CCS Publications update: 11-17 March 2017

Prof Robyn O'Hehir et al's recent
article on grass allergen peptides

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the departments of Anaesthesia, Australian Centre for Blood Diseases(ACBD), Gastroenterology, Immunology and Pathology, Infectious Diseases, Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc), Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC) and Surgery.


Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory medicine

Abramovitch JB, Lopata AL, O'Hehir RE, Rolland JM. Effect of thermal processing on T cell reactivity of shellfish allergens - Discordance with IgE reactivity. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 8;12(3):e0173549. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173549. eCollection 2017.


Ellis AK, Frankish CW, O'Hehir RE, Armstrong K, Steacy L, Larché M, Hafner RP. Treatment with grass allergen peptides improves symptoms of grass pollen-induced allergic rhinoconjunctivitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2017 Feb 15. pii: S0091-6749(17)30037-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.11.043. [Epub ahead of print]

Schneider EK, Reyes-Ortega F, Wilson JW, Kotsimbos T, Keating D, Li J, Velkov T. Development of HPLC and LC-MS/MS methods for the analysis of ivacaftor, its major metabolites and lumacaftor in plasma and sputum of cystic fibrosis patients treated with ORKAMBI or KALYDECO. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2016 Dec 1;1038:57-62. doi: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2016.10.026. Epub 2016 Oct 24.


Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

Shulman M, Myles P. Measuring perioperative outcome. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2016 Dec;29(6):733-738. Review.


Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Alorro, M.G., Pierce, T.P., Eissmann, M.F., Dijkstra, C., Dickins, R.A., Ernst, M., Buchert, M., Masson, F. Generation of an inducible mouse model to reversibly silence Stat3. Genesis. 2017 Feb 7. doi: 10.1002/dvg.23023. [Epub ahead of print]

Andrews RK, Gardiner EE. Metalloproteolytic receptor shedding…platelets "acting their age". Platelets. 2016 Sep;27(6):512-8. doi: 10.1080/09537104.2016.1212001. Epub 2016 Jul 26.

Green TN, Hamilton JR, Morel-Kopp MC, Zheng Z, Chen TT, Hearn JI, Sun PP, Flanagan JU, Young D, Barber PA, During MJ, Ward CM, Kalev-Zylinska ML. Inhibition of NMDA receptor function with an anti-GluN1-S2 antibody impairs human platelet function and thrombosis. Platelets. 2017 Feb 21:1-13. doi: 10.1080/09537104.2017.1280149. [Epub ahead of print]

Hein N, Cameron DP, Hannan KM, Nguyen NN, Fong CY, Sornkom J, Wall M, Pavy M, Cullinane C, Diesch J, Devlin JR, George AJ, Sanij E, Quin J, Poortinga G, Verbrugge I, Baker A, Drygin D, Harrison SJ, Rozario JD, Powell JA, Pitson SM, Zuber J, Johnstone RW, Dawson MA, Guthridge MA, Wei A, McArthur GA, Pearson RB, Hannan RD. Inhibition of Pol I transcription treats murine and human AML by targeting the leukemia-initiating cell population. Blood. 2017 Mar 10. pii: blood-2016-05-718171. doi: 10.1182/blood-2016-05-718171. [Epub ahead of print]

Lefebure M, Tothill RW, Kruse E, Hawkins ED, Shortt J, Matthews GM, Gregory GP, Martin BP, Kelly MJ, Todorovski I, Doyle MA, Lupat R, Li J, Schroeder J, Wall M, Craig S, Poortinga G, Cameron D, Bywater M, Kats L, Gearhart MD, Bardwell VJ, Dickins RA, Hannan RD, Papenfuss AT, Johnstone RW. Genomic characterisation of Eμ-Myc mouse lymphomas identifies Bcor as a Myc co-operative tumour-suppressor gene. Nat Commun. 2017 Mar 6;8:14581. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14581.

Molloy CP, Yao Y, Kammoun H, Bonnard T, Hoefer T, Alt K, Tovar-Lopez F, Rosengarten G, Ramsland PA, van der Meer AD, van den Berg A, Murphy AJ, Hagemeyer CE, Peter K, Westein E. Shear sensitive nanocapsule drug release for site specific inhibition of occlusive thrombus formation. J Thromb Haemost. 2017 Mar 7. doi: 10.1111/jth.13666. [Epub ahead of print]


Gastroenterology

Taylor KM, Ward MG, Blaker PA, Sparrow MP. Is there a role for thioguanine therapy in IBD in 2017 and beyond? Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2017 Feb 20:1-14. doi: 10.1080/17474124.2017.1294062. [Epub ahead of print]


Immunology and Pathology

Draxler DF, Madondo MT, Hanafi G, Plebanski M, Medcalf RL. A flowcytometric analysis to efficiently quantify multiple innate immune cells and T Cell subsets in human blood. Cytometry A. 2017 Mar 6. doi: 10.1002/cyto.a.23080. [Epub ahead of print]

Beth SA, Jansen MA, Elfrink ME, Kiefte-de Jong JC, Wolvius EB, Jaddoe VW, van Zelm MC, Moll HA. Generation R birth cohort study shows that specific enamel defects were not associated with elevated serum transglutaminase type 2 antibodies. Acta Paediatr. 2016 Oct;105(10):e485-91. doi: 10.1111/apa.13533. Epub 2016 Aug 16.


Infectious Diseases

Kamminga J, Lal L, Wright EJ, Bloch M, Brew BJ, Cysique LA. Monitoring HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder using screenings: a critical review including guidelines for clinical and research use. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2017 Mar 10. doi: 10.1007/s11904-017-0349-9. [Epub ahead of print]


Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

M. Poyntena, SN. Tabrizib, F. Jinc, DJ. Templetone, DA. Machalek, A. Cornall, S. Phillips, CK. Fairley, SM. Garland.  Vaccine-preventable anal human papillomavirus in Australian gay and bisexual men. Papillomavirus Research Volume 3, June 2017, Pages 80–84

Priest D, Ong JJ, Chow EP, Tabrizi S3,4, Phillips S3,4, Bissessor M, Fairley CK, Bradshaw CS, Read TR, Garland S, Chen M. Neisseria gonorrhoeae DNA bacterial load in men with symptomatic and asymptomatic gonococcal urethritis. Sex Transm Infect. 2017 Feb 1. pii: sextrans-2016-052950. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2016-052950. [Epub ahead of print]

Vodstrcil LA, Twin J, Garland SM, Fairley CK, Hocking J, Law MG, Plummer EL, Fethers KA, Chow EP, Tabrizi SN, Bradshaw CS. The influence of sexual activity on the vaginal microbiota and Gardnerella vaginalis clade diversity in young women. PLoS One. 2017 Feb 24;12(2):e0171856. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171856. eCollection 2017.

Leeyaphan C1, Ong JJ, Chow EP, Dimovski K, Kong FY, Hocking JS, Howden B, Bissessor M, Fairley CK, Bradshaw C, Read T, Chen M. Treatment Outcomes for Rectal Lymphogranuloma Venereum in Men Who Have Sex with Men Using Doxycycline, Azithromycin, or Both: A Review of Clinical Cases. Sex Transm Dis. 2017 Apr;44(4):245-248. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000578.


Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc)

Hill AT, Rogasch NC, Fitzgerald PB, Hoy KE. Effects of prefrontal bipolar and high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation on cortical reactivity and working memory in healthy adults. Neuroimage. 2017 Mar 6;152:142-157. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.03.001. [Epub ahead of print]


Surgery

Ooi GJ, Doyle L, Tie T, Wentworth JM, Laurie C, Earnest A, Cowley MA, Sikaris K, le Roux CW, Burton PR, O'Brien PE, Brown WA. Weight loss after laparoscopic adjustable gastric band and resolution of the metabolic syndrome and its components. Int J Obes (Lond). 2017 Mar 6. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2017.59. [Epub ahead of print]

Brown WA, O'Brien PE. The band must not be abandoned. Obes Surg. 2017 Mar 6. doi: 10.1007/s11695-017-2625-6. [Epub ahead of print]

Cheshire PA, Herson MR, Cleland H, Akbarzadeh S. Artificial dermal templates: A comparative study of NovoSorb™ Biodegradable Temporising Matrix (BTM) and Integra(®) Dermal Regeneration Template (DRT). Burns. 2016 Aug;42(5):1088-96. doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2016.01.028. Epub 2016 May 22.