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Sample Publications from 2006 - 2008

András, I. E., Rha, G., Huang, W., Eum, S., Couraud, P. O., Romero, I. A., Henning, B. and Toborek, M. (2008). Simvastatin Protects against Amyloid β and HIV-1 Tat-Induced Promoter Activities of Inflammatory Genes in Brain Endothelial Cells. Molecular Pharmacology, 73(5), pp. 1424–1433.

Clancy, David (2008). Variation in mitochondrial genotype has substantial lifespan effects which may be modulated by nuclear background. Aging Cell (In Press).

Corbett, Nicola, Gabbott, Paul, Klementiev, Boris, Davies, Heather, Colyer, Frances, Novikova, Tatiana, Berezin, Vladimir, Bock, Elisabeth and Stewart, Michael (2008). FG-Loop, a fibroblast growth factor receptor agonist, inactivates upregulated glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta in the CA1 of a beta-amyloid treated rat hippocampus. FENS Forum Abstracts, 4(149.7),

Cucullo, Luca, Couraud, Pierre-Olivier, Weksler, Babette, Romero, Ignacio-Andres, Hossain, Mohammed M, Rapp, Edward and Janigro, Damir (2008). Immortalized human brain endothelial cells and flow-based vascular modeling: a marriage of convenience for rational neurovascular studies. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 28(2), pp. 312–328.

Dyson, Miranda (2008). Factors Affecting Mating Tactics in the Fiddler Crab, Uca vocans hesperiae. Ethology, 114(1), pp. 75–84.

East, E., Golding, J. P. and Phillips, J. B. (2008). Modelling the injured spinal cord using 3-dimensional cell cultures; strategies for improving tissue engineered repair. European Cells and Materials, 16(Supplement 3), p. 51.

East, Emma and Phillips, James B. (2008). Tissue Engineered Cell Culture Models for Nervous System Research. In: Greco, Giovanni N. ed. Tissue Engineering Research Trends. Nova Science Publishers, Inc, pp. 141–160.

Förster, C., Burek, M., Romero, I. A., Weksler, B., Couraud, P. O. and Drenckhahn, D. (2008). Differential effects of hydrocortisone and TNFalpha on tight junction proteins in an in vitro model of the human blood-brain barrier. Journal of Physiology, 586(7), pp. 1937–1949.

Gibbs, M., Johnston, A. N. B., Mileusnic, R. and Crowe, S. F. (2008). A comparison of protocols for passive and discriminative avoidance learning tasks in the domestic chick. Brain Research Bulletin, 76(3), pp. 198–207.

Gillman, Michael and Erenler, Hilary (2008). The galactic cycle of extinction. International Journal of Astrobiology, 7(1), pp. 17–26.

Kayhanian, H., Jones, S., Phillips, J., Lewis, M. and Mudera, V. (2008). Innervation and Muscle Cell Infiltration of Plastic Compressed Collagen Constructs. European Cells and Materials, 16(Supplement 3), p. 68.

Lim, Joseph C., Kania, Katarzyna D., Wijesuriya, Hasini, Chawla, Sangeeta, Sethi, Jaswinder K., Pulaski, Lukasz, Romero, Ignacio A., Couraud, Pierre O., Weksler, Babette B., Hladky, Stephen B. and Barrand, Margery A. (2008). Activation of β-catenin signalling by GSK-3 inhibition increases p-glycoprotein expression in brain endothelial cells. Journal of Neurochemistry, 106(4), pp. 1855–1865.

Maru, Seema V., Holloway, Karen A., Flynn, Geraldine, Lancashire, Christine L., Loughlin, A. Jane, Male, David K. and Romero, Ignacio A. (2008). Chemokine production and chemokine receptor expression by human glioma cells: Role of CXCL10 in tumour cell proliferation. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 199(1-2), pp. 35–45.

Mason, S., Harle, J. and Phillips, J. B. (2008). Investigating the role of collagen in peripheral nerve biomechanics. European Cells and Materials, 16(Supplement 3), p. 80.

Medvedev, Nikolay I., Rodriguez-Arellano, Jose J., Popov, Victor I., Davies, Heather, Tigaret, Cezar M., Schoepfer, Ralf and Stewart, Michael (2008). The glutamate receptor 2 subunit controls post-synaptic density complexity and spine shape in the dentate gyrus. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27(2), pp. 315–325.

Peddie, C.J., Davies, H.A., Colyer, F.M., Stewart, M.G. and Rodriguez, J.J. (2008). Dendritic colocalisation of serotonin1B receptors and the glutamate NMDA receptor subunit NR1 within the hippocampal dentate gyrus: An ultrastructural study. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, 36(1), pp. 17–26.

Peddie, C.J., Davies, H.A., Colyer, F.M., Stewart, M.G. and Rodriguez, J.J. (2008). Colocalisation of serotonin2A receptors with the glutamate receptor subunits NR1 and GluR2 in the dentate gyrus: An ultrastructural study of a modulatory role. Experimental Neurology, 211(2), pp. 561–573.

Piller, Neil, Damstra, Robert, Cordero, Isabel Forner, Harvey, NNatasha and Pond, Caroline (2008). Lymphatic system function and obesity — are there links? Journal of Lymphoedema, 3(1), pp. 81–85.

Popov, Victor I., Medvedev, Nikolay I., Kraev, Igor V., Gabbott, Paul L., Davies, Heather A., Lynch, Marina, Cowley, Thelma R., Berezin, Vladmir, Bock, Elisabeth and Stewart, Michael (2008). A cell adhesion molecule mimetic, FGL peptide, induces alterations in synapse and dendritic spine structure in the dentate gyrus of aged rats: a three-dimensional ultrastructural study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27(2), pp. 301–314.

Rodriguez, J. J., Davies, H. A., Errington, M. L., Verkhratsky, A., Bliss, T. V. P. and Stewart, M. G. (2008). ARG3.1/ARC expression in hippocampal dentate gyrus astrocytes: ultrastructural evidence and co-localization with glial fibrillary acidic protein. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 12(2), pp. 671–678.

Rostron, Claire L., Farquhar, Morag J., Latimer, Mary P. and Winn, Philip (2008). The pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus and the nucleus basalis magnocellularis: Do both have a role in sustained attention? BMC Neuroscience, 9(16), pp. 1–17.

Saunders, Robert D.C., Boubriak, Ivan, Clancy, David J. and Cox, Lynne S. (2008). Identification and characterization of a Drosophila ortholog of WRN exonuclease that is required to maintain genome integrity. Aging Cell, 7(3), pp. 418–425.

Silva, Ayona Therese, Wardhaugh, Tina, Dolatshad, Nazanin Fatima, Jones, Sarahlouise and Saffrey, Margaret Jill (2008). Neural progenitors from isolated postnatal rat myenteric ganglia: Expansion as neurospheres and differentiation in vitro. Brain Research, 1218 pp. 47–53.

Stewart, Michael (2008). Colostrinin: a naturally occurring compound derived from mammalian colostrum with efficacy in treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's. Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 9(14), pp. 2553–2559.

Stewart, Michael, Popov, Victor, Medvedev, Nikolay, Gabbott, Paul, Corbett, Nicola, Kraev, Igor and Davies, Heather (2008). Dendritic Spine and Synapse Morphological Alterations Induced by a Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule (NCAM) Mimetic. Neurochemical Research (In Press).

Wilhelm, Imola, Nagyoszi, Péter, Farkas, Attila E., Couraud, Pierre-Olivier, Romero, Ignacio A., Weksler, Babette, Fazakas, Csilla, Dung, Ngo Thi Khue, Bottka, Sándor, Bauer, Hannelore, Bauer, Hans-Christian and Krizbai, István A. (2008). Hyperosmotic stress induces axl activation and cleavage in cerebral endothelial cells. Journal of Neurochemistry, 107(1), pp. 116–126.

Wright, K. E., MacRobert, A. J. and Phillips, J. B. (2008). Assessing the Effect of Photodynamic Therapy on Peripheral Nerve and Cancer Cells Using a Thin Tissue Engineered Collagen Culture Model. European Cells and Materials, 16(Supplement 3), p. 13.

Wright, K. E., MacRobert, A. J. and Phillips, J. B. (2008). Differences in sensitivity to mTHPC-mediated photodynamic therapy of neurons, glial cells and MCF7 cells in a 3-dimensional cell culture model. In: Photodynamic Therapy and Photodiagnosis in Clinical Practice, 7- 11 October 2008, Brixen, Italy.

Zastre, Jason A., Chan, Gary N. Y., Ronaldson, Patrick T., Ramaswamy, Manisha, Couraud, Pierre O., Romero, Ignacio A., Weksler, Babette, Bendayan, Moise and Bendayan, Reina (2008). Up-regulation of P-glycoprotein by HIV protease inhibitors in a human brain microvessel endothelial cell line. Journal of Neuroscience Research (In Press).

2007

Roth, Ilona ed. (2007). Imaginative Minds. Proceedings of the British Academy, 147. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Afonso, P.V., Ozden, S., Prevost, M.C., Schmitt, C., Seilhan, D., Weksler, B.B., Couraud, P.O., Gessain, A., Romero, I.A. and Ceccaldi, P.E. (2007). Human Blood Brain Barrier Disruption by Retroviral Infected Lymphocytes: Role of Myosin Light Chain Kinase in Endothelial Tight-Junction Disorganization. Journal of Immunology, 179(4), pp. 2576–2583.

Afonzo, P. V., Ceccaldi, P.-E., Ozdeni, S., Mason, S., Lambert, S., Seilhea, D., Cartier, L., Gessain, A., Rezaie, P., Pique, C. and Romero, I. A. (2007). Human cerebral endothelial cells support infection by HTLV. In: 7th Cerebral Vascular Biology International Conference, 24-28 June 2007, Ottawa, Canada.

Alovskaya, A, Alekseeva, T, Phillips, JB, King, V and Brown, R (2007). Fibronectin, Collagen, Fibrin - Components of Extracellular Matrix for Nerve Regeneration. In: Ashammakhi, N., Reis, R. L. and Chiellini, E. eds. Topics in tissue engineering. Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Group.

Araya, Yoseph Negusse (2007). Ecology of Water Relations in Plants. In: Not Set ed. Encyclopaedia of life sciences [26 vol. set]. Wiley.

Brown, Robert A. and Phillips, James B. (2007). Cell responses to biomimetic protein scaffolds used in tissue repair and engineering. International Review of Cytology, 262 pp. 75–150.

Chan, W.Y., Kohsaka, S. and Rezaie, P. (2007). The origin and cell lineage of microglia — new concepts. Brain Research Reviews, 53(2), pp. 344–354.

Corbett, Nicola, Gabbott, Paul, Stewart, Michael, Klementiev, Boris, Davies, Heather, Colyer, Frances, Novikova, Tatiana, Bock, Elisabeth and Berezin, Vladimir (2007). A neural cell adhesion molecule mimetic, FG Loop (FGL), alleviates spine loss induced by beta-amyloid(25-35) in the rat hippocampus. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts(886.9),

Corbett, Nicola, Stewart, Michael, Gabbott, Paul, Klementiev, Boris, Davies, Heather, Colyer, Frances, Berezin, Vladimir and Bock, Elisabeth (2007). The effect of a fibroblast growth factor receptor agonist on the beta-amyloid(25-35) treated hippocampus. British Neuroscience Association Abstracts, 19(43.03),

Corbett, Nicola, Stewart, Michael, Gabbott, Paul, Klementiev, Boris, Davies, Heather, Colyer, Frances, Berezin, Vladimir and Bock, Elisabeth (2007). A fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 agonist reduces the loss of hippocampal dendritic spines caused by beta-amyloid(25-35). British Neuroscience Association Abstracts, 19(57.16),

Cox, Lynne S., Clancy, David J., Boubriak, Ivan and Saunders, Robert D. C. (2007). Modeling Werner Syndrome in Drosophila melanogaster. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1119 pp. 274–288.

Cummings, Damian M., Milnerwood, Austen J., Dallerac, Glenn M., Vatsavayai, Sarat C., Hirst, Mark C. and Murphy, Kerry P. S. J. (2007). Abnormal cortical synaptic plasticity in mice transgenic for exon 1 of the human Huntington's protein. Brain Research Bulletin, 72(2-3), pp. 103–107.

Daya, Sandeep, Davies, Heather, Colyer, Frances and MacQueen, Hilary (2007). Adipocytes are present inside immune-stimulated lymph nodes. In: British Society for Immunology 50th Anniversary Meeting, 20-23 Feb 2007, Glasgow, UK.

Daya, Sandeep, Loughlin, Alison J. and MacQueen, Hilary A. (2007). Culture and differentiation of preadipocytes in two-dimensional and three-dimensional in vitro systems. Differentiation, 75(5), pp. 360–370.

Dolatshad, N. F. and Saffrey, M. J. (2007). Differential expression of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor family receptor alpha-2 isoforms in rat urinary bladder and intestine. Neuroscience Letters, 415(3), pp. 215–218.

East, E., Golding, J.P. and Phillips, J.B. (2007). Modelling of the injured spinal cord using 3-dimensional cell cultures; strategies for improving tissue engineered repair. In: Society for Neuroscience, 3-7 Nov 2007, San Diego, California.

East, Emma, Golding, Jon and Phillips, James (2007). Development of a 3-dimensional in vitro model to study reactive gliosis following nervous system injury. Tissue Engineering, 13(7), pp. 1668–1778.

East, Emma, Golding, Jon and Phillips, James (2007). Increased GFAP immunoreactivity by astrocytes in response to contact with dorsal root ganglia cells in a 3D culture model. In: Glial cells in health and disease, 4-8 September 2007, London, UK.

East, Emma, Golding, Jon and Phillips, James (2007). Development of a 3-dimensional in vitro model to study reactive gliosis following nervous system injury. Tissue Engineering, 13(7), p. 1668.

East, Emma, Golding, Jon and Phillips, James (2007). Increased GFAP immunoreactivity by astrocytes in response to contact with dorsal root ganglia cells in a 3D culture model. Neuron Glia Biology, 3(S1), S119.

Gabbott, P.L.A., Warner, T. and Busby, S.J. (2007). Catecholaminergic neurons in medullary nuclei are among the post-synaptic targets of descending projections from infralimbic area 25 of the rat medial prefrontal cortex. Neuroscience, 144(2), pp. 623–635.

Gillman, Michael (2007). Evolutionary dynamics of vertebrate body mass range. Evolution, 61(3), pp. 685–693.

Golding, Jon P, Calderbank, Emma, Partridge, Terence and Beauchamp, Jonathan (2007). Skeletal muscle stem cells express anti-apoptotic ErbB receptors during activation from quiescence. Experimental Cell Research, 313(2), pp. 341–356.

Holloway, Karen, Sade, Hadassah, Romero, Ignacio A. and Male, David (2007). Action of transcription factors in the control of transferrin receptor expression in human brain endothelium. Journal of Molecular Biology, 365(5), pp. 1271–1284.

Jackson, J.S., Golding, J., Chapon, C., Jones, W. and Bhakoo, K.K. (2007). An in vivo model of epidermal neural crest cell migration after implantation into the brain. In: Society for Neuroscience, 3-7 Nov 2007, San Diego, California.

Klein, J., Permana, P. A, Owecki,, M, Chaldakov, G. N., Böhm, M, Hausman, G, Lapière, C. M., Anatassova, P, Sowinski, J, Fasshauer, M., Hausman, D. B., Maquoi, E, Tonchev, A. B., Peneva, V. N., Vlachanov, K. P., Fiore, M, Aloe, L, Slominski, A, Reardon, C. L., Ryan, T. J. and Pond, C. M. (2007). What are subcutaneous adipocytes really good for…? Experimental Dermatology, 16(1), pp. 45–70.

MacQueen, Hilary A., Sadler, Dawn A., Moore, Sharon A., Daya, Sandeep, Brown, Jacqueline Y., Shuker, David E.G., Seaman, Michael and Wassif, Wassif S. (2007). Deleterious effects of a cafeteria diet on the livers of non-obese rats. Nutrition Research, 27(1), pp. 38–47.

Mileusnic, R., Lancashire, C., Clark, J. and Rose, S. (2007). Protection against Ab induces memory loss by tripeptide D-Arg-L-Glu-D-Arg. In: Iqbal, I., Wingblat, B. and Avila, J. eds. Alzheimer's Disease: New Advances. Medimond International Proceedings. Bologna, Italy: Medimond, pp. 435–438.

Mileusnic, Radmila, Lancashire, Christine, Clark, Jonathan and Rose, Stephen (2007). Protection against A[beta]-induced memory loss by tripeptide D-Arg-L-Glu-L-Arg. Behavioural Pharmacology, 18(3), pp. 231–238.

Mordelet, Elodie, Davies, Heather A., Hillyer, Philippa, Romero, Ignacio A. and Male, David (2007). Chemokine transport across human vascular endothelial cells. Endothelium - Journal of Endothelial Cell Research, 14(1), pp. 7–15.

Pond, Caroline M. (2007). Interactions of adipose and lymphoid tissues. In: Fantuzzi, Giamila and Mazzone, Theodore eds. Adipose tissue and adipokines in health and disease. Health and nutrition. Totowa N.J. USA: Humana Press Inc., pp. 133–150.

Popov, V.I., Medvedev, N.I., Patrushev, I.V., Ignat'ev, D.A., Morenkov, E.D. and Stewart, M.G. (2007). Reversible reduction in dendritic spines in CA1 of rat and ground squirrel subjected to hypothermia–normothermia in vivo: A three-dimensional electron microscope study. Neuroscience, 149(3), pp. 549–560.

Rezaie, P., Landau, S., Mason, S. and Schmitz, C. (2007). Glial cells within the cerebral cortex in autism. In: 19th National Meeting of the British Neuroscience Association (Symposium on the Neuropathology of Autism), 1-4 April 2007, Harrogate, UK.

Rezaie, Payam and Al-Sarraj, Safa (2007). Vacuolar degeneration affecting brain acrophages/microglia in variant CJD: a report on two cases. Acta Neuropathologica, 114(6), pp. 651–658.

Roth, Ilona (2007). Imagination and the awareness of self in Autistic Spectrum poets. In: Osteen, Mark ed. Autism and Representation. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies. New York: Routledge.

Schmitz, C. and Rezaie, Payam (2007). The neuropathology of autism - neuronal cytoarchitectural alterations and glial cell responses. In: Autism Research in the UK - from diagnosis to intervention (National Conference), 11-12 May, 2007, Milton Keynes, UK.

Schreibelt, G., Kooij, G., Reijerkerk, A., van Doorn, R., Gringhuis, S.I., van der Poll, S.M.A., Weksler, B.B., Romero, Ignacio A, Couraud, P.O., Piontek, J., Blasig, I.E., Dijkstra, Christine D., Ronken, E. and de Vries, H.E. (2007). Reactive oxygen species alter brain endothelial tight junction dynamics via RhoA, PI3 kinase, and PKB signaling. FASEB Journal, 21(13), pp. 3666–3676.

Vatsavayai, Sarat C., Dallerac, Glenn M., Milnerwood, Austen J., Cummings, Damian M., Rezaie, Payam, Murphy, Kerry P.S.J. and Hirst, Mark C. (2007). Progressive CAG expansion in the brain of a novel R6/1-89Q mouse model of Huntington's disease with delayed phenotypic onset. Brain Research Bulletin, 72(2-3), pp. 98–102.

Wathes, D.C., Bourne, N., Cheng, Z., Taylor, V.J., Brotherstone, S. and Coffey, M.P. (2007). Multiple Correlation Analyses of Metabolic and Endocrine Profiles with Fertility in Primiparous and Multiparous Cows. Journal of Dairy Science, 90 pp. 1310–1325.

Wilhelm, Imola, Farkas, Attila E., Nagyoszi, Peter, Varo, Gyorgy, Balint, Zoltan, Vegh, Gergely A., Couraud, Pierre-Olivier, Romero, Ignacio A., Weksler, Babette and Krizbai, Istvan A. (2007). Regulation of cerebral endothelial cell morphology by extracellular calcium. Physics in medicine and biology, 52(20), pp. 6261–6274.

Wright, K. E., MacRobert, A. J. and Phillips, J. B. (2007). Intracellular localisation of mTHPC and effect of photodynamic therapy in cells of the mammalian peripheral nervous system. In: 12th Congress of the European Society for Photobiology, 1-6 September, Bath, UK.

2006

Male, David ed. (2006). Immunology. 7th edition. UK: Elsevier.

Anderson, Sarah J., Dawson, Deborah A. and Freeland, Joanna (2006). Isolation and characterization of highly polymorphic microsatellite loci for the garden tiger moth Arctia caja (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Molecular Ecology Notes, 6(1), pp. 104–106.

Araya, Yoseph Negusse and Moyer, Edward H. (2006). Global public water education: the World Water Monitoring Day experience. Journal of Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 5(4), pp. 263–267.

Ash, P. and Robinson, D. (2006). Problem-solving activities in Biology for Open University students [poster session]. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 143A(4, Supplement 1), S185.

Ashraff, S, Phillips, James and Brown, R.A. (2006). Investigation of a new plastic compressed collagen biomaterial for engineering of nerve regeneration implants. In: Tissue Engineering Society International, Oct 2005, Shanghai, China.

Best, Rachel M., Dockrell, Julie E. and Braisby, Nicholas (2006). Lexical acquisition in elementary science classes. Journal of Educational Psychology, 98(4), pp. 824–838.

Best, Rachel M., Dockrell, Julie E. and Braisby, Nick R. (2006). Real-world word learning: exploring children’s developing semantic representations of a science term. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24(2), pp. 265–282.

Braisby, Nicholas (2006). Influences of communication on categorisation and similarity. In: 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 28 July 2006, Vancouver.

INSERM; Cornell University; Couraud, P.O.; Romero, I.A.; Weksler, B.B. (2006). Not Set.

Cummings, Damian M., Milnerwood, Austen J., Dallerac, Glenn M., Waights, Verina, Brown, Jacki Y., Vatsavayai, Sarat C., Hirst, Mark C. and Murphy, Kerry P. S. J. (2006). Aberrant cortical synaptic plasticity and dopaminergic dysfunction in a mouse model of huntington's disease. Human Molecular Genetics, 15(19), pp. 2856–2868.

Daya, S., Loughlin, J. and MacQueen, H. (2006). Development of a 3D coculture system to study adipocyte and lymph node cell interactions. In: Tissue and cell engineering systems meeting 2006, 3-4 July 2006, Sheffield, UK.

Donohue, H.S., Gabbott, P.L.A., Davies, H.A., Rodriguez, J.J., Cordero, M.I., Sandi, C., Medvedev, N.I., Popov, V.I., Colyer, F.M., Peddie, C.J. and Stewart, M.G. (2006). Chronic restraint stress induces changes in synapse morphology in stratum lacunosum-moleculare CA1 rat hippocampus: A stereological and three-dimensional ultrastructural study. Neuroscience, 140(2), pp. 597–606.

Froud, K.E., Wardhaugh, T, Stewart, Michael, Banks, Duncan and Saffrey, Jill (2006). Investigation of the mechanism of action of Colostrinin(TM) on neurons in culture. FENS Forum Abstracts, 3(A130.15),

Gabbott, P.L.A., Warner, T.A. and Busby, S.J. (2006). Amygdala input monosynaptically innervates parvalbumin immunoreactive local circuit neurons in rat medial prefrontal cortex. Neuroscience, 139(3), pp. 1039–1048.

Gellatly, Angus, Pilling, Michael, Cole, Geoff and Skarratt, Paul (2006). What Is Being Masked in Object Substitution Masking? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32(6), pp. 1422–1435.

Holliman, Richard and Thomas, Jeff (2006). Editorial. Curriculum Journal, 17(3), pp. 193–196.

Kay, Gaham W., Palmer, David N., Rezaie, Payam and Cooper, Jonathan D. (2006). Activation of non-neuronal cells within the prenatal developing brain of sheep with neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. Brain Pathology, 16(2), pp. 110–116.

King, V. R., Phillips, J. B., Hunt-Grubbe, H, Brown, R. and Priestley, J. V. (2006). Characterization of non-neuronal elements within fibronectin mats implanted into the damaged adult rat spinal cord. Biomaterials, 27(3), pp. 485–496.

Lauver, Aaron, Yuan, Li-Lian, Jeromin, Andreas, Nadin, Brian M., Rodriguez, Jose J., Davies, Heather A., Stewart, Michael G., Wu, Gang-Yi and Pfaffinger, Paul J. (2006). Manipulating Kv4.2 identifies a specific component of hippocampal pyramidal neuron A-current that depends upon Kv4.2 expression. Journal of Neurochemistry, 99(4), pp. 1207–1223.

Lazenby, K.L. and Phillips, J.B. (2006). Astrocyte responses to dorsal-root ganglia in 3-dimensional co-culture. In: Tissue & Cell Engineering Society 2006, 3-4 Jul 2006, Sheffield, UK.

McInnes, Campbell, Mazumdar, Aveek, Mezna, Mokdad, Meades, Christopher, Midgley, Carol, Scaerou, Fred, Carpenter, Lee, Mackenzie, Mairi, Taylor, Paul, Walkinshaw, Malcolm, Fischer, Peter M and Glover, David (2006). Inhibitors of Polo-like kinase reveal roles in spindle-pole maintenance. Nature Chemical Biology, 2(11), pp. 608–617.

Mileusnic, Radmila, Lancashire, Christine and Rose, Stephen (2006). Mechanisms of memory consolidation: The effect of reminder. In: Ruzdijic, Sabera and Rakic, Ljubisa eds. Neurobiological studies - From genes to behaviour. Kerala, India: Research Signpost, pp. 71–84.

Milnerwood, Austen J., Cummings, Damian M., Dallerac, Glenn M., Brown, Jacki Y., Vatsavayai, Sarat C., Hirst, Mark C., Rezaie, Payam and Murphy, Kerry P.S.J. (2006). Early development of aberrant synaptic plasticity in a mouse model of Huntington's disease. Human Molecular Genetics, 15(10), pp. 1690–1703.

Nikolakopoulou, A.M., Davies, H.A. and Stewart, M.G. (2006). Passive avoidance training decreases synapse density in the hippocampus of the domestic chick. European Journal of Neuroscience, 23(4), pp. 1054–1062.

Rezaie, Payam, Mason, Sarah, Afzal, S., Kibble, M., Al-Sarraj, S., Dean, A.F. and Schmitz, C. (2006). Assessment of glial cell reactivity within the frontal lobe in autism (platform presentation). In: Abstracts of the 107th Meeting of the British Neuropathological Society, 11 - 13 Jan 2006, Institute of Child Health, London.

Robinson, David (2006). Science, TV and education: active, not passive learning at a distance? In: Willems, Japp and Gopfert, Winfried eds. Science and the Power of TV. Amsterdam, Netherlands: VU University Press & Da Vinci Institute, pp. 125–132.

Silvertown, Jonathan, Dodd, Mike, Gowing, David, Lawson, Clare and McConway, Kevin (2006). Phylogeny and the hierarchical organization of plant diversity. Ecology, 87(Supplement), S39-S49.

Silvertown, Jonathan, McConway, Kevin, Gowing, David, Dodd, Mike, Fay, Michael F., Joseph, Jeffrey A. and Dolphin, Konrad (2006). Absence of phylogenetic signal in the niche structure of meadow plant communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1582), pp. 39–44.

Silvertown, Jonathan, Poulton, Paul, Johnston, Edward, Edwards, Grant, Heard, Matthew and Biss, Pamela M. (2006). The Park Grass Experiment 1856 - 2006: Its Contribution to Ecology. Journal of Ecology, 94(4), pp. 801–814.

Stewart, Michael G. and Banks, Duncan (2006). Enhancement of long-term memory retention by Colostrinin in one-day-old chicks trained on a weak passive avoidance learning paradigm. Neurobiol Learn Mem., 86(1), pp. 66–71.

Taylor, C.L., Macdiarmid, J.I., Ross, J.A.S., Osman, L.M., Watt, S.J., Adie, W., Crawford, J.R. and Lawson, A. (2006). Objective neuropsychological test performance of professional divers reporting a subjective complaint of 'forgetfulness or loss of concentration'. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, 32(4), pp. 310–317.

Taylor, V. J., Beever, D. E., Bryant, M. J. and Wathes, D. C. (2006). Pre-pubertal measurements of the somatotrophic axis as predictors of milk production in Holstein-Friesian dairy cows. Domestic animal endocrinology, 31(1), pp. 1–18.

Thrasivoulou, C., Soubeyre, V., Ridha, H., Giuliani, D., Giaroni, C., Michael, G.J., Saffrey, M.J. and Cowen, T. (2006). Reactive oxygen species, dietary restriction and neurotrophic factors in age-related loss of myenteric neurons. Aging Cell, 5(3), pp. 247–257.

Tigaret, C.M., Thalhammer, A., Rast, G.F., Specht, C.G., Auberson, Y.P., Stewart, M.G. and Schoepfer, R. (2006). Subunit dependencies of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-induced alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptor internalization. Molecular Pharmacology, 69(4), pp. 1251–1259.

Toates, Frederick (2006). A Model of the hierarchy of behaviour, cognition, and consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 15(1), pp. 75–118.

Wathes, D.C., Cheng, Z., Bourne, N., Taylor, V.J., Coffey, M.P. and Brotherstone, S. (2006). Differences between primiparous and multiparous dairy cows in the inter-relationships between metabolic traits, milk yield and body condition score in the periparturient period. Domestic Animal Endocrinology, 33(2), pp. 203–225.

Welch, A.R., Gillman, M.P. and John, E.A. (2006). Effect of nutrient application on growth rate and competitive ability of three foliose lichen species. The Lichenologist, 38(2), pp. 177–186.

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