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Depression in RA patients treated with anti-TNF is common and under-recognized in the rheumatology clinic (2009)
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(2009). Depression in RA patients treated with anti-TNF is common and under-recognized in the rheumatology clinic. Rheumatology, 1152 - 1154. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kep170

Depression is common in RA and may be influenced by both disease activity and severity. The aims of this study were to investigate the prevalence of depression in RA patients starting anti-TNF therapy, to investigate how mood alters after exposure to... Read More about Depression in RA patients treated with anti-TNF is common and under-recognized in the rheumatology clinic.

Transient ischaemic attack in a patient with known temporal arteritis: a case report (2009)
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(2009). Transient ischaemic attack in a patient with known temporal arteritis: a case report. https://doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8542

Older populations are more at risk of problems such as temporal arteritis or polymyalgia rheumatica, and these conditions are often first diagnosed in general practice, with usual ongoing care and long-term treatment with oral steroids. These inflamm... Read More about Transient ischaemic attack in a patient with known temporal arteritis: a case report.

RACK-1 overexpression protects against goniothalamin-induced cell death (2009)
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Inayat-Hussain, S., Wong, L., Chan, K., Rajab, N., Din, L., Harun, R., …Williams, G. (2009). RACK-1 overexpression protects against goniothalamin-induced cell death. Toxicology Letters, 191(2-3), 118-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxlet.2009.08.012

Goniothalamin, a styryllactone, has been shown to induce cytotoxicity via apoptosis in several tumor cell lines. In this study, we have examined the potential role of several genes, which were stably transfected into T-cell lines and which regulate a... Read More about RACK-1 overexpression protects against goniothalamin-induced cell death.

Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties (2009)
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Arzheimer, K., & Carter, E. (2009). Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties. West European Politics, 32(5), 985-1011. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380903065058

This article examines the relationship between Christian religiosity and the support for radical right parties in Western Europe. Drawing on theories of electoral choice and on socio-psychological literature largely ignored by scholars of electoral b... Read More about Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties.

Dysregulated expression of Fau and MELK is associated with poor prognosis in breast cancer (2009)
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Pickard, M. R., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., Caldas, C., Hedge, V. L., Mourtada-Maarabouni, M., & Williams, G. T. (2009). Dysregulated expression of Fau and MELK is associated with poor prognosis in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research, Article R60. https://doi.org/10.1186/bcr2350

INTRODUCTION: Programmed cell death through apoptosis plays an essential role in the hormone-regulated physiological turnover of mammary tissue. Failure of this active gene-dependent process is central both to the development of breast cancer and to... Read More about Dysregulated expression of Fau and MELK is associated with poor prognosis in breast cancer.

Testing a model of association between patient identified problems and responses to global measures of health in low back pain patients: a prospective study (2009)
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(2009). Testing a model of association between patient identified problems and responses to global measures of health in low back pain patients: a prospective study. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 74 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-7-74

Self-rated health status has been shown to be related to physical function. Therefore, changes in functional ability should be associated with changes in general health. However, functional needs may vary greatly between individuals. The purpose of t... Read More about Testing a model of association between patient identified problems and responses to global measures of health in low back pain patients: a prospective study.

'PhysioDirect' telephone assessment and advice services for physiotherapy: protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial (2009)
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(2009). 'PhysioDirect' telephone assessment and advice services for physiotherapy: protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. BMC Health Services Research, 136 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-136

Providing timely access to physiotherapy has long been a problem for the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. In an attempt to improve access some physiotherapy services have introduced a new treatment pathway known as PhysioDirect. Physiot... Read More about 'PhysioDirect' telephone assessment and advice services for physiotherapy: protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Single element mapping in radiography (2009)
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Austin, J. C., Day, C. R., Kearon, A. T., & Haycock, P. W. (2009). Single element mapping in radiography. X-Ray Spectrometry, 38(6), 492-504. https://doi.org/10.1002/xrs.1204

This article reports on the application of element-specific mapping using the Bremsstrahlung of a commercial broad spectrum X-ray source to map lighter elements (zirconium to tin) and heavier elements (tantalum to bismuth) individually within an imag... Read More about Single element mapping in radiography.

Competent to care. Are all doctors competent in nutrition? (2009)
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(2009). Competent to care. Are all doctors competent in nutrition?. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 296 - 299. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665109001293

Optimising nutrition is known to improve outcome in a variety of specialities from elderly care to orthopaedics. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines of 2006 have provided standards to positively influence the profile... Read More about Competent to care. Are all doctors competent in nutrition?.

The Keele community knee pain forum: action research to engage with stakeholders about the prevention of knee pain and disability (2009)
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(2009). The Keele community knee pain forum: action research to engage with stakeholders about the prevention of knee pain and disability. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 85 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-10-85

Involvement of users in health care research is central to UK health care policy, and guidelines for involvement exist. However, there are limited examples in rheumatology research. The aim of this study was to establish a community knee pain forum a... Read More about The Keele community knee pain forum: action research to engage with stakeholders about the prevention of knee pain and disability.

Discussing prognosis with older people with musculoskeletal pain: a cross-sectional study in general practice (2009)
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David Mallen, C., & Peat, G. (2009). Discussing prognosis with older people with musculoskeletal pain: a cross-sectional study in general practice. BMC Family Practice, 50 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-10-50

Prognosis has been described as an important but neglected branch of clinical science. While patients' views have been sought in the context of life-threatening illness, similar research is lacking for patients presenting with common, non-life-threat... Read More about Discussing prognosis with older people with musculoskeletal pain: a cross-sectional study in general practice.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Exploring Women's Experience of Participation and Progress in ManagerialCareers (2009)
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(2009). Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Exploring Women's Experience of Participation and Progress in ManagerialCareers. Equal Opportunities International, 378 -397. https://doi.org/10.1108/02610150910964240

Purpose The growth of women in management has been argued to offer a route to reduce organizational and social inequality. The purpose of this paper is to explore the careers and experiences of female managers from a variety of organizations operati... Read More about Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Exploring Women's Experience of Participation and Progress in ManagerialCareers.

Understanding the variability in ultrafiltration obtained with icodextrin (2009)
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Lambie. (2009). Understanding the variability in ultrafiltration obtained with icodextrin

I codextrin (ICO) has been a major addition to the management of ultrafiltration (UF) in peritoneal dialysis (PD), allowing sustained UF during long dwells and maintenance of UF in the face of increased membrane solute transport, while minimizing t... Read More about Understanding the variability in ultrafiltration obtained with icodextrin.

GP attitudes and self-reported behaviour in primary care consultations for low back pain (2009)
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(2009). GP attitudes and self-reported behaviour in primary care consultations for low back pain. Family Practice, 359-364. https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmp042

Background. The implementation of guideline recommendations in primary care has become widespread. The treatment of low back pain (LBP) has followed suite. Research shows that the use of LBP guidelines is influenced by the believability of the underl... Read More about GP attitudes and self-reported behaviour in primary care consultations for low back pain.

Decreased osteogenesis, increased cell senescence and elevated Dickkopf-1 secretion in human fracture non union stromal cells. (2009)
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(2009). Decreased osteogenesis, increased cell senescence and elevated Dickkopf-1 secretion in human fracture non union stromal cells. BONE, 726 - 735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2009.06.015

The delicately orchestrated process of bone fracture healing is not always successful and long term non union of fractured bone occurs in 5-20% of all cases. Atrophic fracture non unions have been described as the most difficult to treat and this is... Read More about Decreased osteogenesis, increased cell senescence and elevated Dickkopf-1 secretion in human fracture non union stromal cells..

Protein phosphatase 4 regulates apoptosis in leukemic and primary human T-cells (2009)
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Mourtada-Maarabouni, M., & Williams, G. T. (2009). Protein phosphatase 4 regulates apoptosis in leukemic and primary human T-cells. Leukemia Research, 33(11), 1539-1551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leukres.2009.05.013

The control of T-cell survival is of overwhelming importance for preventing leukemia and lymphoma. The present report demonstrates that the serine/threonine protein phosphatase PP4 regulates the survival of both leukemic T-cells and untransformed hum... Read More about Protein phosphatase 4 regulates apoptosis in leukemic and primary human T-cells.

Harnessing the Extracellular Bacterial Production of Nanoscale Cobalt Ferrite with Exploitable Magnetic Properties (2009)
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Coker, V. S., Telling, N. D., van der Laan, G., Pattrick, R. A. D., Pearce, C. I., Arenholz, E., …Lloyd, J. R. (2009). Harnessing the Extracellular Bacterial Production of Nanoscale Cobalt Ferrite with Exploitable Magnetic Properties. ACS Nano, 3(7), 1922-1928. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn900293d

Nanoscale ferrimagnetic particles have a diverse range of uses from directed cancer therapy and drug delivery systems to magnetic recording media and transducers. Such applications require the production of monodisperse nanoparticles with well-contro... Read More about Harnessing the Extracellular Bacterial Production of Nanoscale Cobalt Ferrite with Exploitable Magnetic Properties.

The EU's Emergent Security-First Agenda: Securing Albania and Montenegro (2009)
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Ryan, B. J. (2009). The EU's Emergent Security-First Agenda: Securing Albania and Montenegro. Security Dialogue, 40(3), 311-331. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010609336195

This article forms a critique of security sector reforms implemented in Albania and Montenegro between 2000 and 2007 by and on behalf of the European Union. It argues that within these reforms it is possible to discern a tension between a more holist... Read More about The EU's Emergent Security-First Agenda: Securing Albania and Montenegro.

Effectiveness of feedback provision for psychology undergraduate students (2009)
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(2009). Effectiveness of feedback provision for psychology undergraduate students. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 34 -38

Research on feedback for undergraduate students has usually focused on either the tutor or the student perspective. Some tutors perceive that students do not read or learn from feedback, whilst students sometimes claim that feedback can be difficult... Read More about Effectiveness of feedback provision for psychology undergraduate students.

Economic Migration from the EU 'A8' Accession Countries and the Impact on Low-demand Housing Areas: Opportunity or Threat for Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder Programmes in England? (2009)
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Pemberton. (2009). Economic Migration from the EU 'A8' Accession Countries and the Impact on Low-demand Housing Areas: Opportunity or Threat for Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder Programmes in England?. Urban Studies, 1363 - 1384. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098009104570

Since EU enlargement in 2004, there has been a substantial influx of economic migrants to the UK from the `A8' accession countries. A significant number have moved into Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder areas, which are focused on reshaping failing h... Read More about Economic Migration from the EU 'A8' Accession Countries and the Impact on Low-demand Housing Areas: Opportunity or Threat for Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder Programmes in England?.