The risk of reverse zoonotic transmission to pet animals during the current global monkeypox outbreak, United Kingdom, June to mid-September 2022 (2022)
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Beard, P. (2022). The risk of reverse zoonotic transmission to pet animals during the current global monkeypox outbreak, United Kingdom, June to mid-September 2022. Eurosurveillance, https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2022.27.39.2200758

<jats:p>We report results of surveillance between June and mid-September 2022 of pet animals living in households of confirmed human monkeypox (MPX) cases. Since surveillance commenced, 154 animals from 40 households with a confirmed human MPX case w... Read More about The risk of reverse zoonotic transmission to pet animals during the current global monkeypox outbreak, United Kingdom, June to mid-September 2022.

Identification of a Functional Small Noncoding RNA of African Swine Fever Virus (2020)
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Dunn, L. E., Ivens, A., Netherton, C. L., Chapman, D. A., & Beard, P. M. (2020). Identification of a Functional Small Noncoding RNA of African Swine Fever Virus. Journal of Virology, 94(21), https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01515-20

<jats:p>African swine fever (ASF) poses a major threat to pig populations and food security worldwide. The disease is endemic to Africa and Eastern Europe and is rapidly emerging into Asia, where it has led to the deaths of millions of pigs in the la... Read More about Identification of a Functional Small Noncoding RNA of African Swine Fever Virus.

Macrophage colony-stimulating factor increases hepatic macrophage content, liver growth, and lipid accumulation in neonatal rats (2018)
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Beard, P. (2018). Macrophage colony-stimulating factor increases hepatic macrophage content, liver growth, and lipid accumulation in neonatal rats. American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology, G388 - G398. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpgi.00343.2017

<jats:p>Signaling via the colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) controls the survival, differentiation, and proliferation of macrophages. Mutations in CSF1 or CSF1R in mice and rats have pleiotropic effects on postnatal somatic growth. We test... Read More about Macrophage colony-stimulating factor increases hepatic macrophage content, liver growth, and lipid accumulation in neonatal rats.

IFI16 and cGAS cooperate in the activation of STING during DNA sensing in human keratinocytes (2017)
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Almine, J. F., O’Hare, C. A., Dunphy, G., Haga, I. R., Naik, R. J., Atrih, A., …Unterholzner, L. (2017). IFI16 and cGAS cooperate in the activation of STING during DNA sensing in human keratinocytes. Nature communications, 8, Article 14392. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14392

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Many human cells can sense the presence of exogenous DNA during infection though the cytosolic DNA receptor cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS), which produces the second messenger cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP). Other put... Read More about IFI16 and cGAS cooperate in the activation of STING during DNA sensing in human keratinocytes.

Predicted optimum ambient temperatures for broiler chickens to dissipate metabolic heat do not affect performance or improve breast muscle quality (2016)
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Beard, P. (2016). Predicted optimum ambient temperatures for broiler chickens to dissipate metabolic heat do not affect performance or improve breast muscle quality. British Poultry Science, 134 - 141. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071668.2015.1124067

An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that muscle damage in fast-growing broiler chickens is associated with an ambient temperature that does not permit the birds to lose metabolic heat resulting in physiological heat stress and a reduct... Read More about Predicted optimum ambient temperatures for broiler chickens to dissipate metabolic heat do not affect performance or improve breast muscle quality.