one surgeon between 2004 and 2008 for DDH. The mea... Read More about Surgical treatment for developmental dysplasia of the hip- a single surgeon series of 47 hips with a 7 year mean follow up)..

Toxicological and Analytical Assessment of E-Cigarette Refill Components on Airway Epithelia (2016)
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Singh, J., Luquet, E., Smith, D. P., Potgieter, H. J., & Ragazzon, P. (2016). Toxicological and Analytical Assessment of E-Cigarette Refill Components on Airway Epithelia. Science Progress, 99(4), 351-398. https://doi.org/10.3184/003685016x14773090197706

There are over 2.6 million users of e-cigarettes in the United Kingdom alone as they have been promoted as a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes. The addition of flavours and aromas has also proven to be popular with younger generations. In t... Read More about Toxicological and Analytical Assessment of E-Cigarette Refill Components on Airway Epithelia.

Hawks, Doves and Rasch decisions: Understanding the influence of different cycles of an OSCE on students' scores using Many Facet Rasch Modeling (2016)
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Yeates. (2016). Hawks, Doves and Rasch decisions: Understanding the influence of different cycles of an OSCE on students' scores using Many Facet Rasch Modeling. Medical Teacher, 92-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159x.2017.1248916

INTRODUCTION: OSCEs are commonly conducted in multiple cycles (different circuits, times, and locations), yet the potential for students' allocation to different OSCE cycles is rarely considered as a source of variance-perhaps in part because convent... Read More about Hawks, Doves and Rasch decisions: Understanding the influence of different cycles of an OSCE on students' scores using Many Facet Rasch Modeling.